What's the difference between lineage and lineal?

Lineage


Definition:

  • (n.) Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Our Ph1-positive ALL revealed B-cell lineage leukemia, since their surface phenotype were Ia+ and CD10+ and they have rearranged immunoglobulin JH genes.
  • (2) The lineage and clonality of Hodgkin's disease (HD) were investigated by analyzing the organization of the immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor beta-chain (T beta) gene loci in 18 cases of HD, and for comparison, in a panel of 103 cases of B- and T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs) and lymphoid leukemias (LLs).
  • (3) The presence of a previously unreported dipeptide transport mechanism within blood leukocytes and the selective enrichment of the granule enzyme, DPPI, within cytotoxic effector cells of lymphoid or myeloid lineage appear to afford a unique mechanism for the targeting of immunotherapeutic reagents composed of simple dipeptide esters or amides.
  • (4) We have investigated the temporal pattern of appearance, cell lineage, and cytodifferentiation of selected sensory organs (sensilla) of adult Drosophila.
  • (5) After induction the aIL2r positive and negative cell subpopulations were sorted and analyzed separately for morphology, lineage specific cell surface markers, and clonogenic cell numbers.
  • (6) Our results suggest that cAMP may be an important regulator of phenotypic expression in at least some neural crest cell lineages.
  • (7) They further show that dominant, trans-acting factors present in more mature B-lineage cell lines act to down-regulate the transcription of N-myc.
  • (8) To identify cells of different myogenic lineages, myotubes were analyzed for content of fast and slow classes of myosin heavy chain (MHC) isoforms by immunocytochemistry and immunoblotting using specific monoclonal antibodies.
  • (9) Other non lineage specific markers, such as CD9 and CD38 did not seem to influence survival.
  • (10) TdT determination indicate would the presence of immature cells that are not detected in the normal lymphnode; molecular analysis of the rearrangements of these genes would reveal the presence of even a small monoclonal population of both T and B lineages in the lymphnodes.
  • (11) An analysis of 54 protein sequences from humans and rodents (mice or rats), with the chicken as an outgroup, indicates that, from the common ancestor of primates and rodents, 35 of the proteins have evolved faster in the lineage to mouse or rat (rodent lineage) whereas only 12 proteins have evolved faster in the lineage to humans (human lineage).
  • (12) This, of course, is not the case as determinants recognized by one monoclonal antibody may be expressed on cells of different lineage.
  • (13) Presented data ranged from investigations of oncogene expression in cell lines, where transcripts of unique size were identified and lineage related expressions of transcription factors described to detailed cytogenetic investigations of fresh Hodgkin's biopsy tissue.
  • (14) They seem likely to be useful in identifying functionally related subpopulations of neurons and describing neural cell lineages.
  • (15) Lymphoid tumors of a given lineage exhibit a spectrum of phenotypes from clones whose features overlap extensively with their normal counterparts to clones whose features are not obviously represented in normal lymphoid populations.
  • (16) LIF inhibits differentiation under several conditions which lead to endodermal and mesodermal cell lineages including skeletal and cardiac muscle.
  • (17) Only tumors of astrocytic lineage like astrocytomas and glioblastomas, or tumors of mixed lineage as oligo-astrocytomas and multipotential primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET) expressed TNF-alpha-like immunoreactivity.
  • (18) These data provide evidence at the clonal level for the presence of precursors of the TCR alpha beta and TCR gamma delta lineages in the human TN thymocyte pool.
  • (19) Ep primarily acts on the marrow to stimulate the growth and maturation of early cells in the erythroid lineage that are known as the burst-forming unit-erythroid (BFU-E) and colony-forming unit-erythroid (CFU-E).
  • (20) One method is to use acutely transforming retroviruses, which can transform B-lineage lymphocytes in vitro.

Lineal


Definition:

  • (a.) Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant.
  • (a.) Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to).
  • (a.) Composed of lines; delineated; as, lineal designs.
  • (a.) In the direction of a line; of or pertaining to a line; measured on, or ascertained by, a line; linear; as, lineal magnitude.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 29 punctures were practiced on 19 patients, 9 women and 10 men of ages comprised between 34 and 94 years, with lesions in different organs of the abdominal cavity diagnosed by ultrasonography with real time equipment and lineal 3.5 and 5 MHz transducers.
  • (2) With this modification one obtains, for sparsely ionizing radiation, a quality factor which is proportional to the dose average of lineal energy, y.
  • (3) A direct relationship between total plasmatic salicylate and its free fraction was found together with an inverse proportion between percentage of total free--salicylate and plasma pH and a lineal correlation between plasma free--salicylate and salicylate obtained in spinal fluid.
  • (4) Some have speculated that it may be a clever trap because, if the children are liable for capital gains tax and are forced to sell their shares, the only person they can sell to is a lineal descendent of Lang Hancock – that is, Gina Rinehart.
  • (5) The application of lineal discriminative function ensured 93.1% of the right answers.
  • (6) The relationship between the volume and pressure in the aorta within the physiological range is a lineal function.
  • (7) To assess lineality in families of bipolar I probands, the authors used direct interviews of family members to reclassify families initially categorized as unilineal by family history.
  • (8) The lineal sizes of the head exceed those determined by electron microscope approximately by 25%.
  • (9) The lineal regression model relating mortality and burial data was deaths = 15.94 + 0.80 burials.
  • (10) These findings highlight the need to systematically assess lineality in all families considered for bipolar I linkage studies and support the preferential inclusion of unilineal families in linkage studies.
  • (11) Laventiana is also more primitive than Saimiri (= Neosaimiri) fieldsi from the same fauna, further increasing the likelihood that the latter is a lineal ancestor of modern squirrel monkeys.
  • (12) Second, the mean lineal intercept and tangent diameter varied from 0.048 to 0.058 cm and 0.034 to 0.040 cm, respectively, and did not provide a good concept of the minimum pore size neck dimensions for the specimen.
  • (13) Twenty measurements were made in fourteen subjects; for CO a good lineal correlation was found (r = 0.81).
  • (14) They were based on the field magnetic effect and with good lineality.
  • (15) These responses are consistent with microdosimetric predictions in that recoil protons from neutron interaction are shifted to lower lineal energies as neutron energies increase.
  • (16) This result demonstrates that in the 6-cell embryo the pair of anterior (AB) blastomeres on the right is equivalent to the pair on the left, and that the extensive differences in fates between lineally homologous derivatives of these cells on the two sides of the animal must be dictated by cell interactions, most of which are likely to occur early in embryogenesis.
  • (17) In addition, the individuals comprising Semai fission groups are kinsmen which implies that the number of independent genomes represented is markedly less than the number of individual migrants (the lineal effect).
  • (18) Intrahepatic pO2 rapidly fell to zero and pCO2 increased in a lineal fashion when the total hepatic circulation was interrupted.
  • (19) Lineal regression analysis shows a correlation coefficient of 0.809 between 7 days and 14 days colonies.
  • (20) TE manifested its maximum effect in suppressing cancer in mice during the 20th generation of a lineal descent following the injection of the original liver extract into a mother of the cancer proband.

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