What's the difference between scalloped and semicircle?

Scalloped


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Scallop
  • (a.) Furnished with a scallop; made or done with or in a scallop.
  • (a.) Having the edge or border cut or marked with segments of circles. See Scallop, n., 2.
  • (n.) Baked in a scallop; cooked with crumbs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ultrastructural examination of noncartilaginous regions of the tumor demonstrated mesenchymal cells with features suggestive of cartilaginous differentiation, viz, scalloped cell membranes, sac-like distension of abundant rough endoplasmic reticulum, and a matrix containing fibrillary and finely granular material.
  • (2) Hypertrophy of the satellite cells with increase in the perineuronal intercellular spaces, often associated with irregular, scalloped nuclear and cell outlines, suggested that neuron shrinkage had occurred.
  • (3) The ultrasonic root planing however showed a more discrete scalloped surface with very small tears and having a hammered appearance.
  • (4) I choose the halibut fillet with scallops, dauphinoise potatoes, veg melange and pesto tapenade.
  • (5) Composition of neurons, their structure and neuromediatory specialization in the Japanese scallop ganglia have been studied by means of morphological, morphometrical and histochemical methods.
  • (6) In addition, the cells receive synapses from numerous nonimmunoreactive terminals including a wide range of different dome-shaped terminals and various scalloped or glomerular terminals.
  • (7) By using these proteins from the scallop, Pecten maximus, the existence of two distinct tryptophan-containing domains was established, which respond independently to ATP and Ca2+-specific binding.
  • (8) Two classes of myosin light chains can be distinguished functionally: those that restore calcium regulation to "desensitized" scallop myofibrils, and those that do not (Kendrick-Jones, J., et al.
  • (9) Labeled axon terminals were both scallop-shaped and smooth in profile.
  • (10) An additional previously unreported finding was a 'scalloped' contour in a majority of hairs.
  • (11) 98, 141-148 (1985) was prepared by chymotryptic digestion of the scallop myosin in the presence of EDTA, and was assigned as the carboxyl-terminal 106-residue peptide of the SHLC.
  • (12) In vitro production of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) by the amoebocytes of the scallop, Patinopecten yessoensis, was studied.
  • (13) Myosin filaments isolated from scallop striated muscle have been activated by calcium-containing solutions, and their structure has been examined by electron microscopy after negative staining.
  • (14) Mussels and scallops were very rapidly contaminated showing high toxin accumulation rates, whereas rates for oysters and clams were low.
  • (15) Native myosin filaments from scallop striated muscle that have been rapidly frozen in relaxing solutions appear to be well preserved in vitreous ice.
  • (16) Immunolabeling is in small dome-shaped and in large scalloped synaptic terminals.
  • (17) The important aggressive X-ray signs of central (primary) chondrosarcoma include: Infiltrating, notching and scalloping of the endosteal cortical surface; irregular and ill-defined margin between tumor and bone, transition zone widened or 'moth-eaten' in appearance; soft tissue tumor mass may grow eccentrically or concentrically around the bone; various patterns of calcification within the tumor and localized laminated periosteal reaction.
  • (18) At one point, dissatisfied with their taste – she is an enthusiastic rather than a merely dutiful taster – she tipped seven plated servings of scallops back in a basin and began seasoning them all over again.
  • (19) In the myosin-linked regulatory mechanism typified by the molluscan scallop adductor muscle, contraction is controlled by Ca2+ binding to sites on the thick filament protein, myosin.
  • (20) The hybrid complexes reconstituted with molluscan E-LC and R-LC regained the specific Ca2(+)-binding site, whereas the hybrid complex formed with rabbit skeletal E-LC [alkali LC 2 (A2-LC)] and scallop R-LC did not.

Semicircle


Definition:

  • (n.) The half of a circle; the part of a circle bounded by its diameter and half of its circumference.
  • (n.) A semicircumference.
  • (n.) A body in the form of half of a circle, or half of a circumference.
  • (n.) An instrument for measuring angles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The form of the hard palate is similar to a semicircle in the frontal cut.
  • (2) The loudspeakers, 15 deg apart, were arranged in a semicircle (0-270-180 deg, azimuth).
  • (3) In the other pattern, the inducing semicircles were shifted in phase along their diameter and their endpoints were aligned along the contour.
  • (4) Within the whole target volume yD remains nearly constant when irradiated with all 60 beams, whereas considerable changes were found for irradiations with 31 beams coming from a semicircle.
  • (5) In targeting Hindus, Sikhs, Jews and those of Tamil ethnicity, the Tories are once again courting a suburban semicircle of boroughs in north London that traditionally are more likely to vote Conservative.
  • (6) Reducing the salience of the illusory contour, whether by scrambling the contour, or by decreasing the number or the contrast of inducing semicircles, systematically increased discrimination thresholds.
  • (7) Osteoperiosteal corticocancellous grafts are harvested from the iliac wing, then bent into a semicircle with the periosteum on the inside and inserted between the resected vertebral pedicles where they act as a base for further grafting.
  • (8) A useful method of treatment in these cases is the marginal, lamellar keratoplasty, which, according to the type of involvement, can take the shape of a sector, ring, horseshoe, or semicircle.
  • (9) There was a characteristic pattern of activity consisting of small, medium-size, or large distinct granules often distributed in a semicircle in the cytoplasm, but sparing the nucleus of hairy cells.
  • (10) We report a case of relatively diffuse nontransmural infarction demonstrated by a semicircle of 99mTc-PYP activity which significantly overlapped 201Tl uptake on the SPECT study.
  • (11) The algorithm developed here is to reduce interactively a multidimensional symptom space to sectorial regions representing each disease in a semicircle using the modified constellation graph method.
  • (12) This method enables us to classify patients using the angle in the semicircle as a single classifying parameter with an accuracy of about 90%, that is, with little overlapping between disease sectors.
  • (13) Its transitional stage is a curved semicircle having a form of a distended spiral coil; that reflects an uneven growth of the organ in the human embryogenesis.
  • (14) The cupboard door came open, Martensen was dragged out and beaten by a dozen officers standing in a semicircle around him.
  • (15) They are situated in the subserous tela along the anterior and posterior semicircles of the organ.
  • (16) The CGL of the buffalo was convex, swung in a semicircle around the thalamus and was covered by the fibres of the optic tract.
  • (17) The hypothesis is presented that a sheet of internal scar is primarily responsible for raising the skin inside the semicircle.
  • (18) The tube-camera-unit rotates in a semicircle in 5 to 6 seconds around a skull placed in the isocentrum.
  • (19) The posterior semicircle of the sphincter is located higher than the anterior one.
  • (20) The anterior capsular tear has a smooth circular edge at the intersection of the two semicircles of the capsulorhexis, while a triangular flap directed towards the center of the pupil is often formed at 12 o'clock.