What's the difference between ramifying and ratifying?
Ramifying
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ramify
Example Sentences:
(1) Two principal classes of striatum long axonal neurons (sparsely ramified reticular cells and densely ramified dendritic cells) were analyzed quantitatively in four animal species: hedgehog, rabbit, dog and monkey.
(2) However most of the TH-immunoreactive cell bodies showed an evident depletion of TH immunoreactivity and their processes, ramified in the inner and outer plexiform layers, disappeared almost completely.
(3) Subcellularly, the heaviest depositions of reaction product were observed lining the cytoplasmic membrane surfaces of the labyrinth of anastomosing plasma membrane tubules that ramifies throughout the chloride cell cytoplasm.
(4) These cells often surrounded cerebral capillaries, and sent ramifying processes into the neuropil.
(5) In contrast, choline acetyltransferase immunoreactivity was limited to matching subpopulations of amacrine (A14) and displaced amacrine (dA14) cells, ramifying narrowly at 20% and 49% depth levels within the IPL.
(6) The cell body is smaller in size than the oogonia, and cytoplasmic processes from it ramify around the periphery of the ovary.
(7) The antigenicity of the ramified microglia became elevated when rhodamine B isothiocyanate was present intracellularly and even more so with the presence of a nearby intracerebral stab wound.
(8) The ultrastructure of the Sertoli cell studied in sexually active control animals during May-June and experimental animals sexually activated by light in winter, presents the commonly described ramified aspect with an infolded nucleus, well developed Golgi complexes, rough and smooth endoplasmic reticulum, numerous microfilaments, few liposomes and lysosomal formations; In the regressed testes of hibernating animals or blinded spring animals, the Sertoli cells are more round shaped with a significant increase in number and size of liposomes, lysosomes and various necrotic bodies.
(9) Whereas the noradrenergic and serotoninergic neuronal systems ramify profusely within the amygdala, the dopaminergic system appears to be more discretely and topographically organized.
(10) Ramified nerve fibres in the submucosa immunoreactive to SP, VIP, CGRP and PHI extended to the mucosa and to small blood vessels in the submucosa.
(11) The ovarian artery and vein and their uterine branches which supply the ovary, oviduct and uterus, ramify extensively.
(12) These neurons had a long apical dendrite, which ramified in the upper-half of SGC into horizontally arborized dendritic fields.
(13) Scanning electron microscopy revealed that in analogy to brain tissue two types of microglial cells are present in the cultures: the ameboid and the ramified type which both display similar appearance by transmission electron microscopy.
(14) These bipolar neurons possess one CSF-contacting process that protrudes into the ventricular lumen with a club-shape ending and a thick, ramifying process directed into the hypothalamic neuropil; the ependymofugal processes form intra- and extrahypothalamic projections.
(15) Computer reconstructions of two of the Golgi-impregnated dLGN interneurones and their subsequent 3-dimensional computer rotations showed that their processes ramified in long columnar-shaped territories aligned dorsoventrally.
(16) From implants placed in the host rostral mesencephalic region, HNF-positive axonal projections were seen to extend in large numbers rostrally along the medial forebrain bundle and the internal capsule, and ramify within the caudate putamen, the ventral striatum and the amygdaloid nuclei (a distance of about 5-6 mm), and more sparsely in the frontal cortex and the olfactory bulb (a distance of about 10 mm).
(17) A mobile full text processing system is reported which is independent of a computer, yet can be completely integrated into a data processing system and is purely a storage and retrieval system for data files and data banks which, with relatively little activity ratio of the individual items of information stored, still have an unusually large, widely ramified indexing depth.
(18) In some breasts of all three types of megalomastia ramified new ducts named "juvenile units" had developed and had proceeded to atrophy.
(19) Choline acetyltransferase was found in amacrine cells that ramify in sublamina a of the inner plexiform layer and in displaced amacrine cells ramifying in sublamina b.
(20) methods have been used to determine the composition of a mixture of oligosaccharides obtained by enzymic degradation of the modified hairy (ramified) regions of apple pectin with a new rhamnogalacturonase.
Ratifying
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ratify
Example Sentences:
(1) Environmental campaigners had been apprehensive about the chances of the Senate ratifying a new international treaty – a successor to the Kyoto protocol – to combat global warming unless a consensus had already been reached on Capitol Hill.
(2) When he ratified the Kyoto protocol, Australia's prime minister, Kevin Rudd, described climate change as the greatest threat facing humanity.
(3) This is why legal scholars are repeatedly reminding us that until our constitution is ratified, the EU will continue to lack the political debate that must be at the centre of any mature democracy.
(4) The 27-year-old has put pen to paper on a three-and-a-half-year deal at the Emirates – he will wear the No23 shirt at the club – though confirmation that the deal had been ratified by the Premier League did not come until just before 5pm tonight.
(5) The Hollande team maintained that all topics were on the table and also held open the prospect that France could refuse to ratify Merkel's fiscal pact compelling debt and deficit reduction in the eurozone unless eurobonds were recognised as a possible tool.
(6) The UK-Colombia bilateral investment treaty is one of thousands criss-crossing the globe but is the first Britain will have ratified since 2009.
(7) In any case, EU procedures for ratifying most trade agreements are far more stringent than for ratifying a withdrawal agreement, which requires merely a qualified majority in the council and a majority in the European parliament.
(8) Studies in this country more than 20 years ago implicating ultra-violet light as a factor in the aetiology of malignant melanoma are being ratified by epidemiologic studies in the United States.
(9) Australia ratified the convention in 1951 and parts of it were incorporated into the Migration Act and as such were enforceable under Australian law.
(10) However, her relationship with Mr Bennet, so often seen as establishing and ratifying her status as the smartest and most interesting of the daughters, certainly complicates – if not pollutes – her standing as our narrator's ego ideal.
(11) Some have argued a vote should be held in parliament to ratify the result.
(12) Breakthrough as US and China agree to ratify Paris climate deal Read more The prime minister used her maiden speech at the United Nations in New York to say the UK remained determined to “play our part in the international effort against climate change … In a demonstration of our commitment to the agreement reached in Paris, the UK will start its domestic procedures to enable ratification of the Paris agreement and complete these before the end of the year,” she said.
(13) The majority of states have signed , but not all have ratified.
(14) Turnbull was later asked about the domestic challenges in signatory countries to ratifying the TPP.
(15) Ratified in 1980, the document is widely seen as obsolete and part of what she hopes to change with her "democratic revolution" – a plan she says could be financed by higher corporation taxes and which works within the boundaries of a constitutional democracy.
(16) That is why we are now starting the process of ratifying the landmark climate deal signed in Paris.” Greenpeace gave a qualified welcome to the announcement.
(17) Lugar's primary loss will ultimately remove from the Senate, which is responsible for ratifying international treaties, an influential advocate for a bipartisan foreign policy.
(18) If so, he would have to abdicate – as Baudouin of Belgium did for a day rather than ratify abortion .
(19) He pledged he would press the US Senate "immediately and aggressively" to ratify the comprehensive test ban treaty never fully endorsed by the Americans.
(20) There was even some talk of John Major using the device to ratify the Maastricht Treaty if the House of Commons would not pass the necessary resolution.