What's the difference between cunabula and extant?
Cunabula
Definition:
(n. pl.) The earliest abode; original dwelling place; originals; as, the cunabula of the human race.
(n. pl.) The extant copies of the first or earliest printed books, or of such as were printed in the 15th century.
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Extant
Definition:
(a.) Standing out or above any surface; protruded.
(a.) Still existing; not destroyed or lost; outstanding.
(a.) Publicly known; conspicuous.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is extant a population of subjects who have average or better than average interpretive reading skills as measured by standardized tests but who read slowly and inefficiently.
(2) For example, most large extant lizards are herbivorous.
(3) Whereas all extant vertical clingers and leapers share certain femoral traits (i.e., long femur, proximally restricted trochanters, ventrally raised patellar articular surface), Galagidae and Tarsiidae share features of the proximal femur (i.e., cylindrical head, large posterior expansion of articular surface onto the neck) that clearly distinguish them from the specialized leapers of the Malagasy Republic (Indriidae and Lepilemur).
(4) This method provides an improvement in sensitivity over extant spectrophotometric methods and circumvents limitations of assays using radioactive pyruvate.
(5) His data also indicate that the supraorbital region in extant humans cannot be accurately modeled as a beam.
(6) On the basis of morphophysiologic relationships in extant populations, it can be assumed that mean annual osteonal creation frequency, and mean annual Haversian bone formation rate can be reliably determined in extinct populations.
(7) The older listener performance measures were compared with extant data from 20 normally hearing young adult listeners (mean age = 22 years).
(8) These findings suggest that thyroxine-potentiated mitogenesis promotes greater numbers of new motor neurons to the LMC while, simultaneously, target removal delays the loss of extant cells.
(9) Jeletzkya douglassae Johnson and Richardson is described as the oldest known representative of an extant squid group.
(10) Photoperiod-mediated differential responsiveness to 6-MBOA indicates that female house mice can discriminate long from short days, and these results suggest that the physiological mechanisms for photoperiodic responsiveness remain extant in this species previously characterized as nonphotperiodic.
(11) We derive twelve postulates, eight relating to the earliest vertebrate skeletogenic and odontogenic tissues and four relating to the development of these tissues in extant vertebrates and extrapolate the developmental data back to the evolutionary origin of vertebrate skeletogenic and odontogenic tissues.
(12) The numbers and local sequence environments of the two types of substitution mutation plus additions and deletions have been obtained directly in this study from differences between a large number of extant primate gene and pseudogene sequences.
(13) BP), and both resemble humans most closely among extant hominoids.
(14) The count of publications on geometric-optical illusions and the bibliography of extant books on the topic are brought up to date.
(15) Molecular modelling studies could not identify structural features of the aphidicolin-dCTP "overlap" that is unique to dCTP, relative to the remaining dNTPs, and that is consistent with the extant structure-activity data.
(16) The digital unit is compatible with all the extant radiographic equipment in our department and automatically supplies two images, the first one resembling a conventional radiograph, the second one characterized by a broader exposure range that allows a clear visualization of soft tissues.
(17) These data come from extant hosts and from paleobiogeography.
(18) Similarly, we have detected Amerindian genes, such as LDHB--Gua and TFchi, in proportions that relate this population with the extant Ngawbé (Guaymí).
(19) The central nervous system location of neurochemicals that are widely distributed among extant animals may give us clues to changes that occurred in the brains of these animals during evolution.
(20) Today all patients are alive and 7 present no recurrences of HCC on US and CT scans; the follow-up period was 18 months for 3 patients and 12, 9, 6, and 3 months for the extant 4 patients, respectively.