What's the difference between dual and rima?

Dual


Definition:

  • (a.) Expressing, or consisting of, the number two; belonging to two; as, the dual number of nouns, etc. , in Greek.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The ratio of the cell yields under dual substrate conditions compared to heterotrophic conditions indicated the relative contributions of the autotrophic and heterotrophic systems to the growth of the organism.
  • (2) The dual-probe system incorporates a central collimated probe for monitoring activity in the LV surrounded by an annular detector collimated in such a manner as to provide simultaneous real-time monitoring of the LV background activity.
  • (3) Changes of circulating blood volume during isoflurane or sevoflurane anesthesia were investigated by the dual indicator dilution method in eighteen mongrel dogs.
  • (4) This Doppler echocardiographic study of patients with a dual chamber pacemaker was undertaken to assess the changes in mitral and aortic flow induced by passing from the double stimulation to the atrial detection mode.
  • (5) The objective was to determine whether the parent axonal impulse train elicited by dual-hair stimulation was due to a temporal combining ("mixing"; Fukami, 1980) of the impulse trains elicited in the parent axons by the same stimulation to each hair alone.
  • (6) Mn2+ had dual effects, stimulating the ECP release in the absence of Mg2+ and Ca2+, and inhibiting the release in the presence of these cations.
  • (7) Thus, monocytes may play a dual role, not only as effector cells, but also as cells that collaborate with T cells after OKT3 MoAb stimulation so as to produce PCA.
  • (8) Dual antigen experiments indicated that the increased localization was not specific for the antigen which stimulated production of lymphoblasts used for in vitro labelling and reinfusion.
  • (9) The vice chancellor of the Catholic University, Greg Craven, wrote in the Australian that stripping either dual or sole nationals of citizenship via a ministerial decision “would be irredeemably unconstitutional.
  • (10) Cytochemical analysis of the monocytes showed positive for peroxidase and dual esterase staining.
  • (11) Actin also exhibited a clear dual wave pattern of transport that coincided well with that of tubulin, indicating that both actin and tubulin were the major components of both groups IV and V.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
  • (12) Quantitative measurements for 5-HT in lobster larvae were performed using high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) with dual electrochemical detection and for proctolin using radioimmunoassay.
  • (13) The damage threshold during aortic valvuloplasty was determined in 12 normal swine subjected to inflation of oversized dual balloons.
  • (14) The relative hypermagnesaemia had a similar dual origin.
  • (15) It announced that it would phase out the dual currency system.
  • (16) This study validates the relevance of dual-wavelength fluorometry using a pH-dependent indicator to characterize in vivo normal and tumour tissues after glucose administration.
  • (17) Fourteen patients (60.9%) responded to dual-agent tocolysis by delaying delivery for 48 hours or more.
  • (18) Glutamate-induced changes in intracellular free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) were recorded in single rat hippocampal neurons grown in primary culture by employing the Ca2+ indicator indo-1 and a dual-emission microfluorimeter.
  • (19) Dual-positive CD4+CD8+ T cells (which were barely detectable in normal adults), CD4-CD8+ T cells and B cells transiently reached supranormal levels during recovery.
  • (20) The dual-line and polynomial regression techniques fit the data better (mean residual square deviation 0.024 and 0.031, respectively) than the single-regression line approach (0.110).

Rima


Definition:

  • (n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This has been demonstrated from agglutination and radioimmunometric assay (RIMA) results, using ten antisera raised in rabbits against purified polymeric flagellins from ten Salmonella serotypes as immunogens.
  • (2) In merodiploids heterozygous for rimA, rimB, or rimD, the wild-type allele was shown to be dominant to the mutant allele.
  • (3) Arytenoid abduction was expressed as a left:right ratio of rima glottidis measurements.
  • (4) Rima, a Christian-Israeli Arab, has been branded a Roma, Romanian, "Jew whore" and "dirty Arab" by a family who have subjected her family to a slew of racist abuse and intimidation.
  • (5) Postoperatively all ponies were evaluated qualitatively on a monthly basis by subjective examination for evidence of abduction of the arytenoid cartilages on endoscopy and quantitatively by measurement of the cross sectional area of the left and right half of the rima glottidis.
  • (6) Later they targeted my two sons on social networks, repeating the racist slurs and later the real bullying began against the boys," Rima said.
  • (7) Jordanian ambassador Rima Ahmad Alaadeen said they had "of course … expressed our deep concerns about what took place in recent days and explicitly expressed how important … occupied East Jerusalem is."
  • (8) In order to evaluate their divergent effects on binding and lysis of the NCMC, rH IFN-alpha and rH IL-2 were used for the in vitro-preincubation of normal donors' PBL, which were then tested as effector cells against K562 and the long-term cultured melanoma cell line RIMA in the SCCA.
  • (9) The type strain of L. uli is strain VPI D76D-27C (= ATCC 49627), and the type strain of L. rimae is strain D140H-11A (= ATCC 49626).
  • (10) The landmarks correspond to the verteba prominens, the dimples of the posterior superior iliac spines and the sacrum point (beginning of rima ani), which are characterized by distinct surface curvature.
  • (11) However, against RIMA IFN-alpha additionally amplified the binding affinity.
  • (12) The results of the present analysis extend to Far Eastern foods our previous conclusion that no severe dietary restrictions are needed in patients treated with moclobemide, a novel RIMA anti-depressant.
  • (13) The reversible inhibitors of monoamine oxidase A (RIMAs) are a group of drugs that, by producing inhibition selectively of monoamine oxidase A (MOA-A), still allow metabolism of tyramine by MAO-B.
  • (14) The new generation of RIMAs represents a significant progress in safety.
  • (15) Areas of the rima glottidis and aditus laryngis were measured, using a computerized digitizer.
  • (16) The RIMA developed was specific for salmonellae and showed no cross-reactions with high populations of other members within the family Enterobacteriaceae.
  • (17) The family fled Syria two months ago – just in time, Rima says, to avoid the fate of their nextdoor neighbours, who were killed in their homes the week before we speak.
  • (18) The protein is referred to as RIMA, for ring membrane antigen.
  • (19) Rhinoscopy and radiography revealed no abnormal findings in the nasal septum, rima oflactoria, concha nasalis media, sinus ethmoidales, etc.
  • (20) H. bovis spiracular plates have twenty-nine to forty openings, each surrounded by a slightly raised rima.