What's the difference between grey and greylag?

Grey


Definition:

  • (a.) See Gray (the correct orthography).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
  • (2) Ectopias of grey matter are recognised foci of epilepsy, but from an epileptological and a clinical viewpoint little attention has been given to these disorders.
  • (3) Intracerebral injection of the GABAA agonists muscimol (1 nmol), isoguvacine (1 nmol) or THIP (1, 2 and 4 nmol) in rats with chemitrodes implanted in the dorsal midbrain central grey raised the threshold electrical current for inducing escape behaviour.
  • (4) A medium amount of degenerated terminals were observed in the nucleus pretectalis anterior (pars reticularis), the dorsal part of the periaqueductal grey at its most rostral levels, the caudolateral parts of the nucleus pretectalis posterior and the nucleus of optic tract, the H field of Forel, parts of the somatic cell columns of the oculomotor nucleus and the trochlear nucleus.
  • (5) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
  • (6) The novel sampling scheme used in this study is unbiased and was designed so that only a small amount of neocortical grey matter had to be removed.
  • (7) Frequently it is possible to distinguish between grey and white matter in the basal ganglia.
  • (8) Life exists in the noisy grey bits between a 'no' and full, enthusiastic consent.
  • (9) The first eigenvector, when represented by grey scale maps depicting a pair of eyes, reveals that, as average threshold increases, the visual field rises and flattens, like an umbrella that, initially closed, is simultaneously opened and thrust upwards.
  • (10) It moved new synthetic drugs from a legal grey area to a well-defined and robust regulatory framework.
  • (11) The shapes of scapulae and basi-occipital bones from three genetically distinct achondroplastic mutants and one osteopetrotic mutant in the mouse (achondroplasia, brachymorphic, stumpy and grey lethal), and appropriate controls, have been compared using Fourier analysis and multivariate statistical techniques.
  • (12) Repeated analyses of identical tracks across grey level revealed a statistical interaction between grey settings and curvilinear velocity.
  • (13) From these data, three graphs are derived, including trends in age-standardised rates, age-specific rates centered on birth cohorts and maps plotted in different shades of grey to represent the surfaces defined by the matrix of various age-specific rates.
  • (14) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
  • (15) Kidneys were approximately double the normal size and were pale tan to grey in color.
  • (16) The beach curved around us and the sun shone while the rest of the UK shivered under grey skies and sleet.
  • (17) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
  • (18) Several haematological and biochemical parameters were measured in the erythrocytes of the grey-headed fruit bat.
  • (19) At autopsy there were scattered purpura on the skin, and the muscles were atrophic and yellowish-grey in color.
  • (20) The degree of colocalization was lower and more variable in other regions including the ventral and central periaqueductal grey matter and dorsal raphe nucleus.

Greylag


Definition:

  • (n.) See Graylag.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Comparison with the Greylag Goose (Anser anser) hemoglobin (Hb A) showed that the alpha A-chains differ by 22 amino-acid exchanges, the beta-chains by 16.
  • (2) For the alpha A-, alpha D- and beta-chains, peptide alignment was achieved by homologous comparison with the corresponding chains of the greylag goose (Anser anser).
  • (3) The contact points of inositol pentaphosphate with the beta-chains are identical in chicken and greylag goose.
  • (4) By comparing the sequences of chicken and greylag goose and considering paleontological data, we found the mutation rate of the alpha-chains to be normal, i.e.
  • (5) Of two closely related species of geese, one, the greylag goose, lives in the Indian plains all year round, while the other, the bar-headed goose, lives at the Tibetan lakes and migrates across the Himalayas to winter in India.
  • (6) The volumes of brain parts in relation to the total brain are very similar in both: greylag geese and domestic geese.
  • (7) Between the siblings of a family of greylag geese (Anser anser L.) a rank order is established by fighting during the first days after hatching, and also by other, more complex interactions.
  • (8) The primary structures of the alpha- and beta-chains from greylag goose (Anser anser) hemoglobin are given.
  • (9) For the alpha A-, alpha D- and beta-chains, peptide alignment was carried out relative to the corresponding chains of the greylag goose (Anser anser).
  • (10) An outbreak of poisoning in four greylag geese (Anser anser) and 35-45 teal (Anas crecca) is described.
  • (11) VN antibodies to Sindbis, Calovo and Tahyna viruses were found in 15, 5 and 6 out of 106 greylag goose (Anser anser) sera.
  • (12) The sequences are aligned with those of Greylag Goose (Anser anser) as a biological reference and other sequences of birds.
  • (13) Volumes of brain and brain subdivisions in greylag and domestic geese are determined by cytoarchitectonical methods in order to confirm the reduction in brain weight of 16.13% due to domestication which was described in an earlier study.
  • (14) Their oxygen affinities exceed that of normal human Hb by an even larger factor than that found between the high-flying geese and the greylag goose.
  • (15) Comparison of alpha A- and beta-chains from Blue-and-Yellow Macaw hemoglobin with corresponding chains from Greylag Goose hemoglobin shows 19 amino-acid exchanges between alpha A-chains and 6 between beta-chains.
  • (16) The primary structures of alpha A- and beta-chains from the Black-Headed Gull HbA differ by 11 and by 6 amino-acid residues from the corresponding chains of Greylag Goose.
  • (17) The administration of acutely toxic doses of carbophenothion to Japanese quail, pigeons, and chickens, and to Greylag, Pink-footed, Greenland White-fronted, and Canada geese led to species-dependent responses for both plasma glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase and cholinesterase levels.
  • (18) The comparison with the corresponding chains of Greylag Goose (Anser anser) shows 17 different amino acids (17 nucleotides, only one-point mutations) in the alpha A-chains and 8 (8 nucleotides) in the beta-chains.
  • (19) The Hb amino acid sequences of the bar-headed and the greylag geese differ by four substitutions, of which only one is unique among bird sequences: Pro-119 alpha (H2)----Ala. Perutz proposed that the two-carbon gap left by this substitution at the alpha 1 beta 1 contact raises the oxygen affinity, because it relaxes the tension in the deoxy or T structure [Perutz, M. F. (1983) Mol.
  • (20) These findings provide cytological evidence to support the traditional opinion that the African breed was derived from the Asiatic swan goose (Anser cygnoides) and the Pilgrim breed was derived from the European greylag goose (Anser anser).

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