What's the difference between probang and whalebone?
Probang
Definition:
(n.) A slender elastic rod, as of whalebone, with a sponge on the end, for removing obstructions from the esophagus, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was our practice to give orally acrylnitrile in physiological sodium chloride solution by probang, and the treatment was continued for 69 days from Monday to Friday in the week.
(2) The amount of virus recovered from probang samples increased with the time since the last vaccination.
Whalebone
Definition:
(n.) A firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from the upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. It is used as a stiffening in stays, fans, screens, and for various other purposes. See Baleen.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its remains were recently put on display in the Museum of Docklands, although its jawbones stood as a roadside arch in Dagenham, still remembered in the name of Whalebone Lane.
(2) The tandemly organized common cetacean component, which comprises a large portion of all cetacean--both odontocete (toothed whale) and mysticete (whalebone whale)--genomes has a repeat length of 1,760 bp and the three clones analysed showed a high degree of conformity.
(3) Throughout the centuries, tongue scrapers have been constructed of thin, flexible strips of wood, various meals, ivory, mother-of-pearl, whalebone, celluloid, tortoiseshell, and plastic.
(4) Little has changed in the streets around Royal Crescent since; a whalebone arch still stands, framing the cold grey North Sea (though the current one is the third to have been erected since the original in 1853).
(5) The hypoglossal nucleus of whalebone whales is composed of four major subdivisions, forming four parallel columns, here called the dorsomedial, the dorsolateral, the ventromedial and the ventrolateral XII columns.
(6) If you thought you could get away with a quick sketch of that Victorian whalebone corset or the butt-lifting boxers, think again: the museum has introduced a ban on drawing too.
(7) In the toothed whale Phocaena communis the differentiation of the hypoglossal nucleus is less clearcut than in whalebone whales, but a similar structural priniciple is recognizable.
(8) At the 50th anniversary of the couple's accession to the ducal title, Debo swanned into the marquee in a costume created for a Victorian duchess at a 19th-century Chatsworth thrash: she found its whaleboning very supportive.
(9) This method uses whalebone instead of extracted teeth.
(10) The ventromedial XII column extends throughout the hypoglossal nucleus, forming in whalebone whales the rostral as well as the caudal end of the nucleus.
(11) Underwear goes on show at the Victoria and Albert Museum Read more From whalebone to wire, state-of-the-art spandex to austerity-era paper, boobs and bums have been progressively enlarged, shaped, squeezed and hoisted by ever more elaborate materials and mechanisms.
(12) In the mysticetes (whalebone whales) the repeat length of the satellite is 1,760 bp.
(13) Comparative study of diplogonadal diphillobothriids from different species of whalebone whales and from man (Japan) and analysis of literary data has made it possible to establish their identity.
(14) Only the species Diplogonoporus balaenopterae (Lönnberg, 1892 capable of infecting whalebone whales, dogs and man can be regarded as really existing.