What's the difference between massiness and mossiness?
Massiness
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being massy; ponderousness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Massie indicated the coalition is already looking towards the June 2017 expiration of another broad surveillance power, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, to force additional rollbacks, much as the USA Freedom Act authors used the expiration of parts of the Patriot Act as leverage to pass their bill.
(2) The 150-degree telescoping Massie nail proved superior to the fixed 135-degree Jewett nail (particularly for unstable fractures) because it allowed a controlled impaction of the fracture fragments to a stable position.
(3) But the Nordics are not sustainable from an environmental perspective and that’s where we need to focus.” Massie is also facing an uphill struggle convincing the social justice groups to incorporate big business into the coalition.
(4) It takes courage to speak out in public about these things,” said Massie, who shared his own story about ScotAirways refusing to take him on an airplane in 2000.
(5) Scottish novelist and historian Allan Massie wrote recently: "William McIlvanney is the best Scottish novelist of his generation.
(6) "For us, there is no other solution than the departure of François Bozize," Eric Massi, a rebel spokesman, said from Paris by telephone on Saturday.
(7) Replication of two small 'constrained' regions of the Escherichia coli chromosome, one bordered by replication terminator T1 and the other by T2, displays normal velocity in the normal direction whereas it is much slower in the opposite direction (de Massy et al., 1987).
(8) Thomas Massie, a conservative Republican congressman from Kentucky, is not formally a member of the Freedom Caucus, but appeared to speak for many of them at the meeting on Wednesday when he said that McCarthy was “absolutely not an option”, adding that McCarthy’s comments about the Benghazi committee last week “disqualify him not just as speaker, but as majority leader”.
(9) Massie also downplayed the importance of Thursday’s vote.
(10) Thomas Massie, a libertarian-minded Kentucky Republican, has authored an amendment to a forthcoming appropriations bill that blocks any funding for the National Institute of Science and Technology to “coordinate or consult” with the NSA or the Central Intelligence Agency “for the purpose of establishing cryptographic or computer standards that permit the warrantless electronic surveillance” by the spy agencies.
(11) Jerry Massie, a spokesman for Oklahoma's corrections department, explained to the group of witnesses permitted to watch the procedure that the first drug to be used under the state's new lethal injection protocol would take some time to have its desired effect.
(12) • Alex Massie at the Spectator says it has been a day of low drama.
(13) Only time will tell if Massie strikes it fourth time lucky with his coalition building or whether his attempt to crowdsource a movement will fizzle out like Occupy for lack of a clear direction and strategy.
(14) Congress added amendments – by Lofgren and her GOP allies Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Ted Poe of Texas, preventing the NSA from undermining encryption standards and the FBI from compelling companies to permit the intelligence and law enforcement agency surreptitious access to user data – to a Justice Department funding bill.
(15) Massie wants to know whether Clinton asked Hicks about additional resources he might need.
(16) Massie, a former Rand Paul supporter, is convinced that Trump, along with either of the two candidates still running, could beat Hillary Clinton.
(17) Congressman Massie used more blunt terms and described the scenario as “completely apocalyptic”.
(18) This may all sound convincing in theory, but has Massie bitten off more than he can chew and will his organising principle prove to be effective?
(19) Pulmonary metastases were classified into five types: solitary, multiple nodular, multiple "massy," diffuse, and miliary.
(20) "I can't describe how frustrating this has been," Mr Massie said.
Mossiness
Definition:
(n.) The state of being mossy.
Example Sentences:
(1) In epileptic hippocampi, (n = 21) reactive synaptogenesis of mossy fibers into the inner molecular layer of the granule cell dendrites was demonstrated at the light microscopic and electron microscopic levels.
(2) The developmental pattern of hippocampal mossy fiber (dentate granule cell axon) innervation to the pyramidal cell layer was examined with anterograde transport methods.
(3) The decrease in cerebellar cGMP content elicited by haloperidol can be differentiated from that elicited by diazepam; perhaps haloperidol reduces the mossy fiber input to the cerebellum.
(4) The role of intracellular calcium in an APV-insensitive form of long-term potentiation (LTP) has been studied at the hippocampal mossy fiber synapse.
(5) A study of seizure activity and neuronal cell death produced by intracerebroventricular kainic acid had suggested that seizures conveyed by the hippocampal mossy fibers are more damaging to CA3 pyramidal cells than seizures conveyed by other pathways.
(6) These results demonstrate that serotonergic fiber input from DR can suppress the efficacy of mossy and climbing fiber synaptic action on PC, or decrease the responsiveness of PC itself to afferent synaptic action.
(7) In the rat, neonatal irradiation produces a destruction of dentate granule cells and prevents the development of the mossy fibre-CA3 pyramidal cell synapse.
(8) These lesions destroyed mossy terminals and their parent axons and thus initiated a retrograde reaction in basilar pontine projection neurons which manifested itself in the form of morphologic alterations observed in somata, dendrites, and a class of axonal boutons.
(9) Short-term changes in synaptic efficacy were studied at the mossy fiber (MF) to CA3 (MF-CA3) synapse in the in vitro hippocampus.
(10) To facilitate improvement of investigations on the distribution of mossy fibers in the hippocampal formation, a method is described using Timm's stained preparations after methacrylate embedding with the hydrophilic resin, Quetol 523M.
(11) The quantitative and topographical differences in the origin of mossy fibers suggest that these lobules may subserve slightly different functions.
(12) A highly positive correlation was found, in both species, between the synaptic surface and the number of agranular vesicles per unit volume of mossy fiber endings, while no correlation was found between the synaptic surface and numerical densities of coated and dense core vesicles.
(13) The distribution of mossy fiber terminals originating from the lower thoracic-higher lumbar spinal cord was compared to the distribution of zebrin I bands.
(14) Taurine localization to cerebellar mossy fibers and to fibers in the molecular layer of the dentate gyrus may be more consistent with a proposed neuromodulator role of taurine.
(15) The orthograde and retrograde HRP studies suggested that the mossy fibre response is mediated by the pontine grey whereas the climbing fibre response is conveyed indirectly to the inferior olive which sends the climbing fibres to the cerebellar cortex.
(16) The effect of dietary zinc deficiency on the mossy fiber zinc content of the rat hippocampus was investigated using PIXE (Particle Induced X-Ray Emission) spectroscopy.
(17) These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the floccular H-zone Purkinje cells adaptively control the optokinetic eye movement through modification of the visual mossy fiber responsiveness under the influence of the retinal error signals conveyed by the visual climbing pathway.
(18) The responses of Purkinje cells and presumed mossy fibers to natural stimulation of the horizontal semicircular canals were recorded in the nodulus and uvula of rabbit vestibulocerebellum.
(19) Feeding a zinc-deficient diet for 28 days did not cause a decrease in the mossy fiber zinc level, however, feeding the zinc-deficient diet for 90 days reduced the maximum mossy fiber zinc level by about 30%.
(20) The electron-microscopic examination of hippocampal tissues from rats that had been perfused with fixative during the seizure revealed that the large dense-core vesicles increased in number and accumulated on the presynaptic membranes of mossy fiber boutons; some of these vesicles appeared to be fused with the membranes, and omega-shaped exocytotic profiles were frequently seen.