What's the difference between hippocamp and mythological?

Hippocamp


Definition:

  • (n.) See Hippocampus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fine structure of neurofibrillary tangles in the hippocampal gyrus, substantia nigra, pontine nuclei and locus coeruleus of the brain was postmortem studied in a case of progressive supranuclear palsy.
  • (2) On the other hand, the limbic after-discharges to the hippocampal or amygdaloid stimulation were enhanced by Z. mioga as well as chlorpromazin, but they were inhibited by diazepam.
  • (3) Blocks of hippocampal tissue containing the fascia dentata were taken from late embryonic and newborn rats and transplanted to the hippocampal region of other newborn and young adult rats.
  • (4) Intoxicating concentrations of ethanol also inhibit excitatory synaptic transmission mediated by N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in hippocampal slices from adult rodents.
  • (5) To study these changes more thoroughly, specific monoclonal antibodies of the A and B subunits of calcineurin (protein phosphatase 2B) were raised, and regional alterations in the immunoreactivity of calcineurin in the rat hippocampus were investigated after a transient forebrain ischemic insult causing selective and delayed hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cell damage.
  • (6) Unlike unattenuated virus, the Us3::pgC-lacZ recombinant caused little apparent damage to normal hippocampal morphology.
  • (7) The presence of a complete hippocampal commissurotomy had no effect on excitatory or inhibitory parameters.
  • (8) 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.
  • (9) The effects of stimulus-evoked potassium release on the excitability of presynaptic axons were studied in the rat hippocampal slice preparation.
  • (10) The distribution and lateral mobility of VDCCs on CA1 hippocampal neurons have been determined with biologically active fluorescent and biotinylated derivatives of the selective probe omega-conotoxin in conjunction with circular dityndallism, digital fluorescence imaging, and photobleach recovery microscopy.
  • (11) The hippocampal projection to Rgb originates in area CA1, dorsal (septal) subiculum, and post-subiculum.
  • (12) Hippocampal GLU content decreased during development, whereas GABA content was constant for all the ages investigated.
  • (13) The neuronal localization of glutamate and phencyclidine (PCP) receptors was evaluated in the cerebral cortex and hippocampal formation of rat CNS using quantitative autoradiography.
  • (14) It is postulated that in case vasopressin affects retrieval processes the site of action is located in the amygdala and the dentate gyrus of the hippocampal complex with dopamine and serotonin as the respective neurotransmitter systems involved.
  • (15) Transplants of cell suspension obtained from the locus coeruleus region of 13- to 14-day-old rat fetuses were implanted into the hippocampal formation of intact adult rats or rats from which the noradrenergic afferents to the hippocampus had been removed by bilateral 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) injections into the dorsal tegmental noradrenergic bundle.
  • (16) Membrane ion channels in hippocampal neurons, particularly Ca2+ channels and K+ channels, are responsible for the regulation and patterning of neural activity.
  • (17) A consequence of periodic clusters of cellular bursts was the widespread occurrence of periodic synchronized synaptic potentials, as have been observed in hippocampal slices and human temporal neocortical slices.
  • (18) Calretinin-containing cells were visualized with immunocytochemistry in the rat dorsal hippocampal formation.
  • (19) Administration of different brain fuels--glucose, mannose, fructose, or the ketone beta-hydroxybutyrate--reduced hippocampal damage induced by coadministration of GCs and either of 2 different neurotoxins (kainic acid and 3-acetylpyridine).
  • (20) Our preliminary time points suggest striking differences in the rate of metabolism of hippocampal dynorphin and enkephalin in response to seizures.

Mythological


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to mythology or to myths; mythical; fabulous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This component of a more comprehensive study of Houdini focuses on the unusual reification of his family romance fantasies, their endurance well beyond the usual boundaries in time, their kinship with mythological themes, and their infusion with the ambivalence that is often addressed toward the true parents.
  • (2) The latter is something of a legend in Bowie mythology and rumoured to be the subject of his song Never Let Me Down .
  • (3) This mythology, embodied over those decades in the Horatio Alger stories consumed particularly by upwardly mobile young men and in the phrase "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps", consistently held out that American promise by equating hard work (along with other good Puritan values such as delayed gratification, temperance, saving and self-reliance) with economic success.
  • (4) A sample of coitally experienced college females was utilized to explore the adequacy of several related beliefs that constitute the cultural mythology of female sexual initiation in American society and to identify possible correlates of the subjective experience of pain during women's first intercourse.
  • (5) Mythology, creativity, innovative planning, and systems theory are used to bring together two systems to form a new whole called M-I-D-D-L-E G-R-O-U-N-D.
  • (6) Eponymous syndrome nomenclature now includes the names of literary characters, patients' surnames, subjects of famous paintings, famous persons, geographic locations, institutions, biblical figures, and mythological characters.
  • (7) In her composition Land , the rock poet, who lived with Mapplethorpe at the Chelsea Hotel when they were in their 20s, creates a mythology that mirrors his leather fantasies.
  • (8) Paterson is steeped in the mythologies of the anti-environment movement.
  • (9) A brief review of the significance of the hand in the mythology, folklore, and religion of Ireland from ancient times is presented.
  • (10) The sexual abuse of women today is analyzed alongside the mythology of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
  • (11) In our past, we have both Venus and the crucifix, the Bible and Nordic mythology, which we remember with Christmas trees, or with the many festivals of St Lucy, St Nicolas and Santa Claus.
  • (12) Amazon may share its name with mythology's greatest female warriors, but the world's largest online retailer employs just 18 women among its 120 most senior managers, and none of them report directly to the boss.
  • (13) In the beginning, then, this mythology goes, the biologist was in the middle of the ocean, "surrounded by venomous sea serpents", preparing to meet his genome.
  • (14) She’s performed her poems in bookshops, theatres, prisons, universities, music festivals and schools, where teachers have used her work to introduce their students to Greek mythology.
  • (15) The paperwork was lost for ever when the town fell and, like so much else in Gbadolite, that moment in the sun is fading into mythology.
  • (16) It is used to marginalise and persecute independent voices, dumb down debate, and support the mythological notion of a Russia alone and besieged in a hostile world.
  • (17) For years the so-called White Walkers, a zombie race of wispy-haired, dead-horse-riding weirdos (think: Vince Cable 50 years dead and taller) were presumed mythological or extinct.
  • (18) Australia has been gripped by Anzac mythology since the late 1980s.
  • (19) "I do not like the ideological interpretations, this kind of Pope Francis mythology," he said.
  • (20) Not insignificantly, rejection of science over religious mythology is distinctly partisan: 48% of Republicans, versus 27% of Democrats, "just say no" to Darwin.

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