What's the difference between classic and seminal?

Classic


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Classical
  • (n.) A work of acknowledged excellence and authority, or its author; -- originally used of Greek and Latin works or authors, but now applied to authors and works of a like character in any language.
  • (n.) One learned in the literature of Greece and Rome, or a student of classical literature.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) HSV I infection of the hand classically occurs in children with herpetic stomatitis and in health care workers infected during patient care delivery.
  • (2) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
  • (3) Classical treatment combining artificial delivery or uterine manual evacuation-oxytocics led to the arrest of bleeding in 73 cases.
  • (4) These experiments indicated that there were significant differences between the early classical C system of mice and those of human and guinea pig.
  • (5) The simultaneous administration of the yellow fever vaccine did not influence the titre of agglutinins induced by the classic cholera vaccine.
  • (6) N-Methoxysulphonamides showed no inhibitory activity, as predicted by the classic work of Krebs on N-substituted inhibitors.
  • (7) The interactions of 3 classical alpha-adrenergic antihypertensives of prevalently central type (St 155 or clonidine St 600; BR 750 or guanabenz) with the narcotic effects of pentobarbital have been investigated in the Mus musculus.
  • (8) The mother in Arthur Ransome's children's classic, Swallows and Amazons, is something of a cipher, but her inability to make basic decisions does mean she receives one of the finest telegrams in all literature.
  • (9) We have characterized the binding of the selective muscarinic antagonist [3H]pirenzepine ([3H])PZ) and the classical muscarinic antagonist (-)-[3H]quinuclidinyl benzilate ((-)-[3H]QNB) to muscarinic cholinergic sites in rabbit peripheral lung membranes.
  • (10) Fish were trained monocularly via the compressed or the normal visual field using an aversive classical conditioning model.
  • (11) Some of what I was churned up about seemed only to do with me, and some of it was timeless, a classic midlife shock and recalibration.
  • (12) Usually they are characterized by an increased level of complement components involved in the classical pathway and therefore reflect activation by antigen antibody complexes.
  • (13) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
  • (14) Classically, parathormone is known to increase bony reabsorption and raise serum calcium.
  • (15) Twelve mutations were searched for using classical techniques of molecular biology in a total of 126 patients.
  • (16) Here we compare this revised technique to the classical sucrose density centrifugation procedure.
  • (17) This study demonstrates that a second classical neurotransmitter, dopamine, can act to suppress regenerative neurite outgrowth.
  • (18) Classic technics of digital image analysis and new algorithms were used to improve the contrast on the full image or a portion of it, contrast a skin lesion with statistical information deduced from another lesion, evaluate the shape of the lesion, the roughness of the surface, and the transition region from the lesion to the normal skin, and analyze a lesion from the chromatic point of view.
  • (19) One cytotechnologist screened the slides for all occurrences of a standard set of classic cytopathologic signs.
  • (20) Detection of the noncarboxylated forms allows an indirect and specific measure of the vitamin K deficiency found in early, classic, and late hemorrhagic disease of the newborn (HDN), malabsorption syndromes, and drug related (warfarin, anticonvulsants, and antibiotics) states.

Seminal


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid.
  • (a.) Contained in seed; holding the relation of seed, source, or first principle; holding the first place in a series of developed results or consequents; germinal; radical; primary; original; as, seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue.
  • (n.) A seed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In normal seminal vesicle, the reaction product was apparently more abundant in columnar and basal cells than in other cell types.
  • (2) 500-MHz H-NMR spectroscopy of the oligosaccharides derived from gamma-seminoprotein, a human seminal plasma glycoprotein, revealed considerable microheterogeneity both with respect to the degree of branching and with regard to the peripheral sugars.
  • (3) GC using the capillary columns proved suitable for mapping of the carbohydrate profile of human seminal fluid and for the analyses of organic compounds accumulating in human adipose tissue.
  • (4) The corresponding values for 1 ml seminal plasma were: 1-50, 0-439, 0-581, 0-594 and 0-010 mg.
  • (5) Air-regenerated monomers of bovine seminal ribonuclease have been found capable of reassociating into native dimers, whereas monomers refolded in the presence of a glutathione redox mixture do not reassociate into dimers [Smith, K. G., D'Alessio, G. and Schaffer, S. W. (1978) Biochemistry 17, 2633-2638].
  • (6) Repeated administration of high concentrations (10 muglml and above) of histamine produce tachyphylaxis in the seminal vesicle of guinea pig.
  • (7) This report describes the cytotoxic properties of human seminal plasma and demonstrates that the inhibition of response to mitogens shown by murine lymphocytes in the presence of whole human seminal plasma can be attributed largely to an effect of seminal components on lymphocyte viability.
  • (8) Immunoelectron microscopy of the rat seminal vesicle was performed using specific antibodies to secretory proteins.
  • (9) The effect of SV-IV, one of the major proteins secreted from the rat seminal vesicle epithelium, on phagocytosis and chemotaxis of human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) has been studied.
  • (10) Volume of prostate and seminal vesicles was measured in patients with Klinefelter's syndrome by means of transrectal ultrasonography before and after testosterone replacement therapy.
  • (11) However the diagnostic accuracy of an elevated serum antigen level on an individual basis was only 55 per cent for capsular penetration and 50 per cent for seminal vesicle involvement and lymph node involvement.
  • (12) The previous demonstration that sperm kept at body temperature (37 degrees C) had a marked deterioration in motility accompanied by an overgrowth of bacteria in the semen and a concomitant decrease in pH led to this study to test the hypothesis that the decrease in motility was caused by the bacteria or by bacterial alteration of seminal pH.
  • (13) The mean length of the seminal vesicles was 2.98 cm.
  • (14) The seminal degeneration and regeneration associated with the development and spontaneous cure of scrotal mange were very similar to that seen following experimental elevation of testicular temperature.
  • (15) The acrosin inhibitors are localized in the mucosa cells of the cauda epididymis, the vas deferens, the seminal vesicles, the urethra and distinct glandular units of the prostate.
  • (16) The maximum labelling indices which appeared on days 2 or 3 of administration of methyltestosterone were 24.3, 8.4, 9.6, 21.6 and 13.7% for the ventral, lateral and dorsal prostate, seminal vesicle and coagulating glands, respectively.
  • (17) It was concluded that the heat-induced substance(s) from leukocytes, which being highly possible the Hsps, interfered the mobility of wash human sperm and the inhibition might be antagonized by seminal plasma.
  • (18) Basic peptides (bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor, bull seminal isoinhibitors of trypsin, arginine vasopressin and adamantylamide-alanylisoglutamine) were analysed with a cationic ITP system at acidic pH.
  • (19) Relaxin in seminal fluid was determined radioimmunologically in 238 andrological patients with various ejaculate qualities.
  • (20) We have previously described the presence of a human seminal plasma component which may prevent the immunologic sensitization of females against sperm and seminal plasma antigens.