What's the difference between corpus and curriculum?

Corpus


Definition:

  • (n.) A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a previous publication the purification and properties of two protein kinases (KI and KII) from a soluble fraction of bovine corpus luteum and the stimulation of the latter fol.
  • (2) We report that kainic acid lesions of the posterior corpus striatum, which preferentially spare fibers of passage while destroying striatopallidal neurons, produce a stimulus-sensitive movement pattern in rats that has a highly specific sensory trigger.
  • (3) The consequences of propylthiouracil-induced thyroid deficiency on pre- and postsynaptic biochemical markers in the corpus striatum and the visual cortex were investigated in adult rats.
  • (4) Between one-third to one-half of the vagal cells innervating the fundus and corpus were concentrated under the area postrema.
  • (5) Pathological examination was carried out and a cavitary lesion with discontinuous longitudinal extension was found throughout the corpus callosum.
  • (6) Dopamine (DA), serotonin (5-HT) and the corresponding metabolites dopac, HVA and HIAA were determined in the corpus striatum of the rat between day 1 and day 21 pn by HPLC with electro-chemical detection.
  • (7) The appearance of the corpus allatum, the central endocrine gland of diapause, was examined histologically in the slug moth prepupae, Monema flavescens (Lepidoptera).
  • (8) After this time, there is an absolute requirement for estrogen which permits further development of the corpus luteum and the continuation of progesterone synthesis.
  • (9) Flight-induced activation of phosphorylase is prevented when the release of AKH from the corpus cardiacum is blocked by the presence of high trehalose levels in the hemolymph, and also when the production of AKH is made impossible by prior removal of the corpus cardiacum glandular lobe.
  • (10) The subicular area, best expressed in the temporal sector, extends anteriorly over the corpus callosum to the subcallosal gyrus and, throughout its extent from the uncal to the septal junction, is clearly demarcated from limbic neocortex by a transition zone characterized by archicortical cells merging with cells in the deep layer of the bordering neocortex.
  • (11) Rat spermatozoa were recovered from the caput, corpus, and cauda epididymides and assayed for glycosidase activity, total nonamino (neutral) carbohydrate, and protein content.
  • (12) The importance of the m. canalis ani and of the hitherto unknown transsphincteric course of the blood reflux from the arterially supplied corpus cavernosum for the pathogenesis of the hemorrhoidal disease as the adequate therapy are delineated.
  • (13) These neurons showed a high degree of synaptic convergence, also responding synaptically with a high-frequency burst of spikes to stimulation of both visual area 2 and the corpus callosum.
  • (14) In control tissues there was a significant variation in vascularity according to geographic location in the following order of magnitude: fundus greater than corpus greater than cornua greater than isthmus.
  • (15) The average thickness of the corpus callosum at the level of the foramen of Monro was 6 mm in normal subjects and was reduced below 6 mm in 16 of the hydrocephalus patients.
  • (16) This is explained by partial volume averaging, by the orientation of some cerebral structures (e.g., corpus callosum) with regard to the section plane, and by the longer diameter of the lesions in the axial plane.
  • (17) These binding sites, localized in the circumference of the epididymal tubule and most concentrated within the proximal cauda, are present throughout the caput, corpus, and remaining cauda epididymis.
  • (18) The initial investigation of the female partner is best served by assessing the frequency of ovulation and adequacy of corpus luteum function.
  • (19) After exclusion of subjects with gastritis there remained 67 females and 68 males with morphologically completely normal antral and corpus mucosa.
  • (20) Little or no specific binding was detected in the corpus callosum, a white matter region.

Curriculum


Definition:

  • (n.) A race course; a place for running.
  • (n.) A course; particularly, a specified fixed course of study, as in a university.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
  • (2) The effect of this curriculum is measured by statistical analysis of resident-generated aesthetic surgery cases in one year following the introduction of this curriculum into the teaching program.
  • (3) Just before Christmas the independent Kerslake report severely criticised Birmingham city council for its dysfunctional politics and, in particular, its handling of the so-called Trojan Horse affair, in which school governors were said to have set out to bring about an Islamic agenda into the curriculum contents and the day-to-day running of some schools.
  • (4) These days, all Russian 15-year-olds study War and Peace as part of their national curriculum.
  • (5) In response to the Advisory Committee on training in Nursing recommendations EONS in association with Marie Curie Memorial Foundation organized a workshop, where representatives of the 12 member states of the EEC, actively involved in cancer nursing education, were invited to prepare a core curriculum in cancer nursing education.
  • (6) The further disappearance of laboratory exercises from the curriculum should be halted by efforts to revitalize them.
  • (7) Twenty-six female students in either their first or fourth (i.e, final) semester of the occupational therapy curriculum were assessed with the Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons Scale (ATDP) (Yukor, Block, & Younng, 1966).
  • (8) Measures of effect of the training found the following: a significant increase in knowledge scores, although the trainees came into the program with relatively high scores; a heightened awareness and increased positive attitudes toward aging; high ratings of performance on a functionally oriented comprehensive health assessment; and augmented geriatric curriculum and clinical training in their home PA programs.
  • (9) Curriculum writers and instructors of preservice elementary teachers could be more effective if they were aware of this group's beliefs about school-related AIDS issues.
  • (10) Two thirds of the patients had a better curriculum than one would expect from the IQ.
  • (11) One factor contributing to this problem has been the absence of courses on motor vehicle injury from the curriculums of the health professions schools.
  • (12) Clinical education is integrated throughout the curriculum, and a calendar is developed based on the content of the learning experiences rather than the traditional university calendar.
  • (13) The practicum was designed to meet two objectives in the undergraduate curriculum: (1) to give students experience in the care of patients and families in the community by using cancer as a model of a life-threatening disease requiring acute and chronic care, rehabilitation, etc.
  • (14) While progress has occurred in some schools, the teaching of nutrition has not generally been integrated into the curriculum of the medical school.
  • (15) In fact, it is possible that the student with life experience could be considered one of the motivating forces that drives the curriculum revolution toward its eventual victory.
  • (16) Since 1983, social scientists have collaborated with teaching staff at the Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia, to develop an integrated sociocultural curriculum for undergraduate students in community health.
  • (17) The original goals were to increase the number of family physicians, provide them with the basic knowledge and skills to practice, integrate the concepts of family medicine into the total medical school curriculum, and develop the "attitudes and ideals" of the good family physician.
  • (18) The present situation is described, with specific reference to faculty, curriculum, and accreditation issues.
  • (19) Certain recurring curriculum problems have emerged and have been described as "diseases of the curriculum."
  • (20) In a long-term follow-up of a study designed to assess the impact of school-based suicide prevention curricula on high school students, a group of 174 students from two high schools who were exposed to a prevention program were compared with a group of 207 control students from two additional high schools who were not exposed to the curriculum.

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