What's the difference between asperity and rigor?

Asperity


Definition:

  • (n.) Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness.
  • (n.) Roughness or harshness of sound; that quality which grates upon the ear; raucity.
  • (n.) Roughness to the taste; sourness; tartness.
  • (n.) Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity; crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to mildness.
  • (n.) Sharpness; disagreeableness; difficulty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The presence of proteins antigenically related to Bothrops asper myotoxins in various snake venoms, mainly from South America, was investigated by using polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies.
  • (2) The myotoxin shows partial immunologic identity with a myotoxic phospholipase A2 isolated from Bothrops asper venom.
  • (3) Mice that received antivenom (0.4 ml) by the iv or im route 15 min after im injection of B. asper venom (100 micrograms) had lower levels of plasma anti-myotoxin antibodies than controls injected with antivenom only, suggesting that at least a fraction of the antibodies combines with myotoxins in vivo.
  • (4) Metalloproteinase from the venom of Bothrops asper (proteinase G) is a glycoprotein with 1% neutral hexose and 3.5 moles of sialic acid per mole of protein.
  • (5) A new instrumentation for posterior spinal surgery consists of metallic rods carved with diamond-shaped asperities on which vertebral hooks or screws can be screwed in any position, level, or degree of rotation.
  • (6) Conditions that inhibited phospholipase A2 activity, i.e., substitution of calcium by EDTA, reduced liposome-disrupting activity of Bothrops asper myotoxin I and Bothrops atrox myotoxin, both of which have high phospholipase A2 activity, but did not affect the action of B. asper myotoxin II and Bothrops moojeni myotoxin II, which have extremely low phospholipase A2 activity.
  • (7) The time-course and composition of inflammatory infiltrate in mouse gastrocnemius injected with Bothrops asper venom was studied.
  • (8) Also, the organization of these asperities is directly related to cellular cytoskeletal elements.
  • (9) The neutralization of two myotoxic phospholipases A2 from the venom of Bothrops asper, myotoxins I and II, by two murine monoclonal antibodies is reported.
  • (10) Seventeen batches of ICP antivenom were analyzed by EIA, using B. asper myotoxin II as antigen.
  • (11) No major differences in the DNase electrophoretic pattern were observed between individual venoms of adult B. asper specimens nor between lyophilized and frozen venoms.
  • (12) It is suggested that muscle regeneration is partially impaired after myonecrosis induced by Bothrops asper venom, probably due to the damage induced by this venom on muscle microvasculature and nerves.
  • (13) He used fine needle asperation or scraping of pathological tissue and hematoxylin-eosin staining of smears.
  • (14) Immunochemical results indicate a close immunological relationship between venoms of B. asper, B. nummifer and C. d. durissus collected in Honduras and Guatemala with those of the same species collected in Costa Rica.
  • (15) A new muscle damaging toxin, myotoxin II, was purified from the venom of Bothrops asper by ion-exchange chromatography on CM-Sephadex C-25.
  • (16) Ouchterlony immunodiffusion analysis of purified antibodies showed two precipitation bands with a pattern of complete immunologic identity between samples of crude B. asper venoms from specimens collected in the Atlantic and Pacific regions of Costa Rica.
  • (17) Myotoxin is an abundant component in adult B. asper venom.
  • (18) Five polyvalent antivenoms (Crotalidae; Orient, North, Central and South Africa) were tested for their ability to neutralize the thrombin-like activity of snake venoms (Bitis gabonica, Agkistrodon acutus, Bothrops asper, B. atrox, Crotalus adamanteus).
  • (19) A myotoxic, basic phospholipase A2 (pI greater than 9.5) with anticoagulant activity has been purified from the venom of Bothrops asper, and its amino acid sequence determined by automated Edman degradation.
  • (20) The effects of a myotoxic phospholipase A2 isolated from the venom of the crotaline snake Bothrops asper on skeletal muscle myofibrils were studied by histological, ultrastructural, immunohistochemical, and biochemical parameters.

Rigor


Definition:

  • (n.) Rigidity; stiffness.
  • (n.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever.
  • (n.) The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.
  • (n.) See 1st Rigor, 2.
  • (n.) Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor of the storm; the rigors of winter.
  • (n.) Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.
  • (n.) Exactness without allowance, deviation, or indulgence; strictness; as, the rigor of criticism; to execute a law with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor; -- opposed to lenity.
  • (n.) Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification.
  • (n.) Violence; force; fury.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
  • (2) Upon depletion of ATP in contraction, the P2 intensity reverted to the original rigor level, accompanied by development of rigor tension.
  • (3) which suggest that ~60-90% of the cross-bridges attached in rigor are attached in relaxed fibers at an ionic strength of 20 mM and ~2-10% of this number of cross-bridges are attached in a relaxed fiber at an ionic strength of 170 mM.
  • (4) The symptoms were successfully controlled by rigorous dietary measures.
  • (5) Rigorously designed clinical trials have demonstrated the efficacy and safety of fluoxetine in adults with major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) but not in patients below 18 years old.
  • (6) Unambiguous mapping and rigorous determination of the nature of the initiation triplet for IF2 beta, the smaller form of IF2, is critical for future mutagenesis of this codon, required for investigating the biological importance of both IF2 alpha and IF2 beta.
  • (7) The identification of the cDNA for an A2b-adenosine receptor will allow more rigorous characterization of its anatomical distribution and functional properties.
  • (8) Meanwhile, we need to show that the recent changes to how we work with the BBC Executive are allowing us to be more focused, more rigorous and more transparent in the work that we do, so that licence fee payers can get a better BBC.
  • (9) A village will be subject to rigorous evaluations in order to demonstrate sustainability and scalability, and that aid developed with an exit strategy can actually work.
  • (10) We therefore conclude that in postrigor muscles, paratropomyosin is released from the A-I junction region following the increase in the sarcoplasmic calcium ion concentration to 10(-4) M, and then binds to thin filaments, which results in weakening of rigor linkages formed between actin and myosin.
  • (11) New observations include: (1) In 15 nm cross sections that show single 14.5 nm levels: (a) The flared X structure characteristic of rigor is replaced by a straight-X figure in which the crossbridge density is aligned along the myosin-actin plane, rather than skewed across it as in rigor.
  • (12) Ferguson’s influence at Old Trafford has clearly waned since the Moyes appointment but, notably, there is no admission on his part that he chose the wrong man, insisting that the club followed a rigorous and methodical selection process.
  • (13) After a three-month period of rigorous training, two PAs were assigned to the ICU.
  • (14) Over the last few days a former member of parliament's intelligence and security committee, Lord King, a former director of GCHQ, Sir David Omand, and a former director general of MI5, Dame Stella Rimington, have questioned whether the agencies need to be more transparent and accept more rigorous scrutiny of their work.
  • (15) Even when carried out rigorously, culling does very little to help.
  • (16) Because the rigor of the present day "scientific method" demands clearcut and reproducible results and investigations require predictable performance of the parasite in an evenly maintained host that is in a highly constrained environment, we should not wonder why we cannot produce the events of nature.
  • (17) The best definition of osteoarthritis is anatomical, but to be rigorous must include the biochemical characteristics of osteoarthritis cartilage.
  • (18) "We remain committed to sourcing merchandise that is produced responsibly by suppliers that adhere to Walmart's rigorous Standards for Suppliers code of conduct."
  • (19) Edelman has a rigorous in-house carbon accounting system.
  • (20) Material, obtained by a rigorous three-stage sampling procedure from five normal rat livers, is systematically subjected to this analysis at four levels of magnification.

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