What's the difference between mater and mather?

Mater


Definition:

  • (n.) See Alma mater, Dura mater, and Pia mater.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The authors tested their own technique, using transplants or implants of corium, fascia, dura mater and polyester net, internally in the tendons, fastening them with an external cross suture.
  • (2) Receptor glomeruli have been studied in the arterial walls of the pia mater of the human brain and spinal cord by means of the light and electron microscopy methods.
  • (3) Within the arachnoid mater the immunoreactivity was concentrated in the basal zone of the arachnoid membrane, thus appearing as a narrow fluorescent band near the border of the dura.
  • (4) The anatomical arrangement of the pia mater suggests that it may act as a regulatory interface between cerebrospinal fluid and the surface of the brain and between arterioles within the brain and the surrounding neural tissue.
  • (5) Filopodia extending from the processes were found beneath the pia mater.
  • (6) Simultaneous opening of the dura mater on both sides with slow evacuation of the contents of the hematomas is an important stage of surgical intervention in BTSH.
  • (7) When administered at high concentrations (1 mg kg-1) methiothepin and metergoline decreased plasma protein extravasation in rat dura mater.
  • (8) Some occipital types of headache, "venous headache" or "strain headache", may benefit of a cross section of the occipital dura mater.
  • (9) The ES value is determined by differences in rates of size increment of the vertebral canal and in rates of size increment of the spinal cord dura mater (SCDM).
  • (10) We now report that, compared to controls, rats with acute EAE exhibit fewer detectable mast cells in their dura mater and velum interpositum.
  • (11) A six month prospective survey in 1990 of sports injuries presenting to the A+E department of St James and the Mater hospitals revealed 1594 patients, accounting for 3.8% of the total number of new patients seen in that period.
  • (12) A middle-aged woman presenting with multiple cranial neuropathies, hemiparesis, and CSF pleocytosis had tuberculous infection of the cranial dura mater at autopsy.
  • (13) After ligation of BCCA, the 5-HT granules of the walls of the brain vessels and the CA fibers of dura mater vessels decreased, but CA fibers occurred in the walls of the brain arteries.
  • (14) Quantitative and qualitative composition of catecholamines (noradrenaline and dophamine) and indolalkylamines (serotonin and tryptamine) and their localization have been studied in cells and neural fibers of the rat dura mater.
  • (15) MRI demonstrated hypertrophic dura mater in the posterior fossa and compressed cervical spinal cord.
  • (16) After removal of the dura mater, implantation of a closed cranial window, and intravenous injection of fluorescein, three-dimensional reconstructions of cortical capillaries were performed down to a depth of 250 microns below the pial surface.
  • (17) A case of primary malignant melanoma of the dura mater occuring in a 10-year-old girl is reported.
  • (18) In the second operation, instead of reinforcement of the dura mater, a shunt operation was performed to decompress the cyst and the locally dilated ventricle, which was thought to contribute to the intracranial expansive forces.
  • (19) All of the arachnoid villi and arachnoid cells in five normal cases were found to have expression of GST-pi, although no positive reaction for the enzyme was present in other tissues of the dura mater.
  • (20) Instead there is a complex, tight layer of cells, the interface layer, composed in the innermost portion of the dura mater (the dural border cells) and the outermost portion of the arachnoid (the arachnoid barrier layer).

Mather


Definition:

  • (n.) See Madder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The continent is fertile ground for WPP, which owns the agencies Ogilvy & Mather and Young & Rubicam, and counts Germany as its fourth largest market and France as its seventh largest.
  • (2) Several attempts to resolve the site's problems have failed to come to fruition, including masterplans by Sir Terry Farrell, Lord Richard Rogers and the late Rick Mather who drew up the last scheme in 2000.
  • (3) At the core of the Ashmolean Museum 's spectacular new £5m Ancient Egyptian and Nubian galleries, designed by the architect Rick Mather and displaying one of the greatest collections outside Egypt, there lies a man who died almost 3,000 years ago – and has just been revealed as having no heart.
  • (4) Internal candidates who could succeed Sorrell include Dominic Proctor, the head of WPP's media-buying arm, Mindshare, and Shelley Lazarus, boss of Ogilvy & Mather.
  • (5) The Scottish energy minister, Jim Mather, said this morning that the 181-turbine project , which would have dominated the moors of northern Lewis, would have had "significant adverse impacts" on rare and endangered birds living on the peatlands – a breach of European habitats legislation.
  • (6) The Scottish energy minister, Jim Mather, said the £10m Saltire prize was the world's most valuable government-funded prize for technology innovation, but critics complained that it was a wasteful "vanity project".
  • (7) Campaigners against the HS2 rail line Pat Mather and John Keleher in Pickmere, Cheshire.
  • (8) Speaking in a rare TV interview, Eminem seemed woefully uninterested in his forthcoming record, The Marshall Mathers LP 2.
  • (9) Ogilvy & Mather created a public service advert last year to encourage drivers to use seatbelts by showing a group of transgender hijras at a red traffic light.
  • (10) The farm was bought by Mather's family 60 years ago: now, HS2 will take away 19 of their 23 acres, and 60% of land that they rent close by, along with their farmhouse and outbuildings.
  • (11) The model is compared with Mather's polygenic balance theory, with models that include mutation-selection balance, and others that have been proposed to study the role of linkage disequilibrium in quantitative inheritance.
  • (12) The new galleries are the second phase of the Ashmolean's redevelopment and follow the dramatic internal overhaul of Britain's oldest museum by architect Rick Mather.
  • (13) Other companies to sign up this year include Ogilvy & Mather, the global communications company, the food company Nestlé and Heart of Midlothian football club.
  • (14) The report and accounts also reveal that WPP, which owns the US offshoots J Walter Thompson and Ogilvy & Mather, has agreed to contribute to the expenses of maintaining Sorrell's apartment in New York as he is required to spend a considerable amount of time there "due to the size of the company's business in the US".
  • (15) Case studies Katrina Mather Katrina Mather's teachers have predicted her a stunning four A*s in her A-levels .
  • (16) Cavanagh and Mather (1989) reviewed literature concerning the possible distinction between short- and long-range processes in motion perception and concluded that the distinction cannot be supported.
  • (17) The Spectator , the right-leaning political weekly, has appointed the ad agency Ogilvy & Mather to develop a campaign to support a revamp later this year.
  • (18) Sorrell, who has been chief executive since 1986, embarked on a string of acquisitions and WPP's vast family of companies now includes the advertising agencies JWT and Ogilvy & Mather, the buyers Mediacom, Kantar market researchers and the public relations firms Hill & Knowlton and Finsbury.
  • (19) The Marshall Mathers LP 2, released 13 years after the seven-times-platinum Marshall Mathers LP, will be released on 5 November .
  • (20) The data could not be fully analyzed because of the failure to fulfill Mather's first criterion for an adequate scale.

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