What's the difference between conductor and grooved?

Conductor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director.
  • (n.) One in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad train or a street car.
  • (n.) The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus.
  • (n.) A substance or body capable of being a medium for the transmission of certain forces, esp. heat or electricity; specifically, a lightning rod.
  • (n.) A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, as lithontriptic forceps, etc.; a director.
  • (n.) Same as Leader.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The orientation of the dilating balloon in the inlet and outlet portions of the left ventricle, change of the catheter-dilator is controlled due to a loop of the conductor connecting the right and left parts of the heart.
  • (2) The adrenergic fibres form developed plexuses different in the density of disposition of nerve conductors on the arteries of different segments of the spinal cord.
  • (3) (Peter Adamik) The Order of Merit (OM) awarded to individuals of greatest achievement in the fields of the arts, learning, literature and science, goes to the conductor Sir Simon Rattle , and to the heart surgeon Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub.
  • (4) The Audiant Bone Conductor has been heralded as an aid for use in conductive hearing loss; however, its possible use in unilateral sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) has also been proposed.
  • (5) The driver refused to stop at her village despite her repeated pleas and instead drove her, the only passenger on the bus, to a remote farmhouse where he and the bus conductor were joined by five friends.
  • (6) The extracellular potentials of single frog muscle fibers in homogeneous unbounded volume conductor at different temperature are calculated.
  • (7) The electrical conduction of the ECG from the fetal heart to the maternal abdomen has been modelled by using volume conductor models based on the measured actual geometry.
  • (8) This can be deduced from the facts that the inhibition by valinomycin is relatively insensitive to pH, is considerably greater in Na(+)- than in K(+)-containing buffers, and is not enhanced by the addition of proton conductors.
  • (9) The changes in the integral of the extracellular action potentials (EAPs) generated by an infinite homogeneous fibre in an infinite homogeneous and isotropic volume conductor were studied at different radial distances (yo) from the fibre axis, depending on the propagation velocity (v), duration (Tin) and asymmetry of the intracellular action potential (IAP).
  • (10) These stationary potentials can spread widely in a volume conductor and can even be detected in a non-stimulated subject making a close contact to the generator source.
  • (11) These phenomena were attributed to the complex spread of the bioelectrical potentials in the nonhomogeneous volume conductor formed by the tissues of the temporal bone.
  • (12) No conductor telling me when to come in, no legato or staccato to follow.
  • (13) It has been suggested that many attributes of gastrointestinal electrical activity cannot be adequately explained by classic "core-conductor" or "cable" models of excitation and conduction.
  • (14) The antennas are made of thin coaxial cables with a radiation gap or gaps on the outer conductor.
  • (15) We are thankful for the efficient therapy of the semi conductor Ga As Laser and the possibility that we have through the use of such an instrument to reduce the supply of the anti inflammatory medicines in patients that experience pain.
  • (16) Following reestablishment of the main blood flow a positive electrical potential (3--4 V) was fed on the prosthesis by means of a current conductor.
  • (17) Fields H3, H4, H5 send no afferent conductors to the post-commissural fornix.
  • (18) Out of interest, we were contacted by another reader this week who wrote to say that a train conductor she met on holiday last year, who lived in York, was saying how delighted he was that his rail company had upped the "commission rate he received on tickets sold on the train to people unable to produce a proper ticket".
  • (19) Myelinated nerve fiber excitation is determined from a core-conductor nerve model, whose nodal currents are described by the Frankenhaeuser-Huxley kinetics and the aforementioned field providing the applied potentials.
  • (20) Considering the brain as a volume conductor, the ways of revealing the ocular movement artefacts in the frontal EEG leads have been suggested.

Grooved


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Groove

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The ligands bind at discrete sites in the minor groove of DNA, and analysis on DNA sequencing gels show pronounced protection at the ligand binding sites, as well as more generalized protection.
  • (2) Recent reports have indicated the usefulness of nuclear grooves (clefts or notches) as an additional criterion for the diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma in fine needle aspirates; most of these studies were carried out on alcohol-fixed material stained with the Papanicolaou stain or with hematoxylin and eosin, which yield good nuclear details.
  • (3) Intermolecular contacts occur in both oligomers in the minor groove: in the B form through twisted guanine-guanine hydrogen bonding, and in the Z form through base-base stacking and the water network.
  • (4) The nogalose and aminoglucose sugars lie in the minor and major grooves, respectively, of the distorted B-DNA double helix.
  • (5) The AFB1 moiety is face-stacked in the major groove with its long axis approximately perpendicular to the helix axis.
  • (6) These results strongly indicate that metallobleomycin binds in the minor groove of B-DNA and that the 2-amino group of guanine adjacent to the 5' side of the cleaved pyrimidine base is one key element of the specific 5' G-C or G-T recognition by the bleomycin-metal complex.
  • (7) As a basis for the discussion a possible structure for the DNA complex of the phenylated neutral red is considered in which the extra phenyl ring at N-5 of the phenazinium system, protrudes into the large groove of the DNA helix while the tricyclic part of the ligand is inserted between the DNA base-pairs.
  • (8) A high intensity of the reactions was observed in certain cells of the neural groove in 24-hours' embryos and in the neural tube of 48-hours' embryos.
  • (9) Recent STM studies of calf thymus DNA and poly(rA).poly(rU) have shown that the helical pitch and periodic alternation of major and minor grooves can be visualized and reliably measured.
  • (10) In the absence of boxes or grooves, pins markedly enhanced both retention and resistance.
  • (11) Therefore in artificial knee replacement a lateral tilt of the patella sliding groove should not be propagated as 'physiological'.
  • (12) Many antitumor drugs, and many carcinogens, act by binding within the minor groove of double-helical DNA, interfering with both replication and transcription.
  • (13) This instrument, a modification of a corneal trephine, provides a neat, smooth groove of adjustable depth.
  • (14) and the fluid ejected from the ejaculatory groove region (about 0.2 ml.).
  • (15) 3) The significance of minor groove Mtase-DNA interactions to specificity is confirmed.
  • (16) (v) The bis-benzimidazole drug Hoechst-33258, which binds in the minor groove of B-DNA, exhibits very little fluorescence in the presence of the ps hairpins but a normal, enhanced emission with the aps oligonucleotides.
  • (17) We have studied the time-resolved and the steady-state fluorescence of the DNA groove binders 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) and Hoechst 33258 with the double stranded DNAs poly(dA-dU) and poly(dI-dC) and their halogenated analogs, poly(dA-I5dU) and poly(dI-Br5dC).
  • (18) The complexation-induced chemical shifts and NOE cross peaks in the NOESY map of the 1:1 complex of lexitropsin (1) and d-[CGCAATTGCG]2 reveal that the thiazole ring of the lexitropsin (1) intercalates between dA4.A5 bases and the rest of the ligand resides in the minor groove of the AT rich core of decamer, thus occupying the 5'-AATT sequence on the DNA.
  • (19) All cases had true hypertelorism and a median nasal groove with absence of the nasal tip.
  • (20) Distamycin, Hoechst 33258, and DAPI were used as agents capable of AT-specific binding in the minor groove of DNA while producing no profound long-range distortion of DNA structure.

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