What's the difference between gracile and willowy?
Gracile
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Gracillent
Example Sentences:
(1) Use of stream-centered dielectrophoresis (1-4) produced continuous separations on three cell mixtures (1) Chorella vulgaris with Netrium digitus, (2) Ankistrodesmus falcatus with Staurastrum gracile, and (3) Saccharomyces cerevisiae with Netrium digitus.
(2) Forty-three neurones were isolated in the cat gracile nucleus that could be driven by electrical stimulation of the ipsilateral forefoot or the contralateral hind food as well as having a normal low threshold localized receptive field on the ipsilateral hind limb.
(3) The frequency of NAD failed to increase in the SMG of the same vitamin-E deficient animals in which a marked increase in severity of NAD was found in the gracile nucleus.
(4) First, the somatotopic organization of the gracile n. (GR) is maintained, but inverted, by the topographic organization of its projections to VPL1.
(5) Only one terminal per thicket was labeled by injections in the gracile nucleus.
(6) Splanchnic afferent projections to the spinal cord and gracile nucleus were labeled following the application of HRP to the central cut end of the major splanchnic nerve.
(7) To address the issue of embryological origin, cellular labeling patterns after [3H]proline injection into the hypoglossal nucleus, dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus and the ventral horn of spinal cord were compared with those after [3H]proline injections into the adjacent solitary nucleus, gracile nucleus and central cervical nucleus of the spinal cord.
(8) A prolactin-like hormone is suggested as thepossible growth-promoting factor in larval Ambystoma gracile.
(9) These results suggest that primary afferent fibers from the hindlimb first grow to the rostral pole of the gracile nucleus and penetrate the rostral pole immediately upon their arrival.
(10) In the DCN, retrogradely labeled neurons were observed in rostral portions of both the cuneate (Cu) and gracile (Gr) nuclei.
(11) Qualitative histologic studies disclosed preferential distal axonal degeneration of myelinated fibers in both sural nerves and gracile fascicles in the test rats, although the extent of the distribution and the severity of the degenerative findings were variable.
(12) Associated morphological changes were preterminal accumulation of axonal neurofilaments without synaptic disruption in the gracile nucleus.
(13) Non-primary afferents to the gracile and cuneate nuclei ascend mainly in the dorsal columns and, to a lesser extent, in the dorsal part of the lateral funiculus.
(14) The results clearly show that various types of degenerative changes occur in the gracile nucleus after peripheral nerve injury.
(15) Calcitonin gene-related peptide-like immunoreactivity was first detected in the fibers of the nucleus of spinal tract trigeminal nerve on gestational day 18, and thereafter appeared gradually in various brain stem areas such as in the fibers of the solitary tract, gracile nucleus, cuneate nucleus, inferior colliculus, superior colliculus, medial geniculate nucleus and in the neurons of the hypoglossal nucleus, facial nucleus, superior olive, parabrachial area, superior colliculus and peripeduncular nucleus.
(16) These results suggest that the abnormalities observed in the gracile nucleus of mf rats are secondary to the decreased number of afferent fibres originating from the dorsal root ganglia and represent a form of 'anterograde transneuronal degeneration'.
(17) Spheroids from phenytoin-intoxicated epileptics showed significantly higher proportions of the tubulomembranous (TM) and layered membrane loop (LML) types in the gracile nucleus, appearance of the same types in the cuneate nucleus, and a significant decrease of the neurofilamentous (NF) type in both nuclei.
(18) Projection systems from the gracile nucleus and the cuneate nuclear complex to their terminal sites in the mesencephalon, diencephalon, and cerebellum were examined by means of anterograde autoradiography and retrograde horseradish peroxidase methods.
(19) Caulobothrium longicolle (Linton, 1890) and Phyllobothrium gracile (Weld, 1855) (Cestoda: Tetraphyllidea, Phyllobothriidae) have the same embryonic development with the following characteristic data: --a small number of vitelline cells (2 or 3) pass with the zygote in the ootype;--a non operculate thin egg-shell;--the entire and equal zyhote cleavage following by unequal divisions leading to the formation of four blastomere types (Macromeres, secondary Macromere, Mesomeres and Micromeres);--the differentiation of two syncytial embryonic envelopes during the preoncospheral phase.
(20) Label was found in both the gracile and cuneate nuclei of the medulla oblongata, though only occasionally and then only very sparsely.
Willowy
Definition:
(a.) Abounding with willows.
(a.) Resembling a willow; pliant; flexible; pendent; drooping; graceful.
Example Sentences:
(1) What makes this interesting is not that there are teenage girls willing to sleep on the pavement to get a glimpse of the willowy Harry, Liam, Zayn, Louis and Niall.
(2) According to tonight's No 10 statement Hilton is simply off to mighty Stanford University for a year's intellectual refreshment, something he did before when his wife – as tall and willowy and Hilton is short and chunky – landed a senior post at Google, another of the IT treadmills which makes political life more demanding.
(3) He's incredibly physically strong, a muscly bloke, not a willowy thing.
(4) The tall willowy woman was always conspicuous, wagging a disapproving finger, growling like a combatant in the advisers’ box, standing a full head higher than the men.
(5) The popular image – willowy, spike-heeled women spinning, kicking and lunging across the floor in the arms of tuxedo-clad men – is known as show tango.
(6) The former for a mix of willowy grace and sharp intellect; the latter for her ability to excavate the rage, rancour and incestuous yearnings beneath the surface of middle-class family life.
(7) In retrospect, it all seems pretty logical now: straddled at the tail-end of a self-indulgent bout of thoroughly earnest teenage introspection, which had manifested itself through long solitary gambols over village greens; vague, confused affairs with willowy, callous girls; occasionally picking away tardily at cheap open-tuned guitars in an effort to “express myself”; studious, worshipful dialectics over the hidden gem-like enunciations on Blonde on Blonde – above all, that arch-affectation of the world-weary Misunderstood Youth.
(8) In 2011, Vogue profiled “a 35-year-old, willowy media company executive”, who had just frozen her eggs.
(9) She’s willowy, kind and wise, a bit like the alien species from Avatar, but not blue.
(10) This fictionalised account of the rise and fall of a "nervous romance" between Jewish New York comic Alvy Singer (Allen) and the willowy, Waspy Annie Hall (Diane Keaton) was the high-water mark of Allen's gift for sublimely touching and funny screen comedy.
(11) Willowy and bright eyed with an impressive mane of salt-and-pepper hair, Le Roy has an air of amused detachment about her.
(12) She’s willowy, kind and wise, a bit like the alien species from Avatar, but not blue I needn’t have worried about starving, either.
(13) At the time many of those employed at the Riverside suspected the willowy, tricky winger with the adhesive first touch and deceptive change of pace might eventually eclipse another left-footer, Stewart Downing.
(14) The old man came onto his back porch holding a cup of coffee and looked east over the sound, his great grandson dawdling behind, hands in his pockets, a willowy boy of nine.
(15) Second is tying up a deal for Bordeaux’s Adam Ounas , a willowy French-Algerian winger.