What's the difference between crookback and hunchback?
Crookback
Definition:
(n.) A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.
Example Sentences:
(1) A moment when Underwood, told that he has lost the support of his party, hunched over as if to prevent his furious feelings exploding from his chest, might have come directly from Spacey’s stage performance as the crookback king.
(2) He was Richard Crookback in Shakespeare's Tudor propaganda version of the story – "that foule hunch-backt toade" (the first recorded use anywhere of the description hunch-back) – which may have portrayed him as a serial murderer, but also as passionate, highly intelligent and possessed of a dark wit.
(3) The monarch, whom Tudor historians nicknamed Crookback Dick, was killed on 22 August 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth Field by Henry VII's soldiers.
Hunchback
Definition:
(n.) A back with a hunch or hump; also, a hunchbacked person.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to genetic analysis, the spatial limits of the Kr expression domain are controlled by the morphogenetic activities of the anterior organizer gene bicoid (bcd) and the anterior gap gene hunchback (hb).
(2) This pattern of expression is altered in mutants for a gap gene (hunchback) and a pair-rule gene (fushi tarazu).
(3) The graded distribution of bcd protein defines position along the anterior-posterior axis of the embryo through the spatially restricted activation of subordinate targets such as the gap gene hunchback (hb).
(4) Ectopic expression of tll under the control of an inducible promoter results in differentiation of ectopic terminal-specific structures, the Filzkörper, and leads to the activation of at least one gene, hunchback, that is required to form these structures.
(5) He was English history's most famous hunchback, but a sharp tailor and a skilful armourer may have disguised the curve in his spine, according to experts who examined the skeleton which has been identified as Richard III's.
(6) Members of this class include hunchback (hb), knirps (kni), and Krüppel (Kr).
(7) Most of the thoracic and abdominal segments of Drosophila are specified early in embryogenesis by the overlapping activities of the hunchback (hb), Krüppel, knirps, and giant gap genes.
(8) Previous genetic studies suggest that one of the stripes, stripe 2, is initiated by the maternal morphogen bicoid (bcd) and the gap protein hunchback (hb), while the borders of the stripe are formed by selective repression, involving the gap protein giant (gt) in anterior regions and the Krüppel (Kr) protein in posterior regions.
(9) Within this hunchback-free domain the pattern of abdominal segments must be specified by other morphogens, possibly by shorter range gradients of the products of zygotic gap genes Kruppel, knirps and tailless.
(10) I picture her small enough to hold in your hand, and she’s with her brothers and sisters; they’re all normal little dogs and then there’s this tiny hunchback.
(11) In Drosophila embryos, graded activity of the posterior determinant nanos (nos) generates abdominal segmentation by blocking protein expression from maternal transcripts of the hunchback (hb) gene.
(12) In contrast, Krüppel is a transcriptional repressor that can block transcription induced either by hunchback or by several different homeo box proteins.
(13) He won an Oscar nomination and a César for Cyrano de Bergerac and is best-known in Britain for his role as the benighted and hunchback tax-collector turned farmer in Jean de Florette .
(14) We conclude that we have identified the hunchback gene because three mutations that inactivate hb physically interrupt or delete this gene.
(15) The first zygotic group of genes, which are thought to respond to the spatial cues provided by the maternal genes, are the gap genes, whose members include hunchback (hb), Krüppel (Kr) and knirps (kni).
(16) Moreover, the PBX pattern is completely suppressed in embryos containing uniformly distributed maternal hunchback protein.
(17) Tudor propagandists, especially Shakespeare, ensured Richard has been seen as hunchbacked for centuries.
(18) By the time the family realised that the older woman was severely undernourished, she had already developed a hunchback from the nutrition deficiency.
(19) Most notable is the finding of hunchback expression in 11-13 stripes shortly before gastrulation, as well as a delayed expression of terminal domains of various genes.
(20) We have studied the ability of the Drosophila gap proteins Krüppel and hunchback to function as transcriptional regulators in cultured cells.