What's the difference between luna and lunula?

Luna


Definition:

  • (n.) The moon.
  • (n.) Silver.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Having given his marker the slip, Sturridge picked up the ball on the edge of the penalty area, turned Antonio Luna inside-out, then somehow shimmied his way around Brad Guzan and fired the ball high into the roof of the net in order to avoid two defenders who'd rushed back to man the line.
  • (2) One of the best staining methods to demonstrate NIB, for example, is to exhibit it as a reddish body stained by Luna, with a contrast of HBsAg counterstained purple in color by aldehyde fuchsin after thiosulfation.
  • (3) Luna's day went from bad to worse when he handed possession to Cleverley midway inside the Villa half.
  • (4) In one scrap of paper he imagines "as background, perhaps: An electric fête recalling the decorative lighting of Magic city or Luna Park or the Pier Pavilion at Herne Bay ..." So Herne Bay inspired him to realise the iconic work on glass rather than canvas.
  • (5) China has cemented its control over Xinjiang very significantly in the past decade… [but] the methods that China is employing to assimilate Xinjiang are leaving a lot of dead bodies on the ground.” Additional reporting by Luna Lin
  • (6) Megakaryocytic, myelocytic and eosinophilic lineages were further demonstrated by Factor VIII immunostain, chloroacetate esterase and LUNA-E histochemical stain, respectively.
  • (7) Evidence for the molten Earth at its accretion time has been accumulated through the geochemical investigations and the observations of the surfaces of planets by space probes such as Venera 8, Mariner 9, Surveyor, Luna, and Apollo.
  • (8) With Antonio Luna apparently AWOL, it's left to goalkeeper Brad Guzan to charge off his line and avert the danger.
  • (9) I want to be a congressman – to criticise, to supervise the corrupt government.” “We must change our nation, not our nationality.” Additional reporting by Luna Lin.
  • (10) Antonio Luna, left-back on the actual home team has just been booked for what I think was a foul on Jordan Henderson.
  • (11) Comparisons were made among Kligman's modification of Luna's mast cell stain for elastin, Unna's orcein stain with or without potassium permanganate preoxidation, and Gomori's aldehyde fuchsin stain with potassium permanganate preoxidation.
  • (12) Is the country’s reputation more important than improving people’s lives?” Additional reporting by Luna Lin.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph by Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer Pedro Luna, Santa Cruz fan known as Tricolor Jesus, Recife.
  • (14) A chordotonal organ occurring in the posterior metathorax of an atympanate moth, Actias luna (L.) (Bombycoidea: Saturniidae), appears to be homologous to the tympanal organ of the noctuoid moth.
  • (15) Abortion rights around the world – interactive Read more “Her case is emblematic and motivates many people,” said Rosana Ríos of the Grupo Luna Nueva, which is one of the participating organisations in the protest.
  • (16) Luna will soon be relocated into the current alligator exhibit.
  • (17) Or a Christmas.” I feel that eventually Thanksgiving will be nothing but a holiday on a calendar Brian Sozzi, retail analyst Luna, while keeping her job, is making Walmart hear her.
  • (18) 5.15pm BST Aston Villa v Liverpool line-ups ... Aston Villa: Guzan, Lowton, Vlaar, Okore, Luna, Bacuna, Westwood, Delph, Weimann, Benteke, Agbonlahor.
  • (19) Double-barreled microelectrodes selective to either potassium or sodium were used to determine the transepithelial potential difference (VTE) and the intraluminal activity of potassium (alpha LuK) or sodium (alpha LuNa) in the early distal tubule (EDT) of Triturus waltlii in vivo; luminal activities were compared with the corresponding plasma ion activities, alpha PtK and alpha PtNa.
  • (20) Sahinovic and two teammates - Luna Pajer and Verena Breit - were hit by the shuttle bus while walking in athletes village in Baku on Thursday.

Lunula


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Lunule.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The lateral meniscus in some Prosimii contains one or two intramensical ossicles (lunulae).
  • (2) Cutaneous and systemic disorders in which red lunulae have been observed are reviewed.
  • (3) With the exception of children, amputations at the level of the lunula survive poorly by direct reattachment.
  • (4) Nail thickness increased from 43% of the final thickness over the mid-point of the lunula to 81% at its distal margin, the remaining increase in thickness being formed by the nail bed.
  • (5) Altogether 157 patients with onychomycosis affecting not more than 80% of the surface area of nail with intact lunula and matrix were treated once weekly for up to 6 months with amorolfine nail lacquer (2 or 5%) in a double-blind randomized design.
  • (6) We report our findings in these patients, which suggest that red lunulae result from increased arteriolar blood flow, a vasodilatory capacitance phenomenon, or changes in the optical properties of the overlying nail so that normal blood vessels become more apparent.
  • (7) In finger nail "anlagen", T cytokeratins were detected first in week 12 and 13 fetuses, specifically in cells of the lunula region.
  • (8) The case is reported of a man with uniformly silver-blue discolouration of all fingernails, with deeper colouring over the lunulae.
  • (9) All these tumors were subungual, located around the lunula area and were treated by surgical excision with complete relief of symptoms.
  • (10) The development of red nail lunulae has been extremely rarely described in alopecia areata.
  • (11) The nail plate is generally thinned, the surface ridged and lusterless, and the lunula decreased in size.
  • (12) Histopathologic examination of the red lunula in one of the four cases did not show signs of neovascularization.
  • (13) Argyria is pronounced in areas of sun exposure and in the lunulae of the fingernails.
  • (14) Curved Baseball Hat, the guy who grows corn and beans and who had delicate traces of soil in the lunulae of his fingernails, asked about an old gambling hall that used to be in town, and the reminiscences of the way Burlington used to be flowed – buildings that had been knocked down, women that were once beautiful and were now dead, fortunes made and vanished.
  • (15) The active single chains of luciferases from the Gonyaulax species have a MW of 130,000 while those from P. noctiluca and D. lunula have a MW of 60,000.
  • (16) Red lunulae are associated with rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, alopecia areata, cardiac failure, hepatic cirrhosis, lymphogranuloma venereum, psoriasis, carbon monoxide poisoning, twenty-nail dystrophy, and reticulosarcoma.
  • (17) Lamellar excrescences are located along the lower boundary of the lunulas and occurred more often in those younger than 30 years.
  • (18) Although the biochemistry of bioluminescence in these dinoflagellates is generally similar, the observations that D. lunula and P. noctiluca apparently lack LBP and have luciferases with low MW single chains require further clarification.
  • (19) The nail disorders are mostly the absence of lunula (30%), related to the anaemia, and the half and half nail (36%) that seems specific of the severe azotaemia.
  • (20) We suggest the subungual tumor be treated by surgical excision, and to avoid later nail deformity, the tumor located around the lunula be approached by proximal half nail removal, a "U" or "+" incision on the nail bed and repair of the nail bed with 7 "0" or 8 "0" suture material.

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