What's the difference between soda and soma?

Soda


Definition:

  • (n.) Sodium oxide or hydroxide.
  • (n.) Popularly, sodium carbonate or bicarbonate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Aerobically, the gyrase inhibitors increased the expression of sodA::lacZ in the presence or absence of either paraquat or the iron chelator 2,2'-dipyridyl.
  • (2) But the truth is that too often, it’s nearly impossible to get the most basic facts about the food we buy for our families.” If the alterations are adopted, drinks companies, for example, would no longer be able to treat a 20oz bottle of soda as containing 2.5 servings of 8oz each for the purpose of labelling estimated calorie levels.
  • (3) It is hard to determine the impact on obesity and disease, in part because so few sugar taxes have been passed The World Health Organisation calls soda taxes the most effective strategy for improving diet (along with subsidising fruit and vegetables).
  • (4) Beliefs best differentiating among the three groups were: (1) superiority of taste of their "own" sodas, (2) perceived efficiency to quench thirst, and (3) perceived compatibility with other menu items.
  • (5) An Australian walked into a bar in Edinburgh and asked for a scotch and soda.
  • (6) The precise location of the rhaT gene, encoding rhamnose permease, has been established between sodA and rhaC at 3605-3607 kb of Kohara's physical map, which corresponds to 88.4 min on the Escherichia coli chromosomal map.
  • (7) This procedure employed a column chromatography on DE-52, followed by three steps of HPLC procedures with threonine-Sepharose (prepared as described in this report), TSK gel Phenyl-5PW (Toyo Soda), and TSK gel G3000SW (Toyo Soda) columns.
  • (8) DNA minor components were not found in haloalkalophilic microorganisms from soda saline soils in contrast to those from soda lakes.
  • (9) The soda lime capacity is 25 litres (approximately 20 kg).
  • (10) As obesity and diabetes rates soar around the world, a soda tax is one of the top recommendations of global health experts.
  • (11) In Mexico, the soda industry responded with more than arguments about exercise – it responded with money.
  • (12) But raising the kind of money required to defeat the soda industry in a fight over taxes seemed impossible – until Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor of New York City and food nanny to the world, stepped in.
  • (13) The proper name of this panel is "How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love Plastic Water Bottles, Fracking, Genetically Modified Food, & Big Gulp Sodas."
  • (14) Fast "inactivation" of the potassium current is seen with patch pipettes fabricated from soft glass (soda glass or potash lead glass), and is probably caused by block of the potassium channels by di- or multivalent cations released from the glass.
  • (15) Serves 2 100ml bourbon or whisky 250ml soda water 2 lemon slices 2 sprigs of rosemary For the syrup (makes about 250ml) 225ml lemon juice (5-6 lemons) 120g sugar 4-6 sprigs of rosemary 1 Combine all the syrup ingredients in a medium saucepan, then heat until just boiling.
  • (16) Annie's soda bread Photograph: Pai9arhonalcna for the Guardian Easy peasy and very tasty.
  • (17) Detection limits of 0.063 ng of As(III), 0.037 ng of As(v), 0.032 ng of DMA and 0.080 ng of MMA in club soda were achieved using the He-Ar plasma source.
  • (18) People no longer huddled together where they worked but had to drive out of town to the oil and gas fields and the mine that extracted trona (a mineral used to make baking soda, glass, detergents and textiles).
  • (19) Mechanical homogenization of sputa before making the smear, carried out by shaking the sputum with glass beads, had a significant effect on the number of detected mycobacteria while homogenization using soda lye did not influence the positivity in any direction.
  • (20) Consumption of 0% mustard meal and 15% soybean meal, 7.5% mustard meal and 7.5% soybean meal, or 15% mustard meal and 0% soybean meal rations did not differ in palatability studies with 10 group-fed lactating cows when the mustard meal was treated with 3% caustic soda.

Soma


Definition:

  • (n.) The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An initial complex-soma inflection was observed on the rising phase of the action potential of some cells.
  • (2) Axons emerge from proximal dendrites within 50 microns of the soma, and more rarely from the soma, in a tapering initial segment, commonly interrupted by one or two large swellings.
  • (3) In cat, DARPP-32-immunoreactive cell bodies identified as Müller cells were demonstrated in the inner nuclear layer (INL) with processes closely surrounding the cell soma of photoreceptors in the outer nuclear layer.
  • (4) Today the physician who treats women with emotional problems during menopause cannot function solely as a psychotherapist; he must deal with both their soma and psyche.
  • (5) For those synapses that were close to the soma the time constant for decay for the non-NMDA component, which was voltage insensitive, ranged from 4-8 ms. 7.
  • (6) We find that the labelled cell has a myelinated axon, but that the axon loses its myelin within 50 microns of the soma and has not yet been traced further.
  • (7) The soma of the injured neutron has a dense perinuclear ring of RNA.
  • (8) The effective electrical geometry under the conditions of control and 0.5 mM PNB sufficient to completely abolish the postsynaptic potential were determined from analyses of the membrane charging curves assuming the lumped-soma-short-cable model.
  • (9) Sequential recordings of spike amplitudes from the axon hillock, soma, and lateral dendrite suggest that the generator of the axotomy-induced component is localized to the normally passive soma and proximal dendrite.
  • (10) In order to determine whether there is a relationship between soma diameter and oxidative enzyme activity of alpha-motoneurons, we investigated the alpha-motoneurons innervating the different portions within a rat gluteus medius muscle.
  • (11) In oestrogen-treated preparations, tuberoinfundibular arcuate neurons responsive and unresponsive to accessory bulb stimulation could be distinguished by the frequency of successful antidromic propagation into the soma.
  • (12) These cells were also NSE positive and were characterized by the presence of soma action potentials.
  • (13) It is concluded that barium ions have at least 2 points of attack in the ganglion: 1, on the soma membrane of the neurones, and 2, on the presynaptic terminals controlling them.
  • (14) By the end of this period the neuronal soma and the proximal dendrites appeared mature in terms of both morphology and synaptic input.
  • (15) Although the globular bushy cell axons were not completely filled from the soma of origin to terminal fields in the contralateral brainstem, a number of consistent anatomical features were distinguished in the population.
  • (16) Approximately 85% of Na channels in the soma are essentially indistinguishable from those in the giant axon with regard to gating properties and sensitivity to tetrodotoxin or saxitoxin.
  • (17) In slices cut parallel to the pyramidal neurons (perpendicular to the brain surface) one can study chemosensitivity of the various parts of the dendritic tree and the soma.
  • (18) It has not been possible to connect the efferent somas with the fibers.
  • (19) Interestingly, the M-cell soma which stains positive for AChE was ChAT negative.
  • (20) However, the distribution of the enzymes is indirectly correlated as high levels of particulate cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase are present in the soma of neurons with high concentrations of adenylate cyclase in their terminals.