What's the difference between pith and sith?

Pith


Definition:

  • (n.) The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consists of cellular tissue.
  • (n.) The spongy interior substance of a feather.
  • (n.) The spinal cord; the marrow.
  • (n.) Hence: The which contains the strength of life; the vital or essential part; concentrated force; vigor; strength; importance; as, the speech lacked pith.
  • (v. t.) To destroy the central nervous system of (an animal, as a frog), as by passing a stout wire or needle up and down the vertebral canal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Finally, fosinopril had no effect on the pressor or chronotropic effects of norepinephrine (NE) or 1,1-dimethyl-4-phenylpiperinium (DMPP) or electrical stimulation of the sympathetic ganglia of pithed rats.
  • (2) Relatively weaker GUS activity was also detected in pith parenchyma.
  • (3) Both d- and l-amphetamine were also compared for their pressor and tachycardic activity in pithed rats.
  • (4) Intravenous administration of T-2 to pithed rats did not alter blood pressure or heart rate at a time when, in conscious rats, both blood pressure and heart rate were increased.
  • (5) Monoiodo-Ang II was found to be a potent, full agonist in in vivo bioassays and a more potent (2.5-fold) pressor agent than the native hormone Ang II in the pithed rat.
  • (6) APP 201-533 [3-amino-6-methyl-5-phenyl-2(1H)-pyridinone] was investigated in vivo in anesthetized and unanesthetized dogs and pithed open-chest cats and in vitro in guinea pig atria and papillary muscles, skinned muscle fibers from pig hearts, and rat myocardium.
  • (7) The effects of quinpirole, a specific dopamine DA2 receptor agonist, on autonomic nervous control of heart rate, were studied in normotensive pithed rats, by analysing its action on the tachycardia and bradycardia evoked by electrical stimulation of the cardioaccelerator (10 V; 1 ms; 0.5, 1, 3, 6 Hz) and vagus (10 V; 1 ms; 3, 6, 9 Hz) nerves respectively.
  • (8) Pith cells can shift from the C- to the C+ state by a process known as habituation.
  • (9) The pressor actions of ET3 and arginine vasopressin (AVP) were compared with one another in pithed rats in the presence of the calcium channel activator BAY K 8644 or the calcium channel antagonist nifedipine i.a.
  • (10) Both human endothelin 1 (ET1) and rat endothelin 3 (ET3) produced dose-dependent pressor effects in the pithed rat.
  • (11) Viprostol did not antagonize the tachycardia induced by stimulation of the discrete segments at C7-T1 (cardio-accelerator) of the spinal cord in pithed SHR, suggesting that viprostol did not activate the presynaptic alpha-adrenoceptors.
  • (12) In pithed rats, the vasopressor response to dihydroergotoxine was reduced competitively by yohimbine, and non-competitively by nifedipine, but not by prazosin or methysergide, showing that the vasoconstriction is mediated by alpha 2-adrenoceptors.
  • (13) The antagonistic effects of a new inositol phosphate derivative, D-myoinositol-1,2,6-trisphosphate (PP56), on pressor responses to preganglionic sympathetic nerve stimulation and exogenously administered phenylephrine or neuropeptide Y (NPY) were investigated in vivo in the pithed rat.
  • (14) We conclude that in contrast to the increase in diastolic pressure elicited by B-HT 920, calcium channels are not involved in the cirazoline-induced pressor responses in the pithed cat.
  • (15) Acute or chronic adrenalectomy did not alter the pressor responses and chronotropic effect of angiotensin in the pithed rat.
  • (16) Habituated cells derived from inducible pith cells give rise to normal plants whose leaf and pith tissues require cytokinin for growth in culture.
  • (17) The endovenous perfusion of the splenic material in acidified and alkalinized forms caused significant increases of the mean blood pressure in normal, vagotomized and pithed rats, showing that, in contradiction to previous reports, changes in pH did not affect its hypertensive activity.
  • (18) The dose-response curves of three alpha-agonists noradrenaline, St 587 and B-HT 933 in pithed rats were shifted rightwards by pretreatment (i.v.
  • (19) In pithed rats, only pindolol produced a definite fall of blood pressure.
  • (20) The bradycardia was reduced but not blocked by pre-treatment with guanethidine, yohimbine, propranolol or pithing.

