What's the difference between ashen and pallid?

Ashen


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the ash tree.
  • (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.
  • (n.) obs. pl. for Ashes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Most defendants in multimillion-euro fraud cases turn up to court ashen-faced and sullen-looking.
  • (2) In the ashen aftermath of war, it is impossible to imagine what this place looked like before, or what really happened here.
  • (3) Of the 33 symptom complex patients, 5 had Atropine, most of whose heart rates returned to normal after 2 seconds to 2 minutes, as did their dizziness, perspiration, and ashen coloring.
  • (4) Having spent more than £1bn they do not expect to be at Wembley ashen-faced, watching a limp defeat in front of a global audience.
  • (5) Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt walk into the green room, looking ashen.
  • (6) The murine dilute suppressor gene, dsu, was previously shown to suppress the dilute coat color phenotypes of mice homozygous for the dilute (d), leaden (ln), and ashen (ash) mutations.
  • (7) On a day when the skies were ashen from the smoke of distant wildfires, Chase Hurley kept his eyes trained on the slower-moving disaster at ground level: collapsing levees, buckling irrigation canals, water rising up over bridges and sloshing over roads.
  • (8) The last time Alan Pardew faced Sunderland he ended the afternoon ashen-faced and speaking of deep hurt.
  • (9) The bit I love was David Beckham afterwards, he was sort of ashen-faced, and he said: ‘I don’t mind people lying to me, but lying to the future King of England?
  • (10) The French president, who travelled to Nice with the prime minister, Manuel Valls, after delivering an ashen-faced TV address at 4am from the presidential palace, was under pressure to explain what concrete measures he had taken since the Paris attacks in November to crack down on the threat of terrorism.
  • (11) This goes on for several minutes until, finally, Eldar, ashen, tight-lipped, excuses himself, pulls his microphone from his shirt, and exits the studio.
  • (12) As Melancholia's star Dunst looked on ashen-faced – at one point attempting to halt his flow with a restraining arm on his shoulder – he said: "I thought I was a Jew for a long time and was very happy being a Jew ... Then it turned out that I was not a Jew ...
  • (13) Antin said an ashen-faced and “visibly shaken” O’Reilly rushed down a nearby alleyway with a secondary cameraman to film replacement shots, which were to be broadcast later as if live.
  • (14) A s the survivors of Australia 's bushfires began to emerge from the ashen landscape, so too did the stories .
  • (15) In Tatton, Cheshire, an ashen-faced George Osborne is shown on TV conceding defeat.
  • (16) Steven Gerrard and Martin Skrtel look fairly distraught, while Brendan Rodgers is ashen-faced on the sideline.
  • (17) It wasn’t hard to imagine the ashen-faced Sir Humphreys praising his “courageous” suggestions.
  • (18) All of France is under threat from Islamist terrorism,” said an ashen-faced Hollande in a televised address from the presidential palace just before 4am, hours after a driver ploughed a lorry at high speed into a crowd gathered on the Nice seafront to watch the Bastille Day fireworks.
  • (19) Some pigment is often present in the mandibles and the mature feathers display an ashen cast.
  • (20) Their ashen faces told of the real disaster hitting Japan.

Pallid


Definition:

  • (a.) Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In order to examine the role of the basal ganglia (BG) in the regulation of basic movement parameters, we recorded extracellularly from pallidal neurons in conscious monkeys during the performance of a sequential wrist movement task which was composed of a series of holds and ballistic jumps.
  • (2) The tasks were designed to dissociate several modes and parameters of movement to see whether pallidal neurons would discharge in relation to one and not the others.
  • (3) A related growth factor, epidermal growth factor (EGF), has also been reported to be present in pallidal regions of rat brain.
  • (4) It is concluded that, of the compounds identified, solstitialin A 13-acetate and cynaropicrin have toxic potential in cell cultures, containing cells from the substantia nigra of the rat, the specificity of action to cells of the substantia nigra remains to be shown, and that a toxic action in the midbrain may contribute to the nigro-pallidal encephalomalacia, caused by the ingestion of the yellow star thistle by horses.
  • (5) This response pattern was present in 39% of the pallidal records, and appeared to be elicited by the auditory components of the CS and US.
  • (6) SITS was chosen for the pallidal injections because it is not taken up by fibers-of-passage.
  • (7) The proposed changes in nomenclature are based on the analysis of topographical relationships between nigral, pallidal, and cerebellar projections to the thalamus studied in 13 rhesus monkeys with the use of autoradiography technique.
  • (8) However, these two pallidal afferents arborize according to a different pattern in GPe and GPi.
  • (9) The first excitation was assumed to be monosynaptically driven since it was not affected by pallidal lesion or transsection of the internal capsule.
  • (10) He came within 10 minutes of passing much of that burden on to José Mourinho, whose Chelsea side once again looked pallid and likely to slump to a fourth league defeat, before a remarkable late recovery left the home side hanging on just to earn a point.
  • (11) In the human ventral nuclear complex there is a very clear histochemical distinction between nuclei which, on the basis of comparison with the monkey, probably form the pallidal, cerebellar and lemniscal relays to premotor, motor and somatic sensory cortex, respectively.
  • (12) A very high proportion of pallidal and entopeduncular neurons showed changes in firing rate during fluid injection.
  • (13) Statistical analysis reveals a marked difference between reconstructive surgery and simple thrombectomy, whereas fibrinolysis was found to be a useful but limited method used only in patients with pallid ischemia and in circulatory compensation.
  • (14) The contradiction which exists between akinesia with an abnormal activity of the medial pallidum and akinesia with bilateral pallidal lesions could only be apparent if akinesia was linked to the ineffective emission or to the interruption of messages to the thalamus.
  • (15) Neuroleptic administration augmented the responses to cortical stimulation in 12 of 34 pallidal neurons.
  • (16) A recent neuropathological study has reported decreased levels of dynorphin A immunoreactivity in striato-pallidal fibers in the brain of a patient with severe Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome (TS).
  • (17) This population was separate from the more numerous population of medium size globus pallidus cells projecting to the subthalamic nucleus and was also separate from the pallidal and especially peripallidal population of large cholinergic cells projecting to the cortex.
  • (18) We have tested the hypothesis that the basal ganglia initiate some one or several modes of movement by recording the change in discharge frequency of pallidal neurons during visually triggered step and visually paced ramp moves in relation to the visual stimulus onset, the change in the electromyograph (EMG), and the movement onset of trained rhesus monkeys.
  • (19) The bilateral modulatory effects of striatal stimulation may cancel out the circling behavior seen during pallidal stimulation, and cause only head turning.
  • (20) Oxidative phosphorylation was studied in isolated liver mitochondria from manganese-deficient mice and in those from a mutant strain, pallid.

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