What's the difference between nape and nucha?

Nape


Definition:

  • (n.) The back part of the neck.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Total length, nape-rump length and tail length were recorded for each embryo and hatchling.
  • (2) Cooling the nape of the neck is said to induce reflex constriction of the mucosal vessels of the nose, but there is no general agreement in the literature on the benefit of an ice pack as an adjuvant treatment of epistaxis.
  • (3) Down's syndrome diagnosis is presently evaluated by some more specific ultrasonographic signs such as fetal nape or femur length measurements and by new biological parameters such as hCG assay.
  • (4) A pinch to the nape of the neck of mice, by application of a noxious clip, produces analgesia and immobility.
  • (5) Thus, low analgesic doses of local anesthetics injected into the nape of the neck prevented noxious clip from inducing analgesia but immobility was still evident.
  • (6) There are typical arsenic melanisms on the forehad-temple-rim where the hair begins to grow, on the nape of the neck, on the shoulders, chest, arms, and on the back of the hands which pass into precanceroses and carcinomas.
  • (7) The following electrode arrays were evaluated (1) vertex-neck, (2) forehead-ear canal (Enhancer I), and (3) vertex-nape.
  • (8) A case is reported of a man with a deep nape stabwound completely severing the medulla of the spine.
  • (9) A heat-stable factor (HSF) purified from the spleen of a patient with Gaucher's disease significantly increased the sensitivity of the rat liver beta-glucosidase to all of the NAPE derivatives.
  • (10) Passing subcutaneously, the catheters then emerged at the nape of the neck and were sealed by heating.
  • (11) The binding of chlorophenoxyisobutyric (CPIB), tibric (TA) and nicotinic (NA) acids and CPIB ethyl ester (Clofibrate), TA and NA isopropyl esters (TAPE and NAPE) to human lipoproteins of low density of different classes (LDL2, LDL1 and VLDL) and high density (HDL) were studied by equilibrium dialysis and Sephadex gel filtration.
  • (12) Intraoperative unilateral occipital artery ligation, with extensive undermining to the nape of the neck on only one side, can minimize the risk of postoperative scalp necrosis or telogen effluvium.
  • (13) On CT scan a round low dense lesion with clear margin was found in the nape.
  • (14) However, the vertex-neck and vertex-nape combinations are best for estimating auditory sensitivity because they gave the largest wave V amplitudes and 10-dB lower electrophysiologic thresholds.
  • (15) An exaggerated unilateral foot-nape posture is held responsible for a complete obstacle to parturition.
  • (16) The second patient suffered avulsion of the entire scalp as well as the forehead skin and nape of the neck.
  • (17) Since his second year, the papulonodular lesions have gradually merged into large confluent plaques, particularly on the face, nape, and axillae.
  • (18) A morphologic abnormality was seen of the nape which could not be interpreted.
  • (19) The toxoid was injected subcutaneously at the nape of the neck at dose levels of 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 ml in Groups II, III, and IV, respectively.
  • (20) This study tested the generalizations that cutaneous pressure will elicit immobility, that there is a relationship between the intensity of cutaneous pressure and the duration of immobility, and that the localization or body surfaces, particularly the upper dorsal area or the nape of the neck, is more susceptible to immobility.

Nucha


Definition:

  • (n.) The back or upper part of the neck; the nape.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After collagenase and elastase digestion, bovine ligamentum nuchae showed type VI collagen fibrils and clumps of beaded fibrils like those in zonule and vitreous.
  • (2) Lysyl oxidase had been purified to near homogeneity from bovine aorta and bovine ligamentum nuchae employing a modification of methods described by Harris et al., and Stassen and his colleagues.
  • (3) The method was applied to the determination of desmosine in elastin, rat aorta and bovine ligamentum nuchae.
  • (4) Acne keloidalis nuchae is characterized by keloidal papules and plaques.
  • (5) In 7 collections of cervical and umbilical skin samples and nuchal ligaments made between April and December, 1975, adult parasites were found in fascia of the ligamentum nuchae of 62 of 124 animals (50.0%), and microfilariae were present in 1 or more of the skin samples from 85 to 124 cattle (68.6%).
  • (6) The ultrastructural organization of fresh and purified elastin from beef ligamentum nuchae was studied by means of the freeze-etching technique.
  • (7) Chymotrypsin can completely solubilize insoluble [3H]-labeled ligamentum nuchae elastin.
  • (8) Morphological variations in Onchocerca armillata and O. gutturosa, from buffalo and cattle, with special reference to male tail and cuticular ornamentation, have been studied from a large collection of worms available from the infected aortae and ligamentum nuchae, procured from slaughter houses at 3 different localities in Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • (9) Further filarioid worms recovered from the subcutaneous tissue and the Ligamentum nuchae of the same giraffe were recognized a new species and were described as Pseudofilaria giraffae.
  • (10) Elastin from bovine ligamentum nuchae is exposed to aqueous solutions of different alkyl sulfates and carboxylates (fatty acids).
  • (11) In other regions of the face and neck other manifestations of chronic actinic skin lesions with characteristics of "citrine skin", cutis rhomboidalis nuchae and elastoma Dubreuilh are present as wall.
  • (12) The recombinant enzyme was found to be elastinolytic toward 3H-labeled elastin (bovine ligamentum nuchae) at pH 5.5 but with 25% of this activity retained at pH 7.0.
  • (13) Fetal calf ligamentum nuchae fibroblasts, cultured from animals of different gestational age, synthesize a unique, low molecular weight collagen termed FCL-1 (Sage, H., Mecham, R., Johnson, C., and Bornstein, P., 1983, J.
  • (14) It is recognized, for the first time, as a part of the nevus flammeus simplex distribution; it is less common than the erythema nuchae or the facial salmon patch.
  • (15) The amino acid profile of the aortic elastin was found to be almost identical to that of insoluble elastin prepared from bovine ligamentum nuchae by the same method.
  • (16) We have found a strong cross-reactivity between antibodies obtained to peptides prepared by different digestion of insoluble elastin from bovine ligamentum nuchae or aorta and these antigens.
  • (17) The pathological changes produced by adult worms in the ligamentum nuchae are mostly chronic and do not seem to cause any clinical manifestations.
  • (18) Glucocorticoids have been shown by others to increase the synthesis of elastin both in aortic tissue of embryo chicks and in cells derived from fetal ligamentum nuchae.
  • (19) The microfibrillar protein (MFP) of bovine foetal ligamentum nuchae was prepared and used to induce an antiserum (I) in rabbit.
  • (20) A rapid large scale procedure was devised for the purification of desmosine and isodesmosine from ligamentum nuchae elastin.

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