What's the difference between pectoral and rectoral?
Pectoral
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the breast, or chest; as, the pectoral muscles.
(a.) Relating to, or good for, diseases of the chest or lungs; as, a pectoral remedy.
(a.) Having the breast conspicuously colored; as, the pectoral sandpiper.
(n.) A covering or protecting for the breast.
(n.) A breastplate, esp. that worn by the Jewish high person.
(n.) A clasp or a cross worn on the breast.
(n.) A medicine for diseases of the chest organs, especially the lungs.
Example Sentences:
(1) The participation of neural crest cells in development of the dermal skeleton is discussed by way of the repartition of the odontods within the pectoral fin.
(2) the medial pectoral and the thoracodorsal nerves, and a shorter time span for nerve regeneration.
(3) Multiple transforming growth factors (TGFs) capable of conferring the neoplastic phenotype on NRK-49F cells without the addition of any other exogenous growth factor in the soft agar assay, were purified from two human solid malignant neoplasms: a squamous lung carcinoma and a pectoral rhabdomyosarcoma.
(4) The ventral subclavius, which was observed for the first time, was discovered to issue, together with the pectoral and the accessory phrenic nerves, from the superior and middle trunks of the brachial plexus.
(5) It is characterized by a nonprogressive bilateral facial paralysis, the inability of the eyes to abduct beyond the midline, orofacial anomalies, limb deficiencies, and an absence or hypoplasia of the pectoral muscles.
(6) It was established that the vein was most often compressed by a long stump of the small pectoral muscle.
(7) With the exception of pectoral muscle weight, dystrophic hybrids exhibited symptoms of dystrophy: high serum CK and high muscle AChE and low LDH levels.
(8) Other important factors include implant position (improved visualization with implant beneath pectoral muscle) and type of mammography performed (slightly more tissue seen with displacement technique).
(9) In 5 of these cases there was also involvement of the underlying pectoral muscles, raising the possibility that some of these may have been of pectoral musculoaponeurotic origin.
(10) The development of the vasculature of the pectoral fin in the Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, was studied by the dye-injection method.
(11) In 38 patients undergoing femoral artery profundaplasty and in 18 having simple mastectomy with pectoral node biopsy, a 6.2 per cent solution of sodium sulphan blue was injected peripherally to outline the lymph nodes in the groin or axilla.
(12) In 1841 A. POLAND described a rare complex of malformations in the male, characterized a unilateral pectoral muscle defect combined with ipsilateral symbrachydaktyly.
(13) The pulse generator was placed in a subcutaneous pocket in the left pectoral area.
(14) The interaction (SKF x Age) was significant (p < .05) for pectoral and biceps delta ODs.
(15) In order to study the arrangement of the myosin and non-myosin components, A segments which are aggregations of thick filaments held together at the M line were prepared from glycerinated chicken pectoral and rabbit psoas muscles and examined by electron microscopy.
(16) Major pectoral muscle could be used as local flap to obliterate empyema cavity associated with tracheal fistula.
(17) Image standardization based on fat and pectoral muscle signals was necessary for intercase comparisons.
(18) The results of this study therefore indicate that lymphatic cancer cell emboli in the pectoral fascia and muscle are an important risk factor for patients who undergo a modified radical mastectomy.
(19) Feather follicle movement control was studied on feathers of the pectoral tract in the anaesthetized chicken.
(20) As proponents of lesser procedures have called into question the necessity of removing the pectoral muscles in surgery for cancer of the breast, there has been a need to establish accurately the relationship of the lymphatics to the pectoral muscles and their fascia.
Rectoral
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to a rector or governor.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Sombat Thamrongthanyawong, a core PDRC leader and former rector of the National Institute of Development Association, told the Guardian: "The PDRC never use any violent means.
(2) Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod said in a statement that its vice-rector for innovation, Kendrick White, had been relieved of his duties as part of a “restructuring of the management system”.
(3) Father Philip North, who is team rector at the parish of Old St Pancras in north London, said that local reservations over his appointment — and the divisions exacerbated by last month's General Synod vote against female bishops — meant it would be impossible for him to be "a focus for unity" as bishop of Whitby.
(4) A poem to the vaccine was written by Andres Bello, the first rector of the University of Chile, then in Venezuela (1804).
(5) The rector, Kathleen Adams-Shepherd, told the congregation that she had been at the firehouse close to Sandy Hook elementary waiting and praying with families.
(6) She unveiled road signs and streets named after her husband, and was even a candidate in 1977 to be rector of Glasgow University.
(7) NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said he was humbled and honoured after Glasgow University students voted overwhelmingly for him to serve as their rector for the next three years.
(8) But Professor Massimo Egidi, an economist and rector of LUISS Guido Carli, a private university in Rome, dismissed a link between the results and Italy's 43% youth unemployment rate for under 24-year-olds.
(9) "This is a great honour and an even bigger challenge," said the author of The Choir , A Village Affair and The Rector's Wife .
(10) The Rev John Ubel, rector of the Catholic cathedral that overlooks downtown St Paul, said the day would prove to have been a good one if it brought people of different backgrounds together and gave them a “tiny measure of peace”.
(11) Formerly head, London College of Communication and Deputy Rector, University of the Arts, London.
(12) The life of Paul de Sorbait (1624-1691), who was Professor of Medicine, Dean of the Medical School, and Rector Magnificus at Vienna University, is reviewed on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of his death.
(13) Yet it was on him that Orbán’s official spokesman focused while scrambling to explain recent mass protests supporting Budapest’s Central European University (CEU) – a small elite institution of higher learning of which Ignatieff is rector, and which could, theoretically, be forced to close because of a new higher education law.
(14) Charles Kennedy, the outgoing rector and former Lib Dem leader, said: "It has been a pleasure and a privilege to serve the students of the University of Glasgow for the past six years.
(15) Most beta-emitting radionuclides are produced in nuclear rectors via neutron capture reactions; however, a few are produced in charged-particle accelerators.
(16) The social mobility "trackers" will most probably lead to the blaming of schools in poor areas, as they try to achieve those five A to Cs for disadvantaged kids; schools will learn to game the system, resulting in grade inflation; there will be an annual ding-dong with rectors from Oxford and Cambridge as it emerges that they've managed in yet another year not to find a single black person clever enough to study history.
(17) As a medical student, Burns voted for Reid – who was a SNP supporter in later life – to become rector of the University of Glasgow, and vividly recalls his rectorial address, which was printed in full in the New York Times .
(18) Rosemary Rimmer-Clay, who was a 19-year-old student at Dundee University in 1975 at a time when he was rector of the university, said that a man who she had once viewed as a hero had abused his power to prey on young girls.
(19) Soon afterwards this influence followed Twombly to Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where his teachers included Robert Motherwell, although he was also inspired by the rector Charles Olson's interest in archetypal, symbolic imagery.
(20) Andrés Bello, an intellectual and humanist and the first Rector of the University of Chile, published several articles about cholera in the Araucano, a newspaper of Santiago.