What's the difference between mam and mammy?

Mam


Definition:

  • (n.) Mamma.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) PFP-MAM is separated by capillary GC and identified mass spectrometrically by selected ion monitoring (SIM).
  • (2) In this study the morphology of the lateral geniculate nucleus and occipital cortex in rats with methylazoxymethanol acetate (MAM Ac)-induced micrencephaly was examined.
  • (3) The use of monoclonal antibodies and alpha MAM-6 indicated that the majority of TEC were of medullary origin.
  • (4) The results suggest that rats exposed to MAM in varying doses would be useful for evaluating the developmental process of neurons and its unification.
  • (5) Also analogues seem to be the producing of the so-called instinctives as mam(m)a and papa by somewhat older babies which are able to pass over from the babbling into permanent words of the adults' speech in which they persist if used without shifting of sounds since they are produced de novo generation by generation, but they are subordinate to shifting and possible extinction if used in the form of derivatives in the standard language, and some phenomena of the phylogenesis as the survival of less differentiated species contrary to the relatively quick extinction of the highly specialized ones.
  • (6) Liver microsomes isolated from rats fed the 3 diets metabolized MAM to formic acid and methanol in vitro, but liver microsomes from rats fed the continuous ethanol diet were 12 to 15 times more active than liver microsomes from rats fed the control diet.
  • (7) Too proud to ask for help, the alarm bells rang in the week before his death when he accepted a tenner from his mam.
  • (8) A quantitative sandwich radioimmunoassay, using 115D8 as catcher and as tracer antibody, has been developed to detect MAM-6 in serum.
  • (9) To further analyze the apparent colocalization of ricin and MAM-6 in the perinuclear Golgi region, immunogold cytochemistry on ultracryosections was performed.
  • (10) The brain weights in the MNU- and MAM-treated pups on postnatal day 22 were significantly less than those in the control pups.
  • (11) MAM-6 might be considered as a marker of severe (premalignant) dysplasia in adenomas of the large intestine.
  • (12) Microradiographical and histological investigations showed that the cranial base lordosis was more pronounced in the MAM rats than in the controls, and that the width of the spheno-occipital synchondrosis was reduced mainly due to reduction in the central zone.
  • (13) These results suggest that working memory disorders of MAM rats on radial maze tasks may be due to the lowering of cholinergic functions in their hippocampus and cerebral cortex.
  • (14) Cumulative properties indicate that MAM is the guinea pig analogue of human Mo1 and mouse Mac-1.
  • (15) The controls of a fibroblastic cell culture derived from gill tissue of bluegill sunfish showed spontaneous transformation after 6 months of passage, similar to the transformation observed in the experimental MAM acetate treated gill cultures.
  • (16) One of the antigens, MAM-6, appeared to be an important epithelial marker, present in all normal and neoplastic breast tissue samples, in about 80% of non-mammary normal tissues and in more than 90% of non-mammary epithelial tumours.
  • (17) Pretreatment with CCl4 caused not only early death from chemical toxicity of MAM but also an increase in small-bowel tumors.
  • (18) Unlike paramagnetic material, MAM appears effective as a small-bowel contrast material.
  • (19) 5HT-immunoreactive neurons in the MAM-rats were reduced in number and irregularly distributed in the dorsal and median raphe nuclei compared with those in the control.
  • (20) Treatment with MAM, 3 to 6 hr after Con A addition, partially blocks the enhancement.

Mammy


Definition:

  • (n.) A child's name for mamma, mother.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
  • (2) Mammies are never sexual, poorly educated, and full of earthy common sense.
  • (3) A previous, tentative assignment based solely on indirect evidence [Mammi, S., Mammi, N. J.
  • (4) In the preceding paper [Bairaktari, E., Mierke, D.F., Mammi, S., & Peggion, E. (1990) Biochemistry (preceding paper in this issue)] the conformational preferences of these peptides in the presence of SDS surfactant micelles, a mimetic for biological membranes, were examined.
  • (5) The circular dichroism spectra in these two media have the same shape, indicative of a similar preferred conformation [Mammi, S., Mammi, N. J., Foffani, M. T., Peggion, E., Moroder, L., & Wünsch, E. (1987) Biopolymers 26, S1-S10].
  • (6) Mammy Facebook Twitter Pinterest Happily serving a white family: Hattie McDaniel in Gone with the Wind.
  • (7) Flannel and felt mammy dolls at a booth nearby were priced $900.
  • (8) Gone is the general disdain for mammy cookie jars, Aunt Jemima dolls and pencils in the form of alligators eating black children - a motif used to promote the early tourist trade in Florida.
  • (9) These household objects "didn't really become a souvenir market until the late 20th century," according to Kenneth W Goings, a professor at Memphis University and author of Mammy and Uncle Mose: Black Collectibles and American Stereotyping.
  • (10) Yet another common product is the mammy peg-board - a wall board with a picture of a mammy, hand to her head, announcing "I gots to Git" and the pegs indicating which groceries need to be bought.
  • (11) He went down on his knee again and sang "mammy" and the troops wept and cheered.
  • (12) Bidding on a mammy memo-holder, a large board with a picture of a mammy holding a pencil, with a memo-pad apron, had risen to $14.
  • (13) The image of Aunt Jemima, the elephantine mammy figure whose image was emblazoned on a pancake mix, seems to be the most frequently reproduced icon.

Words possibly related to "mam"

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