What's the difference between thalamus and thallus?

Thalamus


Definition:

  • (n.) A mass of nervous matter on either side of the third ventricle of the brain; -- called also optic thalamus.
  • (n.) Same as Thallus.
  • (n.) The receptacle of a flower; a torus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While the heaviest anterogradely labeled ascending projections were observed to the contralateral ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus, pars oralis (VPLo), efferent projections were also observed to the contralateral ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VLc) and central lateral (CL) nucleus of the thalamic intralaminar complex, magnocellular (and to a lesser extent parvicellular) red nucleus, nucleus of Darkschewitsch, zona incerta, nucleus of the posterior commissure, lateral intermediate layer and deep layer of the superior colliculus, dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, contralateral nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and basilar pontine nuclei (especially dorsal and peduncular), and dorsal (DAO) and medial (MAO) accessory olivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral (external) cuneate nucleus (LCN) and lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), and to a lesser extent the caudal medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and caudal nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH), and dorsal medullary raphe.
  • (2) The hippocampus plays an essential role in the laying down of cognitive memories, the pathway to the frontal lobe being via the MD thalamus.
  • (3) Neurons containing moderate to high concentrations of ChE reaction product were found in 3 distinct regions of the dorsal thalamus.
  • (4) Morphological results demonstrated that 30 Gy irradiated animals showed extensive necrosis primarily in the fimbria, which extended into the internal capsule, optic nerve, hippocampus, and thalamus.
  • (5) The occurrence of paresis or paralysis in ischemic processes strictly situated in the thalamus, however, is discussed: the deficit may be limited to parts of limbs; most often, it is not associated with pyramidal symptomatology; recovery is observed in the hand before the inferior limb.
  • (6) The presence of gelatinosa neurons projecting to the thalamus emphasizes a point made in earlier reports, that these neurons do not form an homogeneous population.
  • (7) The existence is therefore proposed of some neural mechanism that controls the higher cerebral function of writing via the thalamus.
  • (8) To identify the origin of scalp-recorded far-field negativity of short-latency somatosensory evoked potentials to median nerve stimulation (designated N18), direct records were made from the thalamus and ventricular system during 4 stereotaxic and 3 posterior fossa operations.
  • (9) The neighbouring neocortical areas receive afferents neither from the mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus nor from the ventral mesencephalic tegmentum; their catecholamine innervation is mainly confined to the superficial layers and appears to be of noradrenergic nature.
  • (10) The tonic influences were expressed in an increase in the amplitude parameters of the responses of the visual cortex in conditions of the formation in the posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus of a focus of heightened excitability (anode polarization), and their perceptible diminution with potassium depression in this nucleus.
  • (11) Glutamate-immunoreactive neurons were present throughout the acoustic thalamus, including the regions containing the retrogradely labeled neurons.
  • (12) Neutral aminopeptidase activity showed a significant decrease in the thalamus and cerebellum with marked (not significant) changes in the hypothalamus, hippocampus, medulla, and occipital cortex.
  • (13) CT findings of 6 cases with germinoma originating in the basal ganglia and thalamus are reported.
  • (14) Parkinsonism in the present case may be due to the involvement of multiple neuronal circuits of the extrapyramidal system at the level of the midbrain to the thalamus.
  • (15) Thus, the possibility of defects at other sites, such as the globus pallidus or thalamus must be considered.
  • (16) Histochemically the lowered activity of enzymes was localized mainly in the neuropil of: striatum, the Broc's nuclei and rhinencephalon: in the nervous cells of: Ammon's horn, nuclei of thalamus and in neocortex.
  • (17) Peripheral nerve grafts were inserted into the thalamus in 27 Sprague-Dawley rats.
  • (18) For the stereotactic treatment of Parkinson's disease, the target is usually located in the thalamus; this point is related to nearby structures (third ventricle).
  • (19) CT findings of them revealed that the hematomas were large or invaded toward the internal capsule and thalamus.
  • (20) Background activity recorded extracellularly from three anterior (limbic) nuclei of the thalamus was analyzed in chronic unanesthetized rabbits.

Thallus


Definition:

  • (n.) A solid mass of cellular tissue, consisting of one or more layers, usually in the form of a flat stratum or expansion, but sometimes erect or pendulous, and elongated and branching, and forming the substance of the thallogens.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Peripheral hyphae were separated from the remaining thallus of Rhizoctonia solani in exponential and stationary phases of growth.
  • (2) The plasmalemma of thallus cells of the aquatic liverwort, Riccia fluitans, is reversibly depolarized by L- and D-serine.
  • (3) Their variations depend on the physiological and biochemical states of the thallus and on the conditions of extraction and purification.
  • (4) Thallus development, zoospore size, zoospore ultrastructural complexity and organization, and flagellum length are cited as important in phylogeny of the Chytridiales (chytrids) and should be the bases for this classification.
  • (5) Previous results showed that cell disintegration in the fungus Podospora anserina occured through the action of two proteases, enzymes whose messengers were normally latent during the extension stage of the thallus.
  • (6) There are no significant differences in the durrent density over the thallus cell.
  • (7) Little bromoperoxidase activity was obtained when fresh thallus material was extracted in Tris buffer.
  • (8) Incipient zoospores are produced from a multinucleate eucarpic thallus and devlop within cleavage vacuoles containing flagella.
  • (9) The action spectra of light reaction I, we found under these conditions, are very similar to the thallus absorption, whilst the action spectra of light reaction II show, besides strong bands of the phycobilins, only minor bands of chlorophyll a, which account for only 10-20% of the total chlorophyll.
  • (10) When a particulate enzyme preparation from the thallus of A. niger was incubated with GDP-[(14)C]mannose, the main radioactive products were mannose 1-phosphate (57% of products) and mannose (18%).
  • (11) In the presence of 10(-5) to 10 (-8) M carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone (CCCP) the membrane potential of thallus cells of the aquatic liverwort Riccia fluitans responds to changes of the external pH between 5.5 and 8.3.
  • (12) Many things, in Thoreau's liberated state, are worth the while to see - the feeding manners of chickadees, and the trickles of spring thaw along the railroad cut, "resembling, as you look down on them, the laciniated lobed and imbricated thalluses of some lichens".
  • (13) By the four-cell stage, chloroplasts of the rhizoid cells have weakly staining lamellae, while chloroplasts of the thallus cells are actively dividing with deeply staining lamellae.
  • (14) These observations are interpreted as evidence that the thallus of A. niger contains a mannose transferase that uses the phosphate of exo-methylene-hexahydropolyprenols as an acceptor.
  • (15) This study demonstrates that it is possible to select for more and more toxigenic strains or for less and less active ones starting with the same thallus.
  • (16) Bromoperoxidase I (which has been described before) was located inside the thallus, particularly around the conceptacles, whereas bromoperoxidase II was present at the thallus surface of the alga.
  • (17) Using fluorescein isothiocyanate-labeled lectins of various specificities, differences in the cell wall polysaccharide composition among the different parts of the thallus and during the cycle of S communis were demonstrated.
  • (18) We selected three mutant strains in which the constitutive activity of the protease messengers was expressed by an arrest of growth early in development (10 to 30 hours after spore germination) and a reaction of cell disintegration, in the thallus, suppressible with beta-phenyl pyruvic acid, a protease inhibitor.
  • (19) The enzyme activity is first detected in a few algae undergoing aplanosporogenesis and later in medullary hyphae that reach the dividing algae by elongating perpendicularly to the thallus surface.
  • (20) The thallus and life cycle of Neocallimastix R1 are compared with those of aerobic chytrids.