What's the difference between division and strobilation?
Division
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.
(n.) That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.
(n.) The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.
(n.) Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation.
(n.) Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast.
(n.) Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote.
(n.) The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed.
(n.) The separation of a genus into its constituent species.
(n.) Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer.
(n.) Two companies of infantry maneuvering as one subdivision of a battalion.
(n.) One of the larger districts into which a country is divided for administering military affairs.
(n.) One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.
(n.) A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable.
(n.) The distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished.
(n.) A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here we report that sperm from psr males fertilizes eggs, but that the paternal chromosomes are subsequently condensed into a chromatin mass before the first mitotic division of the egg and do not participate in further divisions.
(2) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
(3) Chapter one Announcement of the Islamic Caliphate The announcement of the renewal of the caliphate in Iraq in the year 1427AH [2006] was the arbiter between division and separation as well as the glory of the Muslims.
(4) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(5) Further study both of the signaling events that lead to MPF activation and of the substrates for phosphorylation by MPF should lead to a comprehensive understanding of the biochemistry of cell division.
(6) Whereas the growth and division of normal cells is carefully regulated to meet the needs of the body, tumor cells proliferate autonomously and continually, eventually interfering with and destroying the functions of normal tissue.
(7) Tuberclebacilli did not stimulate macrophage division.
(8) But on June 29, 2011, Lois G Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt organizations, learned at a meeting that groups were being targeted, according to the watchdog's report.
(9) Cause-specific mortality comparisons were also made among the employment subgroups and by duration of employment in the company division using an internal analysis method.
(10) Postoperative examination revealed division of accessory pathway and no regurgitation of mitral prosthesis.
(11) The Disability Division of ActionAid-India supports 38 non-governmental organisations involved in disability programmes in India.
(12) This column is located ventral and lateral to the dorsolateral division of the trigeminal motor nucleus, and just medial to the descending trigeminal nerve rootlets.
(13) The retail and wholesale divisions powered the improved profits.
(14) From these results we concluded that the mutants have some defect in cell division after low doses of UV irradiation, similar to the lon(-) or fil(+) mutant of E. coli.
(15) The cellular groups of the medial zone together with the tuberomammillary nucleus groups of the medial zone together with the tuberomammillary nucleus (TUMM) are positioned at the interface between the lateral and the medial hypothalamus, and form an array of cellular groups indicated in our study as the intermediate division of the hypothalamus.
(16) In the meantime, the proliferation of salmonellae appeared to occur extracellularly in the peritoneal cavity as evidenced by their division.
(17) Hybrids obtained following fusion of normal human diploid fibroblasts with different immortal human cell lines exhibited limited division potential.
(18) An expanded version of this paper, containing full experimental details of the semisynthesis and characterization of [GlyA1-3H]insulin, has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50129 (30 pages) at the British Library (Lending Division), Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem.
(19) Anti-IgM antibodies also induced DNA synthesis of PBL-B, but their ability to induce cell division was less than that of anti-IgD antibodies even when used in combination with IL-4.
(20) The Tea Party movement has turned climate denial into a litmus test of conservative credentials – and that has made climate change one of the most sharp divisions between Obama and Romney.
Strobilation
Definition:
(n.) The act or phenomenon of spontaneously dividing transversely, as do certain species of annelids and helminths; transverse fission. See Illust. under Syllidian.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cestode either failed to establish or to grow; if the worms were already strobilate when inflammation developed then destrobilation occurred.
(2) Gene expression and its regulation was studied in the rat tapeworm, Hymenolepis diminuta, during strobilization.
(3) In juvenile worms from rats, the extension of the WGA- and SBA-positive region of the strobilation zone increased in length with the development of the worms.
(4) Mongolian gerbils, Meriones unguiculatus, when treated at intervals of 2-6 days with prednisolone tertiary butyl acetate, sustained infection with adult Echinococcus multilocularis in the small intestine, with the tapeworm exhibiting normal strobilation and egg production as in the natural canid host.
(5) Echinococcus multilocularis survived, strobilated and matured sexually in the small intestine of 6-week-old male golden hamsters that were either non-treated or treated with prednisolone tertiary-butylacetate (PTBA), following oral administration of 20 000 protoscoleces.
(6) It is proposed to estimate coefficient of reproduction intensity as the ratio of egg output per unit of time and maximum egg number in a mature strobile.
(7) There were noted differences in of longitudinal trunks in different species and in the specimens of the same species but from different hosts, the width of the strobile being the same.
(8) On the basis of the degree of development of the genital organs zonation of the worm's strobile has been specified.
(9) Scolex growth rate was linear throughout metacestode and adult development, but growth rate in body length was diphasic, punctuated by change of hosts, associated with strobilization.
(10) Phalaropus lobatus from this water body was also infected (13.7) with this cestode, the infection intensity being from 1 to 15 strobiles in one bird.
(11) The number of eggs in strobiles has been estimated for the maturation period.
(12) In experimentally infected puppies, parasite development was noted as follows: strobilation and initial differentiation of the genital primordia on day 7 postinoculation (p.i.
(13) The presence of the carbohydrates is discussed with respect to the relative resistance of the scolex-strobilation zone of H. diminuta to immune rejection.
(14) The results indicated a post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression during strobilization in this parasite.
(15) Binding sites for lectins from Abrus precatorius (APA), Arachis hypogaea (PNA), Glycine max (SBA) and for wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) and succinylated WGA were located on the scolex and strobilation zone.
(16) Scolexes of adult cestodes are innervated with 5 pairs of longitudinal nerve trunks, the number of which in the strobile gradually increases up to 17 pairs in species of Eubothrium and up to 60 pairs (in the wildest parts of the strobile) in species of Diphyllobothrium.
(17) Extracts of the strobilate and cysticercus forms of the same species gave identical results.
(18) Although the tentacles of the polyp and the rhopalia of the medusa are probably homologous, the development of pacemaker activity during strobilation is not a smooth transition from tentacle contraction potentials (TCPs) to marginal ganglion potentials (MGPs).
(19) For strobilization and maturation of H. microstoma in vitro, the presence of some kind of heme protein seems essential.