What's the difference between facsimile and replica?

Facsimile


Definition:

  • (n.) A copy of anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact copy or likeness.
  • (v. t.) To make a facsimile of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Detection of estrus in mares is problematic in that it requires the presence (or at least facsimile acoustic or tactile stimuli) or a stallion.
  • (2) A facsimile of the 1-page labor chart provided by the Ministry of Health and used at all maternity clinics in Malawi is described.
  • (3) Radiologists interpreted the transferred data (12 CT images on a film) on the CRT and sent back a written report to NTH using facsimile.
  • (4) Often tubules of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) are found in apposition to the facsimile-lines; thus it appears that association of SR tubules with desmosomes is responsible for the formation of imaged-desmosomes.
  • (5) The amount of antibody in the tumor (tumor content) and the tumor:normal tissue antibody concentration ratio (uptake ratio) were calculated over 12 days from injection, using the computer program FACSIMILE to solve the stiff nonlinear differential equations describing the system.
  • (6) The Conservatives last week turned to M&C Saatchi to reinvigorate their election campaign after two much- lampooned and spoofed efforts, while the launch of a guerrilla ad campaign, positioning Labour and the Tories as failed political facsimiles, is thought to have helped the Lib Dems.
  • (7) We are not bringing back the original, but a facsimile.
  • (8) Among the problems, it has proven difficult to apply dosage forms to membranes mounted in in vitro diffusion cells in facsimile to the manner in which the dosage forms are applied clinically.
  • (9) These results indicated that cell-free transcription under these conditions was a close facsimile of NDV transcription in vivo.
  • (10) "The challenge is to get people to visit the facsimile and say: my god, I can't tell the difference – and what's more, there are things I can experience in the facsimile that I can't in the original," said Lowe.
  • (11) After extraction histologic examination of the facsimile showed that it consisted of an outer form-giving thin layer ocal bone and a system of spongious bone surrounded by marrow with haemopoetic cells.
  • (12) The facsimile epithelioid cells had considerable secretory activity for a range of macrophage enzymes.
  • (13) We can only hope the Rice family and their attorneys will use a portion of this settlement to help educate the youth of Cleveland in the dangers associated with the mishandling of both real and facsimile firearms,” Stephen Loomis, the president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association, said in a statement.
  • (14) How has any artist learned from the past other than through study and facsimile?” Another responded : “No memorising anything you see.
  • (15) Over a 30-month period, 24 portable facsimile telecopiers were placed in rural hospitals with delivery services, allowing 24-hour direct transmission of fetal heart rate tracings for consultation.
  • (16) "We want people going to both, and tweeting and blogging and saying: this is a very interesting moment in the history of conservation, we understand the problem, and the facsimile is better than the original."
  • (17) In a world that has become increasingly smaller with the aid of modern air travel, computers and facsimile machines, the European Community's efforts toward harmonization are applauded by the Animal Health Institute, representing the major U.S. manufacturers of veterinary biological products.
  • (18) In turn, the facsimile terminal can confidentially transmit a copy of a poisoned victim's emergency record to the poison center.
  • (19) In the Osaka area, a very satisfactory surveillance system of infectious diseases has been achieved with the establishment of a weekly facsimile network, and computer aided graphics and feedback system.
  • (20) Flow-phantom magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, with use of both spin-echo (SE) and gradient-echo (GRE) techniques at 1.5 T, was performed on the percutaneous Greenfield (beta-III titanium alloy [TMA wire]), Amplatz (MP32-N alloy), and Simon nitinol filters and TMA wire facsimiles of the bird's nest, Gunther, new retrievable, and Amplatz vena caval filters.

Replica


Definition:

  • (v. & n.) A copy of a work of art, as of a picture or statue, made by the maker of the original.
  • (v. & n.) Repetition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A large number of recently isolated bacterial pathogens were tested for susceptibility to cephalexin and cephaloglycin by the replica inoculating method.
  • (2) Due to low numbers of animals in Replica 1, the reduced Leydig cell volume was not significant after TCDD treatment; however, in Replica 2 there was a dose-dependent reduction (P < 0.01) in volume per testis of Leydig cell cytoplasm, nuclei, or total Leydig cell volume.
  • (3) The results of the rapid-freeze and deep-etch procedure showed that the ridges observed by the surface replica method consisted of linear arrangements of elliptical particles on the ES face of the plasma membrane.
  • (4) We have made an electron microscopic study of replicas of frozen-fractured BHK21 cells (from tissue culture) and of brown fat cells of newborn mice.
  • (5) Mucosal blood supply in the rat small intestine was studied by the injection replica scanning electron microscope method.
  • (6) In freeze-fracture replicas the ER was seen to consist of both short and long tubules, some of the latter forming anastomoses with each other.
  • (7) Subsequent developments discussed include complementary replicas, replica interpretation with stereo micrograph and reversal negatives, replica reinforcement, and control of resistance evaporation.
  • (8) The replica casting tested was obtained from a human cadaver and indicated some plaque formation along the main lumen and branch.
  • (9) The bitterling spermatozoon has been examined by electron microscopy using sectioned material and freeze-fracture replicas.
  • (10) Impressions of randomly selected areas (n = 103) were taken before and after airpolishing and positive replicas were prepared for scanning electron microscopy (SEM).
  • (11) Examination of apposed replicas and deep-etched specimens indicated that at least some of the IMPs extend through the T. pallidum outer membrane and are exposed on the surface of the organism.
  • (12) For these purposes, the changes in microvascular structure of the fibrotic pancreas, produced by ligation of the pancreatic duct in mongrel adult dogs, were investigated by microangiography and injection replica scanning electron microscopic methods.
  • (13) Ten-year-old condensation silicone elastomer impressions and epoxy replicas made in 1979 were compared in a scanning electron microscope at 5 kV with different magnifications up to x200.
  • (14) Developing chick myotubes in tissue culture were freeze-fractured to yield complementary replicas of large areas of membrane.
  • (15) Cortical patches and replicas of eggs incubated with sperm for 10-15 min provide evidence that cortical microfilaments may be intimately associated with penetrating spermatozoa.
  • (16) These findings coincide with the ultrastructure of amyloid fibrils obtained from replicas made by a rapid freezing method.
  • (17) In freeze-fracture replicas with adherent cortical fiber membranes, MP70 was immunolocalized in the junctional plaques which closely resemble the gap junctions in other tissues.
  • (18) The secretory activity was established, in tissue sections and freeze-etch replicas, by estimating the volume of the nuclei, the density of the nuclear pores, and the frequency of exocytotic phenomena.
  • (19) Cilia, primarily of the lamellibranch gill (Elliptio and Mytilus), have been examined in freeze-etch replicas.
  • (20) The distribution of neoantigens in the surface membrane of avian tumor virus-infected chicken embryo fibroblasts was examined on carbon replicas of cell cultures using hemocyanin-labeled antibody.