What's the difference between pollen and pollex?

Pollen


Definition:

  • (n.) Fine bran or flour.
  • (n.) The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We conclude that the priming effect is not a clinically significant phenomenon during natural pollen exposure in allergic rhinitis patients.
  • (2) The diagnosis of occupational allergy was based on history, skin prick tests and RAST to the pollen.
  • (3) Using a large clinic population with adequate controls, significant correlation between ragweed, grass or tree pollen sensitivity and the dates of birth was not obtained.
  • (4) For pollen asthma, six studies conclude that there were superior results with desensitization than to placebo.
  • (5) They were placed less than 5 m apart, and estimation of the pollen amount was made on a day-to-day basis during the pollen seasons, and on a weekly basis outside the seasons.
  • (6) The impact of pollen on the respiratory mucosa was modeled by studying the process by which solutes are eluted from pollen grains.
  • (7) One part fresh pollen grains is uniformly mixed with nine parts of the solution and left at room temperature for at least 5 hr.
  • (8) We have developed a reverse-type sandwich ELISA for measurement of IgG (+IgA) antibody to a major allergen of Sugi (Japanese cedar) pollens.
  • (9) The concentration of these pollens decrease in April, completely diminishing in May.
  • (10) Six atopic subjects with grass pollen allergy and six nonallergic healthy volunteers were enrolled into this study.
  • (11) Inhalant allergens as mite house dust, animal danders, pollens, molds and food allergens are considered, now, to be the most sensitizing agents.
  • (12) Most patients showed several positive skin tests to common allergens particular to grass pollen, house dust and mites (Dermatophagoides pteronyssimus).
  • (13) The pollen sterility (up to 30% of grains) is due to the abortive spore development.
  • (14) A pollen-specific cDNA clone, Zmc13, has been isolated from a cDNA library constructed to poly(A) RNA from mature maize pollen.
  • (15) Sixty patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis due to birch pollen were enrolled in an open, randomized parallel group study.
  • (16) We have studied some aspects of the atopic syndrome in this population of Southern Italy: frequency of allergic sensitization according to endogenous and extrinsic factors (particularly Parietaria officinalis, a characteristic pollen of the Southern Italian Flora), etc.
  • (17) It was observed that cocksfoot pollen extract is stable but there appears a slight but significant (P less than 0.05) decay in activity when the extract stored for up to 6 months was compared with a freshly prepared extract.
  • (18) These are collected in her pollen baskets which she takes back to the nest to feed the young after fertilising the flowers.
  • (19) It was observed, perhaps for the first time, that feeling worse when there is a high pollen count appears to be associated with the symptom pattern seen in winter SAD patients.
  • (20) In allergologic out-patient departments of Dubrovnik, Split, Sibenik, Zadar, Pula and Rijeka, 300 patients with pollinosis have been tested by the application of the prick method of group allergens of grass, tree and weed pollen, particularly of Parietariae (pellitory) pollen.

Pollex


Definition:

  • (n.) The first, or preaxial, digit of the fore limb, corresponding to the hallux in the hind limb; the thumb. In birds, the pollex is the joint which bears the bastard wing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The observation was made that the expressivity of the disease was fading: while there were 15 PPK patients among the 25 investigated members in the generations II and III, there were only 2 patients among 22 members in the generations IV and V. In addition to PPK incontinentia pigmenti was diagnosed in two instances and pollex duplex in one.
  • (2) In burrows there was noted a change of dominant species: in the period of intensive epizootic of 1972 they were Ct. pollex and C. tesquorum, in 1973 during a slump of epizootic--C. tesquorum and N. setosa and in 1974 when epizootic was not discovered at all--N. setosa.
  • (3) In such cases, a pollex abductus configuration of the flexor pollicis longus should be sought, and if found, corrected.
  • (4) Pollex abductus is an anomaly in which the flexor pollicis longus attaches not only at its customary insertion, but also into the extensor by a tendon that passes around the radial aspect of the thumb.
  • (5) This suggests that current nomenclatures for the three bones of the pollex is appropriate.