What's the difference between polygonal and tame?

Polygonal


Definition:

  • (a.) Having many angles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gap junctions were of different sizes and frequently composed of a small number of connexons organized in polygonal aggregates or linear arrays.
  • (2) The isolated outer sheath was observed as a triple-layered, closed vesicle carrying a polygonal array by electron microscopy.
  • (3) Electron microscopically, the tumor cell nuclei were oval or polygonal and sometimes slightly invaginated, with a few prominent nucleoli.
  • (4) Delimitation of the pathological process in the lung is characterized by an increase in the number of T- and B-lymphocytes and considerable predominance of polygonally shaped cells with cytoplasmic outgrowths of different lengths and their subsequent replacement by a cell form transitory between T- and B-lymphocytes.
  • (5) At day 12-15, some nodules consisting of polygonal cells were formed in all culture conditions, and these nodules were mineralized 2-3 days later.
  • (6) The majority of the choline acetyltransferase-immunoreactive neurons had fusiform, oval, or polygonal somata with somatic diameters greater than 20 microns and contained deeply invaginated nuclei surrounded by copious cytoplasm.
  • (7) One type of cells had polygonal morphology, showed density-dependent contact inhibition at confluence in vitro, showed lectin-binding characteristics of endothelium (but only moderate positivity for factor VIII antigen), demonstrated induction of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase when exposed to astrocyte-conditioned media, and responded to insulin by a pronounced increase in DNA synthesis.
  • (8) The first type included large multipolar neurons with triangular or polygonal perikarya and typically 3-5 dendrites emerging from the poles of each cell.
  • (9) Type II neurons had multipolar or polygonal cell bodies, which measured an average 31 micrometer by 43 micrometer and emitted four to seven primary dendrites.
  • (10) "En face" views of the epithelial cells showed capping protein distributed in a polygonal pattern coincident with cell boundaries in intestinal epithelium, sensory epithelium of the cochlea, and the pigmented epithelium of the retina and at regions of cell-cell contact between chick embryo kidney cells in culture.
  • (11) Polygonal, foamy macrophages were found in 12 cases.
  • (12) The subcultured HNC and ADPKD cells retained characteristic epithelial polygonal and elongated shape and positive immunofluorescent staining for cytokeratin.
  • (13) The slightly prominent apices of the superficial epithelial cells are more or less polygonal in shape and covered with short microvilli among which small granules as possible morphological expression of a secretory activity are detectable.
  • (14) Initially, they grew as individual polygonal cells, tending to form tight confluent monolayers with poorly defined intercellular boundaries.
  • (15) A 3rd type displayed a polygonal outline and increased cytoplasm.
  • (16) While the arteries show a long stretched spinle or lancet like form they change over blunt, oval, triangular or rhomboid forms into polygonal cells with spiked border lines at the venules.
  • (17) Also PMA was found to cause a profound change in astrocyte morphology; cells were converted from flat, polygonal, undifferentiated cells to process-bearing cells.
  • (18) On these substrata, cultured astrocytes changed their shape from flat and polygonal to stellate in the absence of hormones or growth factor supplements.
  • (19) The cells have a spindle, round or polygonal shape with neoplastic and pleomorphic features that grew in multilayers without contact inhibition.
  • (20) The rate constant for clearance as described in the paper represents a non-invasive method for rapid evaluation of the uptake capacity of the liver and, in particular, with regard to the polygonal cells of the liver parenchyma when IDA derivatives are employed.

Tame


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
  • (superl.) Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.
  • (superl.) Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
  • (superl.) Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
  • (a.) To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.
  • (a.) To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
  • (2) It has been found that in the first year of life, in females from a population selected for domesticated behavior (tame), there is no differentiated adrenal response to different doses of ACTH.
  • (3) While the papers in this country and the New Yorker were crowing about how Beard had, through her own gutsy initiative, tamed her trolls, another woman – Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist – was being trolled.
  • (4) Atropine significantly reduced rhinorrhea, the levels of histamine, and TAME-esterase activity as well as the osmolality of recovered lavage fluids, but had no effect on nasal congestion or albumin.
  • (5) A similar decrease in the TAME-esterase activity after treatment with loratadine was observed.
  • (6) We compared their response, as measured by symptoms and the levels of TAME-esterase activity and albumin recovered in the nasal lavage fluid, with response of two groups with allergic rhinitis undergoing immunotherapy with moderate-dose (N = 16) and high-dose (N = 11) RW (2 and 24 micrograms of antigen E [Amb a I] as maintenance dose, respectively).
  • (7) The Ss became extremely placid and tame or were profoundly depressed in their overall behavior most of the time.
  • (8) So maybe there’s another union that needs a little taming.” He also said that Trump was not a fan of the EU, described it as “supranational and unelected” and attacked the European commission’s president, Jean-Claude Juncker.
  • (9) Topical glucocorticosteroid treatment abolished this increase in nasal symptoms and TAME activity (p less than 0.05 for all treatment alternatives).
  • (10) The response to nasal challenge was monitored by counting the number of sneezes, the assessment of subjective symptoms, and by measuring the levels of histamine and TAME-esterase activity in recovered nasal lavages.
  • (11) Solutions of sodium desoxycholate and androsterone-3-sulfate accelerated TAME hydrolysis as did supensions of testosterone, etiocholanolone, androsterone, androsterone-3-hemisuccinate and pregnandiol-3-glucuronidate.
  • (12) Ernst vowed to fight abortion rights and tame big government, putting the Affordable Care Act, the Clean Water Act, minimum wage and the Department of Education, among other things, in her sights.
  • (13) The Km and kcat for TAME were 0.042 mM, and 110 sec-1.
  • (14) This observation was also true for the levels of albumin and TAME-esterase activity.
  • (15) The levels of N-alpha-tosyl-L-arginine methyl ester (TAME) activity decreased after diphenhydramine treatment, while histamine levels following challenge were not different.
  • (16) A positive correlation occurred between the number of eosinophils in the lavage before histamine challenge and the level of TAME-esterase activity (rs = 0.67, p = 0.03) during the histamine challenge that followed antigen with the subjects on placebo.
  • (17) Then he fenced tamely outside his off stump at Plunkett, Jonny Bairstow pouched the ball and appealed with the slip cordon and Nigel Llong raised his finger.
  • (18) The euro rose 1% against the Swiss franc, a day after the Swiss central bank cut interest rates to tame its currency.
  • (19) But most economists – and the Russian government – expect food prices to rise, a setback for Russia's long-running struggle to tame inflation.
  • (20) He added it was a "complete unknown" whether new tools at the disposal of the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee (FPC) might have a significant impact on taming the housing market.