What's the difference between clumpy and plumpy?

Clumpy


Definition:

  • (n.) Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mutations in most CRT genes confer additional phenotypes, among these are clumpiness, hydroxyurea sensitivity, temperature sensitivity and slow growth.
  • (2) The entity is characterized by a maturation arrest at the myelocyte stage, strikingly clumpy chromatin, and a clinical course marked primarily by difficulties caused by anemia and thrombocytopenia.
  • (3) He wears clumpy black shoes instead of the custom-made red slippers favoured by his predecessor, Benedict; refuses to live in the magnificently decorated papal apartments, and drives himself around the city state in a 1984 Renault 4 of the sort favoured by Italian smallholders.
  • (4) A lesser side might have crumpled, particularly after the clumpy 2-2 draw against Sunderland that left them six points behind the following Wednesday, with only one game in hand.
  • (5) The ATT serum crossreacted with rat liver nucleoli and PtK1 cell nucleoli in which immunofluorescence labelling displayed a clumpy pattern.
  • (6) A 34-kd nucleolar protein (fibrillarin) of the U3 RNP complex was positive in immunoblotting of 22 sera (48%), which characteristically produced clumpy nucleolar staining.
  • (7) With the aid of polarization and electron microscopy, the myocardial-cell changes in the affected zones were classed into four morphological types, as follows: contracture type, intracellular myocytolysis, primary clumpy disintegration of myofibrils, and intravital autolysis of ischaemized cells.
  • (8) Disruption of the gene caused phenotypes similar to, but more severe than, those caused by missense mutations: high-level constitutivity for invertase, clumpiness, temperature-sensitive growth, alpha-specific mating defects, and failure to homozygous diploids to sporulate.
  • (9) Electron microscopic description of the characteristic abnormal clumpy chromatin cells is included.
  • (10) Clumpy or ovoid deposits of amyloid were present within the stroma of 41 epitheliomas, whereas no amyloid was found in the tumor cell islands.
  • (11) Cells deficient in Chs2 showed clumpy growth and aberrant shape and size.
  • (12) In addition clumpy grains of c-myc in squamous cell carcinoma appeared more frequently than in squamous metaplasia or dysplasia.
  • (13) Type 1 cells contained an ovoid dark nucleus with clumpy chromatin and possessed only a very thin rim of cytoplasm.
  • (14) But I can't deny that in my nylon hockey skirt and clumpy studded boots, my knees covered in mud and my sweaty fringe in my eyes, I felt that I looked too substantial, too challenging.
  • (15) Remarkably, the spaT mutant colonies revealed a clumpy surface morphology on solid media.
  • (16) All three patients with diffuse scleroderma had high titers of clumpy pattern antinucleolar antibody on HEp-2 cells.
  • (17) A homogeneous nucleolar staining pattern was found in 45 of the 64 sera (70.3%), a clumpy fluorescence associated with fibrillarin antibody in 14 (21.8%) and a speckled pattern was found in five of the sera (7.8%).
  • (18) Strong clumpy fluorescence of nucleoli in the interphase.
  • (19) In this fashion, we identified a large (90 kilobases) plasmid, pCLP51R, that encodes the lac+ marker, resistance to a lytic phage called LP10G (1pr+), high-frequency conjugal donor ability (hft+), and clumpy growth of host bacteria in broth culture (clu+).
  • (20) The immunoreactivity was more uniform and diffused for FS proteins and granulated or clumpy for ODF proteins.

Plumpy


Definition:

  • (a.) Plump; fat; sleek.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But she noticed Mohamed getting smaller and sicker, until she eventually brought him to the centre, where the nuns give him F-75 – an enriched formula adapted for malnourished children, fortified porridge, plumpy nut, and soup with meat and fish.
  • (2) Treatments include the use of Plumpy’nut, the peanut-based paste, rich in calories and protein, used to help starving children gain weight Facebook Twitter Pinterest Roda Mahamud and her niece, Ayan, who hasn’t eaten properly for weeks.
  • (3) Acute malnutrition affects more than one in four children in some areas, but it can usually be resolved relatively quickly with a steady supply of high energy Plumpy'Nut feeding paste .
  • (4) Unicef recently launched a special feeding centre in Mazrak for severely malnourished children and along with the World Food Programme has been distributing food rations and sachets of Plumpy'nut, a food used in famine relief.
  • (5) Though the operative method of the dorsal local skin flap of hand is simple, it may interfere with the flexion of MP joint of the index finger and the reconstructed first web space is very deep and not plumpy.

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