What's the difference between interdigitate and intermingle?
Interdigitate
Definition:
(v. t.) To interweave.
(v. i.) To interlock, as the fingers of two hands that are joined; to be interwoven; to commingle.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, newly formed secondary myotubes are short cells which insert solely into the primary myotubes by a series of complex interdigitating folds along which adhering junctions occur.
(2) B cells from both sources gained immediate access to extrafollicular areas of secondary lymphoid organs rich in interdigitating cells and T cells.
(3) The terminal web was prominent and the lateral plasma membranes were highly interdigitated.
(4) These patterns did not parallel the increase in microvillar height and number and basolateral interdigitations of the surface columnar cells, the structural correlates of lactase, and sodium-potassium-stimulated adenosine triphosphatase, respectively.
(5) Thus interdigitation abolishes the fluidity gradient found in a non-interdigitated bilayer.
(6) Angiogenic immature capillaries in human granulation tissue possess many cytoplasmic interdigitations between endothelial cells and pericytes (CIDEP).
(7) Some CTLs contacted infected cells via numerous interdigitating processes; others were observed thrusting finger-like protrusions deep into the target cell; some were seen with their plasma membranes lying closely opposed to that of the infected cell.
(8) Over a large compositional range, these bilayers appear to consist of phase-separated regions of interdigitated and noninterdigitated gel phases.
(9) The polypeptide segments containing these periodic arrays of leucine residues are proposed to exist in an alpha-helical conformation, and the leucine side chains extending from one alpha helix interdigitate with those displayed from a similar alpha helix of a second polypeptide, facilitating dimerization.
(10) Extensive interdigitation of cytoplasmic extensions and extended villi was present in mucinous and serous clusters which appeared to strengthen cluster cohesiveness.
(11) Ultrastructural study confirmed the diagnosis by revealing tumour cells with delicate interdigitating cytoplasmic processes and basement membrane formation resembling pericytes.
(12) Transmission electron microscopy confirmed that the gold particles labeling cell surface HLA-DR molecules were seen only on the portions of duct cell membranes the interdigitated with neighboring duct cells.
(13) This finding provides morphological support for the hypothesized role of interdigitating cells in antigen presentation.
(14) In the cutaneous "lymph node equivalent," Langerhans cells are analogous to interdigitating reticulum cells of reactive lymph nodes in distribution and, probably, in function.
(15) In two cases, where there was no HLA-DR expression by PTCs, small amounts of HLA-DR in secondary lymph follicles and a decrease of HLA-DR+ T-zone macrophages and interdigitating reticulum cells were observed.
(16) The paramount feature revealed by immunohistological double marker analyses was the intimate association of myoid cells (antigen producing) with interdigitating reticulum cells (potentially antigen presenting cells), both of which were surrounded by T3+ lymphocytes in thymus medulla.
(17) After ATP addition the arrays of interdigitating microtubules in the zone of overlap become disordered and selectively depolymerize from the overlap zone polewards.
(18) Since clinic and pathogenesis tally, one should abandon the idea that Morton's metatarsalgia consists of interdigital pain (mainly in the 3rd space) and accept it as a pfeudoneuroma due mainly to pressure on the plantar digital nerve.
(19) The cell outline shows remarkable complexity by extensive infoldings and interdigitations of lateral and basal plasma membranes.
(20) Development of interdigitating microvilli (days 15-16).
Intermingle
Definition:
(v. t.) To mingle or mix together; to intermix.
(v. i.) To be mixed or incorporated.
Example Sentences:
(1) As I looked further, I saw that there was blood and hair and what looked like brain tissue intermingled with that to the right area of her skull."
(2) Maternal age had a significant effect (P less than .05) on live body weights of broilers reared either separately or intermingled.
(3) The results showed that both motor and internuclear neurons are distributed widely and intermingled without any topographical difference throughout the entire length of the abducens nucleus, and that the ratio of the motor to internuclear neurons was approximately 80:20-70:30.
(4) Cell bodies double-labeled with both dyes were found intermingled with single-labeled cell bodies.
(5) Receptor staining of reactive stroma, necrotic tumor, and intermingled benign parenchyma was easily distinguished from receptor staining of the actual carcinoma.
(6) In addition, after incubation in ATP, they are intermingled with, and converge onto the surfaces of, thick, tapered filaments, which we have tentatively identified as of myosin-like nature.
(7) The only entirely original stage work from this period was the spectacular one-man show Needles And Opium in 1991, which intermingled stories of love and addiction from the lives of Jean Cocteau and Miles Davis with an account of the meltdown of one of Lepage's own long-term relationships.
(8) As adjacent segmental homologs met, their growth cones intermingled, eventually sorting out to align parallel.
(9) Thus, there did not appear to be extensive overlap of nuclei nor extensive intermingling of motoneurones projecting to different muscles.
(10) He frequently intermingled two sentences to convey a given concept, juxtaposing words in grammatically unacceptable ways.
(11) Intermingled among these cells, cords of filament-rich cells are observed.
(12) Squamous cell carcinoma was consistently present in the base of the polypoid lesions in all four cases and was also intermingled with spindle-shaped sarcomatous cells in two cases.
(13) Histologically the main bulk of the tumour tissue was rhabdomyosarcomatous, but in some areas atypical glands were intermingled with the rhabdomyoblasts.
(14) We confirm that oenocytes arise from the same progenitors as the adult epidermis, but that muscles and fat body have a separate (mesodermal) origin and that the precursors of epidermis and central neurones are closely intermingled in the ventral, but not dorsal, epidermis.
(15) On Day 4, however, numerous ALPase-positive cells emerged over the bone surface facing the inferior alveolar nerve intermingled with TRACPase-positive cells.
(16) Postmortem microscopic examination of the hypothalamus and anterior pituitary lobe revealed normal structure and cells intermingled with lytic changes and necrosis.
(17) Since in amphibians adrenocortical and chromaffin cells are intimately intermingled, these results suggest that AVT produced by chromaffin cells may regulate corticosteroid release locally, through a cell to cell mode of communication.
(18) The retreat appeared accompanied by back arching and intermingled with the directed attack.
(19) There were two patients who showed a period of 2:1 pre-excitation intermingled with 1:1 pre-excitation and 1:1 normalized beats.
(20) The neurons in restricted areas of the caudomedial part of the dlPO and vlPO, probably intermingled with those supplying the composite medial zone D in sublobule f, project to sublobules e-b to terminate in zones D1 and D2, respectively.