What's the difference between vermiculate and worm?
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.
Worm
Definition:
(n.) A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.
(n.) Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm.
(n.) Any helminth; an entozoon.
(n.) Any annelid.
(n.) An insect larva.
(n.) Same as Vermes.
(n.) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.
(n.) A being debased and despised.
(n.) Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm
(n.) The thread of a screw.
(n.) A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
(n.) A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. See Lytta.
(n.) The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still.
(n.) A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of Worm gearing, below.
(v. i.) To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.
(v. t.) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out.
(v. t.) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b).
(n.) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
(n.) To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other filarial worms which are known to occur in the RSA are discussed.
(2) The drugs were moderately potent inhibitors of both E. electricus and C. elegans acetylcholinesterase but at concentrations too high to account for their abilities to contract cut worms.
(3) The sectioned worm tissues from each developmental stage were embedded in Lowicryl HM 20 medium, stained with infected serum IgG and protein A gold complex (particle size: 12 nm) and observed by electron microscopy.
(4) glp-4(bn2ts) mutant worms raised at the restrictive temperature contain approximately 12 germ nuclei, in contrast to the 700-1000 present in wild-type adults.
(5) Fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-ricin exhibited binding to schistosomula and adult worms, but not to cercariae or to freshly transformed schistosomula.
(6) Sera from S. mansoni-infected patients with a high specificity for the diagnostic S. mansoni-antigen cross-reacted with a corresponding component also in S. japonicum worms.
(7) To understand mechanisms involved in sex-specific gene expression in Schistosoma mansoni, a cDNA (fs800) was isolated that hybridized to an 800 nucleotide mRNA present in high levels only in mature female worms.
(8) Three freeze-thaw cycles released a large proportion (50% to 60%) of the TCA-precipitable radioactivity from the worms.
(9) Antigen inhibition studies showed low and high levels of cross-reactivity with anti-worm and anti-egg antibodies, respectively, derived from both Chinese and Philippine patients.
(10) Only eosinophils adhered to 2 h newborn worms and only macrophages to 20 h ones.
(11) Worms had invaded the bile duct in 51 patients, the pancreatic duct in four and both ducts in four.
(12) The number of ovarian balls rises to about 6300 per worm, with the maximum being attained more rapidly in unfertilized than in fertilized females.
(13) Or perhaps the "mad cow"-fuelled beef war in the late 1990s, when France maintained its ban on British beef for three long years after the rest of the EU had lifted it, prompting the Sun to publish a special edition in French portraying then president Jacques Chirac as a worm.
(14) Three bulls selected for high faecal worm egg counts and three bulls selected for low faecal worm egg counts were mated to Africander-Hereford cross cows.
(15) Among 30 villagers who were treated, 4 (13.3%) passed this species with an average of 2.5 worms per infection.
(16) Successful tests were carried out on 84 farms and 68% of these had resistant worms present.
(17) A higher retention rate of intestinal adult worms was observed in hydrocortisone-treated mice.
(18) No evidence was obtained for the involvement of monoamine oxidases in the metabolism of 5-HT in these filarial worms.
(19) Radiocarbons from glucosamine and leucine were incorporated into tissue glycogen of female worms much less than glucose.
(20) The heads were examined for adult and larval meningeal worms (Parelaphostrongylus tenuis) by physical examination of the brain surfaces, and the Baermann technique, respectively, and for ear mites by examination of ear scrapings.