What's the difference between nile and nilotic?

Nile


Definition:

  • (n.) The great river of Egypt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This paper analyzes the nucleotide sequences of three viruses: Kunjin, west Nile, and yellow fever.
  • (2) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
  • (3) The antibody response against flaviviruses tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD), Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE), West Nile fever (WNF), Japanese B encephalitis (JE), dengue 2 (DEN-2), and yellow fever (YF) was studied in humans after administration of an inactivated TBE virus vaccine.
  • (4) As he has for the past 35 years, that is where Dr Seski intends to focus his energy and attention.” Also on Tuesday, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh said it was reviewing Seski’s donation of two Nile crocodiles and an American alligator to see if he followed international standards published since the donations were made.
  • (5) As Brooklyn-based Sudanese vocalist Alsarah put it: "We came in as separate musicians, but we're now creating a little orchestra with a new sound – a Nile sound."
  • (6) Cell monolayers persistently infected with JE-Bei or monolayers treated with UV-inactivated JE-Bei, were resistant to superinfection with JE, West Nile and dengue 2 viruses but were susceptible to infection with the alphavirus Sindbis.
  • (7) The present paper analyzes the influence of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II (Ir) genes on MHC class II-restricted T-cell responses to West Nile virus (WNV) and recombinant vaccinia virus-derived Kunjin virus antigens and identifies the immunodominant Kunjin virus antigens.
  • (8) While P. papatasi is a known vector of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis, P. langeroni is an incriminated vector for infantile visceral leishmaniasis, P. papatasi is the predominant species in the Nile Delta, but P. langeroni is found in West Alexandria and as a very rare species at the Libyan Egyptian borders.
  • (9) When Mohamed ElBaradei arrived in Midan Giza, a traffic-snarled interchange on the west bank of the Nile, for Friday prayers, he saw a graphic illustration of Egypt under President Hosni Mubarak: neat rows of police and plainclothes security officers lining the streets to maintain calm.
  • (10) Daft Punk will make their first televised performance since 2008 , playing with artists including Stevie Wonder and Get Lucky collaborators Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers.
  • (11) Very few people in the highland area of Kigezi had antibody to any of the antigens used, whereas more than half of the sera from the Madi area near the Nile had antibody to several antigens.
  • (12) By 5pm, as the sun began to set, the army of police that had once occupied the city centre in their battalions and stood on the Nile bridges, had been diminished.
  • (13) Several lines from the 1984 song were heavily criticised here and in Africa for being clumsy and patronising, including the one about no rivers flowing in Africa – the continent of the Nile, Congo and Niger.
  • (14) Histochemically, it was suggested that these vacuoles contained neutral fat based on staining with Sudan III and Nile blue sulfate.
  • (15) In the absence of astroglia, cerebellar neurons, identified by staining with antisera raised against the nerve growth factor-inducible large external (NILE) glycoprotein and by electron microscopy, formed cellular reaggregates, had markedly impaired neurite outgrowth, and survived poorly.
  • (16) Dengue virus failed to replicate in these cells, but West Nile virus, another Flavivirus, replicated in all three, and we were able to demonstrate reproducibly 50--100-fold enhancement of virus yields in the presence of Flavivirus antisera, the effect also being directly demonstrable in P388D1 cells by increased numbers of virus-induced plaques.
  • (17) Nile says: “The robots had an amazing vision!” Nile Rodgers accepts Daft Punk's International Group Award.
  • (18) Water and sediment samples were collected from eight different locations along the River Nile and its branches.
  • (19) Of the 20 isolates recovered in the vertebrate systems 17 were identified as Sindbis, and three as West Nile viruses.
  • (20) The solvents, absolute ethanol and hexane, form a single-phase titration mixture containing Nile blue indicator.

Nilotic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the river Nile; as, the Nilotic crocodile.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The distribution of ABO and Rhesus blood groups, serum haptoglobin, and transferrin; red cell glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and acid phosphatase; and hemoglobin was studied among the two aboriginal negroid tribes (Nuba and Fur); the Nilotic tribe; five tribes of Arab ancestory; and a mixed group of other minor tribes of Arab origin.
  • (2) A slight, but definite increase in oxygen affinity was observed for Hb A2 as well as for Hb P-Nilotic while the increase for the Hb Lepore-Washington was somewhat greater.
  • (3) This investigation was initiated mainly because of controversial data that have been published on the oxygen affinity of hemoglobin (Hb) A2 and because samples containing the rare Hb P-Nilotic became available.
  • (4) The highest prevalence rate of microfilariae (84%) was found among Nilotics in the lowlands, where 50% of the children above 10 years, and 90% of adults above 30 years of age, were infected.
  • (5) Oxygen equilibrium studies have been carried out on hemoglobins A2 (alpha2delta2), Lepore-Washington (alpha2(deltabeta)2) and P-Nilotic (alpha2(beta2delta)2) using the beta chain containing hemoglobins A and S as controls.
  • (6) Such a posttranslational control mechanism was not observed for Hb Lepore, with normal alpha chains and delta-beta hybrid chains, and Hb P-Nilotic, with normal alpha chains and beta-delta hybrid chains.
  • (7) Hb P-Nilotic which is produced by a hybrid of beta and delta genes was found in several members of a Sudanese family, three of whom had an associated beta-thalassemia.
  • (8) The mAb reacted with Hb P-Nilotic (beta delta hybrid), but not with Hb Lepore-Boston (delta beta hybrid), indicating an epitope consisting of positions 116 (Arg) and 117 (Asn) or 125 (Gln) and 126 (Met) of the delta chain.
  • (9) For the half-century since, the government in Addis Ababa has ruled here, but it has invested little and cared even less for its Nilotic tribal inhabitants, whose jet-black skin and tall, elegant physique mark them out from the highlanders.
  • (10) Only one haplotype was observed for each of the chromosomes carrying either the beta delta-P-Nilotic hybrid gene or the A gamma beta hybrid gene of Hb Kenya.
  • (11) Over a ten-year period, 8,316 blood films from Nilotes were examined and 59 P. vivax infections (0.7%) were diagnosed.
  • (12) Furthermore, the Nilotic and Oriental "strains" of X. cheopis are distinguishable morphologically solely by the length of the male's first process.
  • (13) During an outbreak in Sudan, the resistance level of the Nilotic cattle (Dinka breed) and various crosses has been recorded.
  • (14) Recent linguistic and archaeological findings are also reviewed, and these seem to support application of the term Nilotic Negro to the early Rift populations.
  • (15) The crossover region of the beta delta hybrid gene of the hemoglobin variant Hb P-Nilotic was defined in detail through cloning and sequencing of appropriate DNA segments.
  • (16) The affected person was a 17-year-old female from the north-eastern area of the Congo Republic, which is entirely inhabited by Nilotes.
  • (17) The more acute shape of the ninth sternite separates X. bantorum from all types of X. cheopis; however, the length of the first process of the male's clasper and the number of setae on this process are significantly different among all three groups; the Nilotic strain of X. cheopis is intermediate to the others.
  • (18) The pygmoids of Uganda and Zaire, the Nilotes of West Nile, and the Bantu of Uganda are possibly responsible.
  • (19) The geographic distribution, host association, and male genital morphology of Xenopsylla bantorum Jordan were examined and compared with the Nilotic and Oriental "strains" of Xenopsylla cheopis (Rothschild).
  • (20) Hb P-Nilotic is more heat stable than Hb A and its in vitro formation is increased over that of Hb S, and perhaps even Hb A, in conditions of severe alpha chain deficiency.

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