What's the difference between oker and oyer?

Oker


Definition:

  • (n.) See Ocher.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On an average 1.7% of the coliphages present in raw sewage or 9.8.10.11 phages were discharged into the river Oker everyday, 0.64% remained in the sludge.
  • (2) Newborns from old lead mining and processing areas in the Harz mountains, in particular those coming from Oker-Harlingerode, had low lead concentrations in umbilical cord blood.
  • (3) The proteolytic cleavage site between the E1 and E2 proteins was localized based on the known amino-terminal sequence of the isolated E1 protein (Kalkkinen, N., Oker-Blom, C., and Pettersson, R. F. (1984) J. Gen. Virol.

Oyer


Definition:

  • (n.) A hearing or an inspection, as of a deed, bond, etc., as when a defendant in court prays oyer of a writing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the aortic position, the rate of TEE in our series of prostheses was essentially similar to that reported in series of heterografts by Davila, Oyer and lonescu.

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