What's the difference between site and situs?

Site


Definition:

  • (n.) The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.
  • (n.) A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation; as, a site for a church.
  • (n.) The posture or position of a thing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
  • (2) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
  • (3) The frequency of rare fragile sites was studied among 240 children in special schools for subnormal intelligence (IQ 52-85).
  • (4) The presence of O-glycosidic linkages between carbohydrate and protein in the DF3 antigenic site was further supported by the presence of NaBH4-sensitive sites.
  • (5) The data on mapping the episomal plasmid integration sites in yeast chromosomes I, III, IV, V, VII, XV are presented.
  • (6) A total of 13 ascertainments of folate sensitive autosomal fragile sites is observed, of which 10q23 fragility appears to be the most frequent.
  • (7) A quadripolar catheter was positioned either at the site of earliest ventricular activation during induced monomorphic ventricular tachycardia or at circumscribed areas of the left ventricle.
  • (8) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
  • (9) The findings suggest that these two syndromes are associated with dysfunction at two different sites within the frontal lobes.
  • (10) An association of cyclophosphamide, fluorouracil and methotrexate already employed with success against solid tumours in other sites was used in the treatment of 62 patients with advanced tumours of the head and neck.
  • (11) In schizophrenic patients the density of dopamine uptake sites in the basal ganglia was slightly reduced, mainly in the middle third of putamen.
  • (12) The findings clearly reveal that only the Sertoli-Sertoli junctional site forms a restrictive barrier.
  • (13) 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.
  • (14) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
  • (15) But earlier this year the Unesco world heritage committee called for the cancellation of all such Virunga oil permits and appealed to two concession holders, Total and Soco International, not to undertake exploration in world heritage sites.
  • (16) The severity and site of hypertrophy is important in determining the clinical picture and the natural history of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
  • (17) Radioligand binding studies revealed the presence of a single class of high-affinity (Kd = 2-6 X 10(-10) M) binding sites for ET-1 in both cells, although the maximal binding capacity of cardiac receptor was about 6- to 12-fold greater than that of vascular receptor.
  • (18) In the second approach, attachment sites of DTPA groups were directed away from the active region of the molecule by having fragment E1,2 bound in complex, with its active sites protected during the derivatization.
  • (19) Binding data for both ligands to the enzyme yielded nonlinear Scatchard plots that analyze in terms of four negatively cooperative binding sites per enzyme tetramer.
  • (20) Scatchard analyses of binding data obtained with synaptosomal preparations from 17-day-old embryos revealed two T3 binding sites.

Situs


Definition:

  • (n.) The method in which the parts of a plant are arranged; also, the position of the parts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Studying the bronchial tree on the chest x-ray it is possible to indicate the visceral situs with asplenia or with polysplenia.
  • (2) The patient had complete situs inversus and hypospadias.
  • (3) She was of complete situs inversus and subfertile and had chronic bronchitis and nasal polyposis.
  • (4) Respiratory cilia from two female patients with Kartagener's syndrome and one male patient with situs inversus and sinobronchitis were completely immotile and lacked both dynein arms.
  • (5) The 4 patients with pulmonary atresia and interventricular septal defect also presented with an early embryopathy: Shprinzen's velocardiofacial syndrome (n = 2), DiGeorge syndrome (n = 1) and situs inversus (n = 1).
  • (6) The original "root area" widens with the broadening of the back and can still be demonstrated as an homogeneous "root area" of the "intestinal bulge", after the typical adult situs has developed.
  • (7) Two further symptoms are situs inversus and male sterility.
  • (8) A case of mitral atresia with normal aortic valve, situs solitus, d-loop, ASD, VSD, DORV and atresia of the pulmonary valve is presented.
  • (9) Bronchial situs indicates atrial situs much more reliably and can be determined from penetrated chest radiographs or tomograms since the right and left main bronchi normally show different lengths.
  • (10) The hepatic veins and the intra-parenchymal branches of the portal vein and of the hepatic artery were dissected in two isolated livers form subjects with situs inversus.
  • (11) primary ciliary dyskinesia, as in Kartagener's syndrome (sinusitis, bronchiectasis and situs inversus) and Young's syndrome (primary male infertility), the cardinal features are related to mucociliary insufficiency.
  • (12) To our knowledge, this is the first case of the successful mitral valve replacement and concomitant aortocoronary saphenous vein bypass on a patient with situs inversus totalis (mirror-image dextrocardia) in Japan.
  • (13) The visceroatrial situs was solitus in all 14 patients.
  • (14) Multiple atrial rhythms or bradycardia associated with junctional escape were rare in the group of patients with congenital heart disease and situs solitus.
  • (15) Up to now a situs inversus in the thorax of the bovine race has not been described yet.
  • (16) These findings emphasise the pitfalls in predicting cardiac abnormalities from other aberrations of anatomical situs.
  • (17) A 12-year child had complete heart block, an abdominal situs inversus with laevocardia.
  • (18) A 5-years old boy, whose thoracic situs was right isomerism, was diagnosed as transposition of great arteries, common atrioventricular canal (intermediate type), severe tricuspid valve regurgitation, pulmonary valve stenosis, bilateral superior vena cava and left sided inferior vena cava.
  • (19) It consists of chronic infections in the respiratory system, male infertility, and, in about one-half of the cases, situs inversus.
  • (20) Kartagener's syndrome (KS) is a hereditary disease with typical symptoms of situs inversus, bronchiectasis, and chronic infections of the nasal mucosa.

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