What's the difference between nevus and nexus?

Nevus


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Furthermore, it involved mixed clinical and histological changes of epidermal nevus from fingers to elbow.
  • (2) This appears to be a newly described entity, although it resembles a Becker's nevus without hypertrichosis or an typical café au lait spot.
  • (3) A giant congenital pigmented nevus combining an epidermal and a blue nevus is described in a boy.
  • (4) In view of the difficulties encountered in clinical differential diagnosis, above all with reference to malignant melanoma, nevus lesions should be removed from the oral mucosa.
  • (5) The increase of the relative risk was 16 x for persons with greater than 60 MCN compared to individuals with greater than or equal to 10 MCN and there was an additional 7 x increase of the relative risk for persons with greater than or equal to 1 dysplastic nevus.
  • (6) Binding of monoclonal antibodies secreted by hybridomas generated by immunization of mice with VGP primary and metastatic melanoma was highest with cells and supernatants of cultures from advanced melanoma and least with nevus cells.
  • (7) The clinical and histopathological picture of a 27-year-old patient with generalized nevus verrucosus is described.
  • (8) Kamino's eosinophilic globules could be considered another important sign for the differential diagnosis between pigmented spindle cell nevus and malignant melanoma.
  • (9) An extensive congenital melanocytic nevus is described which, in its deeper portion, had striking neurofibromatous features.
  • (10) The growth of nevus cells is probably comparable to that induced in other cells by traumatic injury.
  • (11) Spherical nevus cells however are completely devoid of dendritic processes.
  • (12) The association between melanoma and giant congenital nevocellular nevus has been well documented, although controversy still exists regarding the precise incidence.
  • (13) Dermal fibroblasts from patients with the autosomal dominant cancer-prone disease Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome (BCNS) exhibit a serum dependence, anchorage dependence and in vitro lifespan (about 20 population doublings or less) similar to those of fibroblasts from normal age-, race- and sex-matched controls.
  • (14) Some of the them have made in possible to localize the gene of the familial cutaneous melanoma with pleomorphic nevus on 1p chromosome.
  • (15) Two lesions occurred in examples of nevus sebaceus of Jaddasohn.
  • (16) Our study shows that HMB-45 also reacts with cells of the blue nevus, a unique type of intradermal nevus.
  • (17) In contrast to the broad reactivity with melanomas, isolated nevus nests were stained in only 1 of 55 nevi investigated.
  • (18) We report on a nevus of the oral mucosa, which became present in the age of 30 of a male patient.
  • (19) Melanoma most often develops in the skin; usually at the site of a preexisting nevus.
  • (20) To our knowledge, this represents the second reported case of marked folding of the skin; with an underlying nevus lipomatosus; this case demonstrated an association of this cutaneous disorder with multiple defects, including chromosomal abnormalities, which have not been previously reported.

Nexus


Definition:

  • (n.) Connection; tie.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Google has tried hardware – even home hardware – before with a smart power meter (shut down in September 2011), the Nexus Q set-top box (never went on sale), and is currently trying to persuade people beyond geek boundaries to try its Google Glass headset.
  • (2) In addition to the nexuses, a junction characterized by the presence of 31 nm diameter hemispherical densities on the cytoplasmic surfaces of the septal membranes is revealed in thin sections.
  • (3) While the Nexus One's single-finger prodding works well enough, there's none of the pinching action to zoom into maps and photographs that makes the iPhone feel so advanced, nor its realistic-feel friction.
  • (4) Kenny said the tapes showed a 'toxic nexus' had existed between the banking industry and politicians during the 'tiger years'.
  • (5) These methods reveal different aspects of a complex subunit assembly forming the nexus membranes.
  • (6) Electronmicroscopic study of electrically coupled smooth muscles was undertaken to determine the distribution of nexuses in various types of smooth muscle.
  • (7) Results for one dimension suggest that threshold behavior is analogous to a chain reaction with criticality determined conjointly by the susceptibility of individuals within a community to a nexus of behavior conducive to rapid HIV spread and by the probability of transmission between susceptible communities.
  • (8) Detained by US immigration: 'In that moment I loathed America' | Mem Fox Read more After receiving notice that his Nexus card – part of a program designed to expedite border crossings for low-risk, pre-approved travellers – had been revoked, Ahmad decided to use his lunch break on Friday to pay a visit to the Nexus office in Michigan.
  • (9) Dixons, the last major electricals chain on UK high streets, said it sold more than 1m tablets, such as iPads, and Google's Nexus, in the three months to January, about three times more than in the same period a year before.
  • (10) Read more pieces like this: The great salty mess: pollution threatens US fresh water resources Climate change may ‘bottleneck’ the Panama Canal and disrupt world trade Advertisement Feature : The water, energy and food nexus - animation The water hub is funded by SABMiller.
  • (11) The structural heterogeneity of the nexuses is taken as an indication of the plasticity of the leptomeningeal tissue.
  • (12) Gap junctions (nexuses) were observed primarily in the basal and prickle cell layers.
  • (13) The average specific nexal resistance obtained was 5.9 omega cm(2) if one assumes that 100 percent of the septum is nexus.
  • (14) Google's plans to take on the iPhone are running into problems in Europe as several mobile phone companies plan to sell a cheaper version within weeks of the internet company's Nexus One device going on sale.
  • (15) Pits appear in the EF face and particles in the PF face, designating it as an A-type nexus.
  • (16) Now the company is partnering with organisations in those categories – Climate Nexus, ProPublica and Human Rights Watch respectively – to double down on these topics.
  • (17) Despite a glut of Android handsets in the last year, developed by companies including Samsung and Motorola, Google decided to oversee the launch of the Nexus One itself.
  • (18) Coleridge, denouncing “a contemptible democratical oligarchy of glib economists”, asked: “Is the increasing number of wealthy individuals that which ought to be understood by the wealth of the nation?” Dickens did much with Carlyle’s despairing insight into cash payment as the “sole nexus” between human beings.
  • (19) In the human trachea and main stem bronchi the smooth muscle has numerous cell-to-cell connections of the nexus or gap junction type.
  • (20) At least one appears to have been trained in Yemen – a country that has become a nexus of civil war, Islamic extremism and US counterterrorism operations over the past 15 years.