What's the difference between corona and luminous?

Corona


Definition:

  • (n.) A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.
  • (n.) The projecting part of a Classic cornice, the under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip. See Illust. of Column.
  • (n.) The upper surface of some part, as of a tooth or the skull; a crown.
  • (n.) The shelly skeleton of a sea urchin.
  • (n.) A peculiar luminous appearance, or aureola, which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon.
  • (n.) An inner appendage to a petal or a corolla, often forming a special cup, as in the daffodil and jonquil.
  • (n.) Any crownlike appendage at the top of an organ.
  • (n.) A circle, usually colored, seen in peculiar states of the atmosphere around and close to a luminous body, as the sun or moon.
  • (n.) A peculiar phase of the aurora borealis, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping needle.
  • (n.) A crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. It is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also corona lucis.
  • (n.) A character [/] called the pause or hold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this study, data obtained by observations on the loss of association between the oocyte (with karyosphere) and corona radiata cells are evaluated.
  • (2) Oocyte maturity was graded on a scale from 1 to 5 based on the morphology of the ooplasm, cumulus mass, corona radiata, and membrana granulosa cells.
  • (3) Immediately before in vitro insemination, the oocytes were divided into three types with different follicle cells: denuded and corona- and cumulus-enclosed oocytes.
  • (4) The definition of anatomic and clinical correlates to AchA stroke is aided by CT-MRI findings and reveals an unexpected superior extension of infarct to include the periventricular caudate nucleus and inferior corona radiata.
  • (5) In the present study a 13.5-kV corona discharge ionizing generator was used in order to investigate the effect of ions on the microbial air pollution of the dental clinic.
  • (6) These results confirm the previous suggestion that NPDLL arises from a cell type that is a normal constituent of follicular centers, whereas MZL arises from the lymphocytic corona.
  • (7) Follicular development was induced by human menopausal gonadotropin, and maturation of retrieved oocytes was assessed by the degree of cumulus mucification and corona dispersal.
  • (8) Parasites labeled with periodate and fluorescein-thiosemicarbazide and then transformed had a corona of fluorescence containing microvilli, much of which was shed onto the slide.
  • (9) Most of the fecal samples, containing corona viruses, agglutinate mice, rat and hamster erythrocytes.
  • (10) CT scan revealed an abnormal high density area protruding into the right lateral ventricle, and a low density area at the right corona radiata.
  • (11) Central arteries from the anterior spinal artery and penetrating vessels from the vasa coronae provide blood directly to the cord.
  • (12) Any tariff we can levy they can levy.” Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) Simply put, any policy proposal which drives up costs of Corona, tequila, or margaritas is a big-time bad idea.
  • (13) Corona viruses belong to a group of not yet well known viruses isolated in patients with infections of the upper respiratory organs, especially in winter months.
  • (14) This microvillous arrangement greatly increases contact between the oocyte and corona cells, and suggests a coordinated reciprocal control of the activities of both cell types.
  • (15) The 12 radiologic signs of the corona complex have each been produced experimentally in vitro in animals and in vivo in humans during electrochemical treatment of cancers.
  • (16) Astrocytes were first detected at E(embryonic day) 18, forming a corona of processes around the optic disc.
  • (17) Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a lesion in the right corona radiata.
  • (18) Following an infarction involving the left putamen and corona radiata, a 58-year-old right-handed man developed micrographia with the right hand, right facial palsy, right hand clumsiness and slight aphasia.
  • (19) Microtubules and tubulin subunits will associate with kinetochores in vitro after extraction with 150 mM KI, suggesting that other functionally significant, corona-associated molecules remain unextracted.
  • (20) Corona markedly improved intraobserver (p less than 0.005) and interobserver (p less than 0.001) reproducibility.

Luminous


Definition:

  • (a.) Shining; emitting or reflecting light; brilliant; bright; as, the is a luminous body; a luminous color.
  • (a.) Illuminated; full of light; bright; as, many candles made the room luminous.
  • (a.) Enlightened; intelligent; also, clear; intelligible; as, a luminous mind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A specimen of a very early ovum, 4 to 6 days old, shown in the luminal form of imbedding before any hemorrhage has taken place, confirms that the luminal form of imbedding does occur.
  • (2) By increasing luminal air pressure from 10 to 20 cm H2O a significant reduction in GBF was observed.
  • (3) F pili could be seen on cells of the latter strain but not on those of the parental strain or the strain bearing pColVF54 luminal diameter r. Pili other than F pili were not seen on cells of the strains bearing pF54 in either form.
  • (4) In the area of the porta hepatis, there were many epithelial luminal structures in fibrous tissue with inflammatory infiltrates.
  • (5) At high luminances, the temporal, but not spatial, properties of this mechanism break down in a manner which had not been studied.Low-frequency inhibitory processThis process is manifest as a decrease in sensitivity from that of the simple excitatory process.
  • (6) Luminal and myoepithelial cells have been separated from normal adult human breast epithelium using fluorescence activated cell sorting.
  • (7) Conclusions derived from these studies are: 1) The model used is a valid means of studying in vivo luminal disappearance of PLP in the rat jejunum; 2) a major portion of the disappearance seems to involve hydrolysis by alkaline phosphatase; 3) a significant portion of this hydrolysis occurs intraluminally; and 4) a second mechanism of PLP disappearance, which is nonphosphatase-mediated, also appears operative and may represent absorption of the intact, phosphorylated vitamin.
  • (8) In man, well-controlled studies in selected groups of patients have already shown that a reduction of luminal stenosis may take place.
  • (9) These alterations include fenestration, widened intercellular junctions, increase in pinocytotic vesicles, and infolding of the luminal surface.
  • (10) Thresholds were measured for detecting perturbations in a regular lattice of dots by modulating local dot density, local dot luminance, or some combination of the two.
  • (11) Six abnormal colonoscopic appearances were documented, namely mucosal edema, ulcers, friability, punctate spots, erythematous areas and luminal exudate.
  • (12) In short-term studies, luminal biotin disappearance from rat ileum was about half that observed in the jejunum, whereas absorption by proximal colon was about 12% of that in the jejunum.
  • (13) The wave forms of the equiluminance stimulus onset responses were similar to ERGs evoked with luminance decrease and the stimulus offset PERGs were like ERGs elicited by luminance increase.
  • (14) The tuning curves for orientation of cortical cells maintain, to a first approximation, the same shape at the various levels of mean luminance.
  • (15) Ependymal cells developed luminal fronds that projected into the ventricle and the subpial glia displayed a very subtle gliosis in the form of thin multi-laminated processes.
  • (16) Intracellular Na+ due to passive Na+ inflow may activate cooperatively the Na(Cl) transport system at luminal plasma membrane and membrane of secretory granules in high levels of (Na+)in.
  • (17) The instrument is based on an established procedure for dark adaptation measurement in which the subject continuously adjusts the threshold luminance of a recurrently flashing stimulus.
  • (18) Both the spatial and the temporal characteristics of the negative-afterimage process are consistent with its being a component of local luminance adaptation.
  • (19) Therefore, we studied 122 consecutive clinically stable patients with angiographically defined CAD (greater than 75 per cent luminal stenosis) and a positive exercise test.
  • (20) We have isolated a mutant of the luminous bacterium Beneckea harveyi, which requires exogenous adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP) to synthesize luciferase and emit light.