What's the difference between noma and soma?

Noma


Definition:

  • (n.) See Canker, n., 1.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No such lymphocytes were identified in normal women, and in the remaining 55 patients, 33 had benign disease of the breast, 20 had Stage III carcinoma of the breast and two had Stages I and II carc-noma of the breast.
  • (2) Two mechanisms are known which might produce such an effect: Firstly, the shortening of the action potential which occurs during metabolic inhibition will markedly reduce the time during which Ca channels remain open, thereby causing a diminished total Ca influx during the action potential (Isenberg et al., 1983; Noma and Shibasaki, 1985; Kakei et al., 1985).
  • (3) A full-term neonate with nasal and scrotal noma is uncommon and is therefore reported.
  • (4) Twenty-eight children with ANUG and nine children with noma were studied over the past 9 years.
  • (5) Noma and noma neonatorum are rare gangrenous diseases that result in mutilating loss of tissue in the oronasal region.
  • (6) MAP inhibits the in vitro protein synthesis of rabbit reticulocyte with approximately one-thirtieth the activity of the ricin A chain, a homologous protein with no such bond (Habuka, N., Murakami, Y., Noma, M., Kudo, T., and Horikoshi, K. (1989) J. Biol.
  • (7) This is then followed by continuing necrosis and possible sequestration as exemplified by noma.
  • (8) A full-term neonate with orofacial noma, bilateral choanal atresia, and transient neutropenia with B cell deficiency is reported.
  • (9) (3) Tubed pedicle skin grafting is applied for buccal contracture cases caused by noma etc.
  • (10) The findings demonstrated that both nutritive and nonnutritive sucking scores were higher in the efficient feeders than in the inefficient feeders and that the revised NOMAS scores accurately classified the two groups.
  • (11) In PBC contact persons a strong stimulation of naturally occurring mitochondrial antibodies (NOMA) has been observed which was in contrast to the lack of this antibody type in PBC patients.
  • (12) Thanks to adventurous restaurants – Copenhagen's Noma has served up ants and fermented grasshoppers – and pioneering organisations such as Ento in London, we are coming to terms with the notion that insects might actually be nice to eat.
  • (13) A transient impaired immune cellular function was found and may have contributed to the development of the noma in this child.
  • (14) Redzepi first read about Jama in the Guardian last year and invited him to speak at Noma's recent Mad Symposium food festival where his talk was called War zone cuisine: bringing back peace and life to Mogadishu .
  • (15) René Redzepi, the celebrated founder of Noma, was so shocked at the latest outrage that he launched a fundraising drive to help Somali Ahmed Jama rebuild his establishment.
  • (16) However, loading the cytosol with Sr2+ by means of a second pipette sealed to the same cell in the presence of Ni2+ as an inhibitor of the Na+-Ca2+ exchanger revealed difference currents compatible with a non-specific cationic channel activated by intracellular Sr2+ (Ehara, Noma & Ono, 1988).
  • (17) Three Native American children with severe combined immunodeficiency developed noma, a necrotizing gingivostomatitis not previously reported in this country.
  • (18) The surgical treatment of the sequelae in the patients affected by noma is possible even in emerging countries if the surgeon carefully evaluates each patient individually choosing simple, safe, sound and satisfactory techniques which are conditioned by sex and age of the patients.
  • (19) Measles is the most common infection preceding the development of noma in Nigerian children.
  • (20) As Ferran Adrià's heir apparent and current number one cook in the world, René Redzepi of Copenhagen's Noma, tells me: "Ferran and his team are culinary freedom fighters.

Soma


Definition:

  • (n.) The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An initial complex-soma inflection was observed on the rising phase of the action potential of some cells.
  • (2) Axons emerge from proximal dendrites within 50 microns of the soma, and more rarely from the soma, in a tapering initial segment, commonly interrupted by one or two large swellings.
  • (3) In cat, DARPP-32-immunoreactive cell bodies identified as Müller cells were demonstrated in the inner nuclear layer (INL) with processes closely surrounding the cell soma of photoreceptors in the outer nuclear layer.
  • (4) Today the physician who treats women with emotional problems during menopause cannot function solely as a psychotherapist; he must deal with both their soma and psyche.
  • (5) For those synapses that were close to the soma the time constant for decay for the non-NMDA component, which was voltage insensitive, ranged from 4-8 ms. 7.
  • (6) We find that the labelled cell has a myelinated axon, but that the axon loses its myelin within 50 microns of the soma and has not yet been traced further.
  • (7) The soma of the injured neutron has a dense perinuclear ring of RNA.
  • (8) The effective electrical geometry under the conditions of control and 0.5 mM PNB sufficient to completely abolish the postsynaptic potential were determined from analyses of the membrane charging curves assuming the lumped-soma-short-cable model.
  • (9) Sequential recordings of spike amplitudes from the axon hillock, soma, and lateral dendrite suggest that the generator of the axotomy-induced component is localized to the normally passive soma and proximal dendrite.
  • (10) In order to determine whether there is a relationship between soma diameter and oxidative enzyme activity of alpha-motoneurons, we investigated the alpha-motoneurons innervating the different portions within a rat gluteus medius muscle.
  • (11) In oestrogen-treated preparations, tuberoinfundibular arcuate neurons responsive and unresponsive to accessory bulb stimulation could be distinguished by the frequency of successful antidromic propagation into the soma.
  • (12) These cells were also NSE positive and were characterized by the presence of soma action potentials.
  • (13) It is concluded that barium ions have at least 2 points of attack in the ganglion: 1, on the soma membrane of the neurones, and 2, on the presynaptic terminals controlling them.
  • (14) By the end of this period the neuronal soma and the proximal dendrites appeared mature in terms of both morphology and synaptic input.
  • (15) Although the globular bushy cell axons were not completely filled from the soma of origin to terminal fields in the contralateral brainstem, a number of consistent anatomical features were distinguished in the population.
  • (16) Approximately 85% of Na channels in the soma are essentially indistinguishable from those in the giant axon with regard to gating properties and sensitivity to tetrodotoxin or saxitoxin.
  • (17) In slices cut parallel to the pyramidal neurons (perpendicular to the brain surface) one can study chemosensitivity of the various parts of the dendritic tree and the soma.
  • (18) It has not been possible to connect the efferent somas with the fibers.
  • (19) Interestingly, the M-cell soma which stains positive for AChE was ChAT negative.
  • (20) However, the distribution of the enzymes is indirectly correlated as high levels of particulate cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase are present in the soma of neurons with high concentrations of adenylate cyclase in their terminals.