What's the difference between compartment and locular?
Compartment
Definition:
(n.) One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or a garden.
(n.) One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(2) While stereology is the principal technique, particularly in its application to the parenchyma, other compartments such as the airways and vasculature demand modifications or different methods altogether.
(3) Many problems at the macroscopic level require clarification of how an animal uses a compartment of suite of muscles and whether morphological differences reflect functional ones.
(4) Thus, our results indicate that calbindin-D28k is a useful marker for the projection system from the matrix compartment and that its expression is modified in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy and striatal degeneration.
(5) However, a highly significant upward shift of the proliferating cell compartment was observed in the cancer group, resulting in a specific modification of the [3H]TDR labeling pattern in 6 of 17 specimens.
(6) A retrospective review was undertaken of 127 lower extremity fasciotomies performed for compartment syndrome after acute ischemia and revascularization in 73 patients with vascular trauma and 49 patients with arterial occlusive disease.
(7) The addition of a cerebral blood volume (CBV) compartment in the [18F]2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) model produces estimates of local CBV simultaneously with glucose metabolic rates when kinetic FDG studies are performed.
(8) Likewise, they had little or no effects on the fluorescence anisotropy of TMA-DPH, which is also thought to be located in the interfacial region of the lipid bilayer, either when the probe was located in the outer layer of the plasma membrane or when the probe was located in the inner membrane compartment.
(9) Pharmacokinetics of the parent drug followed a two-compartment model.
(10) All treatments cause equal translocation of receptor of the nuclear compartment.
(11) The effects of intra-arterial administration of substance P upon intestinal blood flow, oxygen consumption, intestinal motor activity, and distribution of blood flow to the compartments of the gut wall were measured in anesthetized dogs.
(12) A two-compartment model was used to describe the elimination of DCM from blood following single iv doses.
(13) Neonatal treatment with a low dose of the estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES) had no significant effect on adult estrogen binding within the assayed vaginal compartments; however, this treatment caused a 2-fold increase in the level of cytosolic progestin binding in the vaginal FMW over that in vehicle-treated mice.
(14) Thus the two proteins provide models with which to study targeting to each of these intracellular compartments.
(15) It was the purpose of this study to examine the relationship between body fluid compartments and multi-frequency bioelectrical impedance analysis (MF-BIA).
(16) The authors have reviewed 14 patients with 14 cases of compartment syndrome treated at their institution from 1980 to 1988.
(17) Furthermore it is this small compartment that is preferentially radioactively labelled during short-term incubations with radioactively labelled precursors.
(18) The remaining fat pad was used for calculations of cell numbers in the fat cell and connective tissue cell compartment.
(19) Passive avoidance performance of HO-DIs was, indeed, influenced by the age of the subject at the time of testing; HO-DIs reentered the shock compartment sooner than HE at 35 days, but later than HE at 120 days.
(20) TTM predominantly enhances the removal of Cu from the short-term storage compartment, but effects on the long-term storage compartment may still be of significance.
Locular
Definition:
(a.) Of or relating to the cell or compartment of an ovary, etc.; in composition, having cells; as trilocular.
Example Sentences:
(1) Type 2 cells are small-locular cells suitable for rapid oxidation of fat droplets.
(2) The histopathological study shows the three characteristic elements: fibrous, uni-locular adipose tissue and mixoid mesenchymal tissue.
(3) 2 of the cysts presented multi-locular radiolucency; in 9 cases, buccal expansion was noticed and in 8 cases, permanent buds were displaced.
(4) At the operation a three-locular cyst of the left adrenal gland was entirely removed with all surrounding organs undamaged.
(5) Uni- or multi-locular, this radiolucent defect is often unilateral; it affects equally both sexes.
(6) In the infants, all cell types were identified: the small-locular cells were in general scanty in all decades following infancy: in later decades of life, the most common cell types were middle-locular and large-locular cells.
(7) The entities commonly known as multi-locular cyst of the kidney (MLC) and cystic partially differentiated nephroblastoma (CPDN) were reviewed, based on material in the National Wilms' Tumor Study Pathology Center.
(8) Neither clinical nor radiological examination could give the diagnosis, whereas ultrasound examination promptly revealed large, thin-walled, partly locular, cystic masses.
(9) From a methanolic extract of neutralized apple fruit pulp, a minor compound was isolated by adsorption chromatography on both XAD and PVPP resins followed by rotation locular countercurrent chromatography (RLCC).
(10) In case of multi-locular supra-aortic lesions the correction of a hemodynamic carotid stenosis has priority over any reconstruction of another supra-aortic lesion.
(11) Type 3 (middle-locular) and 4 (large-locular) represent fat-storage cells containing large amounts of fat.
(12) Ninety-eight jaw lesions were described by their prevalence and their distribution by age, sex, race, presence of pain, number, size and location of lesions, association with teeth, expansion, locularity, borders, contents and impact on adjacent teeth.
(13) Brown adipocyte locularity profiles were qualitatively similar in both phenotypes, and were morphologically indicative of thermogenic activity in both phenotypes.
(14) Using a bioassay for inhibition of plant growth and a combination of two countercurrent chromatographies: rotation locular countercurrent chromatography and droplet countercurrent chromatography, two biologically active glycosidal alkaloids, solasonine and solamargine were isolated from fresh ripe fruit of Solanum incanum.
(15) To evaluate the catecholaminergic effects of BAT, morphometric quantitation of BAT was carried out based on the cytoplasmic locularity of fat globules in the BAT cells.
(16) Multilocular brown fat cells were classified into the following types: Type 1, fat-depleted cells: Type 2, small-locular cells: Type 3, middle-locular cells: Type 4, large-locular cells: Type 5, monolocular brown fat cells with a thick cytoplasmic rim and pseudomonolocular brown fat cells and Type 6, multilocular brown fat cells rich in cytoplasm.
(17) The loculus of thoracic stomach tended to retain the same shape; there was a slightly better prognosis for the locular type of hernia compared with the tubular type.