What's the difference between granular and mushy?

Granular


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, grains; as, a granular substance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The leukemic T-cells in two patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) had specific features of large granular lymphocytes (LGL), and those in two patients with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) had L2 morphologic characteristics.
  • (2) Combined SEM and TEM examination of the endothelium of compressed segments revealed "craters" and "balloons", blebs and vacuoles, swollen mitochondria, dilated granular endoplasmic reticulum, and subendothelial edema.
  • (3) In situ hybridization of SMG sections showed that Aeg-1 and Aeg-2 transcripts are produced by the cells of granular convoluted tubules.
  • (4) In the terminal segment of the hamster epididymidis there was some evidence of micro-merocrine protein secretion a the level of the principal cells and clear evidence of granular secretion in the light cells, presumable of glycoproteins.
  • (5) Measurable quantities of temefos were found in the snails within 1 day after the first treatment with a 2% granular formulation but 3 weeks elapsed before uptake occurred following treatment with a temefos emulsion.
  • (6) Electron microscopic examination of all leptomeningeal and meningioma cultures revealed desmosomes and dense tonofilament formation; in addition, granular, filamentous basement membrane-like material was abundant in the extracellular spaces of all cultures.
  • (7) Cholecystokinin (CCK) as the sulfated (CCK-8S) and unsulfated (CCK-8U) octapeptide sequences, and CR 1409 were administered intraventricularly while the action potential (EAP) in the granular cell layer of the hippocampal dentate gyrus evoked by perforant path stimulation was recorded.
  • (8) The granules of human large granular lymphocytes have been reported to contain, in addition to perforin, a soluble HRF activity that can be eluted from anion-exchange columns at 115 mM NaCl.
  • (9) Moreover, it was more apparent in less differentiated tumors in which the granular pattern was often absent or inconsistent.
  • (10) Ultrastructural examination of noncartilaginous regions of the tumor demonstrated mesenchymal cells with features suggestive of cartilaginous differentiation, viz, scalloped cell membranes, sac-like distension of abundant rough endoplasmic reticulum, and a matrix containing fibrillary and finely granular material.
  • (11) As cyclic AMP-stimulated water flow and sodium transport are thought to occur in one cell type, the granular cells, distinct pools of cyclic AMP are thought to be present in one and the same cell type.
  • (12) The data obtained testify to the presence in the granular fraction of the endopeptidase LTH-converting activity which is sensitive to pepstatin A, an aspartyl proteinase inhibitor as well as to chelators and a serine proteinase inhibitor.
  • (13) In the advanced papilloma, cytolytic cells in the outer spinous and the granular layers did not stain positively with any of the three antibodies used.
  • (14) During the latest phase the periequatorial material is vanishing, the hyaloid capillaries disappear, the density of the posterior granular substance decreases.
  • (15) Culturing mononuclear cells from peripheral blood or bone marrow of leukemia patients with IL-2 resulted in an expansion of residual large granular lymphocytes and development of cytotoxic activity.
  • (16) The ultrastructural study of nucleoli and ribonucleoprotein-containing structures in human seminiferous tubules revealed that the nucleoli of spermatogonia, spermatocytes and Sertoli cells exhibited a tripartite structure consisting of: a fibrillar center, a compact granular portion, and a reticular portion containing both pars fibrosa and pars granulosa.
  • (17) This technique contrasted the fibrillar component and the granular component in interphase nucleoli as a reflection of the degree of packing.
  • (18) An enormous occurrence of granular endoplasmic reticulum in the intestinal cells of P. commutatus shows an excessive protein synthesis.
  • (19) Large aggregates of finely granular or filamentous material (nematosomes) were present in AD neurons.
  • (20) After incubation of cells in a fresh medium (in the course of 18, 24 hours) there occurs a total restoration of the ultrastructure of the nuclei, granular endoplasmatic reticulum, mitochondria, due to the repairing and strong intensification of synthetic processes, respiration and glycolysis, mitotic activity of the cells.

