What's the difference between aspirate and plosive?

Aspirate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.
  • (n.) A sound consisting of, or characterized by, a breath like the sound of h; the breathing h or a character representing such a sound; an aspirated sound.
  • (n.) A mark of aspiration (/) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.
  • (n.) An elementary sound produced by the breath alone; a surd, or nonvocal consonant; as, f, th in thin, etc.
  • (a.) Alt. of Aspirated

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Down and up regulation by peptides may be useful for treatment of cough and prevention of aspiration pneumonia.
  • (2) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
  • (3) Sickle and normal discocytes both showed membrane elasticity with reversion to original cell shape following release of the cell from its aspirated position at the pipette tip.
  • (4) The exception to this rule is a cyst which can be safely aspirated under controlled conditions.
  • (5) The fine needle aspiration cytology features of twelve peripherally located bronchioloalveolar cell carcinomas of the lung diagnosed by fine needle aspiration biopsy are described.
  • (6) A quantitative index of duodenogastric reflux was obtained in each case by determining the percentage of the injected dose of 99mTechnetium-DISIDA that was recovered by continuous aspiration of gastric juice in fasting subjects.
  • (7) To be sure, the demonstration of pulmonary aspiration with GRS had little influence on patient selection and response to therapy.
  • (8) 18 aspirates were obtained from patients with B-non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of high malignancy.
  • (9) The concentration of potassium (K+) and sodium (Na+) was measured in breast cyst fluid (BCF) from 611 cysts greater than 3 ml aspirated in 520 women with gross cystic disease of the breast.
  • (10) This phenomena is strongly marked in spastic and mixed types of drowning and is absent in aspiration and reflex types.
  • (11) Other less common indications are some instances of aspiration pneumonia, septicemias due to B. fragilis, and actinomycoses.
  • (12) Initial analysis of aspirated bone marrow disclosed ALL FAB-L1 morphology, common (Ia+, cALLa+) immunophenotype and a complex abnormal karyotype.
  • (13) These findings in a patient with acute leukaemia are strongly suspicious of fungal infection, and percutaneous fine-needle aspiration under ultrasound or computed tomography-guidance is indicated.
  • (14) "The role of leader is one of the greatest honours imaginable – but it is not a bauble to aspire for.
  • (15) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
  • (16) From this study, biopsies appear more helpful to detect malignant cells than aspirates.
  • (17) Recent reports have indicated the usefulness of nuclear grooves (clefts or notches) as an additional criterion for the diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma in fine needle aspirates; most of these studies were carried out on alcohol-fixed material stained with the Papanicolaou stain or with hematoxylin and eosin, which yield good nuclear details.
  • (18) The results of simple aspiration in 30 cases of pneumothorax are presented.
  • (19) A large exudative retinal detachment and hypopyon developed in one eye, and cultures from the anterior chamber aspirate grew CMV.
  • (20) Compared with anteverted (N = 243) or axial (N = 149) locations, the retroverted uterus (N = 66) was associated with a lower mean sample weight per aspiration (22, 18, and 15 mg, respectively; P less than .01) and a greater frequency of multiple-pass procedures (23, 31, and 52%, respectively; P less than .0001).

Plosive


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results indicate that the increased nasal resistance resulting from occlusion of one nostril does not appreciably affect pressure and airflow associated with plosive consonant production in patients with velopharyngeal inadequacy.
  • (2) The velar mechanism was perturbed by having subjects voluntarily lower the soft palate during a series of words involving plosive consonants.
  • (3) In addition, some qualitative differences in confusion patterns could be established: the perception of low-frequency information appears to be relatively important in compression limiting; the perception of plosiveness is less important.
  • (4) Our phonetic study of Bourouchaski shows that the homorganic plosives of this language cannot be distinguished by a specific difference in voice onset time (VOT).
  • (5) The subjects of tumour of the anterior part of the floor of the mouth had low overall scores, low scores for plosive and affricative sounds, and very low scores for sounds produced with the rear of the tongue.
  • (6) Sounds produced with the rear portion of the tongue were improved in 3 cases, and plosive and affricative sounds were remarkably improved in all cases.
  • (7) For normally hearing subjects shortening the silence duration of an intervocalic voiceless plosive induces a misperception of voicing.
  • (8) This study investigated the perception of voicing of an intervocalic plosive for a natural speech sample "aka" as a function of occlusive silence duration for normally hearing and hearing-impaired subjects.
  • (9) Other verbal characteristics including plosiveness were also important.
  • (10) Articulatory dysfunction was characterized as plosives tend to be misunderstood as nasals or affricates.
  • (11) In a second experiment the influence of silent intervals on the identification of plosives was analysed increasing the artificial silent interval in 10 ms steps from 0 ms to 120 ms in speech stimuli like schal thus producing stahl for the 120 ms silent interval.
  • (12) Voiced consonants, plosives, fricatives, nasals, and liquid-glides were significantly more intelligible when produced by TE talkers.
  • (13) Descriptive autority analyses of continuous texts in German have shown that word-final alveolar plosives are frequently assimilated to following labials and velars.
  • (14) The stimuli were obtained from the two naturally produced originals by changing the ratios and the length of voicing in the plosive through computer processing.
  • (15) In the 75 dB SPL recording, the levels of voiceless fricatives, nasals and plosives were significantly lower than in the 60 dB SPL recording.
  • (16) Articulation proficiency was compared in four phoneme categories: nasals, plosives, fricatives and affricates.
  • (17) The signals were six broadband noises whose spectral shapes were modeled after the spectra of unvoiced fricative and plosive consonants.
  • (18) the plosives and the short consonants disappear first; next follow the other consonants, whereas vowels remain intelligible at a 100 msec.
  • (19) Medium and long pauses, long duration, prologned closure (i.e., long duration plosives), and adventitious transitional sounds had a lesser negative effect.
  • (20) The results show that the identification of deleted initial voiceless plosives is greatly improved by the addition of noise.