What's the difference between circumfuse and surround?

Circumfuse


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pour round; to spread round.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rat hepatoma cells of the H4-II-E cell line able to form conjugated bilirubin glucuronide from bilirubin were grown to tissue density by circumfusion culture of the LAD before symbiotic hemoperfusion experiments lasting up to 24 hours.
  • (2) They retained many of their features of differentiation in the circumfusion system for more than 120 days of cultivation.
  • (3) Pancreatic explants from perinatal or 1-week-old rat circumfusion organ cultured with an insulin-free variant of Trowell's Medium T8 survive functionally, as judged from tissue amylase content, for about 3 days.
  • (4) Sections of those cells grown in circumfusion culture on acrylic copolymer and polysulfone capillaries were prepared.
  • (5) It can be concluded from these findings that fetal mouseliver cultured in the circumfusion system for 2 weeks maintains its functional and morphological identitites as it differentiates toward the adult liver.
  • (6) A new circumfusion chamber is described for microscopic or micrometric investigations on living single cells and similar particles.
  • (7) Uremic serum fractions obtained by Amicon XM-10 hollow fiber and membrane filtration was investigated using cytotoxicity in tissue culture by Rose's circumfusion system and by monolayer culture.
  • (8) Crystals that were too large to be ingested by individual macrophages were incorporated into a multinucleate cell by a process of circumfusion, and were progressively converted to cholesterol esters within the giant cell.
  • (9) Long-term (more than 75 days) recirculating circumfusion system cultures of 15-day fetal mouse lungs gave rise to terminal bronchiolar-alveolar (TB-A) units detached from the respiratory tree.
  • (10) Fetal mouse lungs were cultivated, using the dual-rotary circumfusion system for tissue culture, and their histotypic development was surveyed for 75 days by phase-contrast and electron microscopy.
  • (11) This presentation will describe a closed loop circumfusion system with an available surface area scaleble to 72 m2.
  • (12) The authors investigated the in vitro functional differentiation of fetal mouse liver cultured in Rose's circumfusion system with the use of two biochemical markers: The analysis of the inductive response of key enzymes in carbohydrate metabolism to insulin, and the analysis of the liver-specific isozyme of pyruvate kinase [EC 2.7.1.40].
  • (13) Immunoreactive profiles within the medial septum and hippocampus also circumfuse a small number of intracerebral vessels.
  • (14) Explants from 7-day-old animals, circumfusion cultured with hydrocortisone-supplemented medium, maintain tissue amylase levels equal to or greater than those of uncultured control pancreas for at least 5 days of culture, and over this period they release amylase into culture medium at a stable rate.

Surround


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
  • (v. t.) To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city.
  • (v. t.) To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world.
  • (v. t.) To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city.
  • (n.) A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Such was the mystique surrounding Rumsfeld's standing that an aide sought to clarify that he didn't stand all the time, like a horse.
  • (2) The lesion (10.6 X 9.8 mm) was a well-defined ellipsoid granuloma due to a foreign body with a central zone of necrosis surrounded entirely by a fibrous wall.
  • (3) It was hypothesized that compensatory restraining influences of surrounding soft tissues prevented a more severe facial malformation from occurring.
  • (4) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
  • (5) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
  • (6) The usefulness of the proposed method is obvious in cases where the composition of a precipitate on LM scale is to be compared with the LM appearance of the surrounding tissue.
  • (7) Degraded visual acuity had a significant effect on cadence, foot placement, and foot clearance, but visual surround conditions did not.
  • (8) Computed tomography does not allow differentiation between these lesions and surrounding normal tissues.
  • (9) The efficacy of the process is dependent on immersion medium, while the degree of surrounding tissue damage is dependent on energy dose.
  • (10) In cat, DARPP-32-immunoreactive cell bodies identified as Müller cells were demonstrated in the inner nuclear layer (INL) with processes closely surrounding the cell soma of photoreceptors in the outer nuclear layer.
  • (11) In the univariate life-table analysis, recurrence-free survival was significantly related to age, pTNM category, tumour size, presence of certain growth patterns, tumour necrosis, tumour infiltration in surrounding thyroid tissue and thyroid gland capsule, lymph node metastases, presence of extra-nodal tumour growth and number of positive lymph nodes, whereas only tumour diameter, thyroid gland capsular infiltration and presence of extra-nodal tumour growth remained as significant prognostic factors in the multivariate analysis.
  • (12) Surrounding intact ipsilateral structures are more important for the recovery of some of the language functions, such as motor output and phonemic assembly, than homologous contralateral structures.
  • (13) The dual-probe system incorporates a central collimated probe for monitoring activity in the LV surrounded by an annular detector collimated in such a manner as to provide simultaneous real-time monitoring of the LV background activity.
  • (14) This technique is sensitive to the optical anisotropy within the muscle, including that due to intrinsic properties of the protein molecules as well as that due to the regular arrangement of proteins in the surrounding medium.
  • (15) Surrounding parenchyma may be partially compressed.
  • (16) The stage of a given malignancy, representing the degree of spread of the tumor to its local surroundings or distant sites, is the best predictor of long-term survival.
  • (17) At this stage of the observation period the labeling index was very low in surrounding liver, but still high in the gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase-positive areas.
  • (18) The third effect was a shift in center-surround balance towards a more dominant center.
  • (19) Although sound pressure levels are high, they are probably reduced before reaching the cochlea of the fetus because of the surrounding amniotic fluid and the fluid in the middle ear.
  • (20) Glial siphoning can distribute the potassium preferentially toward the blood vessels in the area, leading to an elevation in potassium concentration in the ECF surrounding the vascular smooth muscle of the arterioles.

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