Mushy


Definition:

  • (a.) Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Jellied eels were always considered a regional dish, much like haggis is to Scotland, mushy peas are to northern England and laver bread is to Wales."
  • (2) Fatbergs build up on sewer roofs like mushy stalactites.
  • (3) Thirty-three patients (97%) had diarrhea, and properties of the stools were watery in twenty-four and mushy in nine.
  • (4) Terrified by the potential for offence, terrified also of giving the impression that any one line of thought was preferable to any other, the default position on every subject became a mushy relativism where every conceivable matter of opinion was deemed to be as valuable as any other.
  • (5) The remaining Covent Garden branch will continue to offer a range of "proud British flavours", including fish and chips with mushy peas at £14.95; pork belly, banger and mash for £14.50, and sticky toffee pudding with clotted cream at £6.
  • (6) The world leaders invited to dine by Queen Margrethe supped on turkey and mushy peas, and were serenaded by the Danish Royal Life Guards bands playing George Harrison's Here Comes the Sun.
  • (7) Last week he unveiled a house in Southwark made of 10 tonnes of wax bricks, which will be heated each morning over the coming month, until is is no more than a mushy puddle on the pavement.
  • (8) It is proposed that egg counts from 1- to 3-year-olds be multiplied by 0.3, those from 4- to 6-year-olds by 0.5, those from 7- to 9-year-olds by 0.6, and those from 10 to 12-year-olds by 0.7; differences in mean egg density among various fecal consistencies produced factors of 1, 1.5, 2, 3, and 3.5 by which the egg counts in formed, mushy-formed, mushy, mushy-diarrheic, and diarrheic feces should be increased.
  • (9) This report reviews the authors' experience with these injuries, focusing on the recognition and management of what the authors call "complex" DRUJ dislocations: dislocations characterized by obvious irreducibility, recurrent subluxation, or "mushy" reduction caused by soft tissue or bone interposition.
  • (10) Most of them kept records of three consecutive defecations, including stool form on a validated six point scale ranging from hard, round lumps to mushy.
  • (11) Mistaking the northern staple of mushy peas for a more metropolitan avocado dip, the urbane Mr Mandelson asked for "some of that guacamole" to accompany his haddock and chips.
  • (12) 'Share a meal of fish and chips with your family every day for around 10 weeks, with a couple of portions of mushy peas thrown in' "If the government just communicated with people in dry multi-page documents people would be saying they should do things in a fresh and modern way."
  • (13) He recently emerged from a serious heart attack and, deciding that he was by nature resilient, indulged exactly the same appetites, sinking quantities of the bourbon supplied by a son who worked in the US; eating deep fried cod, chips and mushy peas on Brighton seafront, washed down with dry white wine rather than mugs of tea; resuming a full and fascinating love life that had included two marriages along the way, with two much-loved sons from each.
  • (14) The nuts bring clagginess and the fruit is too wet, so the result is soggy and mushy with a mouth-coating trace of clay, a sort of repulsive pabulum whose problem is not its flavour but its mouthfeel.
  • (15) The stage was thus set for Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper to emerge as Labour’s moderate healers – Cooper with a defiant defence of the spending record, and Burnham with a mushy appeal to the “heart of Labour”.
  • (16) Careful attention to these injuries during initial reduction attempts will reveal "mushy" or unobtainable reductions, an important indication for exploration for entrapped tendon, bone, or soft tissue.
  • (17) "It looks like there's going to be another mushy minestrone of a coalition.
  • (18) Trypanosome prevalence in cattle where G.tabaniformis appeared to be the main vector was 9.5% and 5.4% at the Mushie and OGAPROV ranches, respectively.
  • (19) Experiments performed on dogs to determine their stomach contents after death indicated that, in high-temperature conditions, for example, the ingested chunks of meat are reduced to a mushy-sloppy consistency after three days, suggesting that digestion will proceed to some extent after death as putrefaction continues.
  • (20) Maria Ellis's stuffed tofu Ginger beer-battered stuffed tofu with Asian mushy peas.

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