What's the difference between gall and gull?

Gall


Definition:

  • (n.) The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder.
  • (n.) The gall bladder.
  • (n.) Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.
  • (n.) Impudence; brazen assurance.
  • (n.) An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut.
  • (v. t.) To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts.
  • (v. t.) To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable.
  • (v. t.) To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm.
  • (v. t.) To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy.
  • (v. i.) To scoff; to jeer.
  • (n.) A wound in the skin made by rubbing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance, impaired gall bladder contraction, and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes.
  • (2) The degree of the filling up and the dilation of the gall bladder, its functional state as well as the passibility of d. cysticus are evaluated by ultrasound examination and computer determination of the surface and dimensions of the gall bladder.
  • (3) One patient presented a rupture of the gall-bladder with formation of a bilioma in the adjacent liver tissue.
  • (4) When tissue metabolism was irreversibly inhibited by exposure to formaldehyde, hydrogen ion concentration and pCO2 were significantly decreased in the mucosal side of the chamber compared with the viable gall bladder.
  • (5) In 15 subjects the gall bladder emptied in relation to eating according to a double exponential function.
  • (6) On 3 April he announced on his website that he had inoperable gall bladder cancer, giving him, at most, a year to live.
  • (7) This is a report of the short- and long-term complications in a premature infant with tracheoesophageal fistula, including those related to central venous alimentation, seizures, chylothorax, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, dental erosions, gastroesophageal reflux, pulmonary problems, and gall stones.
  • (8) Adenomyomas of the gall bladder are rare benign neoplasms.
  • (9) The lack of symptomatic gall stones in cross sectional surveys is probably due to their rapid diagnosis and treatment.
  • (10) Histological examination suggested that the gall sludge in the pancreatic cyst was caused by the reflux of bile into the pancreatic duct through the papilla of Vater.
  • (11) The results were analysed according the morphological criteria (demonstration of the bile duct, intra-hepatic ducts, gall bladder and renal tract) and functional criteria (T max, half-time biliary excretion values, development of activity in the bile duct, in the gall bladder and in the gut).
  • (12) The number of stones per gall-bladder averaged 6.3 (1-20), size of stones 1.7 cm (0.5-2.8 cm), and duration of treatment 11.9 h (5-24 h).
  • (13) The types of metastasis expansion in the bones were determined radiologically: the most frequent--osteolytic, less frequent--mixed, and the osteoplastic type (prostate cancer, gall-bladder cancer, and pancreas cancer).
  • (14) Fractional turnover rate on the two regimens correlated with gall bladder emptying (n = 16, r = 0.61, p less than 0.01), but not with small intestinal transit time (r = 0.07, NS).
  • (15) Few to many cryptosporidia were present in the gall bladders and bile ducts of infected birds.
  • (16) Pulse rate and blood pressure were not affected by the gall bladder distension.
  • (17) Pancreatic duct abnormalities were more severe and occurred more frequently in patients with gall stones who had stones in the biliary tree than in patients with a normal biliary tree (postcholecystectomy patients, 55% v 25%) but the difference between the two groups just failed to be significant (chi 2 = 3.34).
  • (18) We conclude that a number of non-specific chronic inflammatory histological abnormalities were present in primary sclerosing cholangitis gall bladders.
  • (19) On histological examination, there were signs of acute cardiac failure; edema of the lungs, liver and gall bladder, partial myofibrillar degeneration and cytoplasmic vacuoles in the media of a small coronary artery.
  • (20) These investigations reveal that the great majority of cases of gall-stones are undiagnosed.

Gull


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud.
  • (n.) A cheating or cheat; trick; fraud.
  • (n.) One easily cheated; a dupe.
  • (n.) One of many species of long-winged sea birds of the genus Larus and allied genera.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The normal bacterial and fungal flora of the seagull was established and it is considered that the C. albicans in fresh gull droppings would not materially increase albicans infections in man.
  • (2) People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality.
  • (3) Later that day, Collins, Perkins and Jones were observed meeting again at the Castle pub, moving on to the upmarket Bonnie Gull Seafood Bar in nearby Exmouth Market.
  • (4) Renal clearance experiments were performed on herring gull (Larus argentatus) and great black-backed gull chicks (L. marinus) to test the importance of parathyroid hormone (PTH), parathyroidectomy (PTX), and calcium loading on excretion patterns of sodium, potassium, calcium, and phosphate.
  • (5) "It's the people who were persuaded to vote no who were misled, who were gulled, who were tricked effectively.
  • (6) The rate of isolation from gulls was 0.26% in the cold months and 3.0% in the warm months.
  • (7) Though waterbirds, including moorhens and gulls, live on the margins, and a thin scum of litter is visible at the shore, the reservoir is not intended as a home to wildlife, and any fish living here are accidental visitors.
  • (8) Nine of 16 gulls rigorously examined were found infected simultaneously with both species.
  • (9) Cloacal swabs collected from 264 ring-billed gulls (Larus delawarensis) at four sites near MontrĂ©al, Canada were cultured for the presence of Salmonella spp., Campylobacter spp.
  • (10) In view of the endangered status of Audouin's gull, there is a need to observe closely the developing trend of contamination in this species.
  • (11) Clinical, necropsy, bacteriologic, parasitologic, histopathologic, toxicologic and animal inoculation studies suggest that organochlorine (PBC, dieldrin and DDE) poisoning was an important factor in causing deaths of free-flying ring-billed gulls (Larus delawarensis) in southern Ontario in 1969 and 1973.
  • (12) Audouin's gull (Larus audouinii) is a very rare species endemic to the Mediterranean basin.
  • (13) The Northern Ireland secretary is making clear this work will accelerate and the existing Operation Gull to tackle illegal migration to Northern Ireland expanded to close any potential backdoor to Britain post-Brexit.
  • (14) The nature of the vascular alpha-adrenoceptors has been studied in the herring gull, Larus argentatus.
  • (15) Landfill disposal of a fertilizer manufacturing waste product was associated with a die-off of gulls in New Hanover County, North Carolina.
  • (16) About one-third of oxychlordane in herring gull eggs was lost in 1 year under these conditions, but none was lost after freeze-drying when the homogenate was stored at -18 degrees to -28 degrees C.
  • (17) The rate for C. jejuni and C. coli, respectively, was in gulls from regional garbage dumps 78% and 4%, from the coast 58% and 21%, and from islands 47% and 47% of the isolations in the corresponding area.
  • (18) those feeding on other birds (sparrow-hawk 33.00 mg.kg-1 in the dry matter of eggs, hawk 239.98 mg.kg-1 in fat) or those associated with water (great crested grebe 11.97 mg.kg-1, sea-gull 11.24 mg.kg-1 in the dry matter of eggs).
  • (19) In 1967, shell thickness in herring gull eggs from five states decreased with increases in chlorinated hydrocarbon residues.
  • (20) The brains of gulls dying with clinical signs of neurologic involvement, and dead gulls with no other apparent cause of death, contained organochlorine residues of significantly greater levels than those found in healthy gulls shot for comparison.