What's the difference between orc and torc?

Orc


Definition:

  • (n.) The grampus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Genes play an important etiological role in ORC-related psychiatric side effects.
  • (2) Electron-microscopic studies of 2 of the Mabs in this class showed that they recognize antigens associated with the cell membrane and that the immunoreactive ORC axons are bundled together in fascicles in the antennal nerve.
  • (3) To investigate the etiological role of genetic factors in ORC-related symptoms, we studied questionnaire responses in 715 monozygotic and 416 dizygotic volunteer twin pairs concordant for ORC usage.
  • (4) A poll late last week, by CNN and ORC International , revealed that only 34% of Americans now support the war, one percentage point down on the previous all-time low.
  • (5) CNN, together with the market research company ORC, conducted a poll with a more robust methodology, although they only managed to speak to 537 registered voters in total (only 27% of whom identified as Republican).
  • (6) Stableflex (ORC) is a PMMA anterior chamber intraocular lens with closed and flexible loops permitting the philosophy of "one size fits all" in 90% of the eyes.
  • (7) Pyloric and cardiac glands were stained faintly with ox-orc but not with ox-HID or ox-AB.
  • (8) Multivariate genetic analysis indicated that both the genetic and the individual-specific environmental factors that influenced the liability to ORC-related depression and irritability were largely distinct from those that influence baseline levels of psychiatric symptoms.
  • (9) The protection in situ is similar to that generated by the origin recognition complex (ORC) protein.
  • (10) The authors report on their experience with UV-absorbent posterior chamber IOLs (ORC) implanted between April 1, 1984 and April 1, 1985 (n = 125).
  • (11) One group had the area of the aorta with the patch wrapped with oxidized regenerated cellulose (ORC); the other group served as a control.
  • (12) P. putida ORC, on the other hand, possesses individual hydroxylases for orcinol and resorcinol, which are specifically induced by growth on their respective substrates.
  • (13) In the control group, rabbits were fed commercial chow (ORC 4).
  • (14) Results demonstrate that ORC produced graded reduction in adhesion formation and significantly prevented adhesion reformation.
  • (15) In the investigation reported here, we examined the expression of the antigens during postembryonic development in order to correlate the presence of particular antigens with the status of differentiation of the ORCs or with their acquisition of particular functions.
  • (16) Immediately after this period of mitoses, the OSA immunoreactivity reappears exclusively in the ORCs, which begin to elaborate axons as an early event in their differentiation.
  • (17) In films featuring Dracula, Tony Montana, Orcs or even Achilles, the parameters are more clearly drawn.
  • (18) He’s been shot, stabbed, pulled apart by horses, chased off a cliff by cows, thrown off a giant satellite dish, blown up, beheaded and turned into a human pin-cushion by Orc arrows.
  • (19) Then everyone files out and goes into the next demo room – and you do this for the three days that the event runs, like being strapped to a conveyor belt of hype, until you don’t know where you are any more and all the games have merged into one narrative about a spec-ops warrior slaughtering orcs on Saturn.
  • (20) This antibody demonstrates that male-specific ORCs are molecularly distinct from other types of ORCs.

Torc


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Torque, 1.

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