Sith


Definition:

  • (prep., adv., & conj.) Since; afterwards; seeing that.
  • (n.) Alt. of Sithe

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are small-state Conservatives who believe the commercial world should provide.” Bryant, whose campaign against phone hacking won an award and who has a cartoon of himself as Luke Skywalker slaying the Sith lords Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks on his office wall, said the rumoured return of Brooks to News UK, if it happened, would be a “massive two fingers to the British public”.
  • (2) "On both Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith they were very cagey about going public with the cast until the very last minute, as there were still negotiations going on up to the wire.
  • (3) He shot down rumours that Benedict Cumberbatch will play a role in the film but claimed Adam Driver would play a masked Sith-like character with cyborg elements.
  • (4) It has been a rumour ever since the houselights came up on the most recent Star Wars movie, Revenge of the Sith , in 2005.
  • (5) It has been suggested that not only does Disney plan to extend the Star Wars series itself (the most recent sixth film, Revenge of the Sith, was released in 2005), but that standalone films featuring other key characters – Yoda, Boba Fett or Jabba the Hutt – could also go into production.
  • (6) Star Wars: The Force Awakens – the five finest fan theories Read more Darth Plagueis was first mentioned in the 2005 Star Wars film Revenge of the Sith, which many consider to be the least terrible of the much-maligned prequel trilogy.
  • (7) All seems simple enough: Jedis, Siths, deadbeat dads, emotional pregnancy, family reconciliation.
  • (8) Two patients experienced grand mal seizures after examination sith Amipaque.
  • (9) That sullen death-stare she perfected as April in Parks & Rec should come in handy somewhere on the dark side, perhaps as a female Sith Lord – a Sith Lady, if you will.
  • (10) Aspartate aminotransferase measurement sith pyridoxal phosphate supplementation was slightly more precise than without.
  • (11) The Sith are supposed to be long gone Some fans have suggested Plagueis’ supposed return tallies with The Force Awakens’ apparent shift towards new dark side orders, such as the mysterious Knights of Ren.
  • (12) The Han Solo film will reportedly portray a younger version of the sardonic space smuggler, and will be set in the period between 2005 prequel movie Revenge of the Sith and the film that introduced the character, 1977's Star Wars .
  • (13) It is suggested that the metabolic activities and meiotic potnetials of the various oocyte populations differ and as a result, care should be employed to insure a uniform population of oocytes when conducting further studies sith mechanically liberated oocytes.
  • (14) According to an art book for 2005’s Revenge of the Sith, Solo would have appeared in cameo as a 10-year-old boy who is raised on the planet Kashyyyk as the adoptive son of Chewbacca, later his co-pilot on the Millennium Falcon.
  • (15) In the past week, a YouTube user created this video , which suggests that John Williams’ musical theme for the “Darth Plagueis” seen in Revenge of the Sith is virtually identical to the one which was used for Snoke’s debut in The Force Awakens.
  • (16) However, all three movies found “success” via the Razzie awards, with wins in the worst supporting actor category for Ahmed Best as bumbling CGI alien Jar Jar Binks, and Hayden Christensen for his portrayal of moody Jedi Anakin Skywalker in both 2002’s Attack of the Clones and 2005’s Revenge of the Sith.
  • (17) The last live-action Star Wars movie, Revenge of the Sith, also had its world premiere in Los Angeles.
  • (18) The wookiees were notably revived for 2005 prequel Revenge of the Sith, in which an entire army of the furry fuzzballs was seen defending its home planet of Kashyyyk.
  • (19) The sixth and most recent instalment in the series was 2005's prequel, Revenge of the Sith, which was given a mixed reception by critics but broke several box office records and was that year's second highest grossing film.
  • (20) Kylo Ren is important enough to get the Death March theme He’s clearly the movie’s main hulking, hooded dark lord of the Force, but Abrams has revealed in the past that Ren is not a Sith .

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