What's the difference between nape and scruff?

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.

Scruff


Definition:

  • (n.) Scurf.
  • (n.) The nape of the neck; the loose outside skin, as of the back of the neck.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A catatonia-like state was elicited in male mice with different experience of social interactions, by pinch of scruff of the neck in a suspended state.
  • (2) Cardiff's Malky Mackay said: "Mutch came on and made a big difference, taking the game by the scruff of the neck.
  • (3) "I want Dortmund to go through but he is trying to take the game by the scruff of the neck and I would love to see him have a go.
  • (4) Although Sunderland were desperately poor, credit has to go Villa for the way they took the game by the scruff of the neck.
  • (5) Though Diaby was the injured party, Phil Dowd had little option but to take a dim view of the Arsenal player grabbing hold of his opponent by the scruff of the neck afterwards and flinging him to the floor.
  • (6) Ireland grabbed the tie by the scruff of the neck from the first whistle.
  • (7) So copiously did blood flow from his lower lip at one performance that his adversary, played by Hugh McDermott, held him up by the scruff of the neck for the audience to gape at the gore dripping over the footlights.
  • (8) Meanwhile his mother was shocked when his brother William joined the army: in peacetime only "scruffs and villains" did so.
  • (9) The national team still lacks someone that can take a game by the scruff of the neck when needed.
  • (10) 85 mins: Gattuso, Milan's best player of the night by far, attempts to grab the match by the scruff of the neck.
  • (11) The duration and stereotypy (in terms of duration) of three actions, stand-overs (SO), generalbites (GB), And scruff-bites (SB), were measured during social play and agonistic interactions in infant eastern coyotes (Canis latrans).
  • (12) "He doesn't necessarily wait for each party to tell their story but will try to grab the case by the scruff of the neck in the nicest way."
  • (13) 37 Real Madrid 3-0 Wolfsburg , Champions League, 12 April 2016 Two goals down after the first leg in Germany and facing elimination from the Champions League, Ronaldo grabbed the second leg by the scruff of the neck and completed his hat-trick with a free-kick 13 minutes from time to seal his 16th goal of Madrid’s European campaign in 2015-16.
  • (14) The Liverpool skipper has flicked a switch and grabbed this match by the scruff of the neck.
  • (15) The whole group were such an oddball collection of long hairs, scruffs and smoothies that I just had to join."
  • (16) So they picked me up by the scruff of the neck and said: 'OK, run this for a while until we figure out what we're doing.'
  • (17) At every stage of his career, Moretti has taken English studies by the scruff of the neck, refusing to observe the distinctions between high and low literature, between academic and common-reader approaches.
  • (18) Foul up and you feel he'll grab you by the scruff of your neck.
  • (19) Lover” was the start of a glorious decade, 10 years in which Prince Rogers Nelson took American pop by the scruff of the neck and shaped it to his own mercurial ends.
  • (20) Preliminary experiments indicated that both the spontaneous and evoked activities of VMM convergent neurons were inhibited during stressful manipulations such as scruff lifting or defense reactions.

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