What's the difference between passant and pissant?
Passant
Definition:
(v. i.) Passing from one to another; in circulation; current.
(v. i.) Curs/ry, careless.
(v. i.) Surpassing; excelling.
(v. i.) Walking; -- said of any animal on an escutcheon, which is represented as walking with the dexter paw raised.
Example Sentences:
(1) Motor axons possessed elongate, irregularly shaped boutons en passant and morphologically variable boutons terminaux; the latter included huge endings with knobbed projectiles arising from thick collaterals, or smaller, round boutons from thin collaterals.
(2) Bouton terminals (1.0-2.0 microns) are of both the en passant and end terminal varieties.
(3) ROHDE axons make small "en passant" synapses with other neuronal processes.
(4) Terminal boutons within the A-laminae were nearly all en passant, which gave the axons a beaded appearance.
(5) En passant and single or clustered groups of terminal boutons arose from preterminal branches of these arbors.
(6) A second, delicate thin (type II) fiber system provided with numerous and passant varicosities showed a much more restricted laminar innervation pattern and appeared to originate from areas in MS-VDB which are rich in AChE-positive neurons.
(7) Most of the labelled axons were studded with large en passant varicosities (Type 1), whereas the others (Type 2) had smaller boutons often of the drumstick type.
(8) Sixty per cent of the synapses are formed by boutons en passant and the remainder by the terminal swellings of spine-like axonal appendages, boutons terminaux.
(9) The findings demonstrate that the nigral boutons are of medium-sized to large, with the majority being of the en passant type.
(10) The end terminals are large bulbs, usually preceded by two to three equally large en passant enlargements.
(11) The postsynaptic elements to the axon terminals were dendrites of small to medium size, which received "en passant" synaptic contacts in extraglomerular regions of the geniculate neuropil by the terminals distributed in series.
(12) P. vulgaris leucoagglutinin-labeled axons within laminae I and II exhibited boutons en passant and terminaux; many of these axons also terminated or were collaterals of axons that terminated in deeper dorsal horn laminae.
(13) Each band appears composed of numerous, thin and weakly varicose fibers that make only en passant type of contact with pallidal cell bodies rostrally, but form a dense field of woolly fibers caudally.
(14) The low number of en passant varicosities associated with the ventral root axonal aborizations suggests that these axons do not synapse with all available targets and that the rules governing synaptic specificity during development may apply during regeneration in the adult frog spinal cord.
(15) They gave rise to a number of circumscribed, highly branched arbors with many boutons of the terminal and en passant types.
(16) All of these projection axons travel in the trapezoid body and their terminals make, primarily, en passant endings upon their targets.
(17) The collaterals, while running medially, gave rise to fine terminal branches with en passant boutons in the SVN, and further coursing caudally, they entered the rostral part of the medial vestibular nucleus (MVN).
(18) Several efferents showed extensive branching beneath the inner hair cells which might represent en passant synapses with other neuronal elements.
(19) Electron microscopic examination confirmed that nearly all of the varicosities observed in the light microscope contained synaptic vesicles and represented either terminal boutons or boutons en passant.
(20) Corticotectal axon arbors became more specialized in the first 8 weeks after birth; both en passant and terminal swellings increased in diameter, and terminal swellings increased in number, although the total number of swellings per unit length of axon remained relatively stable.
Pissant
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Listen here you pooncy, pasty faced person from some pissant place that no one cares about, half my electorate are probably in de facto relationships and they are happy, normal living people who do their very best for their families and their communities.
(2) The Speaker of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly has objected to comments by the federal families minister, Kevin Andrews, that de facto couples should get married, labelling him a “pooncy, pasty faced person from some pissant place that no one cares about”.