What's the difference between midget and petite?

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.

Petite


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Responding to a “We the People” petition, launched after Snowden’s initial leaks were published in the Guardian two years ago, the Obama administration on Tuesday reiterated its belief that he should face criminal charges for his actions.
  • (2) • Queen Margaret Union, one of the University of Glasgow's two student unions, says 200 students there are marching on the principal's office at the moment to present an anti-cuts petition.
  • (3) The bench rejected the petition seeking prosecution for offending Hindus, saying it was a work of art and citing India's tradition of graphic sexual iconography.
  • (4) Some art experts have petitioned against Seracini drilling through the Vasari fresco, claiming any paint found behind might have been left by another artist.
  • (5) Nearly 740,000 people have signed a petition calling for an arms embargo against Saudi Arabia, organised by the campaign group Avaaz.
  • (6) Monday's petition showdown is a chance to demonstrate they have the popular support to back up those claims.
  • (7) Cameron made clear in his speech that Britain remains committed to the individual right to petition.
  • (8) Differently from generalised non convulsive seizures (like petit mal absences), their first appearance has no typical age limit, however, their proportion to other forms of seizures increases in adolescence and adults especially between the third and fifth decade of life.
  • (9) Induction of petite (cytoplasmic-respiration-deficient, rho-,rho-) mutations in yeast and deletion of mitochondrial drug-resistance genetic markers were compared after after treatment with ethidium and the corresponding photoaffinity probe, ethidium azide.
  • (10) Signing up Round-robin emails encouraging web users to sign e-petitions have attracted hundreds of thousands of signatures.
  • (11) Releasing Eric Garner grand jury papers 'would help restore public trust' Read more A petition from the the New York Civil Liberties Union and others had called for the release of the grand jury transcripts, including testimony by Daniel Pantaleo, the New York police officer involved in the incident.
  • (12) In terms of education, a representative of the Born Free Foundation once pointed out, out of millions of visitors to zoos in Europe, only 2% signed a bushmeat petition.
  • (13) Of course, saying this even while petitioning for easier repayment on Greece's mountain of debt is just another example of austerity's topsy-turvyism.
  • (14) In a relatively high proportion of the transformants, disruption of the 17-kDa gene was accompanied by the appearance of a second mutation causing a petite phenotype.
  • (15) Ursula K Le Guin, who gained significant author support for her petition calling for "the principle of copyright, which is directly threatened by the settlement, [to] be honoured and upheld in the United States", also opted out.
  • (16) In disorders of petit mal epilepsy and parkinsonian tremor, centrally and peripherally observable rhythmic patterns are due to network oscillations of thalamocortical cells.
  • (17) It’s time to speak out, to bring this impunity to an end, time for men to change their behaviour rather than for women to adapt to it,” the petition says.
  • (18) None had petit mal, confirming its rarity in the elderly.
  • (19) Ureterosigmoidostomy with anti-reflux technique (Petit-Leadbetter procedure) was performed in 12 children, mainly after failure to repair an exstrophy.
  • (20) With 66,000 signatures on a petition after four days, immigration minister Peter Dutton cancelled Allen’s visa.