What's the difference between tuber and tuberiferous?
Tuber
Definition:
(n.) A fleshy, rounded stem or root, usually containing starchy matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. See Illust. of Tuberous.
(n.) A genus of fungi. See Truffle.
(n.) A tuberosity; a tubercle.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, lightly immunostained cells were distinguished in the caudal portion of the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus, area of tuber cinereum, retrochiasmatic area, and rostral portion of the paraventricular thalamic nucleus after colchicine treatment.
(2) This paper describes a family in which the first child, a girl born in 1988, has tuberous sclerosis (TS).
(3) Tuning curves of afferent electroreceptive fibers in the anterior lateral line nerve of the weakly electric fish, Sternopygus macrurus, indicate that the tuberous electroreceptors of each individual are well-tuned to its own electric organ discharge (EOD) frequency.
(4) 100 degrees C. Thus residues did not migrate into the flesh of the tubers.
(5) Aromatase immunoreactive cells (ARO-ir) were found in the medial preoptic nucleus, in the septal region, and in a large cell cluster extending from the dorso-lateral aspect of the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus to the tuber at the level of the nucleus inferioris hypothalami.
(6) Injections of horseradish peroxidase into the telencephalon retrogradely labeled neurons ipsilaterally in various thalamic, preglomerular, and tuberal nuclei, the nucleus of the locus coeruleus (also contralaterally), the superior raphe, and portions of the nucleus lateralis valvulae.
(7) Isolated nuclei from green leaf tissue of tomato plants infected with potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) were bound to microscope slides, fixed with formaldehyde and hybridized with biotinylated transcripts of cloned PSTVd cDNA.
(8) A simple and efficient method is presented for the extraction, cleanup, and liquid chromatographic (LC) determination of oxamyl residues in potato tubers.
(9) The study of the selective renal arteriogram enables preoperative diagnosis of angiomyolipoma even when not associated with tuberous sclerosis, and a partial nephrectomy.
(10) The association of diffuse lipomatosis with tuberous sclerosis is reported.
(11) Developing pyramidal cells in the remaining three tuberous organ-receptive lateral ELL segments are unreactive.
(12) CD rats were much less responsive to mPOA stimulation (spaced electrodes) than O-M rats, but the responses of both strains to tuberal stimulation were essentially alike.
(13) It did not allow distinction between true pachygyria, focal cortical dysplasia, or the forme fruste of tuberous sclerosis.
(14) cDNA clones of potato virus X (PVXcp strain), potato virus Y (PVYo strain), potato leaf roll virus (PLRV) and potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTV) were used separately or combined for the detection of the corresponding RNAs in extracts of infected plants.
(15) The export of pectate lyase, polygalacturonase, and cellulase and the maceration of potato tuber tissue occurred with Out+, but not Out-, strains of E. carotovora subsp.
(16) We conclude that neurons in the lateral tuberal nucleus show an early stage of AD-related cytoskeletal pathology (Alz-50 positivity), but without plaques or neuronal death.
(17) The possibility of incorporating Icacinia manni among the edible starchy plant tubers is discussed.
(18) Western blots of extracts from P(i)-deficient cells were probed with rabbit anti-(potato tuber PFP) immune serum and revealed equal intensity staining immunoreactive polypeptides of M(r) 66,000 (alpha-subunit) and 60,000 (beta-subunit) that co-migrated with the alpha- and beta-subunits of homogeneous potato tuber PFP.
(19) In six patients the clinical symptoms were atypical; in those instances computed tomography makes diagnosis of tuberous sclerosis possible.
(20) Angiomyolipomas produce pathognomonic appearances on modern imaging methods and a tissue diagnosis is no longer required particularly when multiple tubers can be confidently diagnosed and if a CT brain scan shows periventricular calcifications.