What's the difference between enfold and infold?

Enfold


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To infold. See Infold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Transmission electron microscopy disclosed M cells enfolding many immature or mature lymphocytes and plasmocytes.
  • (2) These neurons had perikarya 10-25 microns in diameter with moderately developed cell organelles and enfolded nuclei that were often distributed eccentrically placed in the cell.
  • (3) The kind of total darkness that enfolds the Welsh seaside town of "Llareggub" at the opening of Dylan Thomas's wonderful mid-century "play for voices" , which interweaves the thoughts and words of upwards of 60 characters over one day, is lost to the modern world.
  • (4) We found on serial sections that the plasmalemmal extensions were dendritic complexes enfolding the membrane of the subplasmalemmal vacuole and extending to contact host tissue.
  • (5) The N-terminal domain (beta) of residues 1-29 enfolds a three-metal cluster of 1 Cd and 2 Zn coordinated by six terminal cysteine thiolate ligands and three bridging cysteine thiolates.
  • (6) Examinations of the dissected gastrulae suggested two cooperative forces for the gastrulation: first, the epibolic or enfolding movement of the ventral ectoderm cells and secondly, the change in shape of the constituent cells.
  • (7) The epithelial basement membranes become irregular and thicker than normal, enfolding the basal part of the epithelial cells.
  • (8) In most other nerves each fiber is separated from all others by an enfolding Schwann cell, but in the olfactory nerve the fibers are directly in contact with one another in groups of several hundred fibers.
  • (9) Spirally arranged bundles of sub-endothelial smooth muscle enfold the small to medium-sized submucosal veins in the equine ileocecal junction.
  • (10) When spinal column was extended, annulus fibrosus of disk and ligamentum flavum would enfold into the spinal canal and only a slight force would do severe on the cord.
  • (11) The bacteria were also seen in macrophages enfolded by the M cells as well as in macrophages below the FAE.
  • (12) M cells had short, sparse microvilli, many vesicles, few lysosomal structures, and they enfolded groups of mononuclear leucocytes.
  • (13) The C-terminal domain (alpha) of residues 30-61 enfolds a 4Cd cluster coordinated by six terminal and five bridging cysteine thiolates.
  • (14) There's a lot of safety and positivity in being enfolded by a community.
  • (15) He is watching with pleasure as the tech boom enfolds San Francisco.
  • (16) No sense of perspective on the real seriousness of this tragedy enfolding me?
  • (17) Additional histological effects of estradiol, including endometrial enfolding observed in controls, were not present in Hertwig's anemia mice.
  • (18) M cells with enfolded lymphocytes consisted of the stumpy type and the slim type in the whole shape.
  • (19) In the striated ducts, basal enfoldings became also irregular and short, while the mitochondria (which were a slender rod shape and arranged parallel to the basal enfoldings in control rats) became swollen, developed a dark matrix, a decrease in the cristae, and showed random arrangement.
  • (20) The amino terminal domain (beta) of residues 1 to 29 enfolds a three-metal cluster of one Cd and two Zn atoms coordinated by six terminal cysteine thiolate ligands and three bridging cysteine thiolates.

Infold


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To wrap up or cover with folds; to envelop; to inwrap; to inclose; to involve.
  • (v. t.) To clasp with the arms; to embrace.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The wall of the yolk sac thickens as a result of this infolding and the densely packed capillaries.
  • (2) These alterations include fenestration, widened intercellular junctions, increase in pinocytotic vesicles, and infolding of the luminal surface.
  • (3) Later, the astroglial processes of regenerated glia limitans showed very infolded surfaces and numerous filaments inside of them.
  • (4) The surface of the zona was quite irregular and contained numerous infoldings, channels and crypts.
  • (5) Patches of displaced basal lamina material appeared within the RPE basal infoldings.
  • (6) The second tumour occurred in a 36-year-old woman, followed a benign course and showed papillary infoldings lined by multilayered neoplastic cells.
  • (7) Marked infolding of both the granulosa and theca tissue in some follicles suggested early luteinization.
  • (8) In the former cells, active mitochondria were generally found near microvilli at the apical ends and in the areas of the basal infoldings whereas those in a central position were more frequently unreactive.
  • (9) The cell outline shows remarkable complexity by extensive infoldings and interdigitations of lateral and basal plasma membranes.
  • (10) Expression of L1 was restricted to neural cells until approximately postnatal day 5, when L1 started to be detectable on crypt but not on villus cells, predominantly on the basolateral membrane infoldings.
  • (11) The processes in both eyes of the epinephrine-treated monkeys exhibited one of two pictures: dilated stromal capillaries with numerous fenestrations; normal stroma, PE basement membrane and PE; numerous well-developed NPE basolateral infoldings and enlarged mitochondria; dilated stromal capillaries with ruptured fenestrations; ballooned protein-filled stroma; degenerated NPE.
  • (12) Moreover, the basement membrane of the seminiferous tubule showed wavy lamellae and infolding to the seminiferous epithelium.
  • (13) Secretory ameloblasts synthesize the organic matrix of enamel and secrete it at two distinct "putative secretory sites" characterized by membrane infoldings (Nanci and Warshawsky, 1984a).
  • (14) The distance between the apposed rectus muscles is then progressively decreased by repeated infolding of the polyamide mesh with running longitudinal sutures on the mesh itself.
  • (15) In the anterior and middle part, the NPE cells have only a few membrane infoldings and few mitochondria in the cytoplasm, but abundant surfaces of rough endoplasmic reticulum, numerous ribosomes and Golgi material, indicating protein synthesis.
  • (16) Increase of vesicles in both the endothelial cells and the basal infoldings of pigment cells were features.
  • (17) Cell outlines were smooth, with no basal infoldings of the plasma membrane or apical microvilli.
  • (18) The ultrastructure of the Sertoli cell studied in sexually active control animals during May-June and experimental animals sexually activated by light in winter, presents the commonly described ramified aspect with an infolded nucleus, well developed Golgi complexes, rough and smooth endoplasmic reticulum, numerous microfilaments, few liposomes and lysosomal formations; In the regressed testes of hibernating animals or blinded spring animals, the Sertoli cells are more round shaped with a significant increase in number and size of liposomes, lysosomes and various necrotic bodies.
  • (19) Electron microscopy of surviving retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells indicated a loss of apical microvilli and basal infoldings.
  • (20) The latter, like the stacked membrane infoldings of rectal papillae, exhibit intercellular columns and numerous intramembranous P face particles; these are undoubtedly involved in ion transport.