What's the difference between hemispheroid and spheroid?

Hemispheroid


Definition:

  • (n.) A half of a spheroid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As the hemispheroid and multilayer islands were the intermediate form between monolayer and floating spheroids, the glycosaminoglycan moieties of the proteoglycan fraction were thought to participate in the formation of spheroid.
  • (2) Cells seeded in dishes coated with these defined glycosaminoglycans and heparin assembled to form hemispheroids and multilayer islands, but not floating spheroids, within 72 h of culture.
  • (3) Using a double hemispheroid model, volumes of CS and AS were separately estimated by a modified area-length method.
  • (4) Sacs were usually either hemispheroids or shallow truncated cones.
  • (5) Those complexes are basically similar throughout the receptor, except that a hemispheroidal gap junction between a supporting cell and adjacent hair cell was noted in several instances.
  • (6) Secondary brain damage in this model was characterized by progressive cortical hypoperfusion, edema, and BBB disruption in the vicinity of the hemispheroid lesion occurring acutely after injury.
  • (7) The methods used for these measurements were validated by measuring the current densities induced in a grounded hemisphere and in a grounded prolate hemispheroid; agreement between measurement and theory was good.
  • (8) Dermatan sulfate had a stronger ability to induce hemispheroids than heparan sulfate or heparin.

Spheroid


Definition:

  • (n.) A body or figure approaching to a sphere, but not perfectly spherical; esp., a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its axes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Microelectrodes were used to measure the oxygen tension (PO2) profile within individual spheroids at different stages of growth.
  • (2) Aside from typical nuclear spheroids, irregularly shaped nuclei were frequently seen, associated with increased nuclear folds, transitional stages between nuclear folds and nuclear spheroids were also present.
  • (3) The nuclei in these typical onocytes appeared oval or spheroid.
  • (4) The tumor cells of these melanomas are characterized by spheroidal melanosomes and containing pheomelanins.
  • (5) This is a clinical, histopathological and electron microscopical study on the spheroidal degeneration of the cornea by means of 48 histologically verified cases.
  • (6) Our results show the feasibility of back-extrapolating multicellular tumour spheroid growth curves to obtain survival estimates that can be applied to establish sublethal damage repair capacity.
  • (7) HCG, E2 and P4 were secreted into the culture medium throughout the entire culture period, in proportion to spheroid size.
  • (8) In addition, it was observed that the higher resistance of the V79 spheroid cells than the monolayers to gamma-irradiation is not diminished in the pion peak, suggesting that the underlying phenomenon of intercellular communication influences cell survival even after high-LET irradiation.
  • (9) Under the 3-dimensional geometry of the spheroid system, there was, however, generally a more extensive ECM.
  • (10) The spheroids grew exponentially with a volume-doubling time of approximately 24 h up to a diameter of approximately 580 microns and then the growth rate tapered off, more for spheroids grown at the low than at the high oxygen tension.
  • (11) The cytotoxicity of doxorubicin (DX), 4'-O-methyl-DX (MET-DX), 4'-deoxy DX (DEO-DX), 4'-deoxy-4'-iodo-DX (IODO-DX), daunorubicin (DNR)and 4-demethoxy-DNR (DM-DNR) on LoVo cells cultured as a monolayer (in exponential and stationary phases of growth) and as spheroids, are evaluated following 1-h exposure to the drugs.
  • (12) Under conditions of severe hypoxia (< 0.01% O2), 2 h of pretreatment or 18 h of simultaneous treatment with SR 4233 did not significantly enhance the effectiveness of 131I-NR-LU-10 in spheroids.
  • (13) The reported prevalence and severity of primary spheroidal degeneration in Labrador and nothern Newfoundland is based on a survey of 929 patients.
  • (14) Apparently the latter represented conglomerates of adherent spheroid elements that resembled somewhat "large bodies" of L-forms.
  • (15) The results of immunotitration and immunodiffusion experiments and of the sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic analysis of immunoprecipitates revealed: (i) a high degree of immunochemical identity of this enzyme only within the family Enterobacteriaceae; (ii) intermediate-to-weak cross-reaction with the phenylalanyl-tRNA ligases from Pseudomonadaceae, Rhodopseudomonas spheroides, and Bacillus stearothermophilus; (iii) no detectable cross-reaction (with the methods employed) with the enzymes from several gram-positive organisms, Euglena gracilis, and several fungi.
  • (16) Histological alterations included nerve fibre swelling and degeneration, occasional spheroids, astrocytic gliosis, increased macrophage activity and increased perivascular collagen.
  • (17) The photosynthetically-incompetent mutant V-2 of Rhodopseudomonas spheroides which is incapable of synthesising bacteriochlorophyll was grown aerobically under conditions of both high and low aeration.
  • (18) Transplanted spheroids continued to express the growth inhibitory activity.
  • (19) The outer-layer cells of spheroids and fed plateau monolayers peaked at a similar density; the majority of middle-layer cells banded close to unfed plateau and exponential hypoxic monolayers, while most inner-layer cells banded where fed or unfed plateau hypoxic monolayer peaked in density.
  • (20) Survival of spheroid and monolayer cells after hypertonic NaCl treatment was identical.

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