What's the difference between dome and rotunda?

Dome


Definition:

  • (n.) A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry.
  • (n.) A cupola formed on a large scale.
  • (n.) Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
  • (n.) A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.
  • (n.) Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dome-shaped, fungiform papillae were scattered among these filiform papillae.
  • (2) Ethanol, an agent that increases membrane fluidity, stimulates AC to a much greater extent in homogenates from the 22 month than from the 22 day or 90 day rat bladder dome.
  • (3) And there is plenty of beauty in London - seeing Parliament Square in the snow, the dome of St Paul's rising above the City, the simple perfection of a Georgian terrace or the quietly elegant streets of Mayfair.
  • (4) In the infant and small child, when most repairs are done, nose tip projection is due more to the alar dome component than to the columella.
  • (5) It said it hoped to have a small containment dome in place by late today.
  • (6) Iron Dome receives $176m in annual funding from the US, but the House of Representatives voted in May to double the amount .
  • (7) Steps wind down a rugged rock face to a bedroom, while light floods in from round skylights in the domed ceiling above.
  • (8) Mucosla nodularity of the bladder dome, even without gastrointestinal symptoms, should raise the possibility of regional enteritis.
  • (9) The shadow chancellor told the newspaper the Dome was a mistake and said: "I think you should learn from your mistakes."
  • (10) In both groups clinical and radiological results were better when the cartilage layer at the talar dome was found to be intact at the time of surgical intervention.
  • (11) Histopathological examination of one resected aneurysmal dome confirmed the diagnosis of transmural arteritis secondary to SLE.
  • (12) In addition, the cells receive synapses from numerous nonimmunoreactive terminals including a wide range of different dome-shaped terminals and various scalloped or glomerular terminals.
  • (13) A review of arthroscopic, radiographic, and clinical data of all patients undergoing ankle arthroscopy at our center provided the following diagnoses: talar dome osteochondral fractures, loose bodies, accessory ossicles, talar dome cyst with loose bodies, and chronic synovitis.
  • (14) Pilgrims from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos or photographs of loved ones, jostle beneath its soaring domes every day.
  • (15) Despite Antarctica's simultaneous warming and cooling phenomena, the second lowest temperatures ever measured on Earth was recorded in July at Dome Argus in the centre of the Antarctic plateau.
  • (16) This domed white building is now a magnet for national expectations, and many wonder whether it will sag under the weight of so much anticipation.
  • (17) The tumor was diffusely hemorrhagic and occupied the dome of the bladder.
  • (18) So here we are in Chester's Mill, a snoozy Maine town about to be rent asunder by the arrival of a mysterious transparent dome, shooming down like a giant jam jar on its coffee shops and car lots and effectively cutting its residents off from the rest of civilisation.
  • (19) Lisa and Brian converted the old wooden schoolhouse six years ago and the design is bright and eclectic, think retro school desks, a funky red kitchen, a clear geodesic dome in the garden for stargazing and chill-out time and a giant chess set on the lawn.
  • (20) Membranous (M) cells within the dome epithelium of ileal Peyer's patches have been shown to provide selective antigen entry for mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue.

Rotunda


Definition:

  • (a.) A round building; especially, one that is round both on the outside and inside, like the Pantheon at Rome. Less properly, but very commonly, used for a large round room; as, the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thereby the Fossula fenestrae rotundae is formed, which in bounded medially by the Membrana tympani secundaria.
  • (2) Expansive open-plan floors are once again linked with weaving flights of escalators, only here they are suspended precipitously through dramatic interlocking rotundas, which climb from the cavernous lending library terraces, up through floating rings of bookshelves, to the heavenly reaches of the light-flooded atrium above.
  • (3) Pityriasis rotunda has been described in Oriental and black patients, usually in association with certain serious systemic diseases.
  • (4) Biopsies were taken from the fundus uteri between the ligamenta rotunda and from the rectus abdominis muscle.
  • (5) The contributing elements to boundaries of the round window niche are superiorly the tegmen fossula fenestra rotunda (roof support), inferiorly the fustis (depth) and area concamerata, anteriorly the sustentaculum (support) and postis anterior (anterior pillar), and posteriorly the postis posterior (posterior pillar) and the subiculum (underlying supporting structure).
  • (6) In the cuneate nucleus, terminations from each digit formed an elongated column that was densely labelled in the central pars rotunda and sparsely labelled in both the rostral and caudal reticular poles.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Crumpled Guggenheim … inside the rotunda.
  • (8) By allocating infants to the currently used neonatal diagnostic related groupings (DRGs) and assigning costs at 1987 US reimbursement levels, the total cost to the Rotunda would be 1,878,750 pounds punts.
  • (9) Search for a fenestra ovalis sign due to pressure on the membrane of the fenestra rotunda may help to reveal a lesion of the annular ligament.
  • (10) When I got there it was just Steve in the big, empty rotunda of his house – there was no furniture – sitting behind a Bösendorfer (a particularly expensive make of piano).
  • (11) Within the pars rotunda, digits 1-5 were represented in order from lateral to medial.
  • (12) There is a rotunda decorated with Third Reich-esque golden statues; a monument to wartime partisans at a table on a plinth; and, of course, a Triumphal Arch, which the government listed as a “national treasure” as soon as it was constructed – all crammed into a space the size of one city square.
  • (13) Two triangular lobes jut into this space on either side, housing science and technology labs, their faceted forms giving it all the look of a crumpled New York Guggenheim rotunda .
  • (14) Afferents from the dorsal skin of the digits terminated in an even more dorsal position, while the most dorsal portion of the pars rotunda related to the glabrous and dorsal hand.
  • (15) Our patient appeared to have the second reported case of pityriasis rotunda in white persons.
  • (16) The processus recessus divides the perilymphatic foramen into fenestra rotunda and aquaeductus cochleae.
  • (17) Pityriasis rotunda is an uncommon cutaneous disorder consisting of asymptomatic, perfectly circular, scaling plaques on the trunk and extremities.
  • (18) Their examinations were performed on 15 guinea pigs (weighing 210-380 g.) after application of this medicine to the fenestra rotunda.
  • (19) The Rotunda, with its famous Dome Room and outside porticos, continues to receive critical acclaim for its architectural design.
  • (20) On the other hand, injections of the same tracers involving areas 3b, 1, and 2 cause anterograde labeling mainly within the core (pars rotunda of Ferraro and Barrera, '35, Arch.

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