What's the difference between vermicular and vermiculate?
Vermicular
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a worm or worms; resembling a worm; shaped like a worm; especially, resembling the motion or track of a worm; as, the vermicular, or peristaltic, motion of the intestines. See Peristaltic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The last fecal portion is dispelled from the anal canal by a process of "vermicular contractions" which is the result of the loop arrangement of the muscle bundles.
(2) The authors report six cases of mucus-secreting tumor of the vermicular appendix, in four women and two men (mean age 59 years).
(3) Characteristic features of these are computed tomography demonstration of parenchymal vermicular enhancement of brain vessels, and an angiographic pattern of dilated and tortuous cerebral veins.
(4) The glands of T. pardalis and T. vermiculare porphyreum consisted only of secretory cells with a large vacuole.
(5) Finally, one case showed within the same nuclei at once typical herpes virus particles and other viral structures of vermicular form, the origin of which could not be precised.
(6) Myokymia was characterized by vermicular fibrillary movements localized to the gastrocnemius muscle and accompanied by plantarflexion and dorsiflexion of the toes.
(7) Exocrine glands or gland-like structures with peculiar secretory cells were also found in the skin of T. poecilonotus, T. niphobles and T. vermiculare radiatum.
(8) We have reviewed the studies made by some authors about the development of the vermicular appendix in the human embryo, and according with our own investigation line, we have tried to detail in this article a number of relations that we have found between the morphological development of the caeco-appendicular region in the human embryo and the development of the same region in the chick embryo.
(9) Reversed vermicular contractions or pressure gradient of the anal canal might press it inwards.
(10) A vermicular image was observed burrowing into the muscles, which head a "worm eaten" appearance.
(11) There has been carried out histologic examination of vermicular and interosseal muscles in case of underdevelopment of fingers before and after the restoration of their length by method of distraction in 45 children aged 4-14 years.
(12) A sonographically demonstrated vermicular structure in the region of the gall bladder was suspected to be an ascaris, which is to find in the biliary system occasionally.
(13) Intranuclear vermicular inclusions (INI) were observed in hepatocytes and lymphocytes as well, mainly in degenerating cells.
Vermiculate
Definition:
(v. t.) To form or work, as by inlaying, with irregular lines or impressions resembling the tracks of worms, or appearing as if formed by the motion of worms.
(a.) Wormlike in shape; covered with wormlike elevations; marked with irregular fine lines of color, or with irregular wavy impressed lines like worm tracks; as, a vermiculate nut.
(a.) Crawling or creeping like a worm; hence, insinuating; sophistical.
Example Sentences:
(1) Babesia major mature and immature vermicules in the haemolymph of Haemaphysalis punctata were measured and found to be significantly larger than vermicules of Babesia bigemina.
(2) The primary schizonts and the large merozoites (= vermicules) produced by them were observed in the gut epithelium, haemocytes, muscles, ad peritracheal cells.
(3) During the next 32 h elongate forms and vermicules developed.
(4) This vermiculate bone is resistant to oriented cracking from weathering or fractures.
(5) The microscopic structure of bone of the brow region was studied in adult human crania showing the vermiculate surface pattern, and in immature nonhuman primates with an areolar surface.
(6) Postoperative histological investigation showed vermiculous destruction of the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland, and also scattered lymph follicles accompanying infiltration by numerous lymphocytes and multinucleated foreign-body giant cells, and deposition of calcium.
(7) The disease resolved with garland-like vermiculate scars.
(8) About 10 days after repletion, those round-formed protozoa were transformed into vermicule-formed and round-formed protozoa, 13-15 microns in length, appeared again in the gut epithelial cells.
(9) Two organelles were specifically labeled: cytoplasmic dense bodies with a finely vermiculate texture, and mature trichocysts, labeled in the space between the shaft and the membrane.
(10) The elevations and depressions of vermiculate surfaces are lamellar bone, usually covered by layers featuring Sharpey's fibers.
(11) Numerous varicosities are characteristic for the tubular lysosomes whose similarity with grumose bodies has lead to conclusion that the vermiculate variety of the latter are almost certainly tubular lysosomes.
(12) Mature B. major vermicules had a mean length of 15.53 micrometer and mature B. bigemina vermicules had a mean length of 11.79 micrometer.
(13) These findings indicate that fossil and modern human vermiculate surfaces are not structurally equivalent to areolar brow surfaces observed in some immature nonhuman primates.
(14) The ultrastructure of Babesia major vermicules was studied in samples derived from the haemolymph of Haemaphysalis punctata adults and negatively stained with phosphotungstic acid.
(15) A cytoplasmic organelle similar to the granular body described in Theileria annulata ookinetes was seen for the first time in a B. major vermicule.
(16) The apical and the perinuclear regions and the posterior end of the vermicules appeared to fluoresce more intensely than the rest of the cytoplasm.