What's the difference between columba and columbia?
Columba
Definition:
(n.) See Calumba.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the people who know where Columba is buried could have seen what that did to my mother, if they could imagine their own mother in that position, they could not stay silent if they had any human feelings at all.
(2) The various components of these muscles are provided with stiff as well as wide aponeuroses and tendons (much stronger than those observed in Columba), indicating forceful opening and closure of the beaks for plucking off the fruit, grasping it hard and manipulating it with the help of the beaks before swallowing.
(3) Circulating levels of free fatty acids (FFA) and growth hormone (GH) were measured over a 24 hr period during the crop gland cycle of domestic pigeons (Columba livia).
(4) New host records included Sarcocystis sp., Echinostoma revolutum, Hymenolepis sp., Aproctella stoddardi, Ascaridia columbae, and Dispharynx nasuta.
(5) Untreated and treated (unilateral section of utricular and saccular branches of the vestibular nerve) pigeons Columba livia were rotated in the dark in the horizontal plane, the head being in a different position relative to the axis of rotation.
(6) Columba McVeigh was kidnapped, killed and buried in secret by the group after being accused of working as an informer for the security forces in 1975.
(7) To fill in some of the gaps in our knowledge of Schizogony of Haemoproteus columbae Kruse, transmission experiments involving inoculation into pigeons (Columba livia Gmelin) of sporozonites from salivary glands of the hippoboscid fly Pseudolynchia canariensis (Macquart) were carried out.
(8) The fine structure of the feeding organelles of the endogenous developmental stages of Eimeria labbeana from the ileal mucosa of the common Pigeon, Columba livia, is described and compared with similar structures of other species of Eimeria.
(9) Injections of fluorescent tracers into the spinocerebellum of homing pigeons (Columba livia) disclosed a group of neurons located rostral to the dorsal column nuclei which receives spinal primary afferents, as confirmed by double-labeling experiments.
(10) Using various neurohistological, electronmicroscopic, cytochemical and electrophysiological techniques, studies have been made on the development of peripheral visual pathways in human subjects and some homoiotherm animals (pigeon Columba livia, cats, rabbits).
(11) All 98 strains of this yeast isolated from Columba livia (feral pigeon) belonged to serotype B.
(12) Homing behavior was tested in pigeons (Columba livia) after removing a portion of the ventrolateral telencephalon, which receives extensive projections from the olfactory bulb and is comparable with the mammalian pyriform cortex.
(13) An adult male pigeon (Columba livia) was presented to the Wildlife Service at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine for depression, cachexia, and diarrhea.
(14) Primary structure of hemoglobin of alpha-chain of Columba livia is presented.
(15) An antigen (C(g)) by which Columba guinea differs from C. livia has behaved as a unit in over 400 backcross offspring.
(16) The diffusion of rock-pigeon (domestic form of Columba livia Gmelin 1789) is greatly increasing owing to its high reproductivity; for this reason it is present in both countries and cities.
(17) The results of electrophysiological experiments where the responses from pigeon (Columba livia) single horizontal semicircular canal afferent fibers produced by mechanical stimulation across a broad frequency bandwidth are reported.
(18) The fleshy insertion of the outer slip of M. pseudotemporalis profundus extends ventrally over the dorsolateral surface of the mandible much more than it does in Columba.
(19) Extracellular recording from single auditory nerve fibers in the pigeon, Columba livia, revealed some unusual discharge patterns of spontaneous and evoked activity.
(20) He does speak fluent Spanish and is married to a Mexican-American woman, Columba Bush, whom he met as a teenage English teacher in Guanajuato.
Columbia
Definition:
(n.) America; the United States; -- a poetical appellation given in honor of Columbus, the discoverer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hemoglobin British Columbia was found in an East Indian living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
(2) They had to be seen as the good guys, and not as either this administration or that administration.” Comey left the justice department in 2005 for Lockheed Martin, the largest military contractor in the US, and eventually an investment firm and Columbia Law School.
(3) A ten-year study of the sexual behavior of college students in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, shows that students choose among three sexual subcultures: celibacy, monogamy, and free experimentation.
(4) Between 1981 and 1983, 29 States (includes the District of Columbia) conducted one-time telephone surveys.
(5) The first Jacques Monod Conference was held in Roscoff, Brittany on 1-5 June 1987 and dealt with the topic of 'Selection of Lymphocyte Repertoires' (organizers F. W. Alt, Columbia University, New York.
(6) Four formulations of an insect growth regulator, Bay Sir 8514 (a benzoylurea compound), were tested against 2 species of riceland mosquito larvae, Anopheles quadrimaculatus and Psorophora columbiae.
(7) Unlike the plateau projected for the nation, AIDS incidence for the District of Columbia was projected to increase by 34% between 1990 and 1994.
(8) "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country," he told a jeering audience at Columbia University in New York during his UN visit.
(9) The Research Diagnostic Criteria (RCD) and the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS) were developed in the mid-1970s by researchers at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and at Columbia University.
(10) The University of British Columbia Model for Nursing provided an innovative and holistic means to attain perceptions in the health teaching assessment process and facilitated the development of a learning needs assessment tool.
(11) Holiday's regular label, Columbia, blanched at the prospect of recording it, so she turned to Commodore Records, a small, leftwing operation based at Milt Gabler's record shop on West 52nd Street.
(12) The purpose of this study was to determine the predominant microflora in hepatic abscesses of cattle slaughtered in British Columbia.
(13) The use of the Columbia agar stab culture is recommended as a rapid and simple test for recognition of group B streptococci.
(14) The numbers aren't strictly sequential: the first few million are segmented by university, so that Harvard users were assigned 0-99999, Columbia users 100000-199999, Stanford users 200000-299999, and so on.
(15) Pairs of great blue heron eggs were collected from three British Columbia colonies with low, intermediate, and high levels of dioxin contamination: Nicomekl, Vancouver, and Crofton, respectively.
(16) Last year, he was invited to participate at a conference at Columbia University law school in New York.
(17) The group’s trip to Rome is designed to coincide with a workshop hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Tuesday called Protect the Earth, Dignify Humanity, which will feature speeches by Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general, and Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs.
(18) Utilizing a framework developed by the Faculty of Law, University of Dakar, Senegal, and the Development Law and Policy Program, Center for Population and Family Health, Columbia University, the Sahel Institute undertook a comprehensive study of the legal and social status of women in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Senegal.
(19) Columbia Pictures has bought the remake rights to the TV series, and to the original quartet of novels by David Peace on which it was based.
(20) Student protesters in Berkeley and Columbia cheered their TV sets as footage from the Paris barricades made the American news in May, while French students took heart from images of the huge anti-war demonstrations now occurring across Europe and America.