What's the difference between astatic and unstable?
Astatic
Definition:
(a.) Having little or no tendency to take a fixed or definite position or direction: thus, a suspended magnetic needle, when rendered astatic, loses its polarity, or tendency to point in a given direction.
Example Sentences:
(1) The similarity of infantile spasms and myoclonic astatic epilepsy is discussed, as are the so-called 'Lennox' and 'Lennox-Gastaut' syndromes.
(2) Confirmation was found for the generally accepted rule that exogenic injuries are most often demonstrable in children with salaam or myoclonic-astatic convulsions and least often in those with absences.
(3) Korean cattle (Hamhung, Pyongyang, Chinju Suwon, and Kwangju), Mongolian cattle, Hainan Tao cattle, northeastern Chinese cattle (Shuangliao, Shenyang, Tongliao, Lüta, and Chilin), Astatic Water Buffalo, Yak, Bos Banteng, American Bison, and Holstein-Friesian.
(4) These patients, aged between 16 months and 13 years old, showed the following epileptic syndromes: Lennox-Gastaut syndrome's (5 cases); epilepsy with myoclonic absences (1 case); "intermediary petit mal" (1 case); benign atypical partial epilepsy in infancy (1 case), and epilepsy with myoclonic-astatic seizures.
(5) A high rate of hereditary afflictions was found even in those types of seizure which are considered predominantly symptomatic (salaam [West] or myoclonic-astatic convulsions: 13.5%, focal attacks: 11.2%).
(6) As an element of verbalized group sentiment, it is a positive assertion of Samoan values, astatement of social solidarity.
(7) The rate, character and the site of the pathomorphologic alterations slightly varied with different ICP patterns while the gravest alterations were seen on the computerized tomograms during double hemiplegia, in the hemiparesis and atonically astatic patterns of ICP.
(8) In the patients' childhood astatic seizures had not been observed.
(9) In the sixth case, the appropriate anticonvulsant was used, but it induced multiple astatic-myoclonic seizures.
(10) In 17 patients with a long course of epilepsy astatic seizures became apparent after the age of 14 years.
(11) The types of myoclonic epilepsy are infantile spasms, myoclonic astatic epilepsy, myoclonic absence, myoclonic epilepsy of childhood, myoclonic epilepsy of adolescence and photomyoclonic epilepsy, the last being subdivided into myoclonic jerks and eyelid myoclonia.
(12) Absence seizures include classic absence, impulsive petit mal, juvenile absence seizures with myoclonic phenomena, and atonic-astatic seizures.
(13) In contrast, in the low met- astatic cells, SEM adhesion and lung-colony formation were not affected by anti-alpha IIb beta 3 antibody treatment.
(14) The evolution of psychomotor development and behaviour was studied in 15 children with primary generalized myoclonic-astatic epilepsy and with developmental status adequate for age at final examination at school age following a mean follow-up period of 8.5 years.
(15) He has also suffered from astatic seizures since age 8.
(16) We studied 36 drop seizures in 5 patients with myoclonic astatic epilepsy of early childhood (MAEE) with simultaneous split-screen video recording and polygraph.
(17) This paper presents case reports of patients suffering from myoclonic-astatic and stimulus-sensitive myoclonic seizures, respectively.
(18) A survey of mosquitoes was carried out in 7 weeded astatic ponds in and around Madurai from October 1990 to January 1991 to qualitatively determine the macrophyte-mosquito larvae association.
(19) A double-blind crossover study with imipramine was conducted in 10 patients with absence and myoclonic-astatic seizures who had not responded to conventional medications.
(20) 3) The initial success was 57%: 46% in infantile myoclonic seizures, 56% in Lennox syndrome, 70% in myoclonic-astatic petit-mal.
Unstable
Definition:
(a.) Not stable; not firm, fixed, or constant; subject to change or overthrow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unstable subcapital fractures and dislocation fractures of the humerus can usually be set by closed reduction.
(2) Measurements of mechanical stability of Hb Santa Ana showed that the oxy-form of this hemoglobin was 10 times more unstable than that of Hb S and 100 times more unstable than that of Hb A.
(3) Although operative mortality was significantly greater for women during most of this review period, mortality was similar during 1983 (2.6% for men versus 2.4% for women), in spite of a significantly higher incidence of unstable angina in the female group (54% for women versus 35% for men).
(4) Similar, but less marked changes were seen in the patients unstable angina.
(5) If a tear is found, remove all unstable meniscal fragments, leaving a rim, if possible, especially adjacent to the popliteus recess, and then proceed to open cystectomy.
(6) After the impact … I lost my balance, making my body unstable and falling on top of my opponent,” he said in his submission to the panel, which met on Wednesday, a day after Uruguay had beaten Italy 1-0 in a decisive group-stage match.
(7) The complex was found to be unstable toward low values of pH and ionic strength, concentrations of urea exceeding 1 M, modifications of the cysteine residues, and fragmention in which the C terminal portions of either H3 or H4 are removed.
(8) Then, the males with super-unstable oc-mutations were crossed with females with attached X chromosomes, supporting P-M hybrid dysgenesis.
(9) Since transcription does not take place during mitosis, the amount of protooncogene products is rapidly decreased (they are extremely unstable).
(10) We describe herein, a new unstable mutant of the vestigial locus, isolated from a French natural population.
(11) The Saudi-led war in Yemen launched in March – against Houthi rebels who the Saudis insist are backed by Iran – has diverted resources and underlined the priority being given to the Gulf’s unstable and impoverished backyard.
(12) The hypothesis that opiate agonism requires an N substituent in the axial position does not appear to be consistent with the increased potency of beta isomers in which axial N substituents are thermodynamically more unstable.
(13) These drugs are beneficial also in prevention of recurrent myocardial infarction, especially among patients with unstable angina.
(14) HPLC is of particular value in providing a means of separating unstable compounds prior to assay by relatively nonspecific quantitation methods.
(15) In a cohort of 417 patients admitted consecutively to the Coronary Care Unit for acute myocardial ischemia (unstable angina pectoris in 121, acute myocardial infarction in 296 patients) 21 cases of non arrhythmogenic sudden death occurred within 24 hours after admission.
(16) The homdr mutation is unstable and probably deleterious to the cell.
(17) It is likely that the light chains assemble normally with the HMM fragment in HMM cells, while in cells lacking myosin heavy chain (mhcA) the light chains are unstable.
(18) These findings emphasize the difficulty of identifying patients at low risk for myocardial infarction or unstable angina in the emergency room without consideration of many factors from the history, the physical examination, and the ECG.
(19) During unstable detrusor contractions, which even in these healthy women are observed during bladder filling and also during inhibited voidings through the urethra, the contraction is weaker.
(20) With these scores we expect to facilitate the diagnostic screening, to indicate the way of therapy and to avoid unnecessary surgery for urinary incontinence in cases of motor-urge-incontinence (detrusor instability, unstable bladder), as long as a urodynamic examination is not feasible on every incontinent women.