What's the difference between lame and lamel?

Lame


Definition:

  • (superl.) Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle.
  • (superl.) To some degree disabled by reason of the imperfect action of a limb; crippled; as, a lame man.
  • (superl.) Hence, hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
  • (v. t.) To make lame.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The move was confirmed by a Lib Dem aide, who said Tory claims to be green were "already a lame duck and are now dead in the water".
  • (2) Five horses raced successfully and lowered the lifetime race records, 1 horse was sound and trained successfully, but died of colic, and 1 horse was not lame in early training.
  • (3) The highest cost for veterinary services related to episodes of disease were for dystocia, lameness, and ocular carcinoma.
  • (4) The LDET biopsies resulted in little discomfort whereas the SFT biopsies led to temporary lameness.
  • (5) Three dogs admitted for evaluation of lameness were determined to be infected with a neutrophilic strain of Ehrlichia.
  • (6) The main symptom "incoordination" (ataxia, asynergy, paresis, paralysis) is used by us more precisely only in case of impairment of nervous system by neoplastic infiltrations and does not signify as possible symptoms of general physical weakness, for example faltering, staggering, tumbling or lameness.
  • (7) Historically, both horses had intermittent lameness that had responded to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and brief rest periods.
  • (8) Analgesic potency of aspirin was decreased to the level of sodium salicylate by injection of prostaglandin E2 into the inflamed rat paw in the adjuvant-induced lameness test.
  • (9) Specific clinical signs of disease such as nervous disorders and lameness were also observed.
  • (10) Children were examined for lameness in the Danfa Project district of rural Ghana to assess the impact of endemic poliomyelitis and to test a widely held hypothesis that paralytic poliomyelitis is relatively rare in such districts (less than 1 per 1000 children affected).
  • (11) Seven horses, 2 to 4 years of age, were examined because of moderate-to-severe forelimb lameness, mild effusion of the middle carpal joint (3 horses), and pain on palpation of the origin of the suspensory ligament (4 horses).
  • (12) Fourteen dogs were using the treated limb within 1 day and eight dogs within 2 days, although some lameness may have persisted for several weeks.
  • (13) Six of the orally infected P. maniculatus developed clinical signs including ruffled hair coat, inappetence, reluctance to move, and lameness in the rear legs.
  • (14) In two cases, the detachment occurred unilaterally; one was a gilt showing severe lameness which precluded mating and the other was a uniparous sow which showed only slight lameness.
  • (15) Disseminated aspergillosis attributable to Aspergillus deflectus was diagnosed in a Springer Spaniel with lethargy, lameness, anorexia, weight loss, pyrexia, lymphadenopathy, hematuria, and urinary incontinence.
  • (16) Congenital malformation of the carpal joint in a young dog resulted in a progressive lameness.
  • (17) The narrative drivers are pretty slack – improbable dialogue ("I'm a very wealthy man, Miss Steele, and I have expensive and absorbing hobbies"); lame characterisation; irritating tics (a constant war between Steele's "subconscious", which is always fainting or putting on half-moon glasses, and her "inner goddess", who is forever pouting and stamping); and an internal monologue that goes like this … "Holy hell, he's hot!
  • (18) Normal and osteochondrotic humeri and femurs were obtained from five normal and ten lame adolescent boars to study cartilage proteoglycans.
  • (19) Among his many recommendations, Laming called for improvements in the exchange of information between the various authorities.
  • (20) A female juvenile rhesus monkey experienced a 3-wk period of vague lameness and limb disuse, followed by a severe attack of acute polyarthritis resulting in marked radiographic changes.

Lamel


Definition:

  • (n.) See Lamella.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chloroquine induced large cytoplasmic vacuoles, whereas the other drugs (quinacrine, 4,4'-diethylaminoethoxyhexestrol, chlorphentermine, iprindole, 1-chloro-amitriptyline, clomipramine) caused formation of lamellated or crystalloid inclusions as usually seen in drug-induced lipidosis.
  • (2) Ultrastructural examination of selected sections of the lumbosacral nerves, revealed lesions characterized by reduced neurofilaments and neurotubules, and irregular lamellated axoplasmic dense bodies in all animals receiving lead.
  • (3) In the mouse, Meissner corpuscles, glomerular corpuscles, and Merkel cell nerve endings were seen in every palatine ruga, though the first antemolar ruga also contained simple and atypical lamellated corpuscles.
  • (4) Follicular mucinosis is not synonymous with alopecia mucinosa but is analogous to other histologic reaction patterns of cutaneous epithelium such as epidermolytic hyperkeratosis, focal acantholytic dyskeratosis, and cornoid lamellation.
  • (5) Simultaneously with iron uptake, mitochondria differentiate to lamellated bodies and, successively, expansions rise for ferruginous compounds and G polypeptides gathering, followed by prehemosome vesicles formation, which condense and change to prohemosomes that afterwards evolve to hemosomes.
  • (6) Lamellated osmiophilic bodies are intracellular organelles in which pulmonary surfactant is stored prior to secretion.
  • (7) Lamellated corpuscles were found histologically in the skin of the receptive field of RA units and identified as Krause's corpuscle of cylindrical type by their superficial location in the cutaneous tissue and their structure revealed by electron microscopy.
  • (8) In the scleral spur, the apical part of the muscle fiber bundle showed a very thin lamellated layer and terminated between the stromal tissue of the scleral spur indicating a strong interconnection with stromal tissue by a muscle-tendon junctional structure basically similar to the muscle-tendon junction in the striated muscle.
  • (9) These structures include nerve endings contiguous with K-cells, partially exposed terminal axons, preterminal and terminal axons protruding into the vessel lumina, and lamellated receptors.
  • (10) Three types of lamellated corpuscles (a simple corpuscle; a coiled, simple corpuscle; and a Meissner-like corpuscle), and a unique, organized, bush-like assembly of free nerve terminals were identified.
  • (11) Rene Meulensteen is still hopeful of securing Lewis Holtby on loan from Tottenham Hotspur, and are talking with his former club, Manchester United, over taking Ryan Tunnicliffe and Lamell Cole on deals until the end of the season.
  • (12) Both uninuclear cells and multinuclear tubes contained numerous lysosomes, myelin figures and lamellated bodies as well as electronlucent or content-filled vacuoles and cisternae of variable size, sometimes reminding the sarcoplasmic reticulum in early stages of its development.
  • (13) Three of three patients who had toxic reactions, and two of five patients without toxic reactions had lamellated inclusion bodies by electron microscopy.
  • (14) The endothelium was generally surrounded by lamellated basal laminae that were compactly invested in the neoplastic cells.
  • (15) The concentration of endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, polysomes, lipid droplets, dense bodies (lysosomes), lamellated and multivesicular bodies increases.
  • (16) Differentiation of alveolar epithelium into types I and II pneumonocytes occurred at this stage and lamellated osmiophilic inclusion bodies were present in type II cells for the first time.
  • (17) Three types of nerve endings were found: free nerve endings (FNE), Ruffini-like endings and lamellated corpuscles.
  • (18) In addition to the lamellated bodies, multiple lattice-like tubular myelin figures were abundant in the alveoli of the normal rat lung.
  • (19) The eye consists of about 3600-3700 ommatidia, each containing a dioptric apparatus formed by a lamellated corneal lens and a eucone-type crystalline cone.
  • (20) The organization of the caecal epithelium conforms with that of blood-feeding polyopisthocotyleans, with two components: lamellated cells responsible for intracellular digestion interspersed with elements of a non-lamellated connecting syncytium.

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