What's the difference between lance and lanceolate?
Lance
Definition:
(n.) A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
(n.) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
(n.) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
(n.) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
(n.) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
(v. t.) To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
(v. t.) To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
(v. t.) To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch.
Example Sentences:
(1) 8.17pm BST Meanwhile... Lance Lynn is having a bad day over at Busch Stadium.
(2) They revealed that Lance Corporal Craig Roberts, who died in searing temperatures on the Brecon Beacons, had been about to begin a new post in the office of the education secretary.
(3) Lance Sergeant Darren Shaw, whose daughter was two weeks old when he left for Afghanistan, said the parade would bring closure to the Afghan tour "then we can get ready and move on to what our next tasks are".
(4) The coroner, Alan Craze, blamed poor communication and lack of organisation for the death of Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard, who was killed by a gunshot wound to the chest and abdomen in the "blue on blue" incident in Helmand province.
(5) Six years and three months on, it was Landis's predecessor, Lance Armstrong in the eye of the storm as speculation built over what he might or might not have revealed to Oprah Winfrey.
(6) 1.06am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 3rd And Clay faces Lance Lynn to start off the third, and the Superman-character named pitcher works a decent at-bat, working the count to 2-2 and then fouling off the next two pitches and taking ball three to a full count.
(7) Lance Payton, a freelance hairdresser in his late 40s from Bath, who joined the Tories seven years ago, is one exception in his green-and-pink tartan suit.
(8) Lance Armstrong held the meanest grudges in cycling, in effect ruining the career of Christophe Bassons after the French rider dared to talk publicly about doping.
(9) He said the "blue on blue" death of Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard in Sangin during their tour in the winter of 2009-10 was symptomatic of the problems British soldiers faced in tackling the Taliban.
(10) Cardinals 6 Brewers 4 Top 3rd: Lance Berkman follows Pujols with a ground out to second.
(11) 1.23am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 1, top of the 4th Dustin Pedroia, quiet most of this postseason, is up to salvage anything here, it seems improbable that these Sox hitters can be rendered mute by Lance freaking Lynn, but so it goes.
(12) It is a major blow to the image of a team that commissioned anti-doping consultant Nicki Vance to conduct an independent review of their operations and staff in the wake of the Lance Armstrong scandal.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lance Stephenson has become unstuck in time.
(14) And it worked by finally lancing the boil that had been swelling ugly all week.
(15) In the chaos that followed, and believing he was firing at an insurgent, a sniper, Lance Corporal Malcolm Graham, took aim.
(16) In the wake of the Lance Armstrong case , the revelations emerging from the Operation Puerto trial in Spain and the dire picture painted by the Australian Crime Commission investigation into organised crime and drugs, the Wada director general David Howman has admitted the problem is getting "bigger and more serious" and is "getting too big for sport to manage".
(17) This is the first reference in the medical literature of the unilateral localization in the Lance-Adams syndrome.
(18) For many, fantasy is typified by The Lord of the Rings ; Miéville worked up a righteous fury against Tolkien's "cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos", calling him "the wen on the arse of fantasy literature" and setting out to "lance the boil".
(19) Previous experiments had shown that motoneurons are specified to project to their appropriate target muscles prior to axon outgrowth and that they respond to cues in the limb in order to grow to those targets (C. Lance-Jones and L. Landmesser, 1980, J. Physiol.
(20) I got Lance’s number from one of the boys at St Helens.
Lanceolate
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Lanceolated
Example Sentences:
(1) Many of the lanceolate receptors contained multiple unmyelinated axons, and the usually highly ordered circular innervation of the inner conical body was markedly abnormal.
(2) In lanceolate endings, asymmetric membrane densities existed between the neurite and its Schwann cell, the Schwann cell showing signs of pinocytotic activity at all sides of its plasma membrane.
(3) The guard hairs usually are richly innervated with fully developed piloneural complexes composed primarily of a pallisade of lanceolate endings and a circumferential array of Ruffini and free nerve endings.
(4) Together with their enveloping Schwann cells, numerous lanceolate axon terminals are organized into a well-defined discoid end organ, referred to as the 'baroreceptor unit'.
(5) HRP spread into the sinus hair follicles and surrounded the nerve terminals of the Merkel disc endings and lanceolate terminals.
(6) In the guinea pig the lanceolate terminals enter the media and approach the innermost layers near the intima.
(7) The Merkel cells and lanceolate receptors of the intermediary zone were completely deafferented by 24 hours after the nerve injuries.
(8) Other growth cones having vermiform, lanceolate, spatulate, and bulbous forms were observed throughout the optic pathway at all stages examined, although the longer (up to 70 micrograms) wormlike structures appeared only in the optic tract during the early period of outgrowth.
(9) The lanceolate terminals are the rapidly adapting terminals that are numerous in guard hairs.
(10) The organism has a lanceolate body 7-10.5 micrometers in length; a well developed undulating membrane; a stout, tubular axostyle with periaxostylar rings that terminate in a cone-shaped segment projecting from the posterior end of the cell; and a moderately wide costa.
(11) Eighteen hours after nerve lesion, the large-diameter myelinated nerves supplying the lanceolate receptors of the intermediary zone and the Merkel cells of the stratum basale contained areas of focal axoplasmic abnormalities, and some of the nerve terminals exhibited vacuolization, mitochondrial swelling, and disruption of the neurofilament pattern.
(12) Lanceolate nerve terminals, free endings, Merkel cells with nerve terminals and unmyelinated fibers are observed, but encapsulated endings are lacking in and aound the follicles.
(13) The growth cones had a range of shapes from blunt to stellate, lanceolate or filiform.
(14) All types of hairs had both longitudinal and transverse lanceolate nerve terminals.
(15) The smaller nerve bundle innervates the area of the sinus hair referred to as the conical body and supplies (1) a Ruffini corpuscle, (2) FNEs, and (3) lanceolate receptors in the inner conical body.
(16) The correctness of the name Discrocoelium dendriticum given to the lanceolate liver luke is discussed in the form of a literature review.
(17) These end organs represent free branched lanceolate mechanoreceptors of complex type (Andres and von Düring, 1973) which belong to the main group of stretch receptors.
(18) Various types of these varicosities occur within an individual lanceolate terminal.
(19) Those that were had lanceolate terminals arranged as palisades parallel to the hair shaft with circumferential presumptive Ruffini piloneural complexes and free nerve endings external to this.
(20) Considerably more of these were innervated, by three-to-15 afferents forming both palisades of ten-to-30 lanceolate terminals and circumferential terminals.