What's the difference between corpus and principal?

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.

Principal


Definition:

  • (a.) Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a prince; princely.
  • (n.) A leader, chief, or head; one who takes the lead; one who acts independently, or who has controlling authority or influence; as, the principal of a faction, a school, a firm, etc.; -- distinguished from a subordinate, abettor, auxiliary, or assistant.
  • (n.) The chief actor in a crime, or an abettor who is present at it, -- as distinguished from an accessory.
  • (n.) A chief obligor, promisor, or debtor, -- as distinguished from a surety.
  • (n.) One who employs another to act for him, -- as distinguished from an agent.
  • (n.) A thing of chief or prime importance; something fundamental or especially conspicuous.
  • (n.) A capital sum of money, placed out at interest, due as a debt or used as a fund; -- so called in distinction from interest or profit.
  • (n.) The construction which gives shape and strength to a roof, -- generally a truss of timber or iron, but there are roofs with stone principals. Also, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
  • (n.) In English organs the chief open metallic stop, an octave above the open diapason. On the manual it is four feet long, on the pedal eight feet. In Germany this term corresponds to the English open diapason.
  • (n.) A heirloom; a mortuary.
  • (n.) The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
  • (n.) One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.
  • (n.) A principal or essential point or rule; a principle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition to their involvement in thrombosis, activated platelets release growth factors, most notably a platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) which may be the principal mediator of smooth muscle cell migration from the media into the intima and of smooth muscle cell proliferation in the intima as well as of vasoconstriction.
  • (2) While stereology is the principal technique, particularly in its application to the parenchyma, other compartments such as the airways and vasculature demand modifications or different methods altogether.
  • (3) Chromatography and immunoassays are the two principal techniques used in research and clinical laboratories for the measurement of drug concentrations in biological fluids.
  • (4) This paper reports, principally, the caries results of the first three surveys of 5, 12 and 5-year-olds undertaken at the end of 1987, 1988 and 1989, respectively.
  • (5) Rigidly fixing the pubic symphysis stiffened the model and resulted in principal stress patterns that did not reflect trabecular density or orientations as well as those of the deformable pubic symphysis model.
  • (6) The binding parameters indicate that the principal activating effect of UMP is not simply to increase the affinity of the enzyme for glucose.
  • (7) Mononuclear phagocytic cells from patients with either principal form of leprosy functioned similarly to normal monocytes in phagocytosis while their fungicidal activity for C. pseudotropicalis was statistically significantly altered and was more evident in the lepromatous than in the tuberculoid type.
  • (8) In the terminal segment of the hamster epididymidis there was some evidence of micro-merocrine protein secretion a the level of the principal cells and clear evidence of granular secretion in the light cells, presumable of glycoproteins.
  • (9) In the analysis of background fluorescence, the principal components were, as for the two-step technique, autofluorescence and propidium spectral overlap.
  • (10) However, at Period B, neutrophil numbers in the BAL fluid were increased in the principal but not in the control animals.
  • (11) Principal conclusions are: 1) rapid change to predominantly heterosexual HIV transmission can occur in North America, with serious societal impact; 2) gender-specific clinical features can lead to earlier diagnosis of HIV infection in women; 3) HIV infection in women does not pursue an inherently more rapid course than that observed in men.
  • (12) The concentrations of the principal extratesticular androgens and estradiol do not seem to have a quantitative influence on these androphilic proteins either.
  • (13) A principal function of GPIb is its attachment to von Willebrand Factor (vWF) on injured blood vessels which leads to the adhesion of platelets to these vessels.
  • (14) The principal variables influencing a particular configuration and their effects are indicated.
  • (15) The principal form of HMTs produced by these human peripheral blood monocytes has been subjected to biochemical, functional, and serological characterization.
  • (16) Micronutrient antioxidants such as alpha-tocopherol, the principal lipid-soluble antioxidant, assume potential significance because levels can be manipulated by dietary measures without resulting in side effects.
  • (17) Cytochrome oxidase histochemistry revealed patchy patterns of the enzyme activity in transverse sections through the caudal part of the ventral subnucleus of the principal sensory trigeminal nucleus, interpolar spinal trigeminal nucleus, and layer IV of the caudal spinal trigeminal nucleus in the cat.
  • (18) 3. an up-to-date review of the principal methods and systems used to measure the sedimentation rate--Automation of the Westergren initial methodology.
  • (19) • Queen Margaret Union, one of the University of Glasgow's two student unions, says 200 students there are marching on the principal's office at the moment to present an anti-cuts petition.
  • (20) This observation provides corroboration for the identification of the principal CCK-I neuron in the rat olfactory bulb as the centrally projecting middle tufted cell.

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