What's the difference between spherical and spheroid?

Spherical


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Spheric

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
  • (2) This lack of symmetry in shape and magnitude may be due to non-sphericity of the skull over the temporal region or to variations in conductivities of intervening tissues.
  • (3) As a consequence of deformation from spherical-to-cylindrical shape in the microvasculature, demands for increased surface membrane area leads to increases in surface membrane tension above critical levels for rupture, and the cancer cells are rapidly and lethally damaged.
  • (4) From the different shapes of the scattering curves of the native phosphofructokinase at pH 7.5 in the presence of 15 mM ATP and of the cross-linked tetramer or octamer, it can be inferred that the shapes of the protomers are different: in the presence of ATP the protomers are elongated, having an axial ratio of 1.8 to 2.0; the cross-linked state reveals a spherical protomer of radius 33.0 A, similar to that of the native enzyme at pH 7.5 in the presence of fructose 6-phosphate or fructose 1,6-bisphosphate.
  • (5) Equivalent viewing power (EVP), field of view, and working distance (WD) were calculated for 4 different magnifier equivalent powers, four magnifier-to-eye distances, and for uncorrected spherical ametropias varying from +20.00 to -20.00 D in 0.25 D steps.
  • (6) A sound source is commonly spherical, therefore solutions are found for the wave equation in spherical coordinates, giving a precise meaning to the 'azimuthal' and 'magnetic quantum number' analogy.
  • (7) One biliary stone showed cholesterol with spherical bodies of calcium carbonate and pigment.
  • (8) A simple method has been developed for fusing synaptic vesicles into spherical structures 20-50 micron in diameter.
  • (9) Anterior lenticonus is a rare condition, in which there is a conical or spherical protrusion of the anterior surface into the anterior chamber.
  • (10) These results suggest that the shapes of the two enzymes are more spherical in solution than the proposed structural model previously reported.
  • (11) Elementary spherical particles similar to those described in the mitochondria are found in isolated rat liver and spleen nuclear membranes.
  • (12) NF-L in 6 M-urea took the form of spherical particles with a diameter of about 12 nm.
  • (13) Later, melanocytes became spherical and had membrane bound, autophagosome-like compartments of pigment granules.
  • (14) Rotation time constants obtained from the dichroism decay are not consistent with a spherical shape, for either the holo- or core repressor.
  • (15) The mean spherical approximation (MSA) provides a simple and reliable method for computation of single ion activities.
  • (16) Neuron #1 contained large spherical electron-dense vesicles while neuron #2 contained smaller subspherical vesicles.
  • (17) The morphological unit of the regular array appeared to consist of four spherical subunits, each about 2 nm in diameter, which were arranged in a tetragonal pattern about 4.5 by 7.0 nm in dimension.
  • (18) These receptors were subdivided by their morphology in the next groups: pear-shaped receptors with capsule; capsuled spherical receptors located near vascular walls; ovoidal receptors with capsule and glomerular structure; simple or complex mace-shaped receptors without capsule.
  • (19) A simple closed-form solution is derived for a thin linearly elastic spherical model of the cornea.
  • (20) Levels of pregnenolone and progesterone in spherical pig blastocysts (near 4 and 15 microM respectively) exceeded respective levels in histotroph by about 400-fold.

Spheroid


Definition:

  • (n.) A body or figure approaching to a sphere, but not perfectly spherical; esp., a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its axes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Microelectrodes were used to measure the oxygen tension (PO2) profile within individual spheroids at different stages of growth.
  • (2) Aside from typical nuclear spheroids, irregularly shaped nuclei were frequently seen, associated with increased nuclear folds, transitional stages between nuclear folds and nuclear spheroids were also present.
  • (3) The nuclei in these typical onocytes appeared oval or spheroid.
  • (4) The tumor cells of these melanomas are characterized by spheroidal melanosomes and containing pheomelanins.
  • (5) This is a clinical, histopathological and electron microscopical study on the spheroidal degeneration of the cornea by means of 48 histologically verified cases.
  • (6) Our results show the feasibility of back-extrapolating multicellular tumour spheroid growth curves to obtain survival estimates that can be applied to establish sublethal damage repair capacity.
  • (7) HCG, E2 and P4 were secreted into the culture medium throughout the entire culture period, in proportion to spheroid size.
  • (8) In addition, it was observed that the higher resistance of the V79 spheroid cells than the monolayers to gamma-irradiation is not diminished in the pion peak, suggesting that the underlying phenomenon of intercellular communication influences cell survival even after high-LET irradiation.
  • (9) Under the 3-dimensional geometry of the spheroid system, there was, however, generally a more extensive ECM.
  • (10) The spheroids grew exponentially with a volume-doubling time of approximately 24 h up to a diameter of approximately 580 microns and then the growth rate tapered off, more for spheroids grown at the low than at the high oxygen tension.
  • (11) The cytotoxicity of doxorubicin (DX), 4'-O-methyl-DX (MET-DX), 4'-deoxy DX (DEO-DX), 4'-deoxy-4'-iodo-DX (IODO-DX), daunorubicin (DNR)and 4-demethoxy-DNR (DM-DNR) on LoVo cells cultured as a monolayer (in exponential and stationary phases of growth) and as spheroids, are evaluated following 1-h exposure to the drugs.
  • (12) Under conditions of severe hypoxia (< 0.01% O2), 2 h of pretreatment or 18 h of simultaneous treatment with SR 4233 did not significantly enhance the effectiveness of 131I-NR-LU-10 in spheroids.
  • (13) The reported prevalence and severity of primary spheroidal degeneration in Labrador and nothern Newfoundland is based on a survey of 929 patients.
  • (14) Apparently the latter represented conglomerates of adherent spheroid elements that resembled somewhat "large bodies" of L-forms.
  • (15) The results of immunotitration and immunodiffusion experiments and of the sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic analysis of immunoprecipitates revealed: (i) a high degree of immunochemical identity of this enzyme only within the family Enterobacteriaceae; (ii) intermediate-to-weak cross-reaction with the phenylalanyl-tRNA ligases from Pseudomonadaceae, Rhodopseudomonas spheroides, and Bacillus stearothermophilus; (iii) no detectable cross-reaction (with the methods employed) with the enzymes from several gram-positive organisms, Euglena gracilis, and several fungi.
  • (16) Histological alterations included nerve fibre swelling and degeneration, occasional spheroids, astrocytic gliosis, increased macrophage activity and increased perivascular collagen.
  • (17) The photosynthetically-incompetent mutant V-2 of Rhodopseudomonas spheroides which is incapable of synthesising bacteriochlorophyll was grown aerobically under conditions of both high and low aeration.
  • (18) Transplanted spheroids continued to express the growth inhibitory activity.
  • (19) The outer-layer cells of spheroids and fed plateau monolayers peaked at a similar density; the majority of middle-layer cells banded close to unfed plateau and exponential hypoxic monolayers, while most inner-layer cells banded where fed or unfed plateau hypoxic monolayer peaked in density.
  • (20) Survival of spheroid and monolayer cells after hypertonic NaCl treatment was identical.