What's the difference between nictation and nictitation?
Nictation
Definition:
(n.) the act of winking; nictitation.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the manifestations were only mild to moderate dilatation of the conjunctival and nictating membrane blood vessels and eye mucous, and recovered or were mitigated 48 hours after the instillation.
(2) No severe changes such as corneal opacity, corneal desquamation, swelling and deaquamation of the conjunctival and nictating membrane were observed.
Nictitation
Definition:
(n.) The act of winking.
Example Sentences:
(1) Serotonin contracts the cat nictitating mebrane via serotonin2 subtypes, while facilitating stimulated contractile responses through the serotonin1-like receptors.
(2) The percentage of occurrence, amplitude, and latency of the rabbit nictitating membrane response were shown to be lawfully related to the parameters of stimulation.
(3) We report here that the same effect was observed in a variant of this learning paradigm that requires the participation of the hippocampus, i.e., trace conditioning of the rabbit nictitating membrane.
(4) The first one (full KCS model) was created by closing the lacrimal gland excretory duct, and removing the nictitating membrane and harderian gland.
(5) We trained rabbits with white noise and light conditioned stimuli and a face shock unconditioned stimulus for classical conditioning of the nictitating membrane response and then removed the ipsilateral cerebellar cortex by aspiration.
(6) The rabbit's nictitating membrane response was classically conditioned to tone and light conditioned stimuli presented for 800 ms before delivery of a 100-ms unconditioned shock stimulus.
(7) These findings indicate that the injection of the antigen into the nictitating membrane is the most effective ocular route for producing a local immune response in the Harderian gland.
(8) Alpha-methyl-DOPA given to cats 30 min prior to L-DOPA diminished the influence of L-DOPA on the blood pressure and the contraction of the nictitating membrane.
(9) After administration of physostigmine, the amplitude of the nictitating membrane responses decreased with increasing intratrain frequency.
(10) The competitive neuromuscular blocking agents, gallamine and pancuronium, enhanced the nictitating membrane contraction, in the cat, resulting from muscarine ganglionic transmission.
(11) Frequency-dependent nictitating membrane responses were elicited by sympathetic nerve stimulation in anesthetized cats.
(12) Rabbits were first given left cerebellar interpositus nucleus lesions followed by classical nictitating membrane (NM) conditioning using paired presentations of a tone conditioned stimulus and an air puff unconditioned stimulus.
(13) alpha-Adrenergic receptor stimulation induced by midodrine can be demonstrated in various smooth muscle organs (blood vessels, nictitating membrane, intestine, pupil, urinary bladder, bronchi).
(14) The effect of norepinephrine, histamine, serotonin and potassium chloride on electrogenesis and contraction was studied on innervated and denervated smooth muscles of cat's nictitating membrane.
(15) The molecule is not restricted to the cornea, and is present in most stromal matrices examined, including those of the sclera, eyelid, and nictitating membrane.
(16) In the cat nictitating membrane, serotonin1A receptor agonists did not alter contractions elicited by electrical stimulation (0.1-3.0 Hz).
(17) Three cats were raised with one eye covered by the lids, and the other, by the nictitating membrane.
(18) The present investigations sought to determine the effects of 3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA) on: 1) differential conditioning of the rabbit's nictitating membrane response to the serial compounds A-X-US (tone-light-reinforced compound) and B-X (white noise-light-unreinforced compound) by examining differential responding to A and B and their conditional control over responding to X within the compounds (Experiment 1); and 2) the ability of the compound stimuli and their components to modify the amplitude of the unconditioned nictitating membrane response (Experiment 2).
(19) The responses of the nictitating membrane to adrenaline were markedly depressed and did not recover after high doses of adrenaline.
(20) It was found that methylation of the hydroxyl groups of norepinephrine or epinephrine in either the 3- or 4-position markedly reduces or abolishes alpha- and beta-activity with the exception of the nictitating membrane of the cat.