What's the difference between duct and educt?

Duct


Definition:

  • (n.) Any tube or canal by which a fluid or other substance is conducted or conveyed.
  • (n.) One of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination.
  • (n.) A large, elongated cell, either round or prismatic, usually found associated with woody fiber.
  • (n.) Guidance; direction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The most actively proliferating region of the excurrent duct system is zone 3 of the epididymis, whereas the least active region is the ductuli efferentes.
  • (2) Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography failed to demonstrate any bile ducts in the right postero-lateral segments of the liver, the "naked segment sign".
  • (3) Immunohistochemical observation of myoepithelial cells with monoclonal antibody from human mammalian cancer suggested that these cells play an important role in the process of glandular ducts formation.
  • (4) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
  • (5) High mortality, severe destruction of pancreatic B-cells and presence of sporadic mononuclear infiltrations in islets and around excretory ducts were observed.
  • (6) No methionine-enkephalin-positive nerves could be detected in the common bile duct, pancreatic duct or gallbladder.
  • (7) The most serious complications following operative treatment are retained bile duct calculi (2.8%), wound infection and biliary fistulae.
  • (8) In case of biliary and pancreatic duct obstruction with pure pancreatic reflux, both oedema and inflammatory infiltrations were evident, whereas, in the presence of biliary reflux too, more serious histological features were detected.
  • (9) Dacryography is the only means of exploring the permeability of the lacrymal ducts and to conclude as the whether watering of the eyes is organic or functional.
  • (10) Papillomatosis of the biliary ducts is exceptional.
  • (11) Histological studies with neonatal mice raise the possibility that Müllerian duct tissue may represent a site for the transplacental toxicity of DES in both the male and female fetus.
  • (12) Six of the obstructed livers developed biliary cast formation so extensive that the smaller intrhepatic ducts became plugged to an extent that they could no longer have been treated by surgical mena.
  • (13) The presence of prostatic invasion either into the stroma or involving prostatic ducts and acini only had no adverse effect on outcome.
  • (14) A series of 172 lithiasis of the common bile duct has been analysed.
  • (15) Compared with the portal vein, lymphatic duct revealed a greater resistance to hypoxia.
  • (16) Although 25 Gy IORT plus 50 Gy EBRT was tolerated by the duodenum to 135 days, these doses may cause later pancreatic injury as an expression of damage to blood vessels and ducts.
  • (17) This report describes a newly developed catheter system with the aid of which the cystic duct and gallbladder can be reliably catheterized, retrograde, via an endoscope.
  • (18) Optical light, transmission, and scanning electron microscopy were used in investigations of epithelia in the glandular region of the milk cistern and greater lactiferous ducts and yielded the following findings, four and six hours from infection: degeneration and necrosis of epithelial cells, intraepithelial foreign cell infiltration (neutrophilic granulocytes, lymphocytes, macrophages), intra-epithelial oedema and locally delimited epithelial loss.
  • (19) To study the role of the serum complement system in the early necrosis of acinar cells an acute pancreatitis was produced by injection of basement membrane antibodies into the pancreatic duct of mice and rats.
  • (20) Predisposition to pancreatitis relates to duct size rather than stone size per se.

Educt


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is educed, as by analysis.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Surface complexes with the product sulfite are postulated in the dithionite reaction, and with the educt in the thioglycollate reaction.
  • (2) No structural alteration of this enzyme was observed in three eductants examined.
  • (3) The methionyl-transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) synthetase of Escherichia coli K-12 eductants carrying P2-mediated deletions in the region of the structural gene of this enzyme was investigated.
  • (4) Tristram Hunt is to outline on Wednesday how Labour would ensure teachers in all state schools are fully qualified to improve the quality of eduction if the party is returned to office.
  • (5) The relatively simple and precise technique of direct immunofluorescence on a tissue section enables the study and enumeration of all types of plasma cells including mastocytes (stained with acridine orange) in normal conjunctiva (5 cases), chronic non-allergic conjunctivitis (5 cases), allergic conjunctivitis of the educt (11 cases) and vernal conjunctivitis (11 cases).
  • (6) The experimental data can be consistently explained in terms of specific interactions of products or educts with interfacial iron(III) hydroxide of the ferritin core.
  • (7) A dental health eduction program on oral cleanliness was given to 175 Jerusalem school-children aged 11 to 14 years.
  • (8) The authors describe an eductional program that is an integral part of a residential drug rehabilitation program.
  • (9) Due to the dcd mutation, P2 eductants show large alterations in their deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate pools.
  • (10) • He said Michael Gove, the Conservative eduction secretary, was "widely misunderstood".
  • (11) Free-radical reaction of different carbohydrate educts 2, 5, and 7 with acrylonitrile in the presence of tributyltin hydride and a radical initiator (AIBN) gave the methyl 3-(2-cyanoethyl)-2,3-dideoxypentofuranosides 3a and 6.
  • (12) One end of the deletion, the P2 prophage end, appears to be the same for all eductants.
  • (13) The procedure rests on fluorescently labelled oligonucleotide substrates and an automated DNA sequencer to determine amounts of both educt and product of the reaction; thus each individual measurement is internally standardized.
  • (14) In order to estimate and compare the eductional achievements of different systems, a series of written multiple choice questions were prepared.
  • (15) In two of the three eductants studied, the level of this enzyme was twofold higher than in their parental strain regardless of growth conditions used.
  • (16) A series of independent Escherichia coli K eductants has been isolated and tested to determine the extent of their deletions.
  • (17) One idea for primary students is to pick games that build on fundamental movement skills that students have learned in physical eduction (PE) throughout the year.
  • (18) The announcement of a proposed Teaching Excellence Framework (Tef) has caused a frisson in higher eduction, by suggesting that the quality of teaching in universities is worth careful consideration in its own right.
  • (19) Mothers with a high eduction appeared to breastfeed their infants longer and to give them less sweets and snacks at 16 months.
  • (20) As the Department of Eduction frequently points out, 1.4 million more children now attend good and outstanding schools than in 2010.

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