What's the difference between gemma and prolification?
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.
Prolification
Definition:
(n.) The generation of young.
(n.) Reproduction by the growth of a plant, or part of a plant, directly from an older one, or by gemmae.
Example Sentences:
(1) The telencephalic proliferative response has been studied in adult newts after lesion on the central nervous system.
(2) Research efforts in the Swedish schools are of high quality and are remarkably prolific.
(3) The effect of mycobacterial phenolic glycolipids from Mycobacterium leprae, M. bovis BCG, and M. kansasii on in vitro proliferative responses by human blood mononuclear cells from healthy BCG vaccinees was investigated.
(4) In the fimbria a significantly higher concentration (P less than 0.01) was observed in the proliferative phase.
(5) Confirming a low proliferative activity in CN and a high activity in melanomas (MIS, IM, MM), the results showed that dysplastic nevi (NAA, NCAA) had a proliferative activity intermediate between common nevi and melanomas.
(6) The mixed leukocyte reaction proliferative response against the B7 transfectant is inhibited by either anti-CD28 or B7 mAb.
(7) Following BHT administration, the alveolar stem cells (type II pneumocytes) proliferate and differentiate according to a biphasic pattern, with proliferative peaks at d 3 and 7.
(8) At autopsy, this DOCA-hypertensive rat was found to have a form of hepatitis associated with proliferative activity, i.e., cellular unrest, mitotic figures and oval cell hyperplasia.
(9) There was no significant difference in sialic acid concentration in the uterus during the proliferative and luteal phases of the menstrual cycle.
(10) To find out whether the deeper inhibition of replicative activity in ventricular myocytes influences fibroblasts and endothelial cells from ventricles, the proliferative activity of non-muscle cells was studied.
(11) We infer from these results that endotoxin ameliorates the cyclical changes in blood cell counts by regulating hematopoietic proliferative activity at the stem cell level.
(12) In diabetic patients with proliferative retinopathy, K was lower (P less than 0.05) than in diabetic patients without retinopathy.
(13) We suggest that radiation-induced specific chromosome 2 rearrangement associated with IL-1 beta deregulation may initiate murine leukemogenesis through the uncoupling of normal proliferative control mechanisms in multipotential hemopoietic cells.
(14) However, cytophotometric DNA analysis disclosed that significant increases in proliferative activity of mucosa had occurred 4 weeks before the appearance of histopathological dysplasia, and 8 weeks prior to development of grossly visible tumors.
(15) Proliferative responses to env were seen in 9% of control children compared with 27% of infected children (p less than 0.02).
(16) The relationship between interphase cytogenetics and tumor grade, stage, and proliferative activity was investigated in 27 transitional cell carcinomas of the urinary bladder.
(17) Although T cells exposed to antigen in B-depleted LN of mu sm and irradiated mice gave negligible T proliferative responses in vitro, low but significant levels of primed T helper function were detected in a sensitive T helper assay in vivo.
(18) These results suggest that HGF may act as a proliferative factor during fetal liver growth.
(19) Proliferative and cytollytical activity of lymphocytes was compared in lymphocyte alloimmunization of the spleen and intact thymus.
(20) The high proteolytic activity of BCC demonstrated in this study may be an important factor in the proliferative, invasive and destructive behaviour of this tumour.