What's the difference between forking and trifurcation?

Forking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fork

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Subtle differences between Chicago urban and Grand Forks rural climates are reflected in arthritic subjects' degree of pain and their perception of pain-related stress.
  • (2) Dermot Kelly said: "The England Supporters Band is right up there with the vuvuzela for wanting to stab myself in the head with a fork."
  • (3) It is likely that the target of camptothecin is the "swivel" topoisomerase required for DNA replication and that it is located at or very near the replication fork in vivo.
  • (4) The two forks of the GIA or the PLC 50 instrument are introduced into the oesophagus and jejunum, and the two organs are brought together at the hiatus.
  • (5) Although later studies have suggested that fork encounter during termination is an active process involving specific termination sites and the tus protein, the coupling mechanism between termination and cell division remains to be elucidated.
  • (6) Among the fork-lift truck drivers, a statistically significant higher occurrence of low-back trouble was reported for the year preceding the study, in comparison, according to age, to that of a reference group of 399 working men (65 against 47%); however, there was no significantly increased frequency when compared to that of a reference group of 66 unskilled male workers (65 against 51%).
  • (7) The position of replication origins and replication forks relative to the nuclear matrix was analysed by autoradiography.
  • (8) Electron microscopy of the replicating molecules, after digestion with restriction endonucleases, showed that the replication fork proceeds exclusively counter-clockwise towards the unc operon.
  • (9) The retarded fork progression and shorter initiation intervals may result either from the continued operation of a subset of replication units resistant to the inhibition of protein synthesis, or be manifestations of the inhibition of protein synthesis on all active sites.
  • (10) I arrange my coins into ascending size in my pockets, for example, and nothing gives me more comfort than the knowledge that my forks, knives and spoons are all in the correct place, tessellating magnificently in their drawer.
  • (11) However, the mean length of the single-stranded gaps in Drosophila forks is less than 200 nucleotide residues, much shorter than the gaps in phage forks.
  • (12) The vibrations generated by tapping a simplified mandible model were similar to those of the transverse type of a bar and tuning fork.
  • (13) Using this system, we have studied the cycle of Okazaki fragment synthesis at the replication fork.
  • (14) It speaks with forked tongues Leave aside the now acknowledged mistake of featuring Lampitt in the party political broadcast.
  • (15) "It's important to remember that at every point when there has been a fork in the road about whether Britain should retreat or lead, when we have led we have always surprised ourselves and others about how successfully we can lead," he says.
  • (16) Relaxation protein could replace the combined action of an endonuclease and a ligase ahead of the replication fork.
  • (17) They’re not excited but, dammit, they’ll make the best of what’s there, who’s got a fork?
  • (18) In the slower second stage of breakdown, the aberrant DNA replication intermediates remained nicked and strongly associated with protein as they underwent DNA replication fork breakage and recombinational changes to produce high molecular weight forms.
  • (19) Whoever was in charge of promoting that coat, stick a fork in yourself because you're done.
  • (20) The government is at a fork in the road on prisons policy.

Trifurcation


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The serial left carotid angiography, performed immediately after admission, showed the occlusion of left middle cerebral artery at the location of trifurcation.
  • (2) A review of the most recent literature shows that the prognosis for lesions of the proximal and middle segment of the popliteal artery is greatly improved while in lesions of the distal portion and particularly the trifurcation, the percentage of failure with consequent amputation is still very high (from 30% to 40% of cases).
  • (3) They consisted of (1) an unusual trifurcation of the abducent nerve, limited to the extradural portion of the neural trunk (1.4% of the cases) and (2) the duplicity (11.1%) of the neural trunk, starting before reaching the orbit and ending before reaching the m. rectus lateralis.
  • (4) The morphological examination of advanced atherosclerosis caused by atherogenic diet in the coronary arteries and in the aorta abdominalis (trifurcation) of pigs showed plaque hemorrhage and signs of vascularisation.
  • (5) The distal adjacent segment is demonstrated well in 81 to 95 per cent of the cases up to the level of the trifurcation.
  • (6) In a 54 year-old man, a symptomatic occlusion of the popliteal artery and its trifurcation occurred following radiotherapy.
  • (7) Confirmative cine-angiography revealed a few a-v-fistulae at the level of crural trifurcation, which might have exacerbated the symptoms of deep vein thrombosis.
  • (8) A perspex model of a dog aortic trifurcation was machined to scale and perfused with steady flow from a constant pressure reservoir.
  • (9) These anomalies include aberrations of the course of one or all of the segments of the canal; abnormal relation to the oval and round window; bifurcations and trifurcations of the nerve; and associations with dysplasia of the stapes, oval window, external ear canal, and auricle.
  • (10) The branching patterns of Dup-MCA could be classified as "direct bifurcation" from the internal carotid artery, since most lacked the essential bifurcation or trifurcation at the distal end of the M1 portion.
  • (11) This 11-year retrospective study reviewed 99 arterial injuries distal to the brachial bifurcation or popliteal trifurcation in 89 extremities in 88 patients.
  • (12) The most remarkable facts are the presence of a radiological pneumogallbladder, and the existence of a real trifurcation of the trachea on the bronchography, associated with a choledocal hypoplasia.
  • (13) It is an extreme variation in tooth form seen in multirooted teeth in which the bifurcation or trifurcation of the roots is displaced toward the apex of the root, resulting in increased size of the pulp chamber.
  • (14) In 7 of the 100 cases, a trifurcation was found at the main division of the MCA, in 3 cases a secondary trunk trifurcated.
  • (15) The MCA lateral projection (patient's head inclined away from the side of injection) is valuable in investigating aneurysms of the internal carotid artery, posterior communicating artery and middle cerebral artery trifurcation.
  • (16) These events have been related to the extent of arteriosclerotic lesions in the trifurcation of the popliteal artery (trifurcational disease, TFD) in 368 patients treated consecutively.
  • (17) In the others, branching of the right posterior branch was trifurcated or independent.
  • (18) Measurements were performed using a 20 MHz pulsed Doppler transducer and an electromagnetic flow meter mounted on the common umbilical artery and catheters at the aortic trifurcation and in one of the umbilical veins.
  • (19) Each reconstruction was classified in one of eight categories depending on the site of the distal anastomosis: above- and below-knee popliteal, anterior and posterior tibial, peroneal, trifurcation, sequential, and crural (tibial or peroneal) bypasses with adjunctive distal arteriovenous fistulas.
  • (20) 42 vascular reconstructive procedures, concerning occlusions in full length of the trifurcation of the lower limb, were carried out in 40 patients.

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