What's the difference between colour and polychromatic?

Colour


Definition:

  • (n.) See Color.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A similar interference colour appeared after incubating sections of rat skin with chymase.
  • (2) What we’re doing is designed to improve people’s lives.” "I don't see race, colour or creed, and neither do my children," he added.
  • (3) They retained the ability to make this discrimination when the coloured stimuli were placed against a background bright enough to saturate the rods.3.
  • (4) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
  • (5) On 17 December Clegg will set out his own script for the year ahead, testing the idea that coalition governments can function even as the two parties clearly show their separate colours.
  • (6) The Brandenburg Gate was lit up in the colours of the German flag.
  • (7) 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.
  • (8) Bound biocytinyl-E2 is detected after binding of streptavidin-peroxidase and colour production by the enzyme.
  • (9) Significant biases in the distribution of cases of babesiosis were found with regard to season (P < 0,05), sex (P < 0,001) and coat colour (P < 0.01).
  • (10) In order to map the mental state in the early puerperium the authors gave to a group of 100 women for five days after delivery Lüscher's colour test.
  • (11) Trichophytosis (T. equinum) is characterized as typical numerous small and round patches, covered by small, bran-like, asbestos-coloured scales.
  • (12) Malvidin chloride (MC) a colouring agent from flowers of Malvaviscus conzattii Greenum was studied for male anti-fertility effects in adult langur monkeys (Presbytis entellus entellus Dufresne).
  • (13) The conclusion is to warn the orthopaedic surgeons to look carefully what model is behind the pretty coloured results.
  • (14) His bracelets and his hair, neatly gathered in a colourful elasticated band, contrast with his unflashy day-to-day uniform of checked shirts, jeans or cheap chinos and trainers.
  • (15) Blunt homicide predominated amongst White females, who were substantially older than the Coloured and African subjects.
  • (16) Variation of scrotal colour was not due to changes in melanocyte number or dispersion of melanosomes.
  • (17) Most striking finding was his difficulty in identifying common objects and colours along with a profound alexia.
  • (18) In three the diagnosis was only suspected when the colour Doppler study showed dilated intraseptal and epicardial vessels and an abnormal flow signal into the pulmonary artery in diastole; this latter signal localised the exact site of communication, which was not apparent on angiocardiography.
  • (19) The verbal coding and recognition of colours of a group of chronic schizophrenics and their normal controls were investigated.
  • (20) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.

Polychromatic


Definition:

  • (a.) Showing a variety, or a change, of colors.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the present study, 2,000 polychromatic erythrocytes were assessed per animal.
  • (2) It appears that the recognition of grooved nuclei among tumor cells is a valuable diagnostic feature of PTC in cytologic material stained with polychromatic Papanicolaou stain.
  • (3) 14 flavonoids, including flavone and flavonol derivatives, were tested for their anticlastogenic effect against induction of micronuclei by benzo[a]pyrene in polychromatic erythrocytes of mice.
  • (4) This method makes use of crystallographic phases determined from measurements made at several wavelengths and has recently been made technically feasible through the use of intense, polychromatic synchrotron radiation together with accurate data collection from multiwire electronic area detectors.
  • (5) A significant increase in micronucleated polychromatic erythrocytes in the peripheral blood was observed in male mice in one experiment.
  • (6) The frequency of induction of micronucleated polychromatic erythrocytes by benzene thus depends on the strain of mouse used.
  • (7) Butylate was inactive in bone marrow, vernolate caused a marginal increase in the incidence of micronucleated polychromatic erythrocytes only at a high toxic dose level.
  • (8) Polychromatic silver-stained peptide maps of purified R-II subunits indicated that peptides generated from both rat ovarian R-II52 and R-II51 were similar (if not identical) to the peptides of the neural form, R-II52, purified from rat brain.
  • (9) Fetal peripheral blood and maternal bone marrow cells were examined at 36 h for the frequency of micronucleated polychromatic erythrocytes.
  • (10) The negative binomial probability generating function was used to show that six or more micronuclei per 1000 polychromatic cells from one treated animal would be significant for our laboratory, methodology and strain of mouse, provided that concurrent negative control data conformed with historic values.
  • (11) The ratios of polychromatic to normochromatic erythrocytes at the 24 h sampling time were lower for the treated than the control animals.
  • (12) In those with polychromatic blocked-in tattoos of professional origin, hypertrophic scars occurred and the overall result was unsatisfactory.
  • (13) The slight increase in the micronucleated polychromatic erythrocytes without affecting DNA synthesis suggests an effect of usnic acid on spindle apparatus.
  • (14) The lethal effect of polychromatic near-UV light (325-400 nm) on Haemophilus influenzae was 8 times higher under aerobic than anaerobic irradiation.
  • (15) As a means of correcting for many potential interferences, polychromatic analysis offers an effective alternative to either sample pretreatment or separate blank determinations.
  • (16) Khat extract significantly increased the frequency of micronucleated polychromatic erythrocytes, induced bone marrow depression and reduced the mitotic index of the somatic cells.
  • (17) Histochemical, light, and electron microscopic examinations revealed that all-trans-retinoic acid first decreased the numbers of polychromatic erythroblasts and then increased them.
  • (18) Rats were given by gavage a single or two successive doses equal to one-half the corresponding LD50, killed at different times after treatment, and examined for the following end points: the frequency of both micronucleated polychromatic erythrocytes in the bone marrow and micronucleated hepatocytes (after partial hepatectomy); the in vivo-in vitro induction of DNA fragmentation, as measured by the alkaline elution technique, and of unscheduled DNA synthesis, as measured by autoradiography, in hepatocyte primary cultures.
  • (19) Healing of cancellous bone grafts taken from the iliac crest which were implanted in alveolar bone pockets were followed with polychromatic sequence marking in animal experiments using beagle dogs.
  • (20) Accommodation is more accurate with polychromatic stimuli than with narrowband or monochromatic stimuli.