What's the difference between conduct and duct?

Conduct


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.
  • (n.) Skillful guidance or management; generalship.
  • (n.) Convoy; escort; guard; guide.
  • (n.) That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.
  • (n.) The manner of guiding or carrying one's self; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior.
  • (n.) Plot; action; construction; manner of development.
  • (n.) To lead, or guide; to escort; to attend.
  • (n.) To lead, as a commander; to direct; to manage; to carry on; as, to conduct the affairs of a kingdom.
  • (n.) To behave; -- with the reflexive; as, he conducted himself well.
  • (n.) To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit, as heat, light, electricity, etc.
  • (n.) To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.
  • (v. i.) To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.
  • (v. i.) To conduct one's self; to behave.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
  • (2) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
  • (3) Based on several previous studies, which demonstrated that sorbitol accumulation in human red blood cells (RBCs) was a function of ambient glucose concentrations, either in vitro or in vivo, our investigations were conducted to determine if RBC sorbitol accumulation would correlate with sorbitol accumulation in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats; the effect of sorbinil in reducing sorbitol levels in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats would be reflected by changes in RBC sorbitol; and sorbinil would reduce RBC sorbitol in diabetic man.
  • (4) The experiment was conducted on 3 groups of calves.
  • (5) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
  • (6) Modulation of the voltage-gated K+ conductance in T-lymphocytes by substance P was examined.
  • (7) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
  • (8) Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) was prepared, and platelet aggregation studies were conducted directly or conducted on washed platelets prepared from PRP collected with ACD.
  • (9) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
  • (10) It is concluded the decrease in cellular volume associated with substitution of serosal gluconate for Cl results in a loss of highly specific Ba2+-sensitive K+ conductance channels from the basolateral plasma membrane.
  • (11) Stimulation of atrial H1-receptors is suggested to directly cause an increase in Ca-channel conductance independent of intracellular cAMP content.
  • (12) No report can be taken seriously if its authors weren’t even in Yemen to conduct investigations.” The UN team was not given permission to enter the country.
  • (13) Ofcom will conduct research, such as mystery shopping, to assess the transparency of contractual information given to customers by providers at the point of sale".
  • (14) Studies were conducted into the relationship between arthrosis and previous trauma.
  • (15) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
  • (16) Perceived quality of life interviews with the clients were also conducted at both times.
  • (17) We conclude that the rat somatosympathetic reflex consists of an early excitatory component due to the early activation of RVL-spinal sympathoexcitatory neurons with rapidly conducting axons and a later peak that may arise from the late activation of these same neurons as well as the early activation of RVL vasomotor neurons with more slowly conducting spinal axons.
  • (18) Studies were conducted to evaluate the effects of acute (24 h) thermal stress on anterior pituitary function in hens.
  • (19) We are currently conducting a trial to compare the ability of DHPG administered plus an anti-CMV immune globulin preparation with acyclovir to prevent posttransplant TI-CMV disease.
  • (20) Recent research conducted by independent investigators concerning the relationship between crime and narcotic (primarily heroin) addiction has revealed a remarkable degree of consistency of findings across studies.

Duct


Definition:

  • (n.) Any tube or canal by which a fluid or other substance is conducted or conveyed.
  • (n.) One of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination.
  • (n.) A large, elongated cell, either round or prismatic, usually found associated with woody fiber.
  • (n.) Guidance; direction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The most actively proliferating region of the excurrent duct system is zone 3 of the epididymis, whereas the least active region is the ductuli efferentes.
  • (2) Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography failed to demonstrate any bile ducts in the right postero-lateral segments of the liver, the "naked segment sign".
  • (3) Immunohistochemical observation of myoepithelial cells with monoclonal antibody from human mammalian cancer suggested that these cells play an important role in the process of glandular ducts formation.
  • (4) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
  • (5) High mortality, severe destruction of pancreatic B-cells and presence of sporadic mononuclear infiltrations in islets and around excretory ducts were observed.
  • (6) No methionine-enkephalin-positive nerves could be detected in the common bile duct, pancreatic duct or gallbladder.
  • (7) The most serious complications following operative treatment are retained bile duct calculi (2.8%), wound infection and biliary fistulae.
  • (8) In case of biliary and pancreatic duct obstruction with pure pancreatic reflux, both oedema and inflammatory infiltrations were evident, whereas, in the presence of biliary reflux too, more serious histological features were detected.
  • (9) Dacryography is the only means of exploring the permeability of the lacrymal ducts and to conclude as the whether watering of the eyes is organic or functional.
  • (10) Papillomatosis of the biliary ducts is exceptional.
  • (11) Histological studies with neonatal mice raise the possibility that Müllerian duct tissue may represent a site for the transplacental toxicity of DES in both the male and female fetus.
  • (12) Six of the obstructed livers developed biliary cast formation so extensive that the smaller intrhepatic ducts became plugged to an extent that they could no longer have been treated by surgical mena.
  • (13) The presence of prostatic invasion either into the stroma or involving prostatic ducts and acini only had no adverse effect on outcome.
  • (14) A series of 172 lithiasis of the common bile duct has been analysed.
  • (15) Compared with the portal vein, lymphatic duct revealed a greater resistance to hypoxia.
  • (16) Although 25 Gy IORT plus 50 Gy EBRT was tolerated by the duodenum to 135 days, these doses may cause later pancreatic injury as an expression of damage to blood vessels and ducts.
  • (17) This report describes a newly developed catheter system with the aid of which the cystic duct and gallbladder can be reliably catheterized, retrograde, via an endoscope.
  • (18) Optical light, transmission, and scanning electron microscopy were used in investigations of epithelia in the glandular region of the milk cistern and greater lactiferous ducts and yielded the following findings, four and six hours from infection: degeneration and necrosis of epithelial cells, intraepithelial foreign cell infiltration (neutrophilic granulocytes, lymphocytes, macrophages), intra-epithelial oedema and locally delimited epithelial loss.
  • (19) To study the role of the serum complement system in the early necrosis of acinar cells an acute pancreatitis was produced by injection of basement membrane antibodies into the pancreatic duct of mice and rats.
  • (20) Predisposition to pancreatitis relates to duct size rather than stone size per se.