What's the difference between cavity and pore?

Cavity


Definition:

  • (n.) Hollowness.
  • (n.) A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The content of the cavities was not stained by any of the immunocytochemical reactions applied.
  • (2) Membranes of this material were filled with islets of Langerhans and implanted in the peritoneal cavity of rats.
  • (3) In three of these patients this was associated with the presence of a previously well established abscess cavity.
  • (4) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
  • (5) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
  • (6) In the 12 prognostically most favourable ears the cavity was repneumatized.
  • (7) Scintigraphic pictures of the uterine cavity and oviducts were obtained with a Jumbo Toshiba gamma-camera; they were subsequently analysed by an Informatek SIMIS-3 data processing system.
  • (8) The cercaria, microcercous in type, is liberated and actively penetrates a second terrestrial pulmonate where development to the free metacercarial stage takes place in the pericardial cavity.
  • (9) A new technique to obliterate the mastoid volume or to reduce an old cavity by means of hydroxyapatite granulate is presented.
  • (10) In general, air from the mediastinum far more often enters the left pleural cavity than the right one.
  • (11) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
  • (12) The rational surgical methods of treatment in 85 patients with suppurative hepatic echinococcosis penetrating into the abdomen cavity are presented.
  • (13) Finally, carcinoma of the oral cavity in India can be said to be at least two diseases.
  • (14) A pilot study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of gas in the puerperal endometrial cavity and to determine whether this finding has any relationship to the mode of delivery or to the development of puerperal endometritis.
  • (15) The authors present a quite unused technique that helps to simplify the cavity preparation in Operative Dentistry.
  • (16) In several eyes, apparent intraretinal blood-filled cavities were seen acutely in the macular region and elsewhere.
  • (17) These views are very practical for inferior synovial cavity arthrograms performed in the dental operatory since panoramic radiographic machines have become common in modern dental practices.
  • (18) Aspergillomas generally arise from saprophytic colonization of a pre-existing pulmonary cavity with Aspergillus, and may be complicated by life-threatening hemoptosis.
  • (19) Failues of PAFD occurred primarily with the presence of phlegmonous collections and cavities with fistulous connection to bowel.
  • (20) n. from the body cavity of Scomber scombrus from the Indian ocean is described.

Pore


Definition:

  • (v.) One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.
  • (v.) A minute opening or passageway; an interstice between the constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, the pores of stones.
  • (v. i.) To look or gaze steadily in reading or studying; to fix the attention; to be absorbed; -- often with on or upon, and now usually with over.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The flow properties of white cells were tested after myocardial infarction, by measuring the filtration rates of cell suspensions through 8 microns pore filters.
  • (2) The functions of O-GlcNAc remain largely unknown, but it may be important in blocking phosphorylation sites, it may be required for the assembly of specific multiprotein complexes, it might serve as a nuclear transport signal, or it may be directly involved in the active transport of macromolecules across nuclear pores.
  • (3) The property of melittin pores is shown to be provided by the amino group of the N-terminal glycine residue.
  • (4) This force will be numerically similar to the net driving Starling force in small pores, but distinctly different in large pores.
  • (5) The penetration coefficient, determined by the surface tension, contact angle and viscosity, is a measure of the ability of a liquid to penetrate into a capillary space, such as interproximal regions, gingival pockets and pores.
  • (6) Morphometric analysis of pores and pore complexes shows their size, structure, and density to be similar to that of other mammalian cells.
  • (7) Nuclear pores were frequently tagged after estradiol treatment.
  • (8) The toxins all create pores in the cell membrane of target cells leading to eventual cell lysis and they appear to require Ca2+ for cytotoxic activity.
  • (9) Thus, alkaloid and insecticide modifications share many features but differ in how much the conducting properties of the pore are changed and whether the channel can close reversibly while the toxin remains bound.
  • (10) A minor portion of the lymph is produced also in the lymph-fold from where it is transported in the interstitial tissue either by transfer vesicles of the circulatory blood capillaries or by pores and fenestrae of the transudatory blood capillaries.
  • (11) In the cis-trans axis of the Golgi apparatus the following compartments were observed: (a) On the cis face there was a continuous osmiophilic tubular network referred to as the cis element; (b) a cis compartment composed of 3 or 4 NADPase-positive saccules perforated with pores in register forming wells that contained small vesicles; (c) a trans compartment composed of 1 or 2 TPPAse-positive elements underlying the NADPase ones, followed by 1 or 2 CMPase-positive elements that showed a flattened saccular part continuous with a network of anastomotic tubules.
  • (12) The channels studied here were more selective for monovalent cations than anions, but also showed some permeability to anions and larger electrolytes, suggesting a large functional pore diameter.
  • (13) Block by Ba2+, Ca2+, Mg2+, and Pt(NH3)4(2+) from the vacuolar and cytoplasmic sides is used to probe the structure of, and ion interactions within, the pore.
  • (14) The increased hindrance to diffusion of the probing molecules caused by the added solutes is considered as good evidence that the probing molecules diffuse by way of pores filled with water.6.
  • (15) We are reporting the effect of a cellulose acetate 0.20 micron filter (Flow Pore D26) on preparation of platelet poor plasma (PPP) for subsequent assay of platelet specific proteins.
  • (16) A further increase in silicon dioxide concentration produced tablets with relatively larger pore sizes.
  • (17) 1 hour after 1200 R X-ray irradiation the pore density in regenerating liver decreases 5.8-fold, consisting only of 1.7 PCs per 1 micron2 of the NE.
  • (18) The effect of increasing acetylcholine concentration can best be explained by postulating an increase in the effective channel radius of the water secretion pathway from 0.40 nm to 0.45 nm together with a small increase in the fraction of the total water flow passing through larger non-selective pores.
  • (19) A small helix is identified at the carboxy terminus of A2 which emerges through the central pore of the B subunits and probably comes into contact with the membrane upon binding, whereas the A1 subunit is flexible with respect to the B pentamer.
  • (20) Under conditions of chemotaxis with activated serum beneath the filter, the neutrophil population oriented at the filter surface with nuclei located away from the stimulus, centrioles and associated radial array of microtubules beneath the nuclei, and microfilament-rich pseudopods penetrating the filter pores.