What's the difference between harbour and ostia?

Harbour


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The parasites were highly aggregated within the study community, with most people harbouring low burdens while a few individuals harboured very heavy burdens.
  • (2) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
  • (3) He regarded civilians who "harboured terrorists" as legitimate targets.
  • (4) BUSH ON IRAQ TONIGHT: Mr President, if I can move on to the question of Iraq, when we last spoke before the Iraq war, I asked you about Saddam Hussein and you said this, and I quote: "He harbours and develops weapons of mass destruction, make no mistake about it."
  • (5) Faecal samples of the Romanov ewes more often harboured Nematodirus eggs while the larvae recovered from cultures of these samples contained a higher percentage of Teladorsagia.
  • (6) Afghan officials in the past have expressed fears that soldiers sent to Pakistan could be recruited as spies or that their careers would be stunted by the deep hostility that Afghans harbour towards Pakistan.
  • (7) Previous use of metronidazole was reported in only 16 patients, 11 of whom (68.8%) harboured resistant Helicobacter pylori strains.
  • (8) The cells harbouring pLP763 are able to grow to a higher density in milk because of their proteinase-positive phenotype (Prt+).
  • (9) c. Even within the overall normal range of duct diameter (less than 12 mm) the wider the duct, the greater is the chance of it harbouring a stone.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fishing boats moored in the harbour at Clovelly.
  • (11) G. vaginalis was found in high concentrations in 73% of those harbouring this bacterium.
  • (12) Scarborough council said leaving the houses standing could cause a domino-effect down the steep slope above the picturesque harbour where the explorer Captain James Cook lodged and learned his seafaring skills.
  • (13) The state premier, Mike Baird , also requested the French flag fly over the harbour bridge.
  • (14) A purified, functionally active DNA binding protein and a pool of random double-stranded oligonucleotides harbouring PCR primer sites at each end are included the TDA cycle which consists of four separate steps: a DNA protein incubation step, a protein DNA complex separation step, a DNA elution step and a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) DNA amplification step.
  • (15) But the new creative director of BBC Films, promoted to the role after last week's BBC fiction shakeup , seems to harbour no such industry-appropriate urges.
  • (16) Twelve differently-sized plasmids from 1.8 to 63 kbp were identified in those strains harbouring extrachromosomal DNA.
  • (17) Control kidneys harboured scanty interstitial T lymphocytes.
  • (18) The role of South African Railways and Harbours in spreading disease and health care is examined.
  • (19) This scientific advice will also form the basis of a new report card that will ensure the community is informed of the health of the harbour in an open and transparent way.
  • (20) At both sampling dates, the most heavily infected 25% of the community harboured over 90% of the total pinworms recovered.

Ostia


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Ostium

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Supracoronary graft insertion was used in the first nine patients, while the remaining patients were treated by radical repair using a composite graft and reimplantation of the coronary ostia.
  • (2) A postmortem coronary angiography technique employing aortic injection of contrast medium and double contrast visualization of the aortic bulb and large epicardial coronary trunks was applied to the study of coronary ostia in a series of 124 deaths from acute myocardial infarction and a series of 89 sudden deaths without recent infarction and 42 violent deaths.
  • (3) Suturing of these ostia is occasionally difficult because of an unyielding calcified vessel wall.
  • (4) Decreases in branch ostia were significantly more frequent in branches with preexisting branch disease (14 of 52, 27%) compared to branches with normal pre-PTCA ostia (2 of 45, 4%; p less than or equal to 0.01).
  • (5) Abnormal ostia: Ectopic ostia with anterior, posterior or lateral displacement (11 cases).
  • (6) Ectopias of the ostia ureteris are generally accepted to be divided into intra- and extravesical ones.
  • (7) The medial cartilages of the ostia were not directly involved in bringing about closure of the sphincter.
  • (8) The model consisted of a rigid cavity, filled with a viscous liquid, with three outflow ports: a set of paired outflow ports (fallopian tube ostia) and an additional single outflow port (cervical os).
  • (9) We describe a new technique utilizing warm bone wax to occlude these ostia.
  • (10) Success depends on the use of newly developed instruments, including the endoscopes, that allow one to enlarge the natural drainage ostia of the involved sinuses.
  • (11) The surgical refinements that evolved include (1) a more distal division of the ascending aorta, (2) a punch technique for reimplantation of the coronary arteries in a medially rotated position, approximating the commissure, and superior to the upper border of the sinus of Valsalva, and (3) removal of left coronary ostia by incision down from the transected site to include a button of aortic wall, avoiding the free margin of the aorta and patch enlargement of the neopulmonary artery.
  • (12) Then membranous obstruction in the right hepatic vein ostia was resected.
  • (13) Around the intercostal ostia peak frequency of plaques is found just proximal to the lower lip of the ostia.
  • (14) Two cases of distal right coronary artery (RCA) bifurcational stenoses involving ostia of the posterolateral (PLA) and the posterior descending (PDA) branches in patients who underwent successful coronary angioplasty using a double-wire technique are reported.
  • (15) Eight patients with advanced disease of the aortic root involving the origins of the coronary arteries have been operated on with resection of the entire aortic root including the ostia of the coronary arteries.
  • (16) In Group 1 dogs (n = 6), three anode sites (superior and inferior venae cavae ostia and mid-right atrium) were tested with graded energy shocks to determine the lowest effective cardioversion energy at each anode position.
  • (17) One of the most startling incidents in the increasingly bloody turfwar in Ostia came in November 2011 when two criminals, Giovanni Galleoni and Francesco Antonini, were shot dead in the town centre in broad daylight.
  • (18) The localization of sudanophilic plaques around the intercostal ostia and the origin of the superior mesenteric and coeliac artery was examined in 38 human aortae.
  • (19) On the basis of pathological features, the following three types of coronary artery lesions can be distinguished: type 1, stenosis or occlusion of the coronary ostia and the proximal segments of the coronary arteries; type 2, diffuse or focal coronary arteritis, which may extend diffusely to all epicardial branches or may involve focal segments, so-called skip lesions; and type 3, coronary aneurysm.
  • (20) The majority of ectopic ostia were located in the right sinus of Valsalva.

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