What's the difference between affect and impinge?

Affect


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
  • (v. t.) To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
  • (v. t.) To love; to regard with affection.
  • (v. t.) To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
  • (v. t.) To dispose or incline.
  • (v. t.) To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
  • (v. t.) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
  • (v. t.) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
  • (v. t.) To assign; to appoint.
  • (n.) Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The urinary excretion of PGF2 alpha was not affected by atenolol.
  • (2) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
  • (3) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
  • (4) alpha 1-Adrenergic agonists, phenylephrine and norfenefrine, did not affect the synthesis.
  • (5) Coronary arteritis has to be considered as a possible etiology of ischemic symptoms also in subjects who appear affected by typical atherosclerotic ischemic heart disease.
  • (6) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
  • (7) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
  • (8) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
  • (9) We conclude that the SHBG concentration strongly affects this estimation.
  • (10) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.
  • (11) We postulate that FAA may affect the human peripheral and mucosal immune system.
  • (12) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
  • (13) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
  • (14) "We have a good reputation, so this won't affect us at all.
  • (15) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.
  • (16) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
  • (17) It was concluded that the significant factors affecting outcome are tumor cell type and presence or absence or mitoses.
  • (18) The specific activities of extracts from cells grown under phototrophic and aerobic conditions were similar and not affected by the concentration of iron in the growth media.
  • (19) Periodontal diseases are a collection of disorders that may affect patients throughout life.
  • (20) The pH gradient measured with dimethyloxazolidine-2,4-dione and acetylsalicylic acid was very small in both bacteria at a high pH above 8, and was not affected significantly by the addition of CCCP.

Impinge


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To fall or dash against; to touch upon; to strike; to hit; to ciash with; -- with on or upon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
  • (2) The present case indicates that the possibility of osseous spines impinging on the facial nerve should be considered in all cases of facial spasm.
  • (3) The component was revised in forty-five patients, revision and advancement of the trochanteric component was done in twenty-five patients, and impinging bone or cement was removed from six patients; a combination of these procedures was done in nineteen patients.
  • (4) The case is presented of a patient sustaining cervical spine dislocation and quadriplegia attributed to impingement upon a 3-point attachment harness restraint.
  • (5) One patient had previous fractures with bony impingement and one had a chronic tear of the tibialis posterior tendon with pes planus.
  • (6) Many physicians feel uncomfortable working with alcoholic people, mostly because of poor training, and this impinges on difficulties of giving excellent care to these taxing patients.
  • (7) The vapor was generated by passing air over arsenolite (As2O3, s) at various flow rates and temperatures, passed through a particulate filter and then was collected in a series of chilled Greenburg-Smith impingers.
  • (8) In this paper I have attempted to highlight some of the psychological forces impinging upon the artist, feeling that the artist's work is highly overdetermined.
  • (9) Pharmacological studies have suggested that neurotransmitter activity impinging on steroid-concentrating cells can affect the steroid receptor system within those cells, modifying behavioral responses to the hormone.
  • (10) It would seem impossible to determine an ethical framework for the practice of surrogate motherhood that does not impinge on the liberties of some or offend others.
  • (11) Three patients with retinal lesions near or impinging on the optic nerve head are presented.
  • (12) Such subcoracoid impingement is relieved by resection of the inferolateral part of the coracoid tip and of the coracoacromial ligament.
  • (13) Dynamic fractionation of the output from pressurized aerosols using a four-stage liquid impinger showed that the respirable fraction (as measured by the percentage of emitted droplets with aerodynamic diameters less than 5.5 microns) was highly dependent on SPC concentration and R. A significant correlation between RF and actuator score, based on orifice diameter and length, was also found and confirmed that the highest RF values were achieved with the systems of lowest SPC and water concentrations sprayed through an actuator with the smallest and shortest orifice dimensions.
  • (14) Post mortem revealed an infiltrating microglioma impinging also on the floor of the lateral ventricle giving a naked eye appearance consistent with a granular inflammatory reaction of the ventricular surface.
  • (15) A portion of the airstream, which passed this filter, was in turn passed through a smaller glass fiber filter and then into two glass impingers filled with ice-cold methanol.
  • (16) A random prospective comparison was conducted of 20 patients who underwent arthroscopic subacromial decompression or open acromioplasty as treatment for impingement syndrome.
  • (17) In seven cases, no "true" intraprosthetic motion weightbearing was observed (including five cases with intraprosthetic motion caused by impingement).
  • (18) Impinger samples were collected from the sampling manifold and analyzed accordingly.
  • (19) Causes of shoulder pain include supraspinatus tendinitis (the most common), bicipital tendinitis, impingement syndromes, supraspinatus rupture, subacromial bursitis, arthritis, frozen shoulder, and various conditions that refer pain to the shoulder.
  • (20) Based on comparison with impinger collection, the mean recovery of HF from silica gel tube samples was 100.7% with a precision of 0.144.