What's the difference between receptacle and receptory?
Receptacle
Definition:
(n.) That which serves, or is used, for receiving and containing something, as a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository.
(n.) The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of the flower grow, or into which they are inserted. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary.
(n.) The dilated apex of a pedicel which serves as a common support to a head of flowers.
(n.) An intercellular cavity containing oil or resin or other matters.
(n.) A special branch which bears the fructification in many cryptogamous plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) The calibrated aperture in the bottom of each well is small enough to retain fluid contents by surface tension during monolayer growth, but also permits fluid to enter the wells when transfer plates are lowered into receptacles containing washing buffer or test sera.
(2) Blood collection for culture purposes must preferably involve alcohol as an antiseptic for cleaning donor skin or suitable receptacles.
(3) This study identified potential areas for chemical leakage, such as refuel receptacles, hydraulic reservoirs, hydraulic motors, doors, ramps, engines, and more.
(4) Upon removal of the DA-releasing system from the receptacle, rotational behaviour increased within 2 weeks and approached preimplant control values 4 weeks later.
(5) When bladder substitution is required, a low pressure receptacle and an antireflux valve with low resistance to flow is essential for preservation of the upper urinary tract.
(6) For environmental health services the percentage availability was 30-45% for reticulated water in the home; 18-29% for an inside flush toilet; and 48-62% for possession of a personal refuse receptacle.
(7) Removal of achenes from fruits and growing the receptacles without auxin resulted in the time-dependent accumulation of 52,000 Mr polypeptide.
(8) Second, after each meal, the client was provided with an apron and a glove and asked to pick up trash in the area and deposit the trash in an appropriate receptacle.
(9) Such areas included the back table and the unsterile suction receptacle.
(10) The treatment allowed complete seating of the abutment copings despite the divergence of the roots because the attachment-receptacle portions slide together during cementation.
(11) Areas of potential contamination of the surgical wound in the conventional operating rooms include the back table, the unsterile suction receptacle, and the lack of a positive pressure relationship between the operating room and adjacent areas.
(12) The first time it was called into service by the athlete's defence team this week, the green plastic receptacle was undoubtedly something of a novelty.
(13) The seminal receptacle or spermatheca of Portunus sanguinolentus consists of two parts--an anterior glandular and a posterior chitinous part.
(14) Only two were able to open the receptacles, whereas all 50 of a group of adults and teenagers similarly tested were able to open all of the containers.
(15) He is no longer the politician who was forced to end illegitimate white rule because of mass protest and international condemnation but, according to the Sunday Telegraph, "the man who legislated himself out of power"; no longer history's receptacle but its master.
(16) The citrate buffer is placed in the ileal loop receptacle at the beginning of each urine collection period.
(17) The dark cell is considered to be a receptacle for the disposal of otoconia.
(18) The rats ate from receptacles containing salty food and a contiguous tone produced by speakers under the food followed by lithium chloride injections.
(19) aegypti population seems to be the infested-receptacle index.An attempt was made to estimate the rate of dispersal of Ae.
(20) Verdict No receptacle, had to rush round house looking for one.
Receptory
Definition:
(n.) Receptacle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Peripheral processes of the receptory subepithelial cells have microvilli and 1-2 kinocilia on their apical surface.
(2) In Metazoa single receptory flagellar cells are differentiated; they realize conservatively some receptive molecules that are already prepared by their ancessors--Eukaryota.
(3) Among them bodies of receptory cells are situated; they are of smaller size and decorated with a bundle of microvilli.
(4) The authors suggest that the failure of desensitization of enzyme secretion for caerulein may be due to the maturation process of newborn rat pancreatic acinar cells at receptorial and postreceptorial level.
(5) The receptory area of the ocellus terminates in a tapetum which contains granules, soluble in alcohol.
(6) In the group of 248 pN1 patients with high receptorial status, the therapy was more successful in the group with a medium lymph nodal risk (from 1 to 3 positive nodes) and also in the group with G1 or G2.
(7) It was shown that within 15-17 embryonic days the plasma membrane of the muscle cell contains catecholamine-sensitive adenylate cyclase (isoproterenol greater than epinephrine greater than norepinephrine) which on these ontogenetic stages is represented by functionally active catalytic, regulatory and receptory components.
(8) Thus, our data indicate that a structural anomaly is present in the D2 receptorial complex of these prolactin-secreting rat pituitary tumors, which may be responsible for their resistance to the inhibitory effects of dopamine.
(9) The structure of the receptory terminations in the first branchial arc of fishes is morphologically similar to the de Castro Ist type sensory terminations which he has found in the carotid sinus wall of mammals.
(10) The study provides indirect evidence that hyperinsulinemia and impaired glucose metabolism in liver cirrhosis are due to different mechanisms (receptorial and post-receptorial defects, and altered feedback inhibition of insulin secretion).
(11) These data suggested that phospholipids, proteins and galactose participate to the cellular receptorial area for HAV.
(12) We can conclude that in PMNLs of elderly and patients with AD we assist to an altered post-receptorial signal transduction mechanism, which seems to be even more marked in the case of AD comparing to normal aging.
(13) This is the site of concentration of nerve nodules and receptory endings as well as abundant nervous connections between plexuses of the pancreatic head, duodenum and orifice zones of the both ducts.
(14) These data suggest existence of receptory sites for creatine phosphate in the heart cells: the myofibrillar creatine phosphokinase system where creatine phosphate increases the force of contraction; and the cellular membranes where creatine phosphate decreases the rate of membrane repolarization.
(15) LK-OPs induced inhibition of Fc gamma receptor mediated effector functions with aging could be partly explained by an altered post receptorial coupling switch and as a consequence the lymphokines could not play their role of immunomodulators further impairing the altered immune response with aging.
(16) On the basis of literature data relative to the alteration of beta-endorphin tone in obese subjects, we conducted a clinical trial employing Naltrexone (a receptorial antagonist of endogen opioids) in order to evaluate its efficacy in increasing the compliance of these subjects on dietary treatment.
(17) These distinctions are especially pronounced in the structure of nervous plexuses and receptory endings.
(18) These findings seem to support the hypothesis of a brain receptorial, monoamine supersensitivity in IH.
(19) Among 248 pN1 patients therapy with tamoxifen had an influence on free interval both in the group with a low receptorial status and in particular in that with high receptorial level; no effects of therapy on the ER- patients.
(20) Some peculiar receptorial structures have been found in the majority of the samples examined.