What's the difference between fluted and tridacna?
Fluted
Definition:
(a.) Thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes.
(a.) Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum.
(imp. & p. p.) of Flute
Example Sentences:
(1) The 12-fluted bur caused no clinically identifiable marks on the enamel surface.
(2) Sounds (flute and violin) and vowels (German "u" and "i") evoke a complex motion pattern on the basilar membrane.
(3) Acceptable finishing procedures for the composite materials tested include silicon carbide disks for accessible areas or 12 fluted finishing burs for more inaccessible areas.
(4) The musician group was comprised of 31 brass instrument players, and 31 reed instrument or flute players.
(5) I also love music – I taught myself Chinese traditional instruments, such as the bamboo flute, and brought them to Britain.
(6) The results showed that the high speed finishing technique by twelve and thirty fluted carbide burs and final polishing with Command Ultrafine Luster Paste produces the smoothest and flatest surface of HERCULITE XR.
(7) More than 1,000 republican dissidents, their supporters and seven flute bands marched from the nationalist Ardoyne district, through the north of the city to central Belfast.
(8) He admired a portrait of a girl playing a flute and was amused by the pictures of North Korea’s late leaders Kim Jong-il and Kim Il-sung, which hung high on the wall in the middle of the room, as is common in government buildings.
(9) Line the tin with the pastry, pressing into the fluted edges of the tin.
(10) The simplified technique of insertion, the strength of the device, and the results of this study indicate that the fluted subtrochanteric rod has several advantages over other available devices.
(11) He dropped karate lessons and started learning the flute.
(12) Debris was also recorded on the land and flute spiral surfaces with morphological changes on the dentinal walls.
(13) A series of identically matched pairs of fresh-frozen canine femora (approximating human radii in size and dimension) were used to mechanically compare pull-out strength between 4 mm predrilled, self-tapping, half-pins and 4 mm self-drilling, self-tapping half-pins with drill bit-like cutting flutes.
(14) The word still makes me blench – Orangemen marching, Gazza playing an imaginary flute to Rangers fans, sectarian hatreds.
(15) Listening to Temples' Prisms three and half decades on, to its shimmering Beach-Boys-in-66 sonics and baroque arrangement (warning: features prominent use of flutes), you might feel similarly baffled.
(16) The stepped fluted rod is designed as a single unit and has exceptional bending strength and rigidity as well as excellent torsional load-carrying capacity.
(17) I have developed a flute-pick for peeling preretinal membranes in the presence of surface or intravitreal hemorrhages.
(18) One hundred ninety-three of 196 acute nonpathologic femoral shaft fractures were treated consecutively with intramedullary nailing using the fluted rod.
(19) Penetrability of the bovine teat duct to Escherichia coli endotoxin solution was measured before and after reaming the duct with a polypropylene tube, a steel twist drill bit, or a fluted drill point.
(20) The influences of surface structures, such as threads, cuts, holes, perforations, and flutes, are demonstrated.
Tridacna
Definition:
(n.) A genus of very large marine bivalve shells found on the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One species (T. gigas) often weighs four or five hundred pounds, and is sometimes used for baptismal fonts. Called also paw shell, and fountain shell.
Example Sentences:
(1) The arabinogalactan-protein was isolated from the style extract by affinity chromatography with tridacnin (the galactose-binding lectin from the clam Tridacna maxima) coupled to Sepharose 4B.
(2) Aposymbiotic Aiptasia polyps reinfected with zooxanthellae from the gastropod Melibe pilosa and the clam Tridacna maxima grew no better than polyps lacking zooxanthellae.
(3) Haemolymph from the clam Tridacna maxima precipitated with purified H-blood-group substances, Helix pomatia galactogen, and pneumococcus type XIV polysaccharide.
(4) Haemolymph from the elongate clam, Tridacna maxima (Röding) readily precipitates with H-blood group substances, pneumococcus type XIV polysaccharide, human milk and salivas, and with a number of polysaccharides which contain the O-SS-D-galactopyranosyl-(1-6)-D-galactose structure.
(5) A beta-galactosyl-binding lectin was purified from the haemolymph of the clam Tridacna maxima by affinity chromatography using polylecyl larch galactan, D-galactosamine coupled to epoxy-activated Sepharose or acid-treated Sepharose.
(6) Tridacna lectin is a metalloprotein requiring Ca2+ for its haemagglutinating and precipitating activities.
(7) Tridacnin M, a galactosyl-specific reagent prepared from the bivalve clam Tridacna maxima (Röding) was used for the demonstration of 2 different glycosubstances with terminal galactosido units in human semen.
(8) The exposed subterminal carbohydrate structures reacted strongly with an anti-galactan precipitin from the haemolymph of Tridacna maxima which detects terminal, non-reducing beta-D-galactoside residues.
(9) Intracellular studies on photoreceptors in the eyes of the giant clam Tridacna give evidence for two types of light-sensitive cells, both of which are hyperpolarized by light.
(10) The ability of the T. maxima agglutinin to precipitate with structures containing terminal beta-linked 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-galactopyranosyl or D-galactopyranosyl groups suggests that the Tridacna haemolymph and purified lectin will find considerable application in the study of many biologically important carbohydrates.
(11) A powerful natural agglutinin with haemagglutinating and precipitating properties has been found in the haemolymph from the elongate clam Tridacna maxima (Röding).
(12) Tridacnin, the lectin from the clam, Tridacna maxima, precipitates with house dust mite extracts and provides a simple procedure for obtaining a potent, purified mite allergen.
(13) Tridacnin, a lectin from the clam Tridacna maxima was found to precipitate with crude extracts from the house dust mites Dermatophagoides farinae and Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus.
(14) The following lectins were tested: Tridacnin from the bivalve clams Tridacna maxima and Tridacna gigas, the agglutinin from the sponge Axinella polypoides, the lectin from the roach Rutilus rutilus and the plant lectins from Ricinus communis, Ononis spinosa, Glycine soja and Abrus precatorius.
(15) An alkali-stable galactan reacting with the anti-galactans from Axinella polypoides sponge and from the clam Tridacna maxima (Tridacnin) and with Concanavalin A.