What's the difference between decapitate and headless?

Decapitate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cut off the head of; to behead.
  • (v. t.) To remove summarily from office.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, decapitation did not eliminate the sex difference in the tissue content of P4 during control incubations.
  • (2) To understand the control mechanisms involved in the regulation of fetal glycogen, we have studied the effect of in utero fetal decapitations on glycogen metabolism in rabbit fetal heart, lung, and liver.
  • (3) After 21 days of gestation the morphine-dependent dams were decapitated and the foetal brains were dissected.
  • (4) Circulation was terminated by decapitation at 15s following injection.
  • (5) Rats were decapitated and the dissection begun either immediately ("0 min" samples) or 10 min later (10 min samples).
  • (6) When animals are decapitated a new head regenerates.
  • (7) The time course of hormonal peaks in decapitated females resembles that in starved females during the first post-ecdysial week, suggesting that some as yet unknown regulating mechanism of ECD production lies outside the head.
  • (8) At the end of the last stress period animals were decapitated and trunk blood was collected.
  • (9) After different time intervals the last infusion period to the EEG-criterion was followed by decapitation and samples from blood, brain, muscle and fat were analysed for hexobarbital content.
  • (10) An activation of phosphorylase which was not accompanied by a stable change in the activity of phosphorylase kinase was observed in hepatocytes incubated with phenylephrine, isoproterenol or vasopressin as well as on decapitation of unanesthetized animals.
  • (11) This same blunted response was not seen in chronic stress even if the animals are stressed immediately before decapitation.
  • (12) CC extracts and JHA were administered to decapitated females to determine their regulative effects on fat body protein synthesis.
  • (13) From a comparison of activation by strychnine and picrotoxin in normal and chronically decapitated embryos it was deduced that a spinal and a supraspinal component participated in their effect.
  • (14) The experimental animals were administered intraperitoneally benzene 6 X every 24 h. The animals were decapitated 30 min.
  • (15) In addition, in three unoperated rats decapitated 24 hours after MK-801 treatment, 3H-TCP binding was reduced by 15-35%; similar bilateral suppression of 3H-TCP binding was detected in MK-801-treated ligates.
  • (16) The neurons were identified antidromically either by stimulation of the hindlimb area in the anterior lobe of the cerebellum (in thalamic cats) or by stimulation of the contralateral ventrolateral funiculus of the spinal cord (in decapitate cats).
  • (17) Animals were killed by decapitation, and the subfornical organ was quickly dissected out and incubated for 6 h in a medium containing [35S]methionine and [35S]cysteine.
  • (18) He was kicked out of a share house after threatening to decapitate a housemate.
  • (19) Thus, in low-flow states, the decapitation time may be lengthened to 12 s, whereas in high-flow states, the time must be 5 s to eliminate the possibility of backflux of tracer out of the brain.
  • (20) [3H]tyrosine was administered to rats 10 minutes before decapitation, and the rate of its incorporation into [3H]dopamine and [3H]norepinephrine was measured in whole brain.

Headless


Definition:

  • (a.) Having no head; beheaded; as, a headless body, neck, or carcass.
  • (a.) Destitute of a chief or leader.
  • (a.) Destitute of understanding or prudence; foolish; rash; obstinate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That it comes exactly 100 days from the opening ceremony of the Rio Games merely underlines the urgency now that the team has been left in effect headless.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘It stands inert as a headless electric toothbrush, but less useful.’ Well?
  • (3) There will be burlesque workshops for adults, the Magnificent Insect Circus Museum and five performances of Sideshow Illusions featuring a headless lady.
  • (4) To examine the influence of the head and tail domains on the structure and assembly properties of nuclear lamins, we have engineered "headless," "tailless," and "rod" chicken lamin B2 cDNAs and expressed them in Escherichia coli.
  • (5) Agencies are headless, leaks are rampant, and aides are congratulated for lying on TV.
  • (6) This unconditioned response affects the headless cockroaches avoid shocks in the lifting task by escape learning, whereas they avoid shocks in the lowering task by true avoidance learning.
  • (7) Following induction of long-term potentiation in subfield CA1 of the hippocampal slice from 26-month-old rats, shaft synapse numbers increased by 44% and sessile spine synapses (synapses on stubby, headless spines) by 72%, with the more common mushroom-shaped spine synapses statistically unaltered.
  • (8) I’m going to be running around like a headless chicken later,” she says, looking at the afternoon’s roster of short appointments.
  • (9) It is concluded that the headless cockroach is useful for understanding the motor mechanisms underlying righting and walking but is not of value in assessing the functions of proprioceptive feedback.
  • (10) The site quickly became unavailable, but screenshots circulated online showed the group's trademark headless suit and a message addressed to the Syrian people saying that "the world stands with you against the brutal regime."
  • (11) Fragments fused soon after isolation formed "headless" regenerates but had normal body proportions.
  • (12) And when Nick Clegg suggested that the next generation of nuclear power stations may never be built because the recommended higher and more costly safety standards would make them too expensive, Chris Huhne launched an astonishing attack on his party leader , accusing him of behaving like a "headless chicken" on the issue.
  • (13) Whereas dimers made of the truncated B2 headless and rod lamins had lost their propensity to associate head-to-tail, tailless lamin B2 dimers revealed an enhanced head-to-tail association.
  • (14) The Conservative housing spokesman, Grant Shapps, said: "We welcome anything that will genuinely keep people in their homes, but ministers are guilty of running around like headless chickens announcing complicated, confusing and often contradictory plans, which later turn out to help far fewer people than the headlines would have you believe."
  • (15) It was because I was like a headless chicken in the first 10 minutes.” Dier is remembering his baptism as a defensive midfielder and the manager who gave it to him at Sporting Lisbon on 2 March 2013.
  • (16) Just four years later, Libya is witnessing an explosion in violence, led by al-Qaida and Islamic State (Isis): the gruesome murder of Egyptian Christians , devastating suicide bombings , the kidnapping of western oil workers and the discovery of countless headless soldiers and civil-society activists in Benghazi.
  • (17) The cover comes from a "headless" gull-shaped, forehead flap.
  • (18) In each case, skeletal metastases were extensive, but the calvaria was not involved, resulting in a headless appearance.
  • (19) But Paul Edden, who runs a franchise in Staffordshire, told of rivals who pay the minimum wage and run staff around "like headless chickens".
  • (20) blog alongside a photo of a headless Labour MP, and the most visible woman anywhere near the government remains Samantha Cameron, who could this week be found baking cupcakes for a royal wedding street party.

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