What's the difference between filamentous and stringy?

Filamentous


Definition:

  • (a.) Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Conditions consistent with a buildup of reduced flavoprotein, however, favored filament formation.
  • (2) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
  • (3) Ordering of these filaments into a parallel array is the basis of birefringence in the A region, and loss of birefringence is therefore a measure of decreased order.
  • (4) Structural studies indicate that caveolae are decorated on their cytoplasmic surface by a unique array of filaments or strands that form striated coatings.
  • (5) Accumulations of filaments in the axons and in the perineural cells were accompanied by Rosenthal fibres.
  • (6) Electron microscopic examination of all leptomeningeal and meningioma cultures revealed desmosomes and dense tonofilament formation; in addition, granular, filamentous basement membrane-like material was abundant in the extracellular spaces of all cultures.
  • (7) A new method of staining the keratin filament matrix allowing a visualization of the filaments in cross section of hair fibres has been developed.
  • (8) These force-generators are identified with projections (cross-bridges) on the thick filament, each consisting of part of a myosin molecule.
  • (9) In smooth muscles there is no organized sarcomere structure wherein the relative movement of myosin filaments and actin filaments has been documented during contraction.
  • (10) The results indicate that synthesis of lamellar bodies depends on an intact microtubular system, whereas secretion requires actin filaments in a functional state.
  • (11) The latter reaction is linked to a conformation change of the actin subunit that causes a destabilization of the actin-actin interactions in the filament, i.e., a structural change of the filament.
  • (12) In the capsule of the fibrocartilage cells, parallel orientated filaments exhibit a periodical arrangement.
  • (13) The images of 56 tubular myosin filaments of the fleshfly and 62 filaments of the housefly were digitized and computer processed by rotational averaging.
  • (14) It does not appear to react with the anti-IFA antibody, suggesting that it is not a member of the intermediate filament class of proteins.
  • (15) This suggests that cytokeratin 14 acts as an indiscriminate type I cytokeratin in filament formation in the established cell lines.
  • (16) Gene II protein is required for all phases of filamentous phage DNA synthesis other than the conversion of the infecting single strand to the parental double-stranded molecule.
  • (17) This supports the view that the pH is of no major importance for filamentation in vivo.
  • (18) Ultrastructural examination of a tumor with a typical cribriform pattern showed spaces of two types; the more frequent type was bounded by cells with straight plasma membranes and contained filamentous and basement-membrane-like material, and the less frequent type was surrounded by cells with numerous microvilli and contained nonfilamentous homogeneous material.
  • (19) The bright lines in the difference image represent the paths along which the filaments have moved and are measured using a crosshair cursor controlled by the mouse.
  • (20) Astrocytes showed a transitional swelling, later followed by an accumulation of glycogen and filaments.

Stringy


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.
  • (a.) Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If you look at a map of Britain resized according to house prices, London and the south-east form a massive blob, and every other region and nation are mere stringy offshoots, like a fried egg that is all yolk.
  • (2) In vitro dissolution studies showed that the capsules had a tendency to collapse into a stringy mass and to dissolve slowly.
  • (3) Police reportedly investigated the theory at the time after Lady Osborne, Aspinall’s mother – and chancellor George Osborne’s grandmother – allegedly told them: “The last I heard of him he was being fed to the tigers at my son’s zoo.” Aspinall reportedly responded when questioned: “My tigers are only fed the choicest cuts – do you really think they’re going to eat stringy old Lucky?” A week after the murder, Aspinall, who died in 2000, told ITV News: “I find it difficult to imagine him in Brazil or Haiti as a fugitive.
  • (4) The excretory pyelogram revealed that the right kidney was hydronephrosis, and a retrograde pyelogram showed stringy filling defects in the middle portion of the right ureter.
  • (5) Scanning electron micrographs of bronchial mucosa from DG-ventilated lungs showed tangling and matting of cilia with a granular and stringy material attached to most cilia; these changes were much less pronounced in HG-ventilated lungs.
  • (6) Eventually we went to the RAC Club and ate rather stringy beef and drank a bottle of red together, so he reneged on that as well.” 3.
  • (7) Scanning electron microscopy revealed that, in both types, a stringy substance interconnected the cells and connected the cells to glass surfaces, with amorphous flocklike materials present in the intercellular space.
  • (8) Keep handling to a minimum as it is not cold hands (or a warm heart) that are key to quality shortcrust pastry, but minimising the formation of the stringy, elastic protein gluten.
  • (9) Axons most commonly had longitudinal orientations and stringy shapes.
  • (10) Thousands of boxes of the green, stringy plant are brought here each week for distribution across the UK.
  • (11) HS, PER, and NOX arbors had a "stringy" shape without a clear terminal focus, save for the fact that PER and NOX collaterals often terminated in rostrally displaced substantia gelatinosa at the level of the caudal SpVi.
  • (12) The polymerization process has four stages before final curing: slurry, stringy, dough-like (plastic), and rubber-like (elastic).
  • (13) In the fully developed syndrome, the upper tarsal plate has an increase in stringy mucus and is covered by large papillae crowded together.
  • (14) Unlike vibrissa afferents, hairy skin afferents gave rise to sparse and widespread arbors characterized by a string-like appearance, while the Vo collaterals were more stringy.
  • (15) But Henry VIII aside (a massive fan of the friendship bracelet), this particular stringy accessory truly had its moment among those born around the mid to late 70s and early 80s.
  • (16) And on days when I feel like what I’m working at is dreadful and not working out at all, I remember that Dorothy felt like “a plain disagreeable child with stringy hair and a yen to write poetry”, like she was only following in the footsteps of other, better women, in dirty sneakers.
  • (17) The aging neck in which the stringy appearance is due to hyperactive platysma can be surgically treated.
  • (18) The microscopic pathology shows fibrous tissue, reactive woven bone, and stringy, eosinophilic, extracellular debris.
  • (19) It may be interpreted that there was a stringy structure embedded in the calcospherites beneath the predentin.

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