What's the difference between midget and midgut?

Midget


Definition:

  • (n.) A minute bloodsucking fly.
  • (n.) A very diminutive person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The macaque midget cells, like the beta cells of the cat's retina, showed no evidence of tracer coupling when injected with Neurobiotin.
  • (2) Type a midget ganglion cells appear to be in a one-to-one relationship with flat midget bipolar cell axon terminals ending in distal inner plexiform layer.
  • (3) Nomberg-Przytyk also recounts the death of Avram Ovitz, the leader of the group: "The old midget wanted his wife" and tried to slip through the barbed wire; a guard spotted him and, when Avram got close enough, shot him.
  • (4) This is the characteristic position for flat midget bipolar cells.
  • (5) While both midget and diffuse cone bipolar cell types were clearly glutamate-IR, rod bipolars were not noticeably stained.
  • (6) We confirm previous reports (Trujillo-Cenóz 1965; Boschek 1971) that monopolar cell bodies in the lamina form three structural classes: Class I, Class II, and midget monopolar cells.
  • (7) There are two distinct morphologic types of midget cells which differ from each other in the pattern of dendritic branching.
  • (8) According to their depth of stratification, there are two types of parasol cells (termed a-parasol and b-parasol), and two types of midget ganglion cells (a-midget and b-midget).
  • (9) The method collects the aerosol in a midget impinger containing dimethyl formamide, which inhibits the curing reaction between the epoxy and curing agent, preserving the unreacted epoxy functional groups present in the aerosol.
  • (10) 41:427-483), that the type a midget ganglion cell and its exclusive connectivity with a flat midget bipolar cell forms a single cone connected OFF-center pathway, whereas the type b midget ganglion cell with its exclusive connectivity to an invaginating midget bipolar cell forms a single cone connected ON-center pathway, through the retina to the brain.
  • (11) It is shown to have great similarity to the basic subunits of related toxins from the venoms of the South American and midget faded rattlesnakes.
  • (12) It is likely that 2C bipolars are a variant of the midget bipolars; and that they contact some members of the same population of cones, instead of the midgets.
  • (13) Finally, a hypothetical pathway is proposed for color-opponent surrounds of midget ganglion cells using both horizontal cells at the outer plexiform layer and amacrine cell pathways at the inner plexiform layer.
  • (14) Impoverished, monochrome, Depression-era Kansas beats candy-coloured Oz, with its midgets and flying monkeys?
  • (15) These epidemiologic studies were based on particulate concentrations determined by the midget impinger.
  • (16) GABA+ amacrines must play significant but different roles in ON and OFF midget and parasol pathways as well as the rod pathway.
  • (17) In her autobiography, Auschwitz: True Tales From A Grotesque Land , Sarah Nomberg-Przytyk describes in appalling detail the horrible death of two members of the Ovitz group, one of them an 18-month-old baby boy who died as a result of one of Mengele's experiments: "Around him, like pillars of stone, stood a large woman, along with the child's mother, slim and frail; the three midgets sat in miniature chairs."
  • (18) Both type a (with dendritic trees in distal inner plexiform layer) and type b (with dendritic trees in proximal inner plexiform layer) midget ganglion cells have been studied.
  • (19) Atmospheric air samples are collected in fritted midget bubblers containing aqueous sodium carbonate solution; wastewater samples are treated directly with sodium carbonate.
  • (20) Type b midget ganglion cells are in a one-to-one synaptic relationship with invaginating midget bipolar cell axon terminals in proximal inner plexiform layer.

Midgut


Definition:

  • (n.) The middle part of the alimentary canal from the stomach, or entrance of the bile duct, to, or including, the large intestine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) [125I]AaIT was shown to cross the midgut of Sarcophaga through a morphologically distinct segment of the midgut previously shown to be permeable to a cytotoxic, positively charged polypeptide of similar molecular weight.
  • (2) The results indicate that the conditions which inhibit the initiation of development are present in the Malpighian tubules and not in the midgut of the refractory mosquitoes.
  • (3) Thin-layer chromatography demonstrated the presence of kelthane residues as spots in tissue extracts of midgut gland and muscle after a 30-day recovery period.
  • (4) A hernial sac originating from the peritoneum near the oesophagogastric junction contained the midgut which had herniated through the oesophageal hiatus.
  • (5) Accordingly, we probed lysates of long-slenders, short-stumpies and procyclics (insect midgut stage) with antibody to myc proteins and also hybridized myc gene family sequences to procyclic DNA.
  • (6) A significantly higher survival rate was revealed for those patients with midgut lesion who were undergoing intraabdominal debulking procedures (liver excluded); median survival was 139 months versus 69 months without debulking.
  • (7) All posterior midgut activity was restricted to the posterior midgut lumen.
  • (8) An anomaly of the position of the midgut in a pregnant woman predisposes to volvulus.
  • (9) Management of a patient with a congenital anomaly of the midgut can be difficult for a surgeon since these abnormalities are extremely rare particularly in adults.
  • (10) Following ingestion by a tick, B. burgdorferi lodges in the midgut diverticula, in some instances penetrating the gut wall and invading various tissues.
  • (11) These results suggest that the specificity of LAC virus-vector interactions is markedly influenced by the efficiency of the fusion function of the G1 envelope glycoprotein operating at the midgut level in the arthropod vector.
  • (12) fog embryos do not form a normal posterior midgut and although their germbands do elongate, they do not extend dorsally.
  • (13) These findings are reviewed in relation to the development of the diaphragm and it is suggested that inadequate muscle differentiation in the primative mesenchyme contributes both to the occurrence of congenital oesophageal hiatus hernia and nonrotation of the midgut.
  • (14) The participation of the peritrophic membrane in a midgut barrier to infection of C. tarsalis, and many other mosquito species, by arboviruses is considered a moot point.
  • (15) High levels were found in the primitive heart, hepatic diverticulum and septum transversum; lower levels were found in the early somites and other primitive mesenchymal derivatives and midgut endoderm.
  • (16) The spirochaetes remain motile in the pharynx and oesophageal diverticula for several hours but are apparently immobilised in the midgut (Kumm & Turner, 1936).
  • (17) Attrition of the filarial numbers occurred primarily within the midgut during the first 24 h following ingestion and was greater in Cx annulirostris than Ae.notoscriptus.
  • (18) The intracellular concentrations of 5-HT in enterochromaffin cells of the jejunum, midgut and ileum of the cat have been estimated by a cytofluorimetric method before and after various periods of peripheral vagal nerve stimulation.
  • (19) Proteinase activities were highest in the regurgitated fluids and midgut lumen contents, with the exception of leucine aminopeptidase activity, which was found primarily in the midgut wall.
  • (20) The conversion of alpha-ecdysone to 20-hydroxyecdysone in the midgut of Manduca sexta (L.) was found to be catalyzed by a mitochondrial, cytochrome P450-mediated monooxygenase.

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