What's the difference between foliate and quicksilver?

Foliate


Definition:

  • (a.) Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.
  • (v. t.) To beat into a leaf, or thin plate.
  • (v. t.) To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Serially sectioned rabbit foliate taste buds were examined with high voltage electron microscopy (HVEM) and computer-assisted, three-dimensional reconstruction.
  • (2) Tissue sections, taken from foliate and circumvallate papillae, generally revealed taste buds in which all cells were immunoreactive; however, occasionally some taste buds were found to contain highly reactive individual cells adjacent to non-reactive cells.
  • (3) Examination of rabbit foliate papillae by electron microscopy revealed for the first time the existence of a dividing cell within a taste bud.
  • (4) Exposure to ethanol from E12 to PN5 resulted in a large loss of P cells and retarded the foliation of the cerebellum.
  • (5) Fissurations forming lobules arose largely independent of the external granular layer by directed expansion of the central fiber core while normal parallel foliation is an elaboration of the lobular surface controlled by growth forces defined by both distribution of the external granular layer and the underlying fiber core with associated Purkinje cells.
  • (6) Individual differences in pattern of foliation and body representation occur.
  • (7) Small tubulo-alveolar salivary glands, the von Ebner's glands, are located beneath the circumvallate and the foliate papillae.
  • (8) NSE-positive fibers then penetrated the epithelium as isolated fibers, primarily in the foliate and circumvallate papillae, or as brush-shaped units formed by a multitude of fibers, especially in the fungiform papillae and in the apical epithelium of the circumvallate papilla.
  • (9) Foliate and vallate buds demonstrated homogeneous dense substance within the taste pores while fungiform pores were frequently empty.
  • (10) To examine this hypothesis further, we used electron microscopy to examine taste pores of both vallate and foliate papillae from Rhesus monkeys before or after stimulation with thaumatin or sucrose.
  • (11) the filiform, fungiform, foliate and circumvallate papillae.
  • (12) The single circumvallate papilla and fungiform papillae were initiated during the early part of the 13th day, followed on the 15th day by differentiation of filiform and foliate papillae and raised nodules of lingual tonsilar tissue.
  • (13) Morphological evidence of degeneration includes pyknosis of Purkinje cells and abnormal foliation patterns.
  • (14) Plasma glycine concentration increased in foliate deficiency and decreased with oestradiol treatment.
  • (15) Pseudomorphous foliated texture and cross-cutting relationships indicate replacement of talc by sepiolite.
  • (16) The circumvallate and foliate papillae are characterized not only by their position, but also by presence of several taste buds which open through the external orifice of the gustatory canal into the cavity of the vallum, or furrow, which divides the two folds of the lingual mucosa.
  • (17) alpha-Gustducin messenger RNA is expressed in taste buds of all taste papillae (circumvallate, foliate and fungiform); it is not expressed in non-sensory portions of the tongue, nor is it expressed in the other tissues examined.
  • (18) This reorientation of the expansion appears to be related to the cortical changes which have been described and marks the onset of foliation.
  • (19) Labelled fibers innervated the ipsilateral foliate papilla only, but both ipsi-and contralateral sides of the single circumvallate papilla.
  • (20) Ganglia of various shape and size were observed on or near the fungiform, filiform and foliate papillae.

Quicksilver


Definition:

  • (a.) The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A pair took off from the newly tilled bare earth, chasing in tandem, making mazy, quicksilver, patterns with their white tail feathers glinting against the soil, as if they were playing with sparklers.
  • (2) Maya Yoshida and the excellent Victor Wanyama had threatened earlier and the second goal followed more quicksilver work by Mané, who escaped on the byeline before being body checked by Rochdi Achenteh.
  • (3) Which there was, before even the Dead: Quicksilver's symphonic epic 'The Fool' being the first taste.
  • (4) Although Tennant is best-known in the wider world for his quicksilver portrayal of the tenth Timelord in Doctor Who – and more recently, a quizzical detective in ITV's doomy thriller Broadchurch – his theatrical pedigree is impressive.
  • (5) Alli scored Tottenham’s second goal and he dazzled with his quicksilver incisions while Son was a persistent threat in the No9 role.
  • (6) Chile need to do more quicksilver, fleet-footed attacking, and rely less on sending free-kicks into the mixer.
  • (7) The first is that attempting to regulate the things that it creates is like trying to catch quicksilver using a butterfly net.
  • (8) Dispatches picked up both the home and international current affairs awards, for independent producer True Vision's The Hunt for Britain's Sex Gangs, and Quicksilver Media's Syria: Across the Lines, respectively.
  • (9) But I suspect that 21st-century politics is much more uncertain, and the way that Corbyn went from zero to hero within weeks is further proof of how politics flips around in a world beyond tribal loyalty, and the quicksilver reality in which we find ourselves.
  • (10) We in Big Brother wanted to be Indians, tribal, while Quicksilver wanted to be the cowboys, with their boots, carrying rifles around.'
  • (11) At their core were the Charlatans, Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Big Brother and the Holding company (with Janis Joplin) - leaving Country Joe and the Fish, and the Sparrows (later Steppenwolf), slightly to one, political, side.
  • (12) De Bruyne’s second strike of this nascent season came courtesy of a quicksilver brain.
  • (13) In the film, Cumberbatch plays Assange as a quicksilver saviour, humane at times, deceitful at others, never less than human.
  • (14) Bates was an infinitely versatile actor at home in all media; but what one will remember, especially in modern drama, is his matchless ability to suggest a quicksilver intelligence imbued with mischievous irony.
  • (15) Feldman's other interests included Ocean Energy, Quicksilver Resources, Prospect Energy, Peabody Energy, Pengrowth Energy Trust, Atlas Energy Resources, and Parker Drilling.
  • (16) The Glenderamackin Beck shines like a vein of quicksilver in the shade below, while the low-angled light above accentuates the shapeliness of the underlying Skiddaw slate as opposed to the more jumbled forms of the rest of Lakeland.
  • (17) As for the fight itself , Ali risked destruction by using slackened ropes to lean eccentrically out of reach , back arched, rendering him intermittently safe from the oak-tree arms of the hitherto unbeaten Foreman , draining George’s strength and self-belief until he picked the right moment to launch his quicksilver raid on the crude ogre’s chin.
  • (18) There was time in prison for possession of marijuana, but Duncan secured 'good money for suits and driving around with show girls' playing casinos in Vegas before coming to San Francisco, hooking up with David Freiberg and the late John Cipollina to form Quicksilver.
  • (19) Some great vocab – “Quicksilver,” “impoverished” – that lend a terrific punch.
  • (20) This information is entered onto an IBM compatible computer by the secretary using a quick, user-friendly program written in a dBASE dialect and compiled with Quicksilver.