What's the difference between remnant and vestigial?

Remnant


Definition:

  • (a.) Remaining; yet left.
  • (a.) That which remains after a part is removed, destroyed, used up, performed, etc.; residue.
  • (a.) A small portion; a slight trace; a fragment; a little bit; a scrap.
  • (a.) An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some of these vacuoles had remnants of mitochondrial cristae or were enlarged endoplasmic reticulum.
  • (2) Average remnant diameters were 400-600 A and remnants were enriched in cholesteryl esters and in protein insoluble in tetramethylurea.
  • (3) Tumors were detected in the sutured or anastomosed region (especially the latter) of the remnant stomach in a great majority of the patients studied.
  • (4) In order to determine an histological high-risk group, we chose cases with preneoplastic conditions (60 CAG, 10 biopsies of gastric remnants, 3 flat adenomas and 55 gastrectomies by cancer or ulcer).
  • (5) However, before an operation, it is difficult to predict the functional reserve in the remnant following massive resection.
  • (6) Six patients had miniplates used to repair the thyroid cartilage defect after type I thyroplasty to prevent lateralization of the Silastic implant; three patients had miniplates used after hemilaryngectomy to bridge the thyroid cartilage remnants, resulting in better deglutition after hemilaryngectomy; and three patients had miniplates used to repair laryngeal fractures.
  • (7) Total thyroidectomy removes all visible thyroid tissue although it is permissible to leave a very small remnant of tissue (less than a fraction of a gram) in the region of the ligament of Berry in order to protect the recurrent laryngeal nerve and the blood supply to the parathyroid glands.
  • (8) On proctoscopic examination, an anal remnant, measuring approximately 3 cm from the anal verge, could be demonstrated.
  • (9) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
  • (10) The binding of 125I-labeled epidermal growth factor (EGF) was compared in acini isolated from the regenerating remnant following 90% partial pancreatectomy (ppx) and from the pancreas of sham-pancreatectomized (sham-ppx) rats.
  • (11) As shown in one patient, close follow-up is necessary in any case because remnant tumor tissue may start growing again after a long period of rest.
  • (12) The in vitro reconstruction of the zonula occludens proceeds from remnants of the former zonula occludens.
  • (13) The properties of the recognition sites for alpha 2-macroglobulin (alpha 2-macroglobulin receptor; low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein) and beta-migrating very low density lipoprotein (beta-VLDL) (remnant receptor) on rat parenchymal cells were directly compared to analyze whether both substrates are recognized and internalized by the same receptor system.
  • (14) With the increased interest in autotransplantation of splenic remnants following splenectomy, we expect that this complication may be reported with increasing frequency.
  • (15) We report on two cases of bladder outlet obstruction caused by massive dilatation of persistent müllerian duct remnants.
  • (16) If purified nuclei were heated for 45 min at 37 degrees C, the final matrix exhibited well-recognizable nucleolar remnants, an inner network and a peripheral lamina.
  • (17) To analyze relating factors to early repairment of the surgical margin of the remnant liver we measured plasma fibronectin (FN), coagulation factor XIII (XIII), polymorphonuclear leukocyte elastase (PMNE), platelet counts (Plt), prothrombin time (PT%) before and at the first, third, 7th and 14th days after liver resection in 25 patients.
  • (18) Compensatory growth of the remnant kidney appeared not to be dependent on increments in renal blood flow; captopril decreased RVR and increased ERPF but had no effect on kidney weight, while indomethacin had no effect on ERPF and augmented remnant kidney weight.
  • (19) Remnants of each atrial specimen were chopped and added to the tissue bath.
  • (20) Remnants after "classic" Subtotal Thyroidectomy are of constant size in constant position.

Vestigial


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a vestige or remnant; like a vestige.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We describe herein, a new unstable mutant of the vestigial locus, isolated from a French natural population.
  • (2) The ischiocavernosus and bulbospongiosus muscles are vestigial in the female rat.
  • (3) Anal transitional epithelium is not highly specialized and incorporates features of both urothelium and squamous epithelium; slight urothelial differentiation is considered vestigial.
  • (4) The 17-DOS, while a vestigial pathway, may still cause disease, and provide clues to central organization of the adreno-cortical response to injury, stress, and disease.
  • (5) This leg was connected with two sets of coxae by a irregular-shaped bone considered the vestigial vertebrae and ribs.
  • (6) Two cases of idiopathic soft tissue calcification occurring in the vestigial fingers of infants with congenital brachydactyly are reported.
  • (7) The DNA-containing nucleomorph of cryptomonad algae appears to be the vestigial nucleus of such an algal endosymbiont.
  • (8) The short cysteine-containing motif represented the only evidence of a possible vestigial relationship between SP-40,40 and other complement components.
  • (9) The protamine-mRNA-coding region is flanked by AACA... TGTT sequences, which might represent vestigial traces of past recombination events and whose presence supports the notion that the protamine gene sequence was of foreign origin.
  • (10) We present a cyst arising from vestigial thymic remnants in the neck.
  • (11) The dorsal ommatidia have only four full-length typical cells, and one distal and three vestigial full-length cells.
  • (12) This is in spite of the lack of flight ability in both mutants, the reduced enzyme activity levels in the alpha-glycerophosphate mutant, and in the case of the vestigial flies, of reduced life-span.
  • (13) A third type characterized by its vestigial callus was found only in histologic sections.
  • (14) One patient had a vestigial radial artery that ended as muscular branches in the forearm.
  • (15) Vestigial mutants however, present several alterations including the absence of the ovoid projection, a fact consistent with the existence of very few marginal bristles.
  • (16) These data, together with the sequence homologies and identical cofactors and substrates, led us to propose that the AHAS enzymes are descended from pyruvate oxidase (or a similar protein) and, thus, that the flavin requirement of the AHAS enzymes is a vestigial remnant, which may have been conserved to play a structural rather than a chemical function.
  • (17) Goats with dependent ear types were infested more commonly than those with erect ears; no goats with vestigial ears were found to harbor mites.
  • (18) The hypothesis predicts that if IL-3 is a significant in vivo regulator of megakaryocyte formation and development, receptor for IL-3 should be present on megakaryocytes and may be vestigially on platelets.
  • (19) Urogenital cysts are retroperitoneal or mesenteric cysts that are derived from vestigial remnants of the embryonic urogenital apparatus.
  • (20) The absence of the lower portion of the orbicularis oris muscle, the death of tissue in the infralabial region, as well as the presence of only a vestigial lower lip has hitherto not been reported in the literature.