What's the difference between congee and conger?

Congee


Definition:

  • (n. & v.) See Conge, Conge.
  • (n.) Boiled rice; rice gruel.
  • (n.) A jail; a lockup.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To buy it from the Guardian Bookshop for £22.50, click here Uyen Luu’s seabass congee Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romas Foord for the Observer With kale, ginger and dill Congee is a soup usually made from leftover cooked rice and is a breakfast favourite in Vietnam.
  • (2) In study B, test meals of 300 ml of steamed rice, congee, 16.6% glucose, 5% glucose or a combined congee-metoclopramide meal (in which 10 mg metoclopramide i.v.
  • (3) When the congee has come back to the boil add the dill and the strips of fish and gently stir, being careful not to damage the delicate flesh.
  • (4) was given 15 min before the congee was eaten) were given to seven subjects.
  • (5) In study A, consisting of four groups of six subjects each, we measured the differences in pH, viscosity, and osmolality of in vivo and in vitro samples of steamed rice, congee, and 16.6 and 5% glucose solutions in 300-ml volumes.
  • (6) The incremental glucose response to steamed rice was greater than that to congee, but the incremental insulin response was greatest with congee plus metoclopramide.
  • (7) Metoclopramide increased the gastric emptying of congee to that approaching steamed rice.

Conger


Definition:

  • (n.) The conger eel; -- called also congeree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An activity UTP : D-glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase is located in the microsomal membranes of conger liver.
  • (2) The theoretical model employed was an adaptation of Conger's Ecological-Systems approach which was based on the principles of Bronfenbrenner's theory of human development.
  • (3) Newmark, Conger, and Faschingbauer (1976) found a significant difference between mean ratings of MMPI and FAM (Faschingbauer's Abbreviated MMPI) based interpretations.
  • (4) When the present results are compared to those of Newmark, Conger and Faschinbauer (1976) and earlier work by Fashcinbauer (1973), it appears that the FAM yields interpretation as accurate as one would expect given its psychometric dissimilarity from the MMPI.
  • (5) This microsomal enzyme could be the last of a membranous biosynthetic pathway for UDP-glucose, as conger liver microsomes contain also a membranous glucokinase and a membranous phosphoglucomutase.
  • (6) A galactose-binding lectin was purified from the skin mucus of the conger eel Conger myriaster by affinity chromatography and HPLC.
  • (7) Congresox talabonoides, the yellow conger pike eel, caught near Hong Kong, shows a high incidence of abnormal vertebrae and dorsal fin rays.
  • (8) A conger was obtained which was heterozygous for the variant allele at the muscle-glucosephosphate isomerase locus.
  • (9) Serotonin-like immunoreactivity was found in the club cells of Heteropneustes fossilis and Carapus acus but not in those from the sea eel Conger conger.
  • (10) The production of amines may indicate that the Merkel cells of C. conger have both secretory capabilities and transduction functions.
  • (11) The skin mucus of the conger eel, Conger myriaster, contains galactose-specific agglutinins.
  • (12) A comparison of the variant conger muscle isozyme with the wild type revealed a single altered peptide, suggesting a point mutation.
  • (13) Quantitative receptor autoradiographic study of 125I-atrial natriuretic peptide factor (ANF) in the heart of a teleost fish Conger conger has shown that a heterogenous distribution of 125I-ANF binding exists in the different cardiac regions.
  • (14) The isozymes were isolated from catfish liver and muscle and from conger muscle and shown to be homogeneous by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, isoelectric focusing, analytical ultracentrifugation, and rechromatography.
  • (15) Leukocyte and kidney cell cultures were used to examine the sex chromosomes of Japanese freshwater eels (Anguilla japonica) and conger eels (Astroconger myriaster).
  • (16) The amino-acid sequence of a beta-galactoside-binding lectin isolated from the skin mucus of the conger eel Conger myriaster was determined.
  • (17) Immunocytochemical techniques were used to investigate the distribution and co-localization of neuron-specific enolase (NSE) and serotonin (5-HT) in the skin of the conger eel, Conger conger.

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