What's the difference between gemma and gumma?

Gemma


Definition:

  • (n.) A leaf bud, as distinguished from a flower bud.
  • (n.) A bud spore; one of the small spores or buds in the reproduction of certain Protozoa, which separate one at a time from the parent cell.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Once the effect of the 8% annual growth in debt interest payments and rising spending on unemployment benefit are stripped out, spending across government departments will have to fall by an average of 2.3% a year in real terms, said IFS economist Gemma Tetlow.
  • (2) Journalist Gemma Briggs, 34, did this with her first child, born in March 2010.
  • (3) The results show that the rate of gemmae formation is higher in self irradiated samples; the statistical significance of the results is discussed.
  • (4) Honey admitted that her daughter, Gemma, seven, recently wrote "a baby" on her shopping list.
  • (5) Someone like Gemma Arterton [Tamara Drewe] is so beautiful, and I know she has had incredible pressure put on her by Hollywood, and it is magnificent for someone like her to stand up and say, 'You know what, this is my shape'.
  • (6) Gemma Tetlow, a senior IFS analyst, said it still raised significant questions about how much money would be available for everyday budgeting.
  • (7) The stock isn't fantastic but I spy books by Jane Gardam and Claire Messud, David Mitchell and, er, Jordan, and it's impressive that a library so small has a section devoted to graphic novels, Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds and David Boring by Daniel Clowes in pride of place.
  • (8) Created by real-life mates Gemma Cairney, Georgie Okell and Georgia LA, it's a combination of interviews, bands and debates, with guests ranging from Richard Branson to No More Page 3's Lucy-Anne Holmes.
  • (9) He is survived by his wife, daughter Gemma, stepson Steven and stepdaughter Rebecca.
  • (10) Gemma Ellis, 28, a children's charity worker, has been "passionate about women's rights" since primary school.
  • (11) Abbott has "sparked amusement and risked criticism" - report Jessica Marszalek, Gemma Jones, Lanai Scarr, Lauren Novak and David Mills.
  • (12) Gemma Plumb, a forecaster with Meteogroup, said: "Everywhere has seen strong winds today.
  • (13) Upstairs from the shop, full of quirky impulse buys such as Gemma Correll's Pugs not Drugs tote bags and Emily Warren's papier-mâché busts, there's studio and workshop space, with screen-printing equipment and sewing machines for regular workshops of up to six people.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gemma Middleton fears her children’s opportunities will be limited We’ve lived here in Spain for seven years with my two children, 19 and 14. they were both born in the UK and none of us are eligible for Spanish citizenship because you have to have been here 10 years.
  • (15) The venom from the spider Araneus gemma contains an inhibitor of physiologic glutamate receptors and of glutamate binding sites in brain synaptic membranes.
  • (16) It took half an hour for Ji to get a sight at goal, and even then she was harried enough to shoot over following Gemma Davison’s through ball.
  • (17) Down the hall, another of Thornberry's caseworkers, Gemma Pritchard, 24, is talking to an Eritrean couple whose 16-year-old nephew was conscripted, deserted, and is now a refugee in Sudan; they want him to come and live with them.
  • (18) That’s when everything comes together – innovation, customer insight, creativity, communications and sales – and you get to demonstrate how these different elements work together, to create value and growth for a business,” says Gemma Greaves, MD of the Marketing Society, a networking club for marketing directors.
  • (19) The first episode, which features Jones, comedian Paul Foot and The Only Way Is Essex star Gemma Collins, makes ITV’s Loose Women look like a WI meeting.
  • (20) Second-year individuals of Gemma gemma also are randomly distributed, but its total population is aggregated because of its ovoviviparous habit.

Gumma


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of soft tumor, usually of syphilitic origin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A case is presented outlining the surgical correction of a palatal defect resulting from a gumma using a tongue flap.
  • (2) Case 1 The patient, a 9-year-old boy, had been suffering from headache and vomiting for 3 months prior to admission to the Neurosurgical Clinic, Gumma University Hospital.
  • (3) Roughly one third of patients with untreated syphilis develop severe late manifestations: 10.4% show cardiovascular involvement, 6.5% get neurosyphilis and 15.8% have a gumma.
  • (4) A case of focal cerebral syphilitic gumma of the right temporal lobe is reported.
  • (5) The differential diagnoses included duct ectasia, a foreign-body giant-cell reaction with fat necrosis, foreign material or an abscess, granulomatous mastitis, fungal mastitis, sarcoidosis and a syphilitic gumma.
  • (6) All other examined liver lesions (metastases, haemangiomas, lymphatic infiltrates, echinococcus cysts, FNH, gummae) showed greater signal intensity than the remaining organ at small angle excitation.
  • (7) We describe two human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients with syphilitic cerebral gummas.
  • (8) Surgery was performed and the histopathological study revealed a tuberculoid, granuloma-forming gumma.
  • (9) A case is presented of tabes dorsalis with spinal gumma producing collapse of the L5 vertebra followed by paraplegia.
  • (10) Because of the radiological findings a malignant lymphoma was diagnosed and biopsy was performed, however, histological investigation confirmed the diagnosis of cerebral gumma.
  • (11) The clinical features, radiographic appearance, and response to therapy suggest that this lesion was a focal syphilitic inflammatory process, or gumma.
  • (12) For a patient in good general condition with a suspected gumma, medical treatment can be given initially, with follow-up by CT, neurosurgery being indicated only in case of failure of medical therapy.
  • (13) Gummas are the expression of localized meningovascular forms of neurosyphilis and their clinical symptoms and signs are similar to those of any other space-occupying intracranial lesion.
  • (14) Among his articles dealing with neurology are those dealing with luetic gumma of the brain, tabes cervicodorsalis, Aran-Duchenne muscular atrophy, bulbar paralysis, etc.
  • (15) A case of cerebral gumma in the left trigonal region is reported.
  • (16) In some cases a positive diagnosis can be made only by pathological examination after surgical ablation of the gumma.
  • (17) Cerebral gumma has been reported only rarely during the last few decades, and there are only a few descriptions of the neuroradiological characteristics of this disease.
  • (18) On the basis of brain biopsy, a convexity mass was diagnosed in the patient with syphilitic gumma.
  • (19) Surgical exploration by dorsal laminectomy showed a syphilitic gumma attached to the spinal cord.
  • (20) The patient reported here had multiple infections including one due to cytomegalovirus after ablation of the gumma, highly suggesting an immunity disorder.

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