What's the difference between natant and natatory?
Natant
Definition:
(a.) Floating in water, as the leaves of water lilies, or submersed, as those of many aquatic plants.
(a.) Placed horizontally across the field, as if swimmimg toward the dexter side; said of all sorts of fishes except the flying fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results clearly indicate that the bone marrow obtained from mice stimulated with either exudate cells or with super-natant or plasma obtained from cup-implanted mice contained a significantly greater number of CFU-S and CFU-C than did any one of the four control groups.
(2) In 1967, homografts had been in place five years and the early nonviable and natant freeze-dried valves were showing irrefutable signs of degeneration and calcification.
Natatory
Definition:
(a.) Adapted for swimming or floating; as, natatory organs.
Example Sentences:
(1) From the present study, performed on Sprague-Dawley rats, we conclude that: 1) there are sex differences for depression in two different animal models (swimming-induced immobility and natatory tests); 2) there are also sex differences in open-field behavior; 3) prenatal maternal restraint decreases sex differences for depression but does not affect sex differences in open-field behavior; 4) prenatal maternal restraint affects female but not male behavior in the two depression tests used.
(2) Bands running into the fingers represent thickening and fibrosis of the natatory ligaments.
(3) Proximally the cord receives fibers from the periosteum at the base of the proximal phalanx, from the ulnar end of the natatory ligament, and from the pretendinous fibers of the A1 pulley.
(4) The pharmacological activity of hematoporphyrin has been studied on two experimental models which are able to monitor the motor coordination in the rat, namely the natatory exhaustion and the Rota-Rod tests.
(5) Superficial axial veins run principally in the subdermal layer of the finger; they drain either directly to dorsal veins or to the natatory vein on the ligament of the same name.
(6) the Krebs cycle, was ascertained as the principal mode of obtaining energy in the free natatorial cercaria and metacercaria, and glycolysis as the main energy path for the undetached larva.
(7) The occurrence and localization of the enzymes were investigated histochemically in the cercaria still unreleased from the snail tissues, in the free natatorial cercaria, and in the encysted specimen, i.e.