What's the difference between palate and snapdragon?
Palate
Definition:
(n.) The roof of the mouth.
(n.) Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste.
(n.) Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste.
(n.) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.
(v. t.) To perceive by the taste.
Example Sentences:
(1) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
(2) Although each of palate and limb is concurrently susceptible to epigenetic regulation, their differential intrinsic genomic capabilities appear to have been uncoupled.
(3) Both types of oral cleft, cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip with or without CP (CLP), segregate in these families together with lower lip pits or fistulae in an autosomal dominant mode with high penetrance estimated to be K = .89 and .99 by different methods.
(4) Retrognathia or retrusion of the maxilla and mid-face is present in about one-third of treated cleft palate patients.
(5) Cleft palate was found in 98.1% of fetuses in the positive control group and none of them in the negative control group.
(6) An examination of 9720 Zagreb school children, 6-13 years of age, revealed submucous cleft palate (SMCP) in 5 and cleft uvula in 232.
(7) Adult ambulatory patients routinely self-administering potassium chloride solution rate the palatability and acceptance of each preparation.
(8) It was treated by the method of free autogenous gingival graft on the labial side and gingivectomy by flap on the palatal side.
(9) To clarify the mechanism by which retinoid causes cleft palate, we investigated the effect of retinoic acid (RA) on proliferation activity and glycosaminoglycan (GAG) synthesis in mouse fetuses palatal mesenchymal (MFPM) cells.
(10) Since d-fenfluramine failed to alter saccharin preference, it is unlikely that the slowed eating rate induced by this compound indicates a reduction in food palatability.
(11) The familial association of epilepsy and cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL (P)) is analyzed assuming both entities share common genetic predisposing factors.
(12) An experimental study in the white rat (Sprague-Dawley) was undertaken to evaluate the frequency of fisula formation after palatal midline osteotomies as used in surgical-orthodontic "rapid-expansion" procedures.
(13) In addition to vocal cord paralysis on the laryngoscopy, videofluoroscopy confirmed diminished mobility of the soft palate.
(14) In the following, there will be indicated the approved techniques and methods of suturing the cleft palate and a new method will be discussed related to the reciprocal Z-type plastic operation.
(15) Fifty per cent of the children with clefts of the palate and lip had deviated nasal septum producing nasal obstruction.
(16) At 0 hours only the hard palate in the experimental group had elevated, but at 2 and 4 hours almost half this group showed elevation of the soft palate as well, and, in addition, contact had been made between the elevated shelves.
(17) Palates from C3H mice were implanted onto prepared graft beds in histocompatible F1 hybrid mice.
(18) An infant with a complete unilateral cleft of the lip and palate underwent maxillary expansion treatment using an oral orthopedic appliance.
(19) Four years on from that speech, his strategy is bearing fruit – in a less than palatable way.
(20) The classical form most commonly observed on the buccal, palatal and labial mucosa shows a fine lacework of white papules and lines.
Snapdragon
Definition:
(n.) Any plant of the scrrophulariaceous genus Antirrhinum, especially the cultivated A. majus, whose showy flowers are fancifully likened to the face of a dragon.
(n.) A West Indian herb (Ruellia tuberosa) with curiously shaped blue flowers.
(n.) A play in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; also, that which is so eaten. See Flapdragon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dihydroflavonol reductases of barley, maize, petunia and snapdragon are highly polymorphic in the NH2- and C-terminal parts of the polypeptide chain while a central region of 324 residues contains 51% identical amino acids.
(2) The G3 will also have metal body and use Qualcomm’s quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor, which other flagship phones from Samsung, Sony and HTC have used to produce fast smartphones with at least one full day's battery life.
(3) The bladderwort ( utricularia ), incognito like a snapdragon, has an ingenious underground lair, vacuum-sucking insects to chambers where they are acidified; pitchers are outwardly passive, but inside their cavernous depths float a mass of drowned flies.
(4) The Xperia Z1 Compact features a 2.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 – currently the most powerful ARM-based mobile processor available in smartphones and tablets – a 20.7-megapixel camera, NFC, 4G LTE and a solid, waterproof build that makes it feel every bit a premium Android smartphone, but smaller than the trend.
(5) The Desire has a large 3.7 inch AMOLED screen, like the Nexus One, and contains the 1GHz Snapdragon processor which is also found on the Nexus One.
(6) Six genes that contain sequence encoding the DNA binding domain of the Myb oncoproteins have been isolated from a cDNA library prepared from Antirrhinum majus (snapdragon) flowers using oligonucleotide probes directed against part of this domain.
(7) Rates of DNA synthesis in root tip cells of diploid and autotetraploid snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus) seedlings and in diploid and tetraploid (mononucleate and bidiploid-nucleate) regenerating mouse-liver cells have been studied.
(8) HTC Desire is powered by a one gigahertz Snapdragon processor and is Adobe Flash 10.1 ready.
(9) The 2959 bp HFL1 sequence predicts a 2.0 kb open reading frame (ORF1) with substantial amino acid similarity to the transposases of Activator (Ac) from maize (Zea mays) and Tam3 from snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus).
(10) Tam3, a transposon from the Snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus), is highly active in the generation of such rearrangements.
(11) FireTV comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8064 quad core 1.7Ghz chipset, 2GB RAM and 8GB storage, and a Bluetooth remote with built-in microphones for voice control.
(12) Top-flight specifications The Lumia 2520 also features top-of-the-range components, including a 2.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor with 2GB of RAM, which should handle multi-tasking and gaming well.
(13) In the chalcone synthase gene of Antirrhinum majus (snapdragon), 150 base pairs of the 5' flanking region contain cis-acting signals for UV light-induced expression.
(14) The quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor struggles to respond, battery life sputters out quicker than I'd like, and the phone also throws off enough heat to melt a pat of butter.
(15) Based on the underlying hardware of one of LG’s current Android smartphones, the LG G2, the Nexus 5 features, a top-of-the-line 2.3GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, 2GB of RAM and 16 or 32GB of built-in storage, which should perform well for both multi-tasking and graphically intensive gaming.