What's the difference between primal and primordial?

Primal


Definition:

  • (a.) First; primary; original; chief.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The psychological-interpersonal movement into triangulated oedipal object relations is mediated by the elaboration of mature forms of primal scene fantasies in conjunction with the development of a "transitional oedipal relationship" to the mother.
  • (2) The concept of the primal scene is in need of redefinition and clarification.
  • (3) This hypothesis is akin to Freud's theory of primal fantasies.
  • (4) It’s all well and good standing in a gallery and stroking your chin, but if you cast your eyes to the left and summon the concentration it takes to read the little rectangle of artistic blurb next to it, all of that context and explanation really helps transform that weird bit of twisted wire your kid could make into something deep and primal pulled from the soul.
  • (5) Brown went on to create six albums, bassist Mani joined Primal Scream, while Squire, who created the artwork for the band's first album, formed the short-lived Seahorses before deciding to concentrate on art.
  • (6) The movie excels in its many trading-floor sequences, great chaotic indoor crowd-scenes worthy of Raoul Walsh, in which we can glimpse the primal, quasi-animalistic governing urges that propel an unregulated – that's to say, totally lawless – free-market economy, as the hawks are granted licence to feast upon the sparrows.
  • (7) The issue of the analyst's and the patient's conviction concerning reconstructions that attempt to reach across the "primal repression barrier" is discussed.
  • (8) As infants are forced by experience to give up the 'internal illusion' of primal identification with the powerful mother, the sense of helplessness that ensues leads to secondary identification to create an 'external illusion' of oneness with the mother during heightened stress or tension.
  • (9) Her theory of the role of the primal object for the baby, as the provider of necessary psychological containment, a kind of psychological skin, has proven to be of great value for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists treating adults and children with skin problems.
  • (10) Direct emergence of primal repression is a threat to life and its activation is therefore risky.
  • (11) He has also recently completed a short film with Butterworth – The Clear Road Ahead , for Film Four, a story about a businessman who undergoes a kind of primal transformation in the woods – and is eager to do more screen work, if he can find the right script (though Jerusalem, he insists, will not be it: "We don't think it would be better than the thing that happens on stage").
  • (12) I can remember the beginning and the last few gigs with Primal Scream but everything else is interchangeable.
  • (13) The Pulitzer-winning novelist Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, joined the campaign "because censorship is the primal enemy of the artist and of a democratic society.
  • (14) Zimmerman drove traffic at the former site with what the Wall Street Journal described as "a deep connection to his audience's evolving, irreducibly human, primal sensibilities".
  • (15) Freud's initial notions accentuated the inhibiting, punitive aspects of the paternal representation, highlighting, as they did, the oedipal father of the primal horde.
  • (16) "I was just stunned that we won because the prize was in its infancy and people assumed it was an indie award [Primal Scream and Suede had won previously].
  • (17) Special attention is given to age and reactions at time of initial awareness of parents' sexual relationship and at time of any possible primal-scene witnessing, beliefs about parents' present sex lives, and interviewees' own ideas of how their parents' sexual attitudes and relationship may have influenced them.
  • (18) The importance of family-relationship patterns as determinants of reactions to primal-scene experience is emphasized.
  • (19) There are few reports about the methods, amounts, and kinds of dosage about intermittent intra-arterial chemotherapy of liver metastases from primal pathological type's squamous cell carcinoma.
  • (20) Carcass yield traits included preslaughter, abdominal fat, giblet, pelt, visceral and carcass weights and dressing percentage; lean yield traits consisted of uncooked lean percentages from forequarter, hindquarter and loin primal cuts, adjusted total lean weight and overall meat to bone ratio.

Primordial


Definition:

  • (a.) First in order; primary; original; of earliest origin; as, primordial condition.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest beds of the Silurian age, corresponding to the Acadian and Potsdam periods in American geology. It is called also Cambrian, and by many geologists is separated from the Silurian.
  • (a.) Originally or earliest formed in the growth of an individual or organ; as, a primordial leaf; a primordial cell.
  • (n.) A first principle or element.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In contrast, in primordial follicles, FSH was restricted to the germ cell but was present in both the oocyte cytoplasm and germinal vesicle.
  • (2) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".
  • (3) This primordial role explains the wide variety of tissues, ranging from the central and peripheral nervous system to the vascular system, that are affected by FGF during the late embryonic, neonatal, and adult phases of development.
  • (4) Indirect immunofluorescence studies with four monoclonal antibodies raised against carp spermatozoa revealed that monoclonal antibody WCS 29 stained the outer membranes of primordial germ cells in larvae from 3 days after fertilization.
  • (5) After the treatment in toto of the embryos from various species of Anura by cAMP, the number of primordial germ cells (PGC) in genital ridges is strongly reduced; the most part of the PGC are found in the endoderm.
  • (6) Mouse lymphocytes and STO fibroblasts were negative, whereas F9 teratocarcinoma cells, intestinal epithelial cells, and rat fetal primordial germ cells were all found to be highly positive for APase activity, in agreement with published results on APase localization in these cells.
  • (7) This sequence of events suggests that receptor formation may be induced by innervation of primordial cells within the epidermis.
  • (8) Laparoscopic directed ovarian biopsies show primordial follicles in one and a corpus luteum in the other.
  • (9) Plastic responses in leaf form resulting from ontogenetic or external influences are initiated very early in primordial development and are brought about by effects on the rate and direction of cell division and expansion in different regions of the primordium.
  • (10) The primordial ratio was supposed to shift to the modern one guided by the action of primitive nucleotides.
  • (11) Evidence suggests that cAMP production is not a primordial step in the response to androgen since dibutyryl cAMP did not mimick the androgenic effect, theophylline did not potentiate the response and alpha,beta-methylene ATP, which competitively inhibits adenyl cyclase, failed to alter the androgenic effect.
  • (12) In the ooplasm the transosome takes part in the development of primordial yolk granules.
  • (13) Moreau de Tours's classical studies about haschisch had pointed out to a rich symptomatology: visual and auditive hallucinations preceded by the "primordial effect": "the dissociation of ideas".
  • (14) The resulting space is not homologous with the primordial amniotic cavity; instead, it is a transitory tropho-epiblastic cavity.
  • (15) In embryos with 6.5-6.7 mm NRL, a part of the primordial proper esophagus extended to the dorsal side of the primordial stomach.
  • (16) Besides this areas of the primordial germinogen cell generation are found among the cells lining the system of labyrinths and channels of the yolk sac tumour.
  • (17) It is concluded that exposure of B6 mice to a single dose of MC results in atresia of oocytes in primordial and small primary follicles.
  • (18) Primordial germ cells (PGCs), which formed in 78% of cases when the presumptive ventral half to the embryo was cultured, occurred in only 48% of cases when the two ventral vegetal blastomeres were cultured alone.
  • (19) Sympathetic neurotransmitters have been shown to be present in the ovary of the rat during early postnatal development and to affect steroidogenesis before the ovary becomes responsive to gonadotropins, and before the first primordial follicles are formed.
  • (20) Gonadal biopsy was done on the patients, which disclosed no evidence of primordial follicles in one and severe reduction in the other.