What's the difference between spicula and spiculum?
Spicula
Definition:
(n.) A little spike; a spikelet.
(n.) A pointed fleshy appendage.
(pl. ) of Spiculum
Example Sentences:
(1) Changes in the significant radiological signs in Crohn's disease, such as spicula, cobblestone pattern, stenoses and fistulas, provide information on the development of the disease and on the effect of treatment.
(2) Most of the usual primary and secondary findings of cancer such as spicula formation, microcalcifications, skin, thickening and nipple retraction were present in these 50 cancer lesions and all of them were recognized in the benign lesions as well, although less frequently.
(3) Such changes include bone lesions larger than 6 cm on the first film with blurred outlines, showing patterns of destruction resembling moth-eaten textiles, the covering periosteum revealing spicula or Codman's triangles.
(4) lobation, spicula, notch, etc, sputum exfoliative cytology, fibrobronchoscopic examination, puncture biopsy of the lung must also be considered in order to ensure early diagnosis.
(5) The existence of cytoplasmic spiculae of exocrinous pancreocytes in the pancreas of different vertebrates allows to consider them as an element of the exocrinous part microcirculatory system.
(6) A reliable diagnosis is possible from the interpretation of these changes, as for instance with spiculae: Very dense and evenly arranged spiculae are only seen in hemolytic anemias and metastases of neurogenic tumors.
(7) It can be generalized, focal, monostotic or polyostotic and shows solid, lamellary or interrrupted spiculae-like reaction.
(8) The potential function of retained osseous spiculae was investigated separately.
(9) Both computer-assisted myelography and magnetic resonance scan showed the spinal cord segmentation and other associated disorders: bone spicula projecting between the 2 cordal halves, vertebral fusion defect and syringomyelic cavity.
(10) Histologically, CB and OB had the same appearance including peripheral spiculae rimmed by swollen blasts.
(11) Histologically there is periosteal thickening with periosteal proliferation of woven bone spiculae and also of myxoid elements of the soft tissue between bone and skin.
(12) Within 48 h the cytoplasm of ciliated cells form long lancet-shaped spiculae with upright walls.
(13) Type III collagen mRNA revealed a considerably different distribution: the highest levels were detected in upper dermis, lower levels were seen in fibroblasts of the periosteum and the fibrous mesenchyme between bone spiculas, and none was seen in osteoblasts.
(14) --C. malayensis is closely related to C. trichysi (the female of the two species are morphologically identical but the two species can be separated by the larger dorsal lobe of the bursa and the longer spicula of C. malayensis).
(15) This new species can be distinguished from S. dipterum (Popova, 1927), S. hoopoe Sharma, 1971 and S. caudatus Quentin and Wertheim, 1975 by its smaller body dimensions, the size of the spicula, the distribution and number of male caudal papillae, and by the morphology of the female posterior end.
(16) The abnormalities concern the formation of spiculae.
(17) length of body, oesophagus, number of stichocytes or length of spicula and vulvar appendage respectively was carried out.
(18) The secretion from A- cells having no contacts with capillaries is released into intercapillary clefts into which the cytoplasmic spiculae of the adjacent exocrinous pancreacytes are turned, capable to overlap them and prevent from the entering of the hormone from the intercellular clefts into the pericapillary gap.