What's the difference between process and ramus?

Process


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.
  • (n.) A series of actions, motions, or occurrences; progressive act or transaction; continuous operation; normal or actual course or procedure; regular proceeding; as, the process of vegetation or decomposition; a chemical process; processes of nature.
  • (n.) A statement of events; a narrative.
  • (n.) Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis.
  • (n.) The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to answer to the action; -- a generic term for writs of the class called judicial.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
  • (2) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
  • (3) The femoral component, made of Tivanium with titanium mesh attached to it by a new process called diffusion bonding, retains superalloy fatigue strength characteristics.
  • (4) The process of sequence rearrangement appears to be a significant part of the evolution of the genome and may have a much greater effect on the evolution of the phenotype than sequence alteration by base substitution.
  • (5) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
  • (6) Each process has been linked to the regulation of cholesterol accretion in the arterial cell.
  • (7) These are typically runaway processes in which global temperature rises lead to further releases of CO², which in turn brings about more global warming.
  • (8) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
  • (9) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
  • (10) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
  • (11) Sample processing appears effective in avoiding spontaneous oxalogenesis.
  • (12) In contrast, the effects of deltamethrin and cypermethrin promote transmitter release by a Na+ dependent process.
  • (13) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
  • (14) Exudative inflammatory processes predominate in the ulcer floor.
  • (15) An inflammatory process than occurs in the airways that is characterized by an influx of eosinophils and neutrophils into the airway epithelium and bronchial fluids.
  • (16) The occupation of the high affinity calcium binding site by Ca(II) and Mn(II) does not influence the Cu(II) binding process, suggesting that there is no direct interaction between this site and the Cu(II) binding sites.
  • (17) In the process, HDL3 became larger and eluted in a position identical to that of HDL2.
  • (18) Brain damage may be followed by a number of dynamic events including reactive synaptogenesis, rerouting of axons to unusual locations and altered axon retraction processes.
  • (19) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
  • (20) Thus, mechanical restitution of the ventricle is a dynamic process that can be assessed using an elastance-based approach in the in situ heart.

Ramus


Definition:

  • (n.) A branch; a projecting part or prominent process; a ramification.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Additionally, several small vessels (rami pleurales pulmonales) originated from the esophageal branch (ramus esophagea) of the bronchoesophageal artery, traversed the pulmonary ligaments, and supplied the visceral pleura.
  • (2) In 27 decerebrate cats under various experimental conditions, we studied the effects of programmed premature ventricular contractions on the impulse activity of preganglionic sympathetic fibres isolated from the third left thoracic ramus.
  • (3) In one horse, the superior aspect of the right ascending ramus of the lower jaw below the coronoid process revealed a gunshot wound; the other skeletons showed no evidence of trauma.
  • (4) Joints are originally created by the author as an imitation of TMJ and mandibular ramus.
  • (5) The method and the program are illustrated using the leave-one-out method on a sample of N = 12 male rhesus monkeys whose mandibular ramus height was measured five times at yearly intervals.
  • (6) The mandibular ramus was short in length and the mandibular condyle had not developed on the right.
  • (7) Twenty-three adult female rhesus monkeys underwent advancement of the mandible by the sagittal split ramus osteotomy.
  • (8) The present study, however, qualitatively evaluates the unsharpness of redundant shadows of the mandibular ramus, especially with reference to the effects of first-slit width.
  • (9) The healing rate was similar at different sites except for the ramus where healing appeared to be quicker.
  • (10) Myxofibroma developing in the mandibular ramus region is rare, and there has been only one case reported so far in Japan.
  • (11) For pinning subcondylar fractures, a guide groove cut on the lateral surface of the mandibular ramus is a useful method of directing a Kirschner wire into the correct position.
  • (12) Extension of main duct, smooth defect of posterior border of mandibular ramus, posterior displace of styloid process, and filling defect of branch ducts and acini in the pterygomandibular space were seen in deep lobe parotid tumors.
  • (13) The exposure and operative management comprised a latero-facial approach combined with multiple exposure osteotomies of the ascending mandibular ramus, orbitozygomatic region and a frontosphenotemporal craniotomy.
  • (14) A the caudal edge of the articular process, the ramus divides into medial and lateral branches, and the medial branch supplies the L5--S1 articulation.
  • (15) Deep notch cases had more retrusive mandibles with a shorter corpus, smaller ramus height, and a greater gonial angle than did shallow notch cases.
  • (16) The length of the mandibular ramus was measured in lateral radiographs of all mandibles.
  • (17) X-ray examination showed excellent union between the inverted segment and the rest of ramus and satisfactory appearance.
  • (18) We describe five cases of radiographically proven stress fracture of the pubic ramus in serious runners, three of whom were elite female marathoners.
  • (19) The material consisted of presurgical and 1-year postsurgical profile cephalograms of 52 adult orthognathic surgery patients (40 females and 12 males) who initially had mandibular prognathism and had undergone bilateral vertical ramus osteotomy through an extraoral incision in the retroangular area.
  • (20) In anaesthetised cats the response of the soma dendritic region of sympathetic preganglionic neurones (SPN) recorded intracellularly in T3 spinal segment was studied following excitation of third thoracic white ramus and following orthodromic inputs.

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