What's the difference between pean and pear?

Pean


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the furs, the ground being sable, and the spots or tufts or.
  • (n.) A song of praise and triumph. See Paean.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Leading 59,999 of his disciples to the island of Pean in the Aegean Sea, he grafted a new race from the germs of black people.
  • (2) Clinical indications, operative findings, technical details and pathological studies in 228 Billroth-I-Pean gastrict resections for gastric ulcer, are represented in detail.
  • (3) The thoracic aorta was clamped by a Pean's clamp in the 1st group (11 animals).
  • (4) The paper reports the results of a follow-up of 25 patients who underwent gastric resection using Roux's technique, 15 patients undergoing reconstructive surgery according to Pean-Billroth and 15 who underwent Billroth II operations.
  • (5) The lace was protracted around an intestine, both ends were threaded through 7-10 cm long rubber tube and fixed by Pean's forceps.

Pear


Definition:

  • (n.) The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These receptors were subdivided by their morphology in the next groups: pear-shaped receptors with capsule; capsuled spherical receptors located near vascular walls; ovoidal receptors with capsule and glomerular structure; simple or complex mace-shaped receptors without capsule.
  • (2) This protein was not present in extracts from pears or apples.
  • (3) The pearly skin of these subjects becomes more translucent and the detail extra-perfect.
  • (4) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
  • (5) The aim was to create an infinite number of ways in which the story could be read – though Pears emphasised that Arcadia was not an interactive novel.
  • (6) Computer taxonomic studies using the nucleotide and inferred amino acid sequence of the MOMP of C. pneumoniae IOL-207 and all known chlamydial MOMP sequences supported the designation of C. pneumoniae as a new species, but electron microscope studies suggested that the presence of pear-shaped elementary bodies (EBs) may not be a reliable taxonomic criterion.
  • (7) On admission, she had an asymmetrical pear-shaped tumor in the right supraclavicular region and severe hypercalcemia.
  • (8) Adsorption with extracts from apples and pears had no such effect.
  • (9) Boiling of spinach, pears, grapes, tomatoes, and wheat, treated with different EBDCs, resulted in 3-30% conversion to ETU.
  • (10) The stenosis appeared to be caused by a specific change in the pattern of growth leading up to an anterior narrowing ('pear'-like) of the cricoid ring and a conspicuous thickening of the subepithelial layer.
  • (11) The "startle response" ap peared earlier in the experimental ani mals, as did the development and re sponse of the electroencephalogram to novel stimuli.
  • (12) At least six different cell types are recognizable: (1) nondifferentiated duct cells; (2) cells containing apical secretory granules; (3) goblet cells; the mucosubstances of type 2 and 3 are PAS- and Alcian-blue-positive, also reacting wih methenamine silver; (4) ciliated cells, containing a single cilium with the microtubular pattern 9+2; (5) tuft cells with extremely long and wide microvilli and a pear-shaped cell body; (6) migrating cells, mainly lymphocytes and some assumed eosinophils, showing reaction to Mg++-activated ATPase.
  • (13) I was a dancing Fury; I'm told that Peter Pears came but I never saw him."
  • (14) Such a pear-like geometrical figure is, in fact, formed spontaneously by DNA collapsed under certain conditions in vitro (Eickbush & Moudrianakis, 1978).
  • (15) The character George Bowling bites into a frankfurter he has bought in an milk bar decorated in chrome and mirrors: "The thing burst in my mouth like a rotten pear.
  • (16) They were amacrine cells with a pear-shaped soma and dendrites distributed in 3 sublayers within the inner plexiform layer.
  • (17) We are talking about apples and pears when we compare the two.
  • (18) Children's author Allan Ahlberg, the mind behind much-loved titles Peepo and Each Peach Pear Plum, has turned down a lifetime achievement award because it is sponsored by Amazon and the idea that his success "should have the Amazon tag attached to it is unacceptable".
  • (19) These axon endings are supposed to belong to afferent climbing fibers of cerebellum stimulating differentiation of pear-shaped neurons, localization of these fibers causing a certain succession in the development of perisomatic processes.
  • (20) The trichorhinopharyngeal (TRP) syndrome type I (Giedion, 1966) is characterized clinically by craniofacial dysmorphism with sparse hair, pear-shaped nose and long philtrum, and abnormalities of the extremities (disabling deformities of the hands and feet).

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