What's the difference between lacuna and vacancy?

Lacuna


Definition:

  • (n.) A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
  • (n.) A small opening; a small depression or cavity; a space, as a vacant space between the cells of plants, or one of the spaces left among the tissues of the lower animals, which serve in place of vessels for the circulation of the body fluids, or the cavity or sac, usually of very small size, in a mucous membrane.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Casts of lacunae and canaliculi along with the underlying matrix could be visualized in these preparations.
  • (2) This kind of distribution of microfilaments was always associated with resorption lacunae, and F-actin, vinculin, and talin zones correspond roughly to the edge of lacunae.
  • (3) As lacunae develop, both syncytial and cytotrophoblast are exposed to maternal blood.
  • (4) A cartilage is regarded as 'cell-rich' if its cells or their lacunae occupy more than half of the tissue volume.
  • (5) Intravenous urography reveals the presence of a persistent lacuna in a calix or of the pelvis, radiologic evidence of the abnormal papilla.
  • (6) Under the scanning electron microscope, the clear dentine tubules in the resorption lacuna, the shallow, unclear resorption lacuna with deposition of the hard tissue and the various steps between them were observed.
  • (7) Localised tumour forms present either in the form of large polycyclic lacunae, sometimes invaginated or as vast ulcerations with irregular nodular margin, or as due to parietal infiltration and exoluminal development of the tumour mass and neighbouring adenopathy.
  • (8) The resorbant organ, rich in odontoclasts, cementoblasts, fibroblasts, and macrophages, formed prominent resorption lacunae in root dentin.
  • (9) Signs of osteolysis, such as enlarged osteocyte lacunae surrounded by a metachromatic zone in toluidine blue stained sections, and confluence of osteocyte lacunae in microradiographs, were compared with the fluorochrome labelling pattern.
  • (10) These had networks which formed the floor of each stomata and the roof of each lacunae.
  • (11) Besides greater detailization of the prevailing diameters of the pores, the method of poremetry allows the information to be obtained concerning the distribution of not only sizes of central canals of osteons but also smaller pores characterizing the system of lacunae of osteocytes and canals connecting them.
  • (12) Osteocyte viability within the femoral head was assessed by counting empty osteocyte lacunae in five random high-power fields of hematoxylin- and eosin-stained sections.
  • (13) Lipohyalinosis, initially referred to as the underlying pathologic vascular lesion specific for lacunae, is found most commonly in a subset of patients with severe hypertension associated with multilacunar dementia.
  • (14) These areas were characterized by a matrix of amorphous blue ground substance with lacunae that contained enlarged and slightly atypical cells.
  • (15) The condition was diagnosed by biopsy of a cranial bone lacuna.
  • (16) When ascorbic acid is added to the hormone-supplemented medium, differentiating chondrocytes organize their matrix leading to a cartilage-like structure with hypertrophic chondrocytes embedded in lacunae.
  • (17) The occlusion of arterioles underneath the site suggests that circulation through the lacunae at this stage is indirect.
  • (18) The second most common cause of dementia, cerebrovascular disease, produces dementia only when there is destruction of brain tissue, as in individuals who have multiple strokes or who have hypertensive vascular disease leading to multiple lacunae.
  • (19) Macrophages and giant cells did not form pits or resorption lacunae on the bone substrates as osteoclasts did.
  • (20) These MNC express an osteoclast phenotype and form resorption lacunae on calcified matrices.

Vacancy


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness.
  • (n.) That which is vacant.
  • (n.) Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.
  • (n.) An open or unoccupied space between bodies or things; an interruption of continuity; chasm; gap; as, a vacancy between buildings; a vacancy between sentences or thoughts.
  • (n.) Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.
  • (n.) A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Senior sources said on Monday that the vacancies had left it in effect rudderless, and unable to introduce any significant reforms.
  • (2) City landed the former Barcelona chief executive, Ferran Soriano , and many thought the two former Barça men's recruitment looked a threat to the Italian, especially with Pep Guardiola on sabbatical and looming over any potential vacancies at Europe's top clubs.
  • (3) With skills and labour shortages set to continue, there’s a risk that many vacancies will be left unfilled which could act as a brake on output growth in the UK in the years ahead.” The most recent labour market data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that while EU nationals were still arriving in the UK, they were doing so in smaller numbers than in the past.
  • (4) He believes a lack of investment in health in the region is partly to blame for the deaths, pointing to long-standing vacancies in government-run hospitals and rural centres.
  • (5) Remaining vacancies ranged from 5% of total staff in the Northeast and 3% in the Midwest to 2% in the South and 1% in the West.
  • (6) Most vacancies are now advertised over the internet and claimants are encouraged to apply online to help them prepare for the world of work.” The disclosure of the revenue generated by BT came after the Observer revealed that 85% of benefit fraud allegations made by the public to a telephone hotline or online over the last five years were false.
  • (7) As there are no vacancies at Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal, this may mean he has to look abroad – or accept that a potential move to Liverpool and Everton, two domestic clubs who may be interested, would mean not playing in the European Cup.
  • (8) The Falkirk vacancy emerged when the MP Eric Joyce was kicked out of the party after committing an assault in a House of Commons bar.
  • (9) These correspond to the ordering processes by the migration and the annihilation of quenched-in excess vacancies, the annihilation of secondary defects and the diffusion of equilibrium vacancies, respectively.
  • (10) Current full-time equivalent registered nurse staff vacancy rates are also reported in relation to these differing assessments.
  • (11) Finally, we try to recruit and mentor likely candidates for current or future vacancies.
  • (12) This, he said, involved employers advertising vacancies far and wide, speaking to candidates of all ages and backgrounds, and then choosing the one that most reminded them of themselves.
  • (13) In 2015 the service was short of 50,000 staff, a 6% vacancy rate, and was becoming increasingly reliant on expensive agency staff to plug gaps in rotas.
  • (14) To investigate applications for general practice partnership vacancies by established general practitioner principals, the reasons for changing partnerships, and the disincentives to these moves.
  • (15) His remarks came as the Republican leadership in the US Senate remained steadfast in its opposition to filling the supreme court vacancy under Obama’s watch.
  • (16) He believes the six-week ban would be so dramatic that even the supreme court would vote 5-4 to strike it down, even if another conservative justice were confirmed to replace the vacancy on the court.
  • (17) Average pay growth for Britain’s workers is likely to stall at about 2% in 2016, as the ready availability of migrants makes it easy for employers to fill vacancies, according to a forecast of the labour market.
  • (18) This article tries to describe the problems, difficulties and setbacks experienced by patients, doctors, psychologists or social workers when looking for a public health insurance body competent to bear the cost, as well as for a vacancy in a suitable hospital or institution where appropriate therapy can be effected.
  • (19) The medical residence programs are, with 68% of 9,644 total vacancies, considerably concentrated in the Southeast region.
  • (20) As Bauckham cautions, though, however much schools are prepared to pay for headhunting, the problem of filling vacancies will persist until more fundamental issues about the shortage of candidates are addressed.