What's the difference between droplet and supernaculum?
Droplet
Definition:
(n.) A little drop; a tear.
Example Sentences:
(1) The new technique, Surface Immune Precipitation (SIP), entails the application of an antigen sample droplet directly onto the surface of a gel containing antibody, the gel being supported by a reflecting substrate.
(2) This inclusion, an aggregate 0.3-0.7 mum in size, consists of small membrane-bounded vesicles with a single dense granule associated with other non-membrane bound small dense droplets.
(3) These lipid droplets are expected to have diagnostic value in the histological study of ARVD using endomyocardial biopsy.
(4) Image analysis of selected P2 segments in treated and control rats revealed a high correlation between subcellular localization of alpha 2uG and protein droplet deposition in the cytoplasm of P2 segment cells of the proximal tubule epithelium.
(5) Reversible increases in size and distribution of hyaline droplets within proximal tubular epithelium occurred through 1 year of treatment at a severity that was dose-dependent.
(6) Generated droplets were dried in line and led to an inhalation chamber from which the dry aerosol was inhaled using a nose or mouth inhalation unit.
(7) J774 and elicited mouse peritoneal macrophages were loaded with cholesteryl ester within lysosomes through phagocytosis of sonicated lipid droplets.
(8) Ultrastructures of the tumor cells showed immature lymphoid features with frequent lipid droplets within the cytoplasms.
(9) One quarter had many autolysosomes or lipid droplets.
(10) vitamin A for three days, remarkable increase in size and number of lipid droplets was observed in slightly hypertrophic fat-storing cells, and the empty cells disappeared simulating an increased number of fat-storing cells.
(11) Fixation with buffered glutaraldehyde resulted in higher counts (P less than 0.01) of proximal protoplasmic droplets (2.47, 1.03, 0.67, and 1.43%, respectively, for glutaraldehyde, Hancock's, Blom's, and formol saline procedures).
(12) Numerous 70-mmicro diameter vesicles apparently pinch off from the Golgi systems, transport this material through the egg, and probably then fuse to form a crenate, membrane-limited yolk droplet.
(13) In the cells of the cardiac region (which occupy 65% of the stomach) at least three types of mucous droplet are present.
(14) For this rather large pressures (about 700 hPa) are required to overcome the surface forces counteracting droplet formation.
(15) One of the earliest ultrastructural abnormalities in tellurium neuropathy is an increased number of cytoplasmic lipid droplets in myelinating Schwann cells.
(16) It is well-established that binding of a chemical to alpha 2u-globulin is the rate-limiting step in the development of male rat-specific hyaline droplet nephropathy.
(17) with nonviable Mycobacterium tuberculosis Jamaica cells associated with oil-droplet emulsions (WCV) were highly resistant to the i.v.
(18) This equation was used to calculate the mean portal blood flow velocity by this system (V-dopp) in 10 patients with liver disease, and the findings were compared with data simultaneously obtained by cineangiographic mapping of Lipiodol droplets released into the portal vein through a catheter placed in situ at the time of surgery (V-cine).
(19) Changes in lipid droplets and some mitochondrial degeneration were observed in the ICM cells of the glycerol-treated embryos.
(20) The number of multilamellar vesicles in or adjacent to lipid droplets was independent of the duration of ischemia.
Supernaculum
Definition:
(adv. & n.) A kind of mock Latin term intended to mean, upon the nail; -- used formerly by topers.
(adv. & n.) Good liquor, of which not enough is left to wet one's nail.