What's the difference between among and mongrel?

Among


Definition:

  • (prep.) Alt. of Amongst

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Among its signatories were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover.
  • (2) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
  • (3) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
  • (4) Among the pathological or abnormal ECGs (25.6%) prevailed the vegetative-functional heart diseases with 92%.
  • (5) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
  • (6) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
  • (7) The frequency of rare fragile sites was studied among 240 children in special schools for subnormal intelligence (IQ 52-85).
  • (8) The prevalence of 24.4% among Mexican American men was similar to that among men from other ethnic backgrounds.
  • (9) Pretraining consumption did not predict (among animals) post-training consumption.
  • (10) Among a family of 8 children, 4 presented typical clinical and biological abnormalities related to mannosidosis.
  • (11) Among the migrants from the regions with contrasting climatic conditions.
  • (12) The fluctuations in [Ca2+]i measured with fura-2 were synchronized among the population of cells observed and were sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o).
  • (13) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
  • (14) Among the groups investigated, the subjects with gastric tumors presented the greatest values.
  • (15) Complementarity determining regions (CDR) are conserved to different extents, with the first CDR region in all family members being among the most conserved segments of the molecule.
  • (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) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
  • (18) This postulate is supported by a limited study of the serovars present among the isolates.
  • (19) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
  • (20) The disassembly of the synthetase complex is consistent with the structural model of a heterotypic multienzyme complex and suggests that the complex formation is due to the specific intermolecular interactions among the synthetases.

Mongrel


Definition:

  • (n.) The progeny resulting from a cross between two breeds, as of domestic animals; anything of mixed breed.
  • (a.) Not of a pure breed.
  • (a.) Of mixed kinds; as, mongrel language.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Changes of circulating blood volume during isoflurane or sevoflurane anesthesia were investigated by the dual indicator dilution method in eighteen mongrel dogs.
  • (2) In the first experiment, mongrel and ddS mice produced under an unsatisfactory control of proximate environment were purchased, and acute toxicity tests of thiamine hydrochloride (B1HCl) and isonicotinic acid hydrazide (INAH) were practiced at two different conditioned rooms.
  • (3) In 12 anaesthetized mongrel dogs, a canine stroke model was produced by occluding the left internal carotid and middle cerebral arteries with aneurysm clips.
  • (4) In six healthy mongrel dogs total body water volume (TBW), extracellular water volume (ECW), body mass, and plasma osmolality were measured before and after infusion of both saline and HDMTX.
  • (5) Heterotopic heart and orthotopic left lung allotransplantation was performed in three groups of six mongrel dogs each according to the method of lung preservation.
  • (6) Ten centimeter long, 4 mm internal diameter segments of an unreinforced, experimental PTFE graft were implanted into 36 mongrel dogs as carotid interpositions.
  • (7) The concentration of phospholipids and total lipids was determined 4 weeks after a portocaval shunt (PCS) in liver tissue of adult mongrel dogs.
  • (8) Adult mongrel dogs were instrumented and placed in the bore of a Bruker Biospec 1.89 tesla superconducting magnet system.
  • (9) On a dreich November evening in Gourock, a red-coated mongrel is wandering between the seats in a room above a pub, pausing to sniff handbags for hidden treats.
  • (10) Anaesthetized mongrel dogs were subjected to occlusion of a coronary artery.
  • (11) Four methyl methacrylate bone substitutes were investigated in bilateral multiple bone defects in the femurs of five rhesus monkeys and five mongrel dogs.
  • (12) Twenty-three unrelated mongrel dogs underwent successful transplantation of the entire small intestine in the orthotopic location.
  • (13) For these purposes, the changes in microvascular structure of the fibrotic pancreas, produced by ligation of the pancreatic duct in mongrel adult dogs, were investigated by microangiography and injection replica scanning electron microscopic methods.
  • (14) The comparative effects of contractile agonists and physiological stimulation of the tracheal and bronchial smooth muscle (BSM) response were studied isometrically in situ in five Basenji-greyhound (BG) and six mongrel dogs.
  • (15) Pancreatic secretion was evaluated in eight pregnant female mongrel dogs prepared with Thomas duodenal and gastric fistulae, during pregnancy (corresponding to the third trimester in humans), during the puerperium, and several months after whelping.
  • (16) Lined prostheses implanted for 24 hours in mongrel dogs as an arteriovenous shunt demonstrated the antithrombogenicity of the cultured ENC.
  • (17) The pattern of locomotion following a partial movement restraint was studied in five mongrel puppies.
  • (18) The effect of d-3-acetoxy-cis-2,3-dihydro-5-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]-2-(p-methoxyphenyl)-1,5-benzothiazepine-4(5H)one hydrochloride (ditiazem hydrochloride, CRD-401) on renal hemodynamics was investigated in 18 mongrel adult dogs, and the following results were obtained.
  • (19) A pair of ultrasonic crystals, an electromagnetic flow probe and a cuff occluder were placed on the left circumflex coronary artery in 12 mongrel dogs under sterile conditions.
  • (20) The haemodynamic effects of N-carboxy-3-morpholino-sydronimine-ethylester (molsidomine, SIN 10, Corvaton) were studied in anaesthetized mongrel dogs.