What's the difference between feminal and seminal?

Feminal


Definition:

  • (a.) Feminine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Feminism sometimes clings too hard to a sense of identity that always equates "female" with "underdog".
  • (2) The clinical features of 3 Ethiopian patients presenting with the complete syndrome of testicular feminization are described.
  • (3) • This is an edited extract from Feminism & Men by Nikki van der Gaag , published by Zed Books.
  • (4) Understanding how steroids work has led to improved comprehension of such derangements of hormonal regulation as testicular feminization.
  • (5) Subjects in group I were satisfied with cross-dressing and did not desire additional feminization.
  • (6) Sylvia Walby, in her new book, The Future of Feminism , adjudicates on this magisterially.
  • (7) She taught me that feminism is not a choice, but a responsibility for women like me – those of us who are born into privilege in a country where privilege is determined by the accident of your birth.
  • (8) Without feminism I don't think I would have started blogging because I would have thought who the fuck am I, why would anyone be interested?
  • (9) Interestingly, in addition to feminizing XO animals, xol-1 mutations further masculinize XX animals already partially masculinized.
  • (10) On the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory, they scored high on the depression, hysteria, psychopathic deviate, and paranoia scales, and they scored low on the masculinity-feminity scale.
  • (11) Now let's talk a little about feminism's fourth wave, which is currently in its early stages.
  • (12) After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way.
  • (13) Their relationship was an important part of the context in which feminism, social reform and nursing came together at the turn of the century.
  • (14) Three families with androgen resistance syndromes--two with testicular feminization and one with Reifenstein syndrome--have been studied for linkage analysis.
  • (15) Furthermore, feminism requires new forms of social interaction that embody the esthetical space women need to experience life as full-fledged citizens.
  • (16) There is a long and problematic history of colonial feminism and the "good intentions" of outsiders using racialised notions to "save women over there".
  • (17) I was asked by Granta magazine in 2010 to contribute an essay about feminism, which they said they wanted to be quite personal; and having thought at first that that wasn't the proper way to discuss feminism, I realised very quickly that for me now, perhaps it was the only way.
  • (18) Testicular feminization (Tfm) in the mouse is characterized by androgen insensitivity of the target cells.
  • (19) The sex industry held itself up as the promised land of feminism.
  • (20) But because of feminism, I feel I have a duty to take it to court and to see it through."

Seminal


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid.
  • (a.) Contained in seed; holding the relation of seed, source, or first principle; holding the first place in a series of developed results or consequents; germinal; radical; primary; original; as, seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue.
  • (n.) A seed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In normal seminal vesicle, the reaction product was apparently more abundant in columnar and basal cells than in other cell types.
  • (2) 500-MHz H-NMR spectroscopy of the oligosaccharides derived from gamma-seminoprotein, a human seminal plasma glycoprotein, revealed considerable microheterogeneity both with respect to the degree of branching and with regard to the peripheral sugars.
  • (3) GC using the capillary columns proved suitable for mapping of the carbohydrate profile of human seminal fluid and for the analyses of organic compounds accumulating in human adipose tissue.
  • (4) The corresponding values for 1 ml seminal plasma were: 1-50, 0-439, 0-581, 0-594 and 0-010 mg.
  • (5) Air-regenerated monomers of bovine seminal ribonuclease have been found capable of reassociating into native dimers, whereas monomers refolded in the presence of a glutathione redox mixture do not reassociate into dimers [Smith, K. G., D'Alessio, G. and Schaffer, S. W. (1978) Biochemistry 17, 2633-2638].
  • (6) Repeated administration of high concentrations (10 muglml and above) of histamine produce tachyphylaxis in the seminal vesicle of guinea pig.
  • (7) This report describes the cytotoxic properties of human seminal plasma and demonstrates that the inhibition of response to mitogens shown by murine lymphocytes in the presence of whole human seminal plasma can be attributed largely to an effect of seminal components on lymphocyte viability.
  • (8) Immunoelectron microscopy of the rat seminal vesicle was performed using specific antibodies to secretory proteins.
  • (9) The effect of SV-IV, one of the major proteins secreted from the rat seminal vesicle epithelium, on phagocytosis and chemotaxis of human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) has been studied.
  • (10) Volume of prostate and seminal vesicles was measured in patients with Klinefelter's syndrome by means of transrectal ultrasonography before and after testosterone replacement therapy.
  • (11) However the diagnostic accuracy of an elevated serum antigen level on an individual basis was only 55 per cent for capsular penetration and 50 per cent for seminal vesicle involvement and lymph node involvement.
  • (12) The previous demonstration that sperm kept at body temperature (37 degrees C) had a marked deterioration in motility accompanied by an overgrowth of bacteria in the semen and a concomitant decrease in pH led to this study to test the hypothesis that the decrease in motility was caused by the bacteria or by bacterial alteration of seminal pH.
  • (13) The mean length of the seminal vesicles was 2.98 cm.
  • (14) The seminal degeneration and regeneration associated with the development and spontaneous cure of scrotal mange were very similar to that seen following experimental elevation of testicular temperature.
  • (15) The acrosin inhibitors are localized in the mucosa cells of the cauda epididymis, the vas deferens, the seminal vesicles, the urethra and distinct glandular units of the prostate.
  • (16) The maximum labelling indices which appeared on days 2 or 3 of administration of methyltestosterone were 24.3, 8.4, 9.6, 21.6 and 13.7% for the ventral, lateral and dorsal prostate, seminal vesicle and coagulating glands, respectively.
  • (17) It was concluded that the heat-induced substance(s) from leukocytes, which being highly possible the Hsps, interfered the mobility of wash human sperm and the inhibition might be antagonized by seminal plasma.
  • (18) Basic peptides (bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor, bull seminal isoinhibitors of trypsin, arginine vasopressin and adamantylamide-alanylisoglutamine) were analysed with a cationic ITP system at acidic pH.
  • (19) Relaxin in seminal fluid was determined radioimmunologically in 238 andrological patients with various ejaculate qualities.
  • (20) We have previously described the presence of a human seminal plasma component which may prevent the immunologic sensitization of females against sperm and seminal plasma antigens.

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