What's the difference between areal and linear?

Areal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to an area; as, areal interstices (the areas or spaces inclosed by the reticulate vessels of leaves).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In control group, one week and four weeks after the hepatectomy, ivGTT was examined followed by a blood sampling from the portal vein to measure the changes of glucose, insulin and glucagon, and areal changes of the islets were measured.
  • (2) Following 8 weeks of loading, areal properties and histomorphometry were performed on both the experimental and intact control ulnae.
  • (3) Here the pulse curve analysis of the linear blood flow deserves special mention, important parameters being the peak-flow, the catacrote areal index, the peak delay, and the sum of pulse peak and pulse peak delay.
  • (4) We report here on 49 areal measurements of transplant size from a coronal section and compare the results with isotopically measured areas.
  • (5) Among others, a modified suture technique for correcting the combined laceration of Perineum-Ampulla recti-areal (third degree perineal laceration) and a modification of the method for correcting pneumovagina are described.
  • (6) We found that the areal distribution pattern of labeled callosal projection neurons varied at the different fetal ages.
  • (7) In both sexes, apparent relationships between BMD and lean mass are artifacts attributable to the use of areal density (which is dependent on body size) as a surrogate for volumetric density.
  • (8) Cross-sectional areal properties and bone formation rates were quantitated from 30 microns mid-diaphyseal sections using a Bioquant Bone Morphometry system.
  • (9) The amount of bone that grew into the porous surface, the areal density of bone within the available pore space, and the extent of the prosthesis periphery with bone ingrowth were not significantly varied in the two different components.
  • (10) The dissociation of elastic, muscular and connective tissue and the determination of their areal densities in the superior vena cava and in the ascending aorta of the dog, was performed by automated image analysis.
  • (11) We found that the areal and numerical densities of darkly reactive mitochondria were lower in deafferented cells than those in the sham-operated animals.
  • (12) This massive somatotopic reorganization, involving more than half the areal extent of SII, exceeds that previously observed in the postcentral cortex after peripheral nerve damage and may reflect a greater capacity for reorganizational changes in higher order than in primary sensory cortical areas.
  • (13) By contrast, the areal distribution of associational neurones in area 18a and in nonretinotopically organized areas projecting to area 17 were very similar in controls and in operated animals (neonatal kainate lesion of the visual thalamus, neonatal section of the corpus callosum or both procedures combined).
  • (14) There was a significant reduction in the areal density of striatal neurons expressing preproenkephalin messenger RNA in the patients with symptomatic HD, but the level of labeling in the remaining cells was not altered compared with the control subjects.
  • (15) Cortical motor output organization was assessed by mapping the areal extent of movements evoked by intracortical electrical stimulation in anesthetized rats.
  • (16) The transformation of STIM energy-loss images into maps of areal density is discussed, and is illustrated with images of a fruit fly head (Drosophila melanogaster).
  • (17) The total area, the number of C cells per unit area, and the areal fraction of C cells were determined for the C cell region using step serial sections.
  • (18) To quantify these alterations and to determine their contribution to the final form of the region, size and areal measurements were recorded and served as input for principal component and cluster analytic techniques.
  • (19) At the same time granule and Purkinje cell density declined, suggesting that the areal recovery was due to the expansion of the interneuronal matrix.
  • (20) Areal boundaries are localized at positions where this laminar pattern changes.

Linear


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a line; consisting of lines; in a straight direction; lineal.
  • (a.) Like a line; narrow; of the same breadth throughout, except at the extremities; as, a linear leaf.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
  • (2) There was a linear increase in the dimensions of these zones after the chewing.
  • (3) Photoirradiation of F1 in the presence of the analog leads to inactivation depending linearly on the incorporation of label.
  • (4) Using multiple regression, a linear correlation was established between the cardiac index and the arterial-venous pH and PCO2 differences throughout shock and resuscitation (r2 = .91).
  • (5) Linear and annular gap junctions between neighbouring cells were present, particularly in Group 1.
  • (6) The ED50 and ED95 of mivacurium in each group were estimated from linear regression plots of log dose vs probit of maximum percentage depression of neuromuscular function.
  • (7) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
  • (8) A significant linear correlation was found between the effect in this test and plasma and overall brain levels of metapramine.
  • (9) Under standardized conditions, the relationship between antigen content and inhibition of chromium release was linear in a semilogarithmic plot, indicating that the antigen content can be determined from testing two dilutions of a given preparation.
  • (10) The authors used a linear multivariate regression to evaluate the effects of distance from the highway, age and sex of the child, and housing condition.
  • (11) Equal numbers of handled and unhandled puparia were planted out at different densities (1, 2, 4 or 8 per linear metre) in fifty-one natural puparial sites in four major vegetation types.
  • (12) The data collection scheme for the scanner uses multiple rotations of a linearly shifted, asymmetric fan beam permitting user-defined variable resolution.
  • (13) The substructural units, 5-14 linear and 5-14 cyclic, have been used as models for MCH-- H-Asp1-Thr-Met-Arg-Cys-Met-Val-Gly-Arg HO-Val17-Glu-Trp-Cys-Pro-Arg-Tyr-Val in 1H-nmr conformational studies.
  • (14) In application to most proteins, this plot is linear and computer programs exist to evaluate it.
  • (15) The method described uses film DOT-I and DOT-II by Dupont, whereby the exposure of the step wedge takes place on a linear accelerator with a photo energy of 10 MeV.
  • (16) Production of glucose was a linear function of time for up to 120 min of incubation at 37 degrees C under a variety of conditions.
  • (17) The pattern of day to day variability in egg counts from individuals can be characterized by the linear relationship between the logarithms of the variances and means.
  • (18) Light-induced cone shortening provides a useful model for stuying nonmuscle contraction because it is linear, slow, and repetitive.
  • (19) Theoretical 13C NMR spectra for all possible structures of some linear polysaccharides were calculated by using additive scheme of glycosidation effects.
  • (20) The baseline serum hyaluronate (HA) concentration from samples obtained five to seven hours after mobilization of the patient was quantified using a radiometric 125I-HA binding method in 58 patients with rheumatoid arthritis and compared with several clinical and laboratory parameters by means of stepwise multiple linear regression.

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