What's the difference between funicular and rail?

Funicular


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of a small cord or fiber.
  • (a.) Dependent on the tension of a cord.
  • (a.) Pertaining to a funiculus; made up of, or resembling, a funiculus, or funiculi; as, a funicular ligament.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Once a liver abscess as a sequel to amebic dysentery was diagnosed and once a megaloplastic anemia with symptoms of a funicular myelopathy following a vitamin B12 deficiency syndrome.
  • (2) The authors describe a case of ante partum fetal death due to a true funicular knot combined with relative shortness of the cord as a results of a double nuchal coil.
  • (3) No detectable responses can be evoked from these neurons when stimulation is applied to sites rostral to the lateral cervical nucleus and the dorsal column nuclei, suggesting that the dorsal and dorsolateral funicular branches of these neuron's axons terminate in the lateral cervical nucleus and the dorsal column nuclei, respectively.
  • (4) In order to determine the funicular courses of the axons contributing to the spinothalamic pathway, thalamic injections of horseradish peroxidase were combined with ipsilateral ventral or dorsolateral thoracic spinal cord lesions.
  • (5) The spinal cord was transected at the level of calamus scriptorius either completely (spinal preparation) or partially (funicular preparation).
  • (6) The possibilities of diagnosing funicular complications are discussed but these are not apt to avoid the rare cases of sudden fetal death as a result of vascular occlusion in the ante partum period.
  • (7) The importance of funicular hernias as the most serious umbilical cord complication is discussed with reference to this case and the literature.
  • (8) The shunt is a molded Silastic tube with wire coils at each end to prevent collapse, and its funicular collar and rim obviate sudden expulsion.
  • (9) The dorsal nucleus of Clarke, the lateral cervical nucleus (cat), the intermediolateral cell columns of the thoracic and upper lumbar levels, and selected groups of ventral horn neurons formed moderate to darkly reactive cell clusters, whereas fusiform and multipolar cells of Waldeyer in the marginal layer, small fusiform neurons in the ventral gray, funicular cells in the white matter, and ventral horn neurons of varying sizes tended to stand out against the neuropil as singly reactive neurons.
  • (10) The contribution of midline medullary bulbospinal neurons to descending inhibition from the locus coeruleus (LC) and the funicular trajectories of coeruleo- and raphe-spinal fibers mediating inhibition of spinal nociceptive transmission were examined in different experiments.
  • (11) In this puppy, as opposed to six studied previously, thoracolumbar myelomalacia also occurred symmetrically in the dorsal horns and adjoining funicular white matter.
  • (12) In order to enhance visualization of the pelvic, lumbar and kidney-hilar nodes, a combined lymphangiography should be done through both bipedal and funicular routes.
  • (13) Of the 58 neurons tested for response to isolated dorsal column and dorsolateral funicular stimulation, 24% were activated from both tracts.
  • (14) Finally, I reached the symbol of Rio itself, the Cristo , where I was joined by the crowds who'd taken the funicular or minibus.
  • (15) The purpose of this study was to determine the funicular location of descending catecholamine (CA) fibers innervating the lumbar spinal cord from the dorsolateral pons (DLP).
  • (16) Partial cystectomy with excision of the funicular urachal ligament was performed.
  • (17) The funicular pathways that elicit forelimb stepping were investigated with stimulation and lesion of the cervical white matter in decerebrate cats with the lower thoracic cord transected.
  • (18) The descending tract terminates largely in the medial funicular nucleus and the commissural nucleus of Cajal in the region of the obex.
  • (19) In adult cats the successive degeneration technique has been used to demonstrate the existence and distribution pattern of lateral funicular fibers to the dorsal column nuclei (DCN) originating from the brachial and thoracic cord.
  • (20) Fiber degeneration in the DCN consequent to this second operation is not contaminated by damage to dorsal roots or by interruption of lateral funicular afferents from lumbo-sacro-coccygeal segments.

Rail


Definition:

  • (n.) An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women.
  • (v. i.) To flow forth; to roll out; to course.
  • (n.) A bar of timber or metal, usually horizontal or nearly so, extending from one post or support to another, as in fences, balustrades, staircases, etc.
  • (n.) A horizontal piece in a frame or paneling. See Illust. of Style.
  • (n.) A bar of steel or iron, forming part of the track on which the wheels roll. It is usually shaped with reference to vertical strength, and is held in place by chairs, splices, etc.
  • (n.) The stout, narrow plank that forms the top of the bulwarks.
  • (n.) The light, fencelike structures of wood or metal at the break of the deck, and elsewhere where such protection is needed.
  • (v. t.) To inclose with rails or a railing.
  • (v. t.) To range in a line.
  • (v.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds of the family Rallidae, especially those of the genus Rallus, and of closely allied genera. They are prized as game birds.
  • (v. i.) To use insolent and reproachful language; to utter reproaches; to scoff; -- followed by at or against, formerly by on.
  • (v. t.) To rail at.
  • (v. t.) To move or influence by railing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
  • (2) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
  • (3) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
  • (4) Publishing the government's low-carbon transport strategy, transport secretary Lord Adonis said the measures would save an additional 85m tonnes of CO2 over the period 2018-22, adding that the government would shortly announce plans for further electrification of the rail network.
  • (5) Senior executives at Network Rail are likely to be summoned to Westminster to explain the engineering overruns that caused chaos for Christmas travellers over the weekend.
  • (6) Rail campaigners claim that the convoluted carriage-ordering system contributes to overcrowding.
  • (7) Yu Xiangzhen, former Red Guard Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Almost half a century on, it floods back: the hope, the zeal, the carefree autumn days riding the rails with fellow teenagers.
  • (8) He railed against the left’s lack of interest in tackling entrenched poverty.
  • (9) Maintaining air links between cities as far apart as Inverness and London makes sense, but at the same time we must invest in improvements to our rail network and make it easy to use technology to do business from anywhere in Scotland.
  • (10) Patronage at the airport in the early years would not justify a dedicated rail link.
  • (11) Refusing either to acquiesce in, or to rail at, Eliot's contempt for Jews, one strives to do justice to the many injustices Eliot does to Jews.
  • (12) It is true that rail travel has seen a boom over the past 10 years.
  • (13) Well, news from the commuters and the rail users is that we don't like it, and we want a cheaper more equitable service.
  • (14) Martin Frobisher, the area director for Network Rail, said: "The Northern Hub and electrification programme is the biggest investment in the railway in the north of England for a generation and will transform rail travel for millions of passengers every year."
  • (15) Japanese company Hitachi Rail is planning to invest £82m and create hundreds of jobs at a new train factory in Newton Aycliffe, Darlington, where it will build hundreds of carriages.
  • (16) Concluding an inquiry into the experience of rail passengers that became dominated by the events at Southern , the transport select committee said commuters had been badly let down.
  • (17) Rail travel cost the BBC £29,847 in the three months to the end of June 2010, rising to £47,358 in the same period the following year, during which corporation departments began moving from London to Salford, according to the corporation's latest quarterly travel and expenses figures released this week .
  • (18) In this inexplicable world of Roscos (rolling stock companies), TOCs (train operating companies) and the ORR (Office of Rail Regulation), some private firms are allowed to walk away from contracts rather than face losses – as First Group did on the Great Western last week, while others, such as Stagecoach, demand £100m extra just to keep their promises.
  • (19) "The soaring cost of air travel will ultimately be a small factor in increased rail fares, as the ONS said plane tickets pushed the inflation index higher.
  • (20) The transport secretary, Philip Hammond, indicated that the government had no appetite for the kind of structural tinkering that broke up British Rail and rushed the system into private ownership in the 1990s.

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