What's the difference between streak and superciliary?
Streak
Definition:
(v. t.) To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
(n.) A line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein.
(n.) A strake.
(n.) The fine powder or mark yielded by a mineral when scratched or rubbed against a harder surface, the color of which is sometimes a distinguishing character.
(n.) The rung or round of a ladder.
(v. t.) To form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors.
(v. t.) With it as an object: To run swiftly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cloacal exstrophy, centered on the maldevelopment of the primitive streak mesoderm and cloacal membrane, results in bladder and intestinal exstrophy, omphalocele, gender confusion, and hindgut deformity.
(2) Data from cases with myocardial bridges show that both fatty streaks and raised lesions are seldom observed in the region distal to myocardial bridge.
(3) Evx-1 RNA is first detected shortly before the onset of gastrulation in a region of ectoderm containing cells that will soon be found in the primitive streak.
(4) Gonadoblastoma is an unusual tumor that typically arises in a streak gonad or an abnormal testis of an individual having a Y chromosome.
(5) This study focuses on the expansion and maturation of the fatty streak in the aorta of Watanabe Heritable Hyperlipemic rabbits and comparably hypercholesterolemic fat-fed rabbits between 2 and 6 months duration of hypercholesterolemia.
(6) Fatty streaks were observed in 2nd decade involving only 7.5% of the total intimal surface and reaching to a maximum of 22.2% in the 3rd decade, followed by a gradual rise to 9.2% in 7th decade.
(7) Immunoreactivity in fatty streaks was located around collections of foam cells.
(8) The streaking phenomenon, as well as the tendency toward randomness, was discussed in terms of attentional anomalies.
(9) The high frequency of angioid streaks observed in patients with beta thalassemia and the severe complications observed in one patient render a thorough ophthalmoscopic examination and follow-up of such patients necessary for both early diagnosis and possible therapeutic intervention.
(10) On the back of some appalling results, including a six-game losing streak, the atmosphere at the game against Cardiff was toxic and the abuse intensely personal.
(11) As development proceeded during primitive streak stages, the visceral and parietal endoderm became positively stained.
(12) The mean survival period after angiography was 3.8 months, and the prognosis was not favorable in patients having "thread-and-streak" sign on angiography.
(13) A diet containing 0.3% cholesterol was given to male New Zealand rabbits for 16 weeks; this produced atherosclerotic lesions (fatty streaks) on 80% of the intimal surface of the thoracic aorta and on 45% of the intimal surface of the abdominal aorta.
(14) The area of highest density formed a nasal-temporal band suggestive of a visual streak.
(15) The horizontal streak of high rhodopsin levels is preferentially reduced in this retinopathy.
(16) Density distribution maps for neurons in the ganglion cell layer and the photoreceptor layer reveal the presence of a putative area centralis and a horizontal visual streak.
(17) Atherosclerotic lesions (mostly fatty streaks but some fibrous plaques) were present only in groups C and CL and were absent in groups L and N. The percentage of atherosclerotic intimal involvement was significantly greater in group CL than C (P less than 0.001).
(18) A unique pattern for a carbohydrate antigen is displayed by cells of the primitive streak; antigenicity is lost with de-epithelialisation and ingression, but is regained in a pericellular distribution on the mesoderm cells that emerge from the primitive streak.
(19) Grossly visible fatty streaks and fibrous plaques were not found in any of the swine aorta.
(20) The cluster lies just posterior to the definitive primitive streak in the extraembryonic mesoderm, separated from the embryo by the amniotic fold.
Superciliary
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the eyebrows; supraorbital.
(a.) Having a distinct streak of color above the eyes; as, the superciliary woodpecker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Under the effect of treatment there was also an improvement in the biolectrical activity of the superciliary muscle and an increase in the amplitude of the rheographical wave.
(2) Particularly challenging was the frontal-orbital region involving the superciliary ridges.
(3) Revision of former results concerning the sexing of skulls by anatomical characteristcs, confirms the interest of the following data : superciliary arches protuberance, upper orbitary rim's shape, supramastoidian temporal crest protuberance.
(4) The author reports on the successful use of collagen injections after surgery for the correction of inter-superciliary lines and missing tissue lesions after rhinoplasty.
(5) These problems can be overcome with the combined use of a prefabricated Dacron polyurethane mesh prosthesis (Osteo-Mesh, Xomed, Inc.) to establish contour of the forehead and superciliary ridges, and underlying split-rib grafts to protect the brain and isolate the paranasal sinuses.
(6) Since it has been reported that dolichocephaly depends on the development of arcus superciliaris and protuberantia occipitalis externa by the interaction between androgen and GH in males as well as time of closure of the cranial suture in childhood, and as androgen accelerates offensive behavior and GH stimulates the synthesis of collagen, the occurrence of chronic subdural hematoma is potentially related with sexual or individual variation in such endocrinic environments.
(7) The guiding points for the direction of the X-ray heam are: the lateral border of the superciliary arch, the midpoint between the lateral border of the superciciliary arch and the external acoustic meatus, the midpoint between the external acoustic meatus and the external occipital protuberance.
(8) Symptoms were a simple manner with slow learning ability, frontal bossing, wide nasal root, hypertelorism, large superciliary ridge, deep-set eyes, bifid uvula, dentigerous keratocyst of the mandible, pectus excavatum, bilateral shortened metacarpals, multiple basal cell nevi, bilateral palmar pitting, hemivertebrae C2-3 and C7-T1, several bifid ribs, calcification of the falx cerebri, bridging of the sella turcica, and an open frontal suture.