What's the difference between abbreviation and imperforate?
Abbreviation
Definition:
(n.) The act of shortening, or reducing.
(n.) The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
(n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.
(n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The profile includes three physiologic assessments and four variables which express the number, location, and severity of a patient's injuries in terms of 'Abbreviated injury scale' values.
(2) The results also demonstrate the effect of an outward current to prolong the action potential and the effect of an outward current blocker to abbreviate the action potential.
(3) We investigated the accuracy of the Hodkinson abbreviated mental test (AMT) as a screening instrument for dementia in an Italian population.
(4) The aberrant conformation is evidently forced upon the abbreviated constructs by the residual 5' precursor sequence, since its removal by the maturation endonuclease RNAase M5 precipitates the reordering of the mature domain into its native conformation.
(5) This abbreviated therapeutic approach may eliminate the need for serial electropharmacologic testing, long-term drug therapy, antitachycardia pacemakers, and surgical ablation.
(6) Challenge after abbreviation of primary infections at different stages of worm development showed that persistence of larvae beyond day 21 was critical in determining poor response to reinfection.
(7) An abbreviated review of behavioral animal studies provides additional support for the clinical investigations presented.
(8) Under simulated ischaemic conditions, lignocaine, propranolol and nicainoprol did not produce a concentration-dependent reduction in action potential duration whereas disopyramide and verapamil, respectively, prolonged and abbreviated both APD50 and APD90.
(9) The temperature-sensitive Drosophila developmental mutation, l(3)c21RRW630 (abbreviated RW630) disturbs oogenesis and has a maternal effect on embryogenesis.
(10) PEP I was prolonged, LVET I was abbreviated, while QS2 I remained unaltered.
(12) A correlation and linear regression study was performed, to establish differences between the detailed and the abbreviated methods.
(13) An abbreviated form of the MMPI test was used in the clinical part.
(14) Abbreviated and full versions of the discharge summary were generated with very little interactive time required of the physician or record clerk.
(15) The lateral preferences of 959 Brazilian adults (471 males and 488 females) were assessed with the abbreviated form of the Edinburgh Inventory using the interview method.
(16) Two-thirds of hospitals performed a major antiglobulin crossmatch (rather than an abbreviated one) before all neonatal red cell transfusions.
(17) This report describes the development and validation of a computerized system for converting ICD-9CM rubrics to Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) scores.
(18) Third, MATa cells expressing a truncated but functional STE2 gene (in which the COOH-terminal 135-hydrophilic residues were deleted) produced a protein detected by cross-linking to 35S-alpha-factor of apparent molecular weight 33,000, close to the size expected for the predicted abbreviated STE2 polypeptide.
(19) The Interview Schedule for Social Interaction, could be abbreviated and simplified for the use in population surveys.
(20) The Italian MMPI abbreviated version was administered to all subjects.
Imperforate
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Imperforated
Example Sentences:
(1) We present 11 cases of imperforate anus and demonstrate the accurate location of the rectal pouch by transperineal injection of contrast media.
(2) The effect of loperamide on faecal control after Stephens rectoplasty for high imperforate anus was studied in eight patients more than 8 years after surgery.
(3) We report 5 newborns with a contracted lesser pelvis, imperforate anus (severely stenotic and ectopic anus in 1 case), absent or rudimentary urinary tract, and defective or absent external genitalia, vagina, and uterus but normal gonads.
(4) The Rieger syndrome is characterized by mesoectodermal dysplasia of the iris and cornea, dental defects, in some cases short stature, abnormal external ears, hypertelorism, arachnodactyly, polydactyly, scoliosis, kyphosis, imperforate anus, umbilical hernia, myopathy and in a few cases mental retardation.
(5) The authors report a rare case of imperforate anus as a congenital anomaly.
(6) The second case showed usual atrial arrangement, a discordant atrioventricular connexion with an imperforate left atrioventricular orifice and double outlet right ventricle with the aorta in the right-sided position.
(7) The imperforate anus may also relate to the proposed defect.
(8) Tracheo-esophageal fistula, duodenal obstruction with or without pyloric stenosis, annular pancreas, imperforate anus and Hirschsprung's disease are the most prevalent lesions.
(9) The human Accutane dysmorphic syndrome includes rudimentary external ears, absent or imperforate auditory canals, a triangular microcephalic skull, cleft palate, depressed midface, and anomalies of the brain, jaw, and heart.
(10) In four patients presenting with imperforate hymen, the hymen was excised by CO2 laser under local anesthesia.
(11) The diagnosis was made at laparotomy 7 days after colostomy for imperforate anus.
(12) A retrospective study was undertaken to determine the type and frequency of genital tract anomalies that occur in female children with imperforate anus.
(13) Hall-Pallister syndrome is defined by specific facial anomalies, post axial polydactyly, imperforate anus, and brain anomalies including a rare diencephalic mass, hypothalamic hamartoblastoma.
(14) Two of the 5 anomalous rats also had imperforate anus.
(15) The patient showed the full spectrum of anomalies including imperforate anus, perineal fistula, triphalangeal thumb, preaxial polydactyly, pre-auricular tags, and microtia.
(16) In two of six patients with an absent AV connection as defined by transthoracic echocardiography, transesophageal imaging demonstrated an imperforate AV valve.
(17) Genitourinary anomalies were associated with all types of imperforate anus but were found more often in children with high rectal deformities.
(18) A large perirectal mucocele developed in a child over an 11-year period following repair of an imperforate anus.
(19) From 115 cases of congenital imperforations there have been obtained good results using tear lavages in 71 cases and tear polls in 39 cases.
(20) Prenatal sonographic findings in one case of gastric obstruction due to an imperforate antral diaphragm and in one case of duodenal atresia are presented.