What's the difference between horn and keratogenous?
Horn
Definition:
(n.) A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed.
(n.) The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.
(n.) Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout.
(n.) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
(n.) Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn
(n.) A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape.
(n.) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle.
(n.) The cornucopia, or horn of plenty.
(n.) A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids.
(n.) The pointed beak of an anvil.
(n.) The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
(n.) The Ionic volute.
(n.) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
(n.) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
(n.) One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
(n.) One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.
(n.) The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.
(n.) The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn.
(n.) A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.
(n.) An emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural.
(v. t.) To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.
(v. t.) To cause to wear horns; to cuckold.
Example Sentences:
(1) After calving, probably the position of new follicles is temporally influenced by direct signals from the uterine horns affected differently by pregnancy.
(2) Severity of leukoaraiosis around the frontal horns of the lateral ventricles correlated significantly with severity of leukoaraiosis of the centrum semiovale adjacent to the bodies of the lateral ventricles.
(3) Spinal cord stimulation would suppress at least the dorsal horn neurons which were destroyed by various kinds of diseases.
(4) This study presents data supporting a selective antinociceptive role for DA at the spinal level, where it has a widespread antinociceptive influence, on cells in both the superficial and deeper dorsal horn.
(5) On Days 12-14 each gilt received twice daily infusions of Day 15 pCSP in one uterine horn and SP in the other uterine horn.
(6) In 25 rabbits, endometrium from the right uterine horn was transplanted onto the peritoneum (Experimental group = Group E).
(7) Differential pulse voltammetry used in combination with an electrochemically treated carbon fiber electrode allowed the detection of 5-hydroxyindoles (5-HI) in the dorsal horn of the urethane-anesthetized rat.
(8) Uterine blood flow to both uterine horns was measured by microsphere and by tritiated water steady-state diffusion methodology.
(9) But Hey Diddly Dee, in Sky Arts' latest Playhouse Presents season, could only manage 71,000 viewers, despite the combined star power of Kylie Minogue, David Harewood, Peter Serafinowicz and Mathew Horne.
(10) A few with low endometrial receptor levels had normal livers but at least one sterile uterine horn.
(11) It is concluded that chronic peripheral nerve section affects the anatomical and physiological mechanisms underlying the formation of light touch receptive fields of dorsal horn neurons in the lumbosacral cord of the adult cat, but that the resulting reorganization of receptive fields is spatially restricted.
(12) The concordance for this disease in these two patients of nonconsanguineous parentage with no family history of the disorder suggests the possibility of sublethal intrauterine injury to anterior horn cells.
(13) Subpopulations of DRG neurones that subserve distinct sensory modalities project to discrete regions in the dorsal horn.
(14) Phospholipase A2 has been purified from the venom of Horned viper (Cerastes cerastes) by gel permeation chromatography followed by reverse-phase HPLC.
(15) In ventral horn motoneurons and neurons of nucleus dorso-medialis (C1) pronounced staining was found after a total dosage of 1200 micrograms HgCl2.
(16) The influence of embryos on growth of the uterus was determined by comparing uterine length, weight and diameter between gravid and nongravid horns within unilaterally pregnant gilts.
(17) Postmortem examination showed axonal pathology of the anterior horns and roots of the spinal cord, and white matter hypoplasia of the brain.
(18) Histochemically the lowered activity of enzymes was localized mainly in the neuropil of: striatum, the Broc's nuclei and rhinencephalon: in the nervous cells of: Ammon's horn, nuclei of thalamus and in neocortex.
(19) Thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) has been identified recently in fibers and cell bodies in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord, but its function in the dorsal horn is not known.
(20) With immunocytochemical techniques, SP immunoreactivity (SP-I) and CGRP-I were localized in myometrial nerves throughout the uterine horns, with nerves immunoreactive for CGRP being the more numerous.
Keratogenous
Definition:
(a.) Producing horn; as, the keratogenous membrane within the horny hoof of the horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ACP activity was found in the epidermis, outer and inner root sheaths, keratogenous zone, hair cuticle and medulla, duct of sebaceous gland, and sebum.
(2) The fungal elements, which were located in the lower keratogenous zone, showed non-septate hyphae in the outer part of the hair cortex.
(3) By computer stereography, reconstructed three-dimensional models of in vivo hair structures showed that the diameter of hair shaft was partially reduced in the keratogenous zone and that the reduction was severe in the hair cortex and cuticle layers but mild in the inner root sheath.
(4) At the hair root, on the other hand, positive stainings were observed not only in medullary cells but also in some cortical cells of the keratogenous zone.
(5) No evidence was found to suggest that the keratogenous process was abnormal in Border disease, but the sulphydryl zone of the primary fibres of affected fetuses was situated nearer the skin surface than in control fetuses.
(6) In situ hybridization shows that transcripts of this gene are first found in the relatively undifferentiated proximal cortex area in the keratogenous zone of mouse vibrissae.
(7) Isoantigens were detected in the stratum corneum, stratum granulosum, stratum spinosum, acrosyringium, keratogenous zone of hair follicle, eccrine duct, and eccrine gland.
(8) Regions containing the highest concentration of high-sulphur protein were the cuticle of the hair shaft and the keratogenous zone of the cortex.
(9) The fungal elements, which were located deeplyin the keratogenous zone, showed nonseptate hyphae in the outer part of the hair cortex.
(10) The image analysis consists of thresholding, interactive selecting, then measurement of the following elements: diameter of the hair follicle, volume of the bulb, height of the keratogenous zone, mean diameter of the hair and size of the dermal papilla.
(11) 7) and fissures between the cuticle of the inner epithelial sheath and of the hair, in the keratogenic area (fig.
(12) Cystine was located mainly in keratinocytes of the keratogenous zone in the matrix and in the nucleated keratinocytes that formed the incompletely keratinized basal part of the primary epidermal laminae and covered the lateral surface of the outer, fully keratinized part of those laminae.
(13) Hard keratinization differed from soft keratinization not only by its previously well known high incorporation of cystine, but also by considerable incorporation of tyrosine and threonine into the outer layers of the keratogenous zone and by the absence of increasing histidine incorporation in those layers.
(14) Immunohistochemically, all three monoclonal antibodies stained the keratogenous zone of anagen hairs.
(15) Although we can demonstrate by in situ hybridization that mRNA for calcyclin is localized in the post-mitotic keratogenous region of the hair follicle we can only assume that this calcium binding protein is involved in the control of differentiation of these cells by regulating their Ca++ levels.
(16) Autoradiography also showed that cysteine accumulated in the keratogenous zone above the dermal papilla.
(17) The fungal elements, located deep in the keratogenous zone of the cortex, showed less electron dense non-septate hyphae.
(18) Immunohistochemically, these monoclonal antibodies stained the medulla, cortex, cuticle, and inner root sheath in the keratogenous zone of anagen hairs, but not hair matrix cells.
(19) These strains do not induce purulent keratogenous conjunctivitis in Guinea pigs as Shigella do.
(20) All the follicles which ceased to produce whiskers had a keratogenous cyst occupying most of the follicle in direct contact with the dermal papilla.