What's the difference between integument and integumentation?
Integument
Definition:
(n.) That which naturally invests or covers another thing, as the testa or the tegmen of a seed; specifically (Anat.), a covering which invests the body, as the skin, or a membrane that invests a particular.
Example Sentences:
(1) Peculiarities of the body integument, proportions, development of the fat component of the body mass etc.
(2) Biochemical analyses of the dorsal integument of the isopod, Armadillidium vulgare, revealed that sepiapterin, biopterin, pterin, isoxanthopterin and uric acid accumulated in the yellow-colored chromatophores which are distinguishable from ommochrome chromatophores.
(3) Confusing this lesion with metastatic deposits during 201Tl neoplastic evaluations can be avoided by examination of the adjacent integument.
(4) Subdivision of the scales also allowed a close fit between the elements of the insulative integument.
(5) Progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS; scleroderma) is a multisystem disease characterized by inflammation, fibrosis and degeneration of the integument, with similar changes and vascular lesions in the heart, lungs, kidneys, gastrointestinal tract and synovia.
(6) Epithelial-mesenchymal interactions play important roles in the development of the vertebrate integument with its diverse appendages.
(7) Chemical alteration of the acquired pellicle appears to be the major reason for these brown integuments.
(8) Three objectives have priority in surgical therapy: 1) complete (wide) resection of tumor, 2) reconstruction of the chest wall to allow adequate spontaneous ventilation, and 3) cosmetically acceptable coverage with integument.
(9) The safety of mesothelial integument in hepar capsula has not been damaged.
(10) Spontaneous cellular differentiation (glandular units appearance with a well-defined duct) is observed in larval integument of Schistocerca cultured in an hormone free medium.
(11) It was characterized by two inner and two outer hooks adjacent to the mouth opening, the presence of accessory lobes (or spines) on the outer hooks, a vertical slit-like mouth opening surrounded by a U-shaped conformation of integument, and annulation of the body surface.
(12) Reflecting chromatophores in the integument of the guppy, Lebistes reticulatus Peters, are of two distinct types, iridophores and leucophores.
(13) These data demonstrate that this enteric peptide-producing cell is strikingly similar both morphologically and biochemically to the granular gland, previously considered a highly specialized structure of the amphibian integument.
(14) Dermal tumour development within the dorsal integument and groin region ultimately projected into the epidermis and occurred during the 3 month period subsequent to the last DMBA injection.
(15) The dermal cells in grey, xanthic, and white goldfish integuments were cytochemically characterized for the following enzymatic activities: tyrosinase, DOPA-oxidase, cytochrome oxidase, monoamine oxidase, peroxidase, non-specific esterase, cholinesterase, NAD-diaphorase, NADP-diaphorase, aryl sulfatase, nucleotide phosphodiesterase, beta-glucuronidase, acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase, adenosine triphosphatase, thiamine pyrophosphatase, glucose-6-phosphatase, aldolase, as well as succinate, malate, isocitrate, glutamate, glucose-6-phosphate, 6-phosphogluconate, alpha-glycerophosphate, alcohol, lactate, and beta-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenases.
(16) In the integument (toe web), diester greater than monoester approximately equal to free alcohol were found.
(17) We have compared the anatomy of immature axolotl integument from limb-forming regions with adjacent non-limb-forming regions of the flank, concentrating on the earliest stages of limb bud development.
(18) The relative scarcity of primary and secondary skin infections in birds depends, at least in part, on the functional morphological barrier presented by the avian integument.
(19) The dynamics of growth processes was studied in the integument and nucellus of Pinus silvestris during the year of fertilization.
(20) The venous drainage mirrors the arterial supply in the deep tissues and in most areas of the integument in the head, neck, and torso.
Integumentation
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of covering with integuments; the state or manner of being thus covered.
Example Sentences:
(1) A stereophotogrammetric reconstruction demonstrates the improvement in integumental contour following the technique described.
(2) The integumental surfaces of critical point dried S. haematobium were studied by scanning electron microscopy at 34 to 8,000 magnifications.
(3) Further, alterations in reaction times and temperatures from the mammalian methodology provided conditions fe various integumental cells were compared for possible interrelationships.
(4) Units often responded best to integumental stretch.
(5) Histology and ultrastructure of sebaceous glands of the integumental inguinal gland of the hare were studied during the periods of low and high reproductive activity (in winter and in spring breeding season).
(6) Nerve dependence ensures that a more protective integumental covering will replace any superficial, secondary sensory cells rendered useless by denervation.
(7) The integumental melanophores of Latimeria chalumnae were studied by light and electron microscopy.
(8) This study presents modifications of the common integument and specific integumental structures developed during the domestication process of different poultry species.
(9) Integumental erythrophores on the scales of xanthic goldfishes were dissociated and cultured in a monolayer for about 30 days.
(10) Delivery of a melanotropin by a transdermal route may prove to be clinically useful in the treatment of some integumental hypopigmentary disorders in humans.
(11) Integumental antimicrobial properties may rather be connected with free fatty acids as decomposition products of skin lipids.
(12) Thus, the typical outgrowth period of developing integumental blood vessels is reflected histochemically.
(13) According to this view, an analysis of the organism's skin tension field is fundamental to problems of integumental pattern formation.
(14) The inverse form of recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa is a rare genodermatosis characterized by a smouldering course of integumental blistering with improvement of lesions in adulthood, preferential localizations of lesions in flexural areas, severe oral and esophageal mucosal involvement and nail dystrophy.
(15) The internal epithelium of mouse forestomach represents a fully keratinized tissue that has many morphological aspects in common with the integumental epidermis.
(16) The result showed that the dento-skeletal pattern and integumental contour were not necessarily alike, the diversity could be quite prominent.
(17) What appears to distinguish integumental processes from others are the conditions under which they must routinely work: exposed to ambient concentrations of substrate of less than 1 microM and to cytoplasmic concentrations that exceed 0.1 M, transport of amino acid occurs against gradients that can exceed 10(6) to 1!
(18) The integumental melanophores of two genera of lungfish, Lepidosiren paradoxa and Protopterus sp.
(19) Administration of the immunosuppressive compound, cyclosporine, significantly delayed the mean age of onset and incidence of integumental pigment losses in this mutant line of vitiliginous chickens.
(20) It is hoped that these considerations will be useful in the mechanistic analysis of hair whorl formation during human embryo-genesis and in other problems of integumental pattern formation and nonequilibrium surface behavior.