What's the difference between flexuous and sinuous?

Flexuous


Definition:

  • (a.) Having turns, windings, or flexures.
  • (a.) Having alternate curvatures in opposite directions; bent in a zigzag manner.
  • (a.) Wavering; not steady; flickering.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The properties of reconstituted potato virus X and those of assembled potato virus Y protein are considered as well as the suitability of other flexuous viruses for reconstitution studies.
  • (2) The extratesticular segment of the efferent duct divides initially into two and then into three or four smaller flexuous ductuli to constitute the head of the epididymis.
  • (3) The effects of ionic strength of the solution (changed by varying NaCl concentrations or buffer molarity) on the precipitation with polyethylene glycol (PEG) 6000 were studied on phytopathogenic viruses of different morphology: the isometric red clover mottle virus (RCMV), rod-shaped tobacco mosaic virus, flexuous potato virus X (PVX) and bacilliform alfalfa mosaic virus.
  • (4) The UV-irradiation was found to induce formation of the RNA-protein cross-links and intraviral RNA chain breaks in the particles of flexuous potato virus X (PVX).
  • (5) Effects of pH of extraction buffers, pH and titer of trapping antisera and their combinations, virus acquisition time and virus host on the trapping efficiency of flexuous potato viruses X, S and Y (PVX, PVS and PVY) in immune electron microscopy were evaluated.
  • (6) The testicular ductuli are more thicker and the epididymal ductuli are more thin, long and flexuous.
  • (7) Some bile canaliculi display a flexuous course and show lateral sacculations.
  • (8) By electron microscopy, the precipitated fimbriae appeared as aggregated bundles of long, relatively straight filaments which were disaggregated to individual flexuous filaments at pH 10.5.
  • (9) The isolate is an aflagellate, motile rod which moves in a gliding, flexuous manner; the organism is capable of digesting starch and agar, but not cellulose and gelatin.
  • (10) Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain P15 produces not only pyocin R1 and phage PS10, but also a substance having a flexuous rod structure, the nature of which is so far unknown.
  • (11) Recent experiments on the disassembly and assembly of some flexuous plant viruses and their proteins are described.
  • (12) Dilatation is particularly located at the base of the broad ligament and gives to uterine veins with wide smeets a flexuous feature with wide contrasted clusters.
  • (13) A flexuous ropelike structure protruding at one end of the capsid is sometimes observed in partially degraded virions stained with uranyl acetate.
  • (14) It was concluded that the flexuous rod-like particles are not related to pyocin R1 or phage PS10, but represent a new pyocin, which we have designated as pyocin F1.
  • (15) However, we have experienced various cases not only in which side effects of the infusion drug appeared, but also in which treatment had to be discontinued because of infections and flexuous caused by the intraarterial infusion catheter.
  • (16) Histologic examination of subcutaneous tumor biopsy specimens revealed a diffuse infiltration of monocytes with flexuous nuclei.
  • (17) Another flexuous bacteriocin was also found and named pyocin F2.
  • (18) There are at least ten viruses identified in the literature that resemble definitive potyviruses in having flexuous filamentous particles and inducing the formation of "pinwheel" cytoplasmic inclusions in infected cells but that are transmitted by eriophyid mites, whiteflies or soil fungi and not by aphids, the vectors of the definitive potyviruses.
  • (19) Electron microscope studies of the network reveal a characteristic flexuous configuration.
  • (20) The microbial characteristics of the isolated strain include the formation of flexuous gray aerial mycelium with smooth to rough spores, irregular in size.

Sinuous


Definition:

  • (a.) Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form; winding; crooked.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The astrocytes had generally two types of processes: (1) thread-like processes of relatively constant width with few ramifications and few lamellar appendages and (2) the sinuous processes with clusters of lamellar appendages.
  • (2) In the intercellular space long and smooth septa are clustered in sinuous strands and intramembrane particles appear on the PF.
  • (3) According to observations carried out in ovo and after fixation, morphological modifications are demonstrated in the developing vasculature of the heparin-treated CAMs which, compared with the control CAMs, show dilated and sinuous arterial and venous branches, denser and irregular capillary networks, and a high number of vascular primordia.
  • (4) This structure contains cells with single or double nuclei, round or oval in shape, surrounded by a light halo, with scattered chromatin and a well-defined nucleolus, acidophilic cytoplasm containing, in comparison with the common myocardium, few sinuous myofibrils with transverse striations and a larger amount of glycogen.
  • (5) The sinuous processes rich in lamellae were predominant in protoplasmic astrocytes, and clearly corresponded to the sheet- or veil-like processes of Golgi-impregnated astrocytes.
  • (6) In the heart of the dog five types of thebesian veins were served: arboriform, sinuous, brush-like, canaliculated and stellate.
  • (7) Using cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) in glutaraldehyde as fixative, we observed sinuous fiber-like structures 300-500 nm long and 7-14 nm thick in the spaces between the collagen fibers of rat incisor predentin.
  • (8) Some PtK-2 cells have straight stress fibers which stained with anti-actin, but in confluent cultures all PtK-2 cells have, instead, sinuous phase-dense fibers which stained with antibody.
  • (9) Finally, three XN-cells were intrageniculate interneurons, which possessed small somata (mean soma size = 174 micron2), fine sinuous dendrites covered with beadlike varicosities on stalked appendages, and no obvious axon.
  • (10) This layer is characterized by flattened cells with sinuous processes, extracellular spaces containing an amorphous material, and the presence of junctions between its cells.
  • (11) The Four,” as they came to be called, created in the mid-nineties their own highly individual interpretation of the new art, subsequently dubbed “the Glasgow Style.” They liked sinuous, elongated animal-vegetable forms with a strong vertical emphasis in their overall design; the human figure, too, was stylised almost beyond recognition.
  • (12) Its cell body is usually found in the inner half of the SG layer and its sinuous dendrites cross the SG layer and enter the marginal layer.
  • (13) Arterial angiography identifies polyaneurysmal dystrophy; in the context of a twisted and sinuous system of large arteries, multiple spindle-shaped aneurysms can be distinguished which are frequently bilateral and symmetrical.
  • (14) In the ALD intestinal epithelium, DAB+ material was also seen in long, sinuous, tubular or cisternal elements intermingled and occasionally in continuity with peroxisomes.
  • (15) The mantle dentin contains sinuous tubules with a type I arrangement of SIAR classification (1986).
  • (16) The cells of papillary thyroid carcinoma are shown to have the following characteristic morphological features: oval or oval to roundish shape of nuclei, uneven sinuous, folded border of the nuclear membrane, nuclear fissure, intranuclear cytoplasmic inclusions, optically clean nuclei.
  • (17) In the cervical enlargement of the rat spinal cord, fluoride-resistant acid phosphatase (FRAP) occurs in most of the small dark sinuous primary afferent central terminals (CI-terminals) of type I-synaptic glomeruli of lamina II and is lacking in the large light roundish primary afferent CII-terminals of type II-glomeruli.
  • (18) Degeneration of the tactile cells in epithelium of the cat sinuous hairs after sectioning the infraorbital nerve manifests itself as cytoplasmic vacuolization and induration with electron opaque bodies in it, changes in nuclear configuration and in chromatin density.
  • (19) The cytoplasm of macrophages gives only short, somewhat sinuous processes.
  • (20) Selective arteriography of the coeliac trunk showed extremely sinuous intra-hepatic arteries in 3 of these cases, and obstruction of the portal vein, in one case.

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