What's the difference between collum and pillar?

Collum


Definition:

  • (n.) A neck or cervix.
  • (n.) Same as Collar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After treatment in 29 of 106 collum carcinomas CEA and or SCC levels did still exceed these cut off values.
  • (2) Operations were indicated in the majority of all cases by degenerative hip-joint diseases (n = 3214) and 399 cases by medial collum femoris fracture from adduction type (Garden III and IV).
  • (3) In the collum cells, however, Egp-transcripts continue to be detectable in the cytoplasm until the end of larval life.
  • (4) The radial head may be fixed by trans-articular Kirschner's wire (WITT) or primary reconstruction of the annular ligament, using a strip of biceps or triceps tendon, or adaptation around the collum radii and ulna of the proximal radio-ulnar joint by means of a sling of Dexon or Vicryl suture.
  • (5) With the present model, prediction of the effects of various treatments on the force direction in the hip joint could help to improve and select treatment (the force direction is presumed to control the collum growth direction).
  • (6) Fractures of the collum femoris alone are on the basis of actual life expectancy in Switzerland responsible for 157,000 hospital days in women and 18,000 in men, corresponding to the annual capacity of an acute-cave hospital with 500 beds.
  • (7) Surgical technique for intra and extra capsular collum fractures is illustrated.
  • (8) Doxycycline was given as preventive preoperative treatment to 64 patients with fractured collum femoris.
  • (9) The one-hole angle plate is used for osteosynthesis in cases of medial collum femoris fractures.
  • (10) With the aid of ultrasound we tried to visualize the muscles of the shoulder region, the collum scapulae, the axillary artery and vein and the brachial plexus.
  • (11) The borderline between the uterine corpus and collum cannot be characterized by the elbow of the uterine artery (the end of its parametrian part) but by the most medial loop of the ascending part of the vessel, coinciding with the end of the cervical canal.
  • (12) Except for the luxation fractures of the upper collum there was no significant difference in the results of immobilisation therapy (77%) and functional therapy.
  • (13) A 88 year old man was admitted for physical therapy of a collum femoris fracture.
  • (14) The Scottish official Willie Collum is also on the list.
  • (15) Patients with a higher life expectancy are submitted to a total hip endoprosthesis, preference being given in cases of collum femoris fractures to the combination of a Spotorno shaft and a Morscher acetabulum.
  • (16) Only a single measure, the smallest sagittal diameter of the collume mandibulae showed significant difference between both sides which was observed in both groups of men and women.
  • (17) Uni- and bilateral endoscopic sectioning of the vesical collum and of the prostatic tissue has become an efficient therapeutic alternative for small and middle adenomas and cervicoprostatic scleroses.
  • (18) ACh produced a marked contraction of the preparation from the bladder body and produced no response in the collum vesicae and the urethra; however, NE caused a marked contraction of the preparations from the collum vesicae and the urethra and relaxation in the bladder body.
  • (19) Total hip replacement in medial collum femoris fracture showed a significantly higher frequency of postoperative complications (4 times) and mortality (17 times).
  • (20) Patients suffering from a collum carcinoma stage T 1b can be treated either by operation according to Wertheim and Meigs, or by radiotherapy.

Pillar


Definition:

  • (n.) The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column or shaft not supporting a superstructure, as one erected for a monument or an ornament.
  • (n.) Figuratively, that which resembles such a pillar in appearance, character, or office; a supporter or mainstay; as, the Pillars of Hercules; a pillar of the state.
  • (n.) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.
  • (n.) The center of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
  • (a.) Having a support in the form of a pillar, instead of legs; as, a pillar drill.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The binding sites were mainly located on the stereocilia, the cuticular plate of hair cells, the head plates of Deiters' cells, fibrous structures in pillar cells, in the spiral limbus and tectorial membrane and basilar membrane, plasma membranes, mitochondria and the chromatin of various kinds of cells.
  • (2) Protesters set fire to rubbish bins and tyres, creating pillars of black smoke among the apartment blocks and office buildings in central Tehran.
  • (3) The west African nation, once seen as a pillar of democracy in the troubled region, has been split in two since a coup in March.
  • (4) Pores about 8 nm in diameter are again to be found where the pillars are anchored in the outer cell membrane.
  • (5) Investment spending fell by 4.4%, leaving government spending as the only pillar that was growing, by 1%.
  • (6) Job security is a key pillar of professional fulfilment and academic research has found that feeling settled in a job can increase motivation and productivity and reduces the likelihood of staff taking time off work due to illness.
  • (7) Thomas Mazetti and Hannah Frey, the two Swedes behind the stunt, said they wanted to show support for Belarussian human rights activists and to embarrass the country's military, a pillar of Lukashenko's power.
  • (8) Marine Rotational Force – Darwin” (MRF-D) is one of four American marine air ground task forces (MAGTFs) in the Asia-Pacific region, along with those in Guam, Hawaii and Okinawa, the sum of which make up a central strategic pillar of the pivot.
  • (9) The secondary lamellae of the gills were shortened and deformed and the epithelial cells were disoriented with regard to the pillar cell system.
  • (10) Risks include terrorist bombings, riots and stampedes in the tunnels and pedestrian walkways leading to the Jamarat stoning pillars (representing Satan) – as well as the routine hazards of heat and disease.
  • (11) The exhibition will include the earliest roadside pillar box erected on the mainland – in 1853, a year after the first went up in Jersey in the Channel Isles – and unique and priceless sheets of Penny Black stamps.
  • (12) A just-formed unity government in Baghdad which has yet to prove itself, and a non-jihadist rebel force in Syria which was judged until yesterday to have almost disappeared, are weak pillars for an ambitious policy.
  • (13) And together they met on a cold, grey Friday in Margate – two pillars of the establishment albeit of a very different kind.
  • (14) As it has elevated "hygge" (cosiness) into a way of life, Copenhagen has elevated the humble bicycle into a cultural icon, a pillar of its image.
  • (15) Considerable improvements could be made by providing impact attenuation in the head contact areas on the door, roof and B-pillar.
  • (16) The fracture lines through the articular pillar were difficult to detect in some cases or to distinguish from a facet joint in others.
  • (17) The sanctity of voting in private may be one of the pillars of democracy, but in an age of byzantine disenfranchisement rules and empowering social-media platforms, outlawing a picture of your candidate selection is a missed opportunity and a failure of imagination.
  • (18) I think this shake-up at Fifa is fantastic because the next Fifa president could have this wonderful platform — here’s one of his pillars for his legacy,” Foudy said.
  • (19) The principle of this technique is that the divergent laser beam enters a glass square pillar, propagates through the pillar repeating the total reflection and emerges with a uniform intensity distribution over the cross-section at the end of the pillar.
  • (20) Biopsies were obtained from their respiratory papillomas and nondiseased sites (NDS) of the respiratory tract: the nasopharynx, posterior tonsillar pillar, aryepiglottic fold, cervical trachea, intrathoracic trachea, and bronchi.

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