What's the difference between aggregate and consolidation?

Aggregate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil."
  • (v. t.) To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.
  • (v. t.) To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels.
  • (a.) Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.
  • (a.) Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands.
  • (a.) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
  • (a.) Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
  • (a.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.
  • (n.) A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.
  • (n.) A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Aggregation was more frequent in low-osmolal media: mainly rouleaux were formed in ioxaglate but irregular aggregates in non-ionic media.
  • (2) We have examined overlapping octapeptides from the kappa IIIb light chain variable region and show that some framework peptides have the ability to bind aggregated IgG.
  • (3) Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) was prepared, and platelet aggregation studies were conducted directly or conducted on washed platelets prepared from PRP collected with ACD.
  • (4) Macrophages internalize aggregated low density lipoprotein (LDL) by LDL receptor-dependent phagocytosis.
  • (5) Cicaprost is an orally available analogue of PGI2 and has been shown to inhibit platelet aggregation in both in vitro and animal studies.
  • (6) Only IgG2a and IgG2b myeloma proteins bound readily to IC-21 Fc-receptors, the former in nonaggregated as well as aggregated form, the latter only as aggregated complexes.
  • (7) When the aggregates occurred on the cell periphery their position coincided with areas free of lamellae.
  • (8) 2-(4'-Isobutylphenyl)propionic acid, ibuprofen, is an antiinflammatory agent which possesses moderate platelet aggregation inhibitory activity.
  • (9) In addition, spontaneous platelet aggregation is increased when vegetations are present on cardiac valves.
  • (10) At concentrations several hundredfold higher than the equivalents present in the minimum concentration of rat skin soluble collagen required for platelet aggregation, neither Hyl-Gal (at 29 muM) nor Hyl-Gal-Glc (at 18 muM) caused platelet aggregation or inhibited platelet aggregation by native collagen.
  • (11) The mechanisms leading to spontaneous platelet aggregation and thrombocytopenia appear to be similar to those described for other patients with type IIB vWD.
  • (12) There is approximately a 25% decrease in aggregation from regions of the rib distal to the metaphyseal-growth plate junction (69%) to the region proximal to it (50%).
  • (13) Laboratory data were aggregated similarly within each study, using the last active drug as a grouping factor.
  • (14) No correlation could be found between DS content and state of aggregation.
  • (15) The synthetic S-nitroso-thiol, S-nitroso-N-acetylcysteine, markedly inhibited platelet aggregation with an IC50 of 6 nM.
  • (16) On the other hand, ultraviolet (320-nm) light, absorbed by 3-hydroxy-pyridinium cross-links which were rapidly photolyzed, partially dissociated polymeric collagen aggregates from bovine Achilles tendon after subsequent heating.
  • (17) The ternary complex consisting of a 65-kDa peptide originating from the proteoglycan core protein and a 43-kDa link protein bound to hyaluronic acid was purified from a clostripain digest of the rat chondrosarcoma aggregating proteoglycan and 14C-carbamylated with potassium [14C]cyanate.
  • (18) The IC50 on arachidonic acid-induced platelet aggregation was: fisetin, 22 microM; kaempferol, 20 microM; quercetin, 13 microM; morin, 150 microM less than IC50 less than 300 microM.
  • (19) Changes in the determinants of blood viscosity (packed cell volume, plasma viscosity, red cell aggregation, and red cell deformability) were studied on day 1 and day 5.
  • (20) Released aggregates of the 19.6-kDa protein were removed from suspension by ultracentrifugation and separated from contaminating membranes by washing in 1.0% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS).

Consolidation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination.
  • (n.) To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation.
  • (n.) The combination of several actions into one.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Macroscopic lesions included mild congestion of the gastric mucosa and focal consolidation of the lung.
  • (2) At consolidation, the distraction area was composed of lamellar trabecular and partly woven bone.
  • (3) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
  • (4) The information suggests a certain consolidation of earlier efforts.
  • (5) The scale of fees that potentially are there in the Italian banking market – from restructurings and consolidation – are substantial,” said Peter Hahn, professor of banking at the London Institute of Banking & Finance.
  • (6) Therapy included intensive induction and consolidation followed by a cyclic, sequential maintenance program.
  • (7) This intra-oral model might be useful for studies of the organic material incorporated into enamel during the process of consolidation.
  • (8) In a single-institution study, 23 consecutive children with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) have been treated with a protocol including doxorubicin, cytarabine and 6-thioguanine as induction therapy, followed by four courses of high-dose cytarabine as consolidation.
  • (9) So far 34 patients in complete remission have been given one or two courses of the intensified consolidation therapy with high-dose cytosine-arabinoside and daunorubicin.
  • (10) These results suggest that noradrenaline (NA) is required for memory consolidation processes for about 2 h after training.
  • (11) Chest X-ray revealed cavity and consolidation in the right upper lobe.
  • (12) These include fibrosis with or without consolidation (n = 12), ground-glass opacities (n = 7), widespread bilateral consolidation (n = 2), and bronchial wall thickening with areas of decreased attenuation (n = 2).
  • (13) They were thought to be caused by the rotor practice interfering with just-learned ladder skill consolidation, so that the gain in skill was not processed into long-term memory.
  • (14) In the former, consolidation of the lung was noticed and useful in the diagnosis, but in the latter, no distinct change was observed in plain chest roentogenogram.
  • (15) The filling of the defect and fracture consolidation took place in 87 (91.7%) patients.
  • (16) A different, more straightforwardly anti-cuts message could perhaps consolidate a left-vote in a PR system, but is unlikely to work for a party seeking to lead.
  • (17) Postremission therapy consolidation has been judged to be necessary while the clinical roles of maintenance and intensification remain to be clarified and appear to still require an investigational approach.
  • (18) LTP in these two structures could underlie their role in memory consolidation and could explain the late involvement of the entorhinal cortex in post-training memory processing.
  • (19) The functions of medical physicists and their roles in consolidation of the relations between medicine and natural sciences and engineering are discussed.
  • (20) Hemorrhage, congestion, consolidation, edema and fibrin exudation were prominent in the hilar region of the lungs.