What's the difference between metamer and metayer?
Metamer
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several metameric forms of the same substance, or of different substances having the same composition; as, xylene has three metamers, viz., orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene.
Example Sentences:
(1) On July 14, 1991, a train tanker car derailed in northern California, spilling 19,000 gallons of the soil fumigant metam sodium (sodium methyldithiocarbamate) into the Sacramento River north of Redding (Figure 1).
(2) Six patients with a lesion including the T12 metamer had testicular atrophy.
(3) We present a new method to generate the metamer ensembles for both direct light and reflecting-surface-color problems.
(4) The testicular volume was significantly smaller in patients with a lesion including the T12 metamer than in patients with a lesion sparing the T12 metamer.
(5) pupillometry, we measured the response of the pupil to tritanopic metamers alternating at 0.94 Hz.
(6) The major breakdown product of metam sodium, methylisothiocyanate (MITC), is a known skin irritant at high concentrations (greater than 1%).
(7) The homeotic gene Ultrabithorax (Ubx) is expressed in specific parts of Drosophila embryos: in a single metamer in the visceral mesoderm and forming a complex pattern limited to a broad domain in the ectoderm and in the somatic mesoderm.
(8) The different pathogenetic hypotheses are discussed in the light of macro- and microscopic morphological factors, of which the most plausible is that involving an anomalous position or orientation of the musculo-membranous folds which give rise to the septation system of the various metamers of the cardiac tube.
(9) Histologically it was a functionally silent paraganglioma originating from the intrathoracic aortosympathetic paraganglia, these being part of the very numerous groups of the paragangliar system distributed segmentally into metamers, particularly in the adrenal medulla.
(10) The curves of lidocaine (LDC) plasma levels versus time were evaluated in a group of 16 patients receiving single epidural injections of 2% LDC for each metamer to be anesthesized.
(11) To compare the effect of short wave cone adapting levels on the red-green detection sensitivity, thresholds were measured on pairs of adapting fields that were shown to be tritanopic metamers for our individual observers: violet and green adapting lights that produce equal quantal catches in M cones and in L cones but very differently stimulate S cones.
(12) All of the spectrally different colors that match according to an observer form a metamer ensemble.
(13) In the pain-free period, muscular, subcutaneous and cutaneous sensory thresholds to electrical stimulation were measured in the lumbar region (metamer L1) on both sides: (1) pain thresholds were lower on the affected side with respect to both the contralateral side and control thresholds recorded in normal subjects; (2) the greatest decrease in threshold was in the muscle (even the sensation of sustained contraction was no longer detectable), followed by subcutaneous tissue, and the smallest decrease was in the skin.
(14) The possibility of ejaculation after physostigmine mainly depended on the integrity of the T12-L2 metamers.
(15) Using the counterphase-modulated-tritan-metamers method of Wisowaty and Boynton [Vision Res.
Metayer
Definition:
(a.) One who cultivates land for a share (usually one half) of its yield, receiving stock, tools, and seed from the landlord.
Example Sentences:
(1) A serum D-Xylose and jejunal biopsy were performed on all the patients and the histology of the mucosa was classified in keeping with the degree of atrophy according to Metayer and Laumonier.