What's the difference between tuba and tufa?

Tuba


Definition:

  • (n.) An ancient trumpet.
  • (n.) A sax-tuba. See Sax-tuba.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) agents from tuba with, conversely, frequent isolation of these agents (34.7%) from cervical swabs.
  • (2) In children with recurrent secretory otitis media (SOM) a mechanical malfunction of the Tuba Eustachii (by adenoids, myogenous palatotubal insufficiency, persistent cartilaginous collapse of the tube) should be taken into consideration as well as immunological factors of the lymphatic structures of the pharynx which may influence the tubotympanal mucosa.
  • (3) Topographical relationships and size of the arteries of the mesovarium and mesosalpinx were evaluated from the point of view of their usefulness in microsurgical operations on the oviduct (tuba uterina).
  • (4) The conclusion drawn out is that it does exist a correlation between the kind of register and the forced aperture of the ostium tubae.
  • (5) The numbers of patients admitted to the Public Health Service Indian Hospital, in Tuba City, Arizona, with deficits in weight for their chronological ages, marasmus, and kwashiorkor were compared during two 5-year-periods, 1963 to 1967 and 1969 to 1973.
  • (6) Patulous Eustachian tube (tuba aperta) is a distressing condition for the patient with such symptoms as autophony and a sensation of fullness in the ear.
  • (7) It was the Poetry Society that awarded Tempest the Ted Hughes poetry prize in 2013 for Brand New Ancients, a narrative work that told a tale of everyday heroics, false gods and fierce hopes in modern-day London over tuba, violin, drums, electronics.
  • (8) This often stressed symptom of amber discharge or hydrops tubae profluens could not be elicited in any patient.
  • (9) "And my stomach was churning with the sound of the low tuba."
  • (10) Our findings that the ventilation of the ear is in most cases blocked at the diaphragma and not at the tube leads to questions on the one hand regarding the function of diaphragma and to the opinion on the other that the ventilation system of the middle ear is divided in two sections by the diaphragma: An anterior section including tuba and hypomesotympanon and a posterior including epitympanon, aditus, antrum and the pneumatic cells of mastoid and pyramid.
  • (11) If the adhesions include the proximal end of the tubae, the contrast pooling may be absent.
  • (12) "Perhaps the Premier League could pay Stewie Griffin to follow him around with a tuba."
  • (13) Included are measurements of distances of the Ostium pharyngeum tubae auditivae to the Canalis palatinus major and the upper surface of the Palatum molle.
  • (14) The level of tubA transcript remains the same throughout the cell cycle.
  • (15) Macroscopical and microscopical examinations revealed a hernia-like prolaps of a part of the wall of the tuba uterina across a hole in the myometrium of the fundus uteri.
  • (16) Because of high rates of acute pharyngitis in Tuba City, AZ, at the Navajo Indian reservation, the use of rapid diagnostic test was prospectively evaluated.
  • (17) Molecular disruption of tubA results in a block in nuclear division whereas in tubB it gives rise to abnormal cell and nuclear morphology.
  • (18) The national anthems: Flower of Scotland is given a nice plodding bassline on parping tuba, while the Georgian is a close-harmony affair, a bit like the theme to Eurovision, plus a couple of chord changes which throw the casual listener.
  • (19) We have isolated and analyzed the tubA and tubB alpha-tubulin genes of Aspergillus nidulans.
  • (20) The epithelium of the ampulla tubae of the Texel ewe was studied during the oestrous cycle by light microscopy.

Tufa


Definition:

  • () A soft or porous stone formed by depositions from water, usually calcareous; -- called also calcareous tufa.
  • () A friable volcanic rock or conglomerate, formed of consolidated cinders, or scoria.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A trend towards a higher G+C content in fusA (gene encoding elongation factor (EF)-G) and tufA (gene encoding EF-Tu) in S. typhimurium is noted.
  • (2) The combination of tufA(Aa) and a rpsD12 ribosomal mutation is lethal at room temperature and the double-mutant strain has an elevated temperature optimum (42 degrees C) for growth rate, translation rate and nonsense suppression.
  • (3) Furthermore, the tufA mutation enhances the cellular growth rate of the rpsL mutant, whereas it decreases growth of strains with normal ribosomes.
  • (4) Previous work suggested that the tufA gene, encoding protein synthesis elongation factor Tu, was transferred from the chloroplast to the nucleus within the green algal lineage giving rise to land plants.
  • (5) The observations that introduction of a tufA(+) region makes the resistant strain sensitive to the antibiotic and that transduction of tufB1 into a recipient other than E. coli D22 yields kirromycin-sensitive progeny support these conclusions.
  • (6) Potential ribosome binding sites are located 58 and 32 positions upstream of the tufA and ORF206 start codon, respectively.
  • (7) We have replaced the ribosomal binding site (RBS) of the lacZ gene of E. coli by those of the maturation (A) gene of phage MS2 and that of the tufA gene.
  • (8) By examining heteroduplexes between restriction endonuclease-generated fragments of DNA containing the tufA, fus, and tufB genes, we have demonstrated that the fus and tufA genes are intimately related physically in one of two possible arrangements.
  • (9) The proof for the presence of tufA gene in pTUAl is based on the following observations: (1) ability of pTUAl DNA and is EcoRI fragments to direct synthesis of EF-Tu in a cell-free protein synthesizing system; and (2) RNA .
  • (10) It thus became possible to study the consequences for growth of tufA inactivation by insertion of bacteriophage Mu.
  • (11) Genetic data suggest that pTu is the product of the tufA and tufB genes.
  • (12) Therefore, phenotypic expression of kirromycin resistance in vivo appears to be only possible if the EF-Tu mutant lacks an active tufA gene, a property likely to be inherited from the parental D22 strain.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Juvenile hart’s tongues, among mosses embedded in tufa.
  • (14) Sequence analysis revealed an ORF of 99 amino acids (including the N-terminal processed methionine) at a position 477 bp from the 3' end of tufA but on the opposite strand.
  • (15) We conclude the following: (a) The tufA and tufB messengers have different half lives (3.0 and 2.4 min, respectively).
  • (16) Filter hybridizations reveal a chloroplast tufA gene in all Ulvophyceae and Chlorophyceae and in some but not all Charophyceae.
  • (17) The G domain of elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu), representing the N-terminal half of the factor according to its three-dimensional model traced at high resolution, has been isolated by genetic manipulation of tufA and purified to homogeneity.
  • (18) The water is sharply alkaline, with a pH value of over nine, and thanks in part to the water's purity – no phosphates here – the formation of tufa continues on the Lathkill when it has ceased on most other rivers.
  • (19) The tufA gene, one of two genes in Escherichia coli encoding elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu), was cloned into a ColE1-derived plasmid downstream of the lac promoter-operator.
  • (20) A deletion mutant of a plasmid born Escherichia coli tufA gene, which codes for a truncated elongation factor Tu comprising domains 2 and 3, has been constructed by genetic engineering.

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