What's the difference between succursal and tributary?
Succursal
Definition:
(v. t.) Serving to aid or help; serving as a chapel of ease; tributary.
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Tributary
Definition:
(a.) Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace.
(a.) Hence, subject; subordinate; inferior.
(a.) Paid in tribute.
(a.) Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.; contributing; as, the Ohio has many tributary streams, and is itself tributary to the Mississippi.
(n.) A ruler or state that pays tribute, or a stated sum, to a conquering power, for the purpose of securing peace and protection, or as an acknowledgment of submission, or for the purchase of security.
(n.) A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; an affluent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ligation of the left renal vein on the medial side of the adrenolumbar tributary maintained a patent left renal vein in all cases with 60% of left kidney biopsies showing no histological evidence of changes to glomeruli or tubules, and the remainder showing early acute tubular necrosis.
(2) Their tortuous or irregular outline did not usually correspond in position or appearance to normal tributaries of the vein.
(3) Meningeal tributaries are relatively large in humans, and drain principally into the cranio-orbital sinus or sphenoparietal sinus.
(4) Already at the stage of anlage the intestinal trunk is not included in the ThD root system, but serves as the RLS anterior tributary, or its lumbar, preaortic tributary.
(5) This was due to reductions of hepatic arterial and portal venous tributaries.
(6) The occurrence of cell-infiltrated intimal lesions at the confluence of many small tributaries with canine jugular and femoral veins suggested that these areas (confluences) might 1) differ structurally from the rest of the receiving vein and 2) serve as initiation sites for thrombi.
(7) This study shows that somatostatin analogue decreases portal pressure principally by reducing portal tributary blood flow.
(8) Multiplanar CDI can image flow in the circle of Willis and its tributaries and branches.
(9) Factors evaluated included technical success of the examination; visualization of the portal vein, splenic vein, and other tributaries; contrast medium density, portal blood flow direction; presence and type of collaterals and varices; and liver size and configuration.
(10) Obstruction of a major temporal branch vein, or one of its macular tributaries, presents a significant threat to vision.
(11) Twelve variants of ways of spreading vertical reflux of blood along the pelvic veins have been established and two ways of its transmission to the lower extremity veins: a direct way of reflux from the iliac to femoral vein and an indirect ways of reflux--from tributaries of the iliac vein to those of the femoral vein.
(12) Mortality of pelyad (Coregonus peled) caused by Tetraonchus alaskensis took place in winter 1973 in the Voikara and Syn rivers (the Ural tributaries of the Lower Ob) during anadromous and catadromous migrations.
(13) Between the gestational ages of 3 and 4 months, the middle cerebral artery and its tributaries run radially on the sylvian fossa and over the convexity.
(14) EPA Gazza’s Italia 90 tears were but a trickling tributary compared with the Amazon of anguish unleashed by the shell-shocked hosts during their mortifying 7-1 loss to Germany.
(15) It is proposed that the vein of Galen aneurysm represents a venous ectasia secondary to an increased flow (usually caused by a deep-seated arteriovenous shunt draining either directly into the vein of Galen aneurysm or into a tributary of the vein of Galen) associated with obstruction of a dural sinus distal to the aneurysm.
(16) Eleven stents were placed successfully in pulmonary arteries (out of thirteen attempted), and 11 of 14 were installed in tributaries of the precava or postcava.
(17) The scintillation camer superior venacavogram provides a quick, safe, and accurate method of evaluating the patency of the SVC and its tributaries.
(18) All of these patients had tumor thrombi in their large tributary veins in addition to the primary tumors.
(19) This paper outlines an objective and reproducible method of mapping hepatic lesions into territories defined solely by the major hepatic veins and their tributaries.
(20) Testicular vein cast--right and left--was prepared in autopsy specimens to identify the course, tributaries and communications of the testicular vein.