What's the difference between duct and gutter?

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.

Gutter


Definition:

  • (n.) A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.
  • (n.) A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water.
  • (n.) Any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
  • (v. t.) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
  • (v. t.) To supply with a gutter or gutters.
  • (v. i.) To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
  • (2) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
  • (3) The size of presynaptic release site structures was determined by examining serial transverse sections through entire terminal branches with the transmission electron microscope; the size of postsynaptic release site structures was determined by examining terminal gutters with the scanning electron microscope after the removal of terminal branches.
  • (4) Yes, Goldsmith is to be held in contempt: a man of decency would have rejected this gutter strategy.
  • (5) More time in bed, more time with the kids, more time to read, see your mum, hang out with friends, repair the guttering, make music, fix lunch, walk in the park.
  • (6) Had they bothered to inquire of a veteran from the ranks, they might have heard how exasperating it is to see the dainty long-range patriots of Labour thrashing it out with the staunch gutter jingoists of the Conservative party – and barely a non-commissioned vet among them.
  • (7) No clear gross or histological distinctions between the ventricular "candle gutterings" and "tumors" have been identified.
  • (8) Most transposed ovaries were located along the paracolic gutters near the iliac crests, creating an extrinsic mass effect on adjacent bowel.
  • (9) Golf balls, bottles, fireworks, umbrellas and even cast iron rain gutter was thrown at republicans marching along Royal Avenue.
  • (10) !— she wants you to put out the bins and clear the gutters of leaves like you’ve been promising to do for six months.
  • (11) A one-piece integral tube and plate with a slit-valve mechanism designed to regulate post-operative intraocular pressure had a very variable response in 27 eyes, with mean pressures similar to those after unligated tube and gutters.
  • (12) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
  • (13) In the second, density would decrease from the crest border, where the value was that of the gutter edge, to the fold end, where the value would be 50% lower.
  • (14) Following the sting, Ferguson apologised for a “serious lapse of judgment” and told the US talkshow host Oprah Winfrey she had been drinking and was “in the gutter at that moment”.
  • (15) The characteristics of the innervation revealed by the cholinesterase activity, concentrated in the synaptic gutters and the direct study of the nerve fibres, show focal, mono-axonal 'en plaques' endings, typical of the phasic motor system.
  • (16) The flame of ultra Serb nationalism appears to be guttering, although it could be replaced with a quieter long-lasting resentment.
  • (17) For larger exposure of the artery, the foramen transversarium of C1 must be unroofed and the artery dissected in the guttering of the posterior arch of the atlas.
  • (18) In a surgical technique termed ovarian transposition, the ovary is repositioned to the iliac fossa or paracolic gutter outside the radiation field.
  • (19) That “trollumnist” Mark Latham, that “misogynist”, “venal”, “crazy-eyed moron” whose views should be “rejected and dismantled and kicked into the gutter where they belong” has resigned from the Australian Financial Review.
  • (20) This comes from a man who insisted on a mass cull of badgers against scientific advice , who stripped away the last regulations protecting the soil from erosion , who believed that “ the purpose of waterways is to get rid of water ” and sought to turn our rivers into featureless gutters ,and who championed the pesticides that appear to be destroying bees and other animals .