What's the difference between duckbill and platypus?

Duckbill


Definition:

  • (n.) See Duck mole, under Duck, n.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The overall repeated measures MANOVA, a set of complex contrasts, and paired t tests revealed that TEP speech produced with the low pressure prosthesis was significantly different from that produced with the duckbill prosthesis on a weighted linear combination of the eight acoustic variables.
  • (2) In all cases the Blom-Singer duckbill prosthesis was utilized for alaryngeal voice restoration.
  • (3) Thirteen of 20 who had adequate follow-up developed fluent, intelligible speech using either duckbill or low-pressure one-way valves.
  • (4) Training focused on coordination of breath control, articulation, muscle relaxation, and proper handling and maintenance of the "duckbill" prosthesis.
  • (5) Tracheoesophageal voice produced with a low pressure prosthesis had greater amounts of periodic phonation than tracheoesophageal voice produced with a duckbill prosthesis.
  • (6) A single motion with a double-action duckbilled rongeur produces a smooth-walled, symmetrical aortotomy which varies in shape predictably according to the angle at which the rongeur is held relative to the axis of the aorta.

Platypus


Definition:

  • (n.) The duck mole. See under Duck.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A 57-year-old man was envenomated via two spur wounds to the right hand from each hind leg of a male platypus.
  • (2) Recommendations are made to improve the survival of platypuses in captivity.
  • (3) It is as peaceful as a platypus playing with a potato pudding.” In 2007 Levy published Love and Sex with Robots , a book that one USA Today critic found “troublingly arousing”.
  • (4) Of 213 platypuses that died in captivity, 81.7% had died within 1 year; most within the first month.
  • (5) These findings suggest that the spleen is the primary hemopoietic organ in the platypus.
  • (6) Within the distinctive platypus beak, the animal had rows of sharp teeth, which scientists believe they used to slice and chew crayfish, frogs and small turtles.
  • (7) #Bellfie by Matt Collins, managing director at Platypus Digital The big craze for 2015 will be the #bellfie.
  • (8) The intestinal mucosa of the platypus takes the form of numerous transverse surface folds.
  • (9) These include animal embryos – platypus and wallaby – and specific body parts of other mammals, such as the arm of a koala.
  • (10) The most conspicuous features are: 1) although no protein casts are found in the tubular lumina, epithelial cells of the proximal convoluted tubule (PCT) have numerous electron-dense vesicles as in human nephrotic kidneys; and 2) the platypus Henle's loop consists of the thick epithelial cells similar to the mammalian type nephron of birds.
  • (11) Afferent responses were recorded from filaments of the trigeminal nerve in each of two platypuses (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) anaesthetized with alpha-chloralose.
  • (12) Two neurohypophysial peptides have been purified from acetone desiccated posterior pituitary glands of the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) by molecular sieving and high-pressure liquid chromatography.
  • (13) The karyotype of the platypus (2n = 52) has several features in common with those of the echidna species; six pairs of large autosomes, many pairs of small (but not micro-) chromosomes, and a series of small unpaired chromosomes which form a multivalent at meiosis.
  • (14) Neurohypophysial hormones of platypus seem similar to those of echidna, the other living prototherian, and to those of most placental mammals.
  • (15) The ratio of the contents of the two major mammalian ganglioside fractions GD1a and GT1b is generally in the range of 1.0 and even higher; in the heterothermic platypus from the monotremes and in hibernators among the placental mammals, however, it is much lower (about 0.8).
  • (16) As compared to those of other mammals such as humans and rats, our observations suggest that the platypus kidney is less developed, in terms of evolution.
  • (17) The platypus X chromosome, identified by the presence of two copies in females and one in males, has been found to possess a suite of genes that have been mapped to the X chromosomes of all eutherian and metatherian mammals.
  • (18) To describe in detail for the first time, the clinical course and medical management of a significant human envenomation by the Australian platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus).
  • (19) Methods used included SEM of methacrylate casts of marsupial enamel tubules, worn and cut surfaces of whole marsupial teeth, developing and erupted platypus teeth, and a well-developed molar of the newly discovered Miocene ornithorhynchid Obdurodon sp., and tandem scanning reflected light microscopy of intact marsupial teeth.
  • (20) The generation of blood cells has been observed in the spleen and in the bone marrow of the platypus.

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