What's the difference between alive and extant?

Alive


Definition:

  • (a.) Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.
  • (a.) In a state of action; in force or operation; unextinguished; unexpired; existent; as, to keep the fire alive; to keep the affections alive.
  • (a.) Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings; swarming; thronged.
  • (a.) Sprightly; lively; brisk.
  • (a.) Having susceptibility; easily impressed; having lively feelings, as opposed to apathy; sensitive.
  • (a.) Of all living (by way of emphasis).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As of November, 1988 after a median observation period of 34 months, 174 of the 256 patients (68%) were alive, 11 (4%) dead and 71 (28%) lost to follow-up.
  • (2) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
  • (3) Seven patients have not shown evidence of dissemination, and five are alive 1--15 years (median 9 years) after diagnosis.
  • (4) Nine of these patients are dead; four are alive, with three of these having progressive disease.
  • (5) In two patients with extensive marrow necrosis, the diagnosis of marrow necrosis was established by morphologic and radioisotopic studies, and the extent of involvement was accurately assessed by marrow scanning with technetium Tc 99m sulfur colloid while the patients were still alive.
  • (6) Sharif Mobley, 30, whose lawyers consider him to be disappeared, managed to call his wife in Philadelphia on Thursday, the first time they had spoken since February and a rare independent proof he is alive since a brief phone call with his mother in July.
  • (7) Approximately 16,000 people were diagnosed with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in 2012 but were not given the treatment they needed to stay alive and prevent the spread of the disease, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.
  • (8) To this day, 10 patients (31%) are alive with a functioning kidney transplant, 16 (50%) are still treated by CPD awaiting a transplant, 5 have died (16%) and one went back to hemodialysis (3%).
  • (9) Six patients (30%) were alive without evidence of recurrent disease at follow-up ranging from 1 to 12 years.
  • (10) Only 13 patients were operable and only four are presently alive.
  • (11) Of the 5985 infants born alive under sole care of a midwife, 3.8% were admitted to hospital.
  • (12) Lion cubs fathered by Cecil, the celebrated lion shot dead in Zimbabwe , may already have been killed by a rival male lion and even if they were still alive there was nothing conservationists could do to protect them, a conservation charity has warned.
  • (13) In classical psychosomatics dualism in medicine is kept alive by considering only so-called "psychosomatic diseases".
  • (14) And if the fathers of Europe, Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman , were alive today, they would see that their aim, to get Europe to move to a proper union through a series of crises, has moved a step closer.
  • (15) At 5 years postoperatively, 122 patients (34.7%) were alive with a better New York Heart Association functional classification than preoperatively.
  • (16) Landrace sows lost less weight during lactation (P less than .05) when fed diet F than when fed diet N. The total number of pigs born, born alive, and alive at 21 d and at weaning were higher (P less than .01) for S-line Duroc sows, and litter size at 21 d and at weaning was higher (P less than .01) for S-line Landrace sows than for C-line litters within each breed.
  • (17) On December 14, 1990, the gastrostomy tube which had kept Nancy alive since the accident was removed and she died 11 days later.
  • (18) So why did the police officers not even leave one of them alive to ask him this question?” Why was he killed?
  • (19) All 15 patients were alive and asymptomatic at the time of writing.
  • (20) Of the 52 patients, 31 survived to leave hospital and all patients known to be alive are leading active and useful lives.

Extant


Definition:

  • (a.) Standing out or above any surface; protruded.
  • (a.) Still existing; not destroyed or lost; outstanding.
  • (a.) Publicly known; conspicuous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is extant a population of subjects who have average or better than average interpretive reading skills as measured by standardized tests but who read slowly and inefficiently.
  • (2) For example, most large extant lizards are herbivorous.
  • (3) Whereas all extant vertical clingers and leapers share certain femoral traits (i.e., long femur, proximally restricted trochanters, ventrally raised patellar articular surface), Galagidae and Tarsiidae share features of the proximal femur (i.e., cylindrical head, large posterior expansion of articular surface onto the neck) that clearly distinguish them from the specialized leapers of the Malagasy Republic (Indriidae and Lepilemur).
  • (4) This method provides an improvement in sensitivity over extant spectrophotometric methods and circumvents limitations of assays using radioactive pyruvate.
  • (5) His data also indicate that the supraorbital region in extant humans cannot be accurately modeled as a beam.
  • (6) On the basis of morphophysiologic relationships in extant populations, it can be assumed that mean annual osteonal creation frequency, and mean annual Haversian bone formation rate can be reliably determined in extinct populations.
  • (7) The older listener performance measures were compared with extant data from 20 normally hearing young adult listeners (mean age = 22 years).
  • (8) These findings suggest that thyroxine-potentiated mitogenesis promotes greater numbers of new motor neurons to the LMC while, simultaneously, target removal delays the loss of extant cells.
  • (9) Jeletzkya douglassae Johnson and Richardson is described as the oldest known representative of an extant squid group.
  • (10) Photoperiod-mediated differential responsiveness to 6-MBOA indicates that female house mice can discriminate long from short days, and these results suggest that the physiological mechanisms for photoperiodic responsiveness remain extant in this species previously characterized as nonphotperiodic.
  • (11) We derive twelve postulates, eight relating to the earliest vertebrate skeletogenic and odontogenic tissues and four relating to the development of these tissues in extant vertebrates and extrapolate the developmental data back to the evolutionary origin of vertebrate skeletogenic and odontogenic tissues.
  • (12) The numbers and local sequence environments of the two types of substitution mutation plus additions and deletions have been obtained directly in this study from differences between a large number of extant primate gene and pseudogene sequences.
  • (13) BP), and both resemble humans most closely among extant hominoids.
  • (14) The count of publications on geometric-optical illusions and the bibliography of extant books on the topic are brought up to date.
  • (15) Molecular modelling studies could not identify structural features of the aphidicolin-dCTP "overlap" that is unique to dCTP, relative to the remaining dNTPs, and that is consistent with the extant structure-activity data.
  • (16) The digital unit is compatible with all the extant radiographic equipment in our department and automatically supplies two images, the first one resembling a conventional radiograph, the second one characterized by a broader exposure range that allows a clear visualization of soft tissues.
  • (17) These data come from extant hosts and from paleobiogeography.
  • (18) Similarly, we have detected Amerindian genes, such as LDHB--Gua and TFchi, in proportions that relate this population with the extant Ngawbé (Guaymí).
  • (19) The central nervous system location of neurochemicals that are widely distributed among extant animals may give us clues to changes that occurred in the brains of these animals during evolution.
  • (20) Today all patients are alive and 7 present no recurrences of HCC on US and CT scans; the follow-up period was 18 months for 3 patients and 12, 9, 6, and 3 months for the extant 4 patients, respectively.