What's the difference between chrysalis and cremaster?
Chrysalis
Definition:
(n.) The pupa state of certain insects, esp. of butterflies, from which the perfect insect emerges. See Pupa, and Aurelia (a).
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) With many of London's big radio stations recording both falling audiences and share of the market, Capital has come out on top, trailed by Emap's Magic in second place, with Chrysalis's Heart slipping from first to third place in the space of three months.
(3) When she emerges from the chrysalis as an adult, she emits pheromones to attract a mate, lays her eggs where she is, and dies.
(4) GCap and Chrysalis were bought at the top of the market and advertising revenues subsequently dried up as the economic recession took hold.
(5) The assets he's offering to the indie sector are, apparently, Virgin, Chrysalis UK (excluding its deal with Robbie Williams), Ensign, Mute, Jazzland and Sanctuary.
(6) Grainge was bullish that the enforced asset sale – which will include EMI operations in nine European countries and labels such as Chrysalis, Mute and Sanctuary, home to artists including Spandau Ballet, Depeche Mode and Iron Maiden respectively – will draw premium bids and that Universal will not lose out by offloading them.
(7) Allen, meanwhile, became chairman of newly formed Global Radio, which has since become the UK's largest commercial radio group by buying Chrysalis and GCap Media, and joined the boards of Big Brother producer Endemol and Virgin Media.
(8) The Global boss is the son of Michael Tabor, who amassed a fortune from bookmaking, horsebreeding and property, and helped bankroll the £545m double purchase of GCap Media and Chrysalis Radio that created Global's broadcasting empire.
(9) Sound Digital faces competition from a rival bid, Listen2 Digital, backed by former Chrysalis Radio chief executive Phil Riley’s Midlands radio group Orion Media and engineering services outfit, Babcock International.
(10) Global was set up last year when its management team bought the stations of music and radio company Chrysalis with private equity money.
(11) Global, the home of Classic FM, Capital, Heart and the London talk station LBC, was born out of the £545m double purchase of Chrysalis Radio and GCap Media which was masterminded by the group's youthful founder, Ashley Tabor, the son of the billionaire Michael Tabor.
(12) There is no love lost between Taunton, who came to the UK in 1995 as general manager of the internet service provider DNA Internet, and Tabor, son of the billionaire Michael Tabor, who created the Global Radio empire out of nothing with the £545m double purchase of Chrysalis Radio and GCap Media.
(13) The project is called Butterfly, and the metaphor is immediate: a splendid winged object is soon to emerge from a lumpen chrysalis.
(14) After the first single, 2 Tone made a deal with Chrysalis to become its autonomous subsidiary, rejecting an approach from Mick Jagger and Rolling Stones Records.
(15) The Sunday Times reported that Chris Wright, founder of the music publishing firm Chrysalis, who backed Labour in the 2005 election, said the party risked stoking the politics of envy.
(16) He takes over from the presenter of the past two years, Simon Hirst, the breakfast DJ on Chrysalis' Galaxy station in Yorkshire.
(17) Addictions are not something to trivialise, but the majority of bright young things will emerge from the chrysalis of their teenage years a whole lot wiser, smarter and freer than they were before, with no desire to revisit the era of experimentation.
(18) The commercial network also believes that responsibility for regulating the BBC should be taken away from its board of governors and given to Ofcom - a view backed almost universally in submissions to the media regulator's BBC charter review by rival media organisations including Channel 4, ITN, Chrysalis and the Commercial Radio Companies Association.
(19) However, in some ways the plane is itself the chrysalis.
(20) Meanwhile Phil Riley, the chief executive of Chrysalis Radio, called the poor set of figures for Heart "transitionary" saying the quarter accounted for a move between the "old" Heart and the "new".
Cremaster
Definition:
(n.) A thin muscle which serves to draw up the testicle.
(n.) The apex of the last abdominal segment of an insect.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cremaster muscle microvasculature of normal Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) and spontaneously hypertensive (SHR) rats was observed at age 5--7 weeks and 16--18 weeks.
(2) To determine their pressure or flow dependence, these functional and structural parameters were studied in the developing and chronic stages of coarctation hypertension in the cremaster muscle, a normotensive skeletal muscle bed that is protected from the effects of elevated microvascular pressures.
(3) These investigations reveal that day-of-birth bilateral castration precludes cremaster muscle formation, significantly reduces CN motoneuron number, and dramatically reduces the 5-HT and SP innervation of the adult male CN.
(4) Although irreversible loss of cerebral function had been established neurologically, electoencephalographically, angiographically (carotid and vertebral angiography) and scintigraphically abdominal and cremaster reflexes could still be elicited.
(5) Acetylcholine applied to distal microvessels of the cremaster induced a dilation that ascended into feed arteries not having direct contact with acetylcholine.
(6) Intravital microscopy was used to quantitate protein leakage which resulted from the deposition of immune complexes in the vasculature of the rat cremaster muscle.
(7) This study demonstrates that intravenous epinephrine causes arterial vasospasm, but not venous constriction, in the microcirculation of the rat cremaster muscle.
(8) Blood velocity and diameter in 121 capillaries and venules in the cremaster of 13 rats were measured.
(9) Therefore, the reactivity of the cremaster muscle microcirculation of pentobarbital-anesthetized Wistar rats, intact and adrenal medullectomized, was studied using videomicroscopy.
(10) Histologic sections of the cremaster muscle and silicone rubber intravascular casts were also analyzed.
(11) High-K induced contracture of this preparation and of cremaster muscle were also depressed to 14% and to 18% of the control, respectively.
(12) Intravital microscopic observations were performed during a 20-minute perfusion of the hamster cremaster muscle with cardioplegic solutions (10 degrees C) via the femoral artery with the iliac occluded and during a subsequent 2-hour blood reperfusion period (iliac open).
(13) Some contractile, histochemical, morphological and electrophysiological properties of ferret, Mustela putorius furo, cremaster muscle have been estimated.
(14) Vascular pressures were measured in the principal (A1) arteriole and in upstream small arteries of the rat cremaster muscle to investigate vascular resistance changes associated with one-kidney, one clip Goldblatt hypertension.
(15) Collectively these studies demonstrate that the surgical modifications of the cremaster vascular supply required for in vivo microscopy significantly alter normal hemodynamics within the vascular bed.
(16) The cremaster muscle preparations seem to add usefully to the list of currently used in vitro tests, with the added advantage that a mammalian skeletal muscle model is used for simultaneous quantitative studies.
(17) These data indicate that magnesium ions: 1) bring about vasodilatation without releasing adrenergic amines, histamine, serotonin, acetylcholine, prostaglandins, or endogenous opioids; 2) are direct, potent vasodilators of intact rat cremaster muscle microvessels; 3) may have a depressive action on heart; 4) exert these microvascular and cardiac actions in low doses and 5) can produce severe hypotension and bradycardia only after i.v.
(18) The influence of flow patterns and erythrocyte concentration on the post-junctional radial position of leukocytes was studied in microvascular junctions in an isolated mesocaecum preparation and in vivo in the rat cremaster muscle.
(19) The pharmacological responses of both denervated and innervated cremaster muscle preparations from the guinea-pig have been investigated and compared.
(20) Studies were made on whether substance P-, leucine-enkephalin- and 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin)-like immunoreactive fibers exert a direct influence on the cremaster motoneurons of the male rat by immunocytochemistry combined with retrograde tracing at the light- and electron-microscopic levels.