What's the difference between cumulate and cupulate?
Cumulate
Definition:
(v. t.) To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cumulative incidence of grade II and III acute GVHD in the 'low dose' cyclosporin group was 42% compared to 51% in the 'standard dose' group (P = 0.60).
(2) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
(3) Measures of average and cumulative rank were used to augment tests of the significance of correlations between different indicators.
(4) It was shown that the antibiotic had low acute toxicity, did not cumulate and had no skin-irritating effect.
(5) In guinea pig ventricular myocytes, the positive contractile staircase was associated with ascending staircases of both peak systolic and end diastolic [Ca2+]i because of a cumulative increase in diastolic [Ca2+]i.
(6) Results obtained from cumulative labeling and pulse-labeling and chase experiments with cells from late gastrulae, yolk plug-stage embryos, and neurulae showed that the 30S RNA is an intermediate in rRNA processing and is derived from 40S pre-rRNA and processed to 28S rRNA.
(7) A cumulative response rate of 31% is reported for a total of 200 patients treated with this drug.
(8) Repeated feedings of 1 mg of Sudan III induced cumulative increases in the concentration of menadione reductase (EC 1.6.99.2) in liver, whereas protein concentration was unchanged.
(9) A physiologically based model, comprising the reservoir, liver blood and tissue, and bile, was fitted to reservoir concentrations of 3H-oxazepam and 3H-oxazepam glucuronides, and the cumulative amount excreted into bile.
(10) The cumulative results suggest that the two sulfate activating enzymes do not associate to form a "3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulfate synthetase" complex.
(11) Thus, in theory, the Pl concentration should cumulatively decrease as the blood approaches the outer cortex, contrary to the concentration of red and white blood cells (RBC and WBC).
(12) Using cumulative nursing GPAs, the likelihood of predicting success on NCLEX-RN increased at the end of each academic year.
(13) Also, studies on the simulated cumulative effect of background radiation during storage failed to find any detrimental effect when embryos were exposed to the equivalent of about 2000 years of background radiation.
(14) The requirement of BHK-21 cells for transferrin appears to be minimal since cells exposed to HDL and basic FGF could be serially transferred for at least 50 cumulative population doublings in the absence of transferrin.
(15) In patients with preexistent congestive heart failure (CHF), predicted cumulative survival rates at 1, 3, and 5 years were 78%, 69%, and 57%, respectively, for group 1 (n = 23) and 90%, 83%, and 75%, respectively, for group 2 (n = 16).
(16) The estimated mean decrement in KCO for a cadmium worker employed 5 or more years with a cumulative exposure of 2000 yr.microgram.m-3 (exposure to the current UK control limit of 50 micrograms.m-3 for a working lifetime of 40 yr) lies between 0.05 and 0.3 mmol.min-1.kPa-1.l-1 (95% confidence interval).
(17) The life-table method was used to determine the cumulative survival rate and cumulative recurrence rate.
(18) Furthermore, this study demonstrates that by forming groups of patients with similar age at diagnosis the cumulative survival rate declined in the group with early diagnosis much more markedly than in the group of patients with later diagnosis.
(19) The cumulative incidence of colorectal cancer in all patients was 0.2% at 10 yr, 2.8% at 15 yr, 5.5% at 20 yr, and 13.5% at 30 yr.
(20) Significant differences were found mainly for the peripheral-, core temperature difference, the cumulative sodium and cumulative fluid balance from which the diagnosis addisonian crisis could have been made.
Cupulate
Definition:
(a.) Having or bearing cupules; cupuliferous.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the same time it was demonstrated that the exposure produced swelling of cupulate nerve endings in the central compartment of the receptor epithelium of the posterior ampulla.
(2) Cells from the prosencephalic neural crest migrate into the frontal nasal process and mix with the mesencephalic neural crest cells in the lateral nasal processes, around the optic cupule and beneath the diencephalon.
(3) The effects of angular accelerations in one or two spatial planes over the pressure exerted on the cupule of the semicircular canals, was studied using hydraulic models of the canals.
(4) In the course of aftereffect of the otolith stimulation, both the activated and the inhibited responses as well as the responses similar to control can be revealed, depending on the time interval between presentationsof otolith and cupulous stimuli.
(5) The club-shaped retinular cells lie homogeneously distributed in the cupule of the ocellus.
(6) If sperm contacted follicle cells between the cupules the acrosome did not react.
(7) When dissected ripe eggs were exposed to sperm in vitro, the sperm were attracted only to open cupules, inside which they swam through one of seven channels to the base where they penetrated the hull.
(8) After inoculation with a heavy suspension of growth, strips containing 20 cupules were incubated for 24 h, reagents were added, and the results of 21 biochemical reactions were recorded as numerical profiles.
(9) The eggs have an elaborate hull (= chorion), which is formed into cupules that remain covered by follicle cells until maturity.