What's the difference between appendage and extremity?

Appendage


Definition:

  • (n.) Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.
  • (n.) A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The astrocytes had generally two types of processes: (1) thread-like processes of relatively constant width with few ramifications and few lamellar appendages and (2) the sinuous processes with clusters of lamellar appendages.
  • (2) After completion of the biopsy, a J-shaped 5F bipolar pacing lead was inserted via the sheath and positioned with the lead tip directed medially against the interatrial septum or right atrial appendage.
  • (3) The purpose of this study is to determine the sensitivity and specificity of two dimensional echocardiography in the diagnosis of thrombosis of the left atrial appendage.
  • (4) Thus careful examination of standard ECG leads for paced P waves of low amplitude, prolonged duration and specific morphology can help in confirming atrial capture following pacing stimulus from right atrial appendage.
  • (5) The results indicate that position along the appendage does not influence the developmental sequence of events of regeneration, but that it does influence the rate of growth and the structures to be replaced.
  • (6) The appendages were about 125 x 30 A; the central ring had an outer diameter of approximately 100 A and an inner diameter of 40 A.
  • (7) In this last region, we can find a more or less reduced true tail or a terminal appendage without vertebral element.
  • (8) Before therapy considerable destructive changes in nerve fibers were seen, i. e. Schwann cell cytoplasm and nerve cell appendages edemas, no neural tubes in the appendages.
  • (9) Of 70 children scrotal explorations, torsion of appendages was found in 33 cases (47%).
  • (10) Synaptic contacts (GRAY I) are established with the grape-like appendages in the branching zone of P-neuron dendrites.
  • (11) Of the 84 adolescent scrotal explorations performed, 72 (86%) had torsion of testis, and 8 (9%) had torsion of appendages.
  • (12) Electron microscopy reveals that Toh+ amacrine cells are postsynaptic to amacrine cells and a few bipolar cell terminals in stratum 1 of the inner plexiform layer and are primarily presynaptic to AII amacrine cell bodies and lobular appendages, and to another type of amacrine cell body and amacrine dendrites hypothesized to be the A17 amacrine cell.
  • (13) A practical classification of left atrial calcification is proposed according to the dominant lesion in each group: (a) Calcification of the left atrial appendage alone (Mitral stenosis).
  • (14) The innervation and myocardial cells of the human atrial appendage were investigated by means of immunocytochemical and ultrastructural techniques using both tissue sections and whole mount preparations.
  • (15) Many HBox genes sustain their expression in the appendages of the adult newt.
  • (16) Wounds made at intervals from 2-24 weeks after irradiation in normal or irradiated ileum were repaired immediately and wrapped in normal or irradiated appendages.
  • (17) A course of treatment resulted in clinical improvement and appearance of small-diameter appendages of nerve cells on the periphery of nerve fibers that were often not completely covered with Schwann cell appendages.
  • (18) Among the relay cells, these differences relate to soma and axon diameter, dendritic orientation, and the presence or absence of grapelike dendritic appendages.
  • (19) When taken together these cases show that just over 50% of the degenerating terminals are presynaptic to spiny appendages and are located within the synaptic clusters (glomeruli) described previously (King, '76).
  • (20) Surgical techniques used (alone or in combination) included an isolation procedure in 1 patient, cryoablation in 4 patients, and excision of atrial appendages or portions of atrial free walls in 7.

Extremity


Definition:

  • (n.) The utmost point; highest degree; most aggravated or intense form.
  • (n.) The highest degree of inconvenience, pain, or suffering; greatest need or peril; extreme need; necessity.
  • (n.) The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country.
  • (n.) One of locomotive appendages of an animal; a limb; a leg or an arm of man.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
  • (2) But Lee is mostly just extremely fed up at the exclusion of sex workers’ voices from much of the conversation.
  • (3) The extreme quenching of the dioxetane chemiluminescence by both microsomes and phosphatidylcholine, as a model phospholipid, implies that despite the low quantum yield (approx.
  • (4) The results show that endolymph is extremely inhomogenous with respect to calcium potentials.
  • (5) Even so, amputation of fifteen extremities and four other major excisions were required in twelve patients.
  • (6) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
  • (7) He had been extremely frustrated that indicators of economic recovery over the past few days had been drowned out by the clamour over the Labour leadership.
  • (8) Poor lipophilicity and extremely low plasma concentrations impose severe constraints.
  • (9) This suggests that molars do not maintain a fixed relationship to incisors over time, and extreme care must be taken to standardize an experiment to a specific body weight when using this method.
  • (10) Eighty-four paraplegic patients whose injury level was T2 or below and who were at least one year from spinal cord injury were screened for upper extremity complaints.
  • (11) A retrospective review was undertaken of 127 lower extremity fasciotomies performed for compartment syndrome after acute ischemia and revascularization in 73 patients with vascular trauma and 49 patients with arterial occlusive disease.
  • (12) TNBS reacts to an extremely small extend with hemoglobin over the concentration range 0.4 to 4 mM whereas FDNB reacts with hemoglobin to a very large extent (50 fold more than TNBS).
  • (13) While the reduced form of the "derived" polyphenolic compounds, generated during tissue homogenization, appeared to enhance dye binding with bovine serum albumin, their influence on the protein assay directly in crude homogenates was extremely diverse.
  • (14) Although statistical analysis did not show dramatic changes in all these parameters, some individual extreme values were substantially altered.
  • (15) Survival and healing of "extremely severe" grade intoxication can only be obtained through a surgical intervention within the first hours; a laparotomy will indicate the depth of the lesions, which is not determined by endoscopy, and will consist of Celerier's stripping method and if necessary a gastrectomy, more seldom a cephalic duodeno-pancreatectomy.
  • (16) In the absence of haemodialysis, the decline in plasma concentrations of lisinopril and enalaprilat was extremely slow and plasma concentrations were generally high.
  • (17) The authors recently observed 2 elderly female patients with ischemic pain of the upper extremity as the first manifestation of giant cell arteritis.
  • (18) In the process, the DfE's definition of extremism has shifted from actual bomb-throwers to religious conservatives.
  • (19) Accordingly, LPA proved an extremely stable characteristic which did not show any substantial variations in the course of five years.
  • (20) 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.