What's the difference between astatic and unsteady?
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.
Unsteady
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) On the 6th day, he suffered from vertigo, nausea and vomiting associated with unsteady gait.
(2) For elderly patients with a variety of problems ranging from general unsteadiness to frank vertigo, the risk of falling can be devastating, and it is important to provide a thorough investigation of the total balance system.
(3) The clinical symptoms of acute toxication are similar for all studied phenols (restlessness, unsteadiness, clonic tremor, paresis and paralysis of extremities, and death).
(4) Records of horizontal components of unsteady fixation by amblyopic eyes were characterized by abnormally large saccades and a nasalward bias for slow drifts.
(5) 8.08am GMT David Smith (@SmithInAfrica) #Pistorius writing on an A4 notepad, occasionally touching his brow with an unsteady hand.
(6) One month later an unsteady gait and mild intention tremor in the hands were noted.
(7) But after an unsteady start Davie has since seized the industry agenda with his proposal for a joint BBC-commercial Radio Council, which he will chair in its first year, with a brief no less ambitious than to secure the medium's future in the digital age.
(8) The flow conditions were characterized by peak Reynolds numbers from approximately 200 to 1500 and values of the unsteadiness parameter from 3 to 10.
(9) One third of the patients had persistent unsteadiness 6 weeks following the injury.
(10) The unsteady aspects of the ejection process were subsequently introduced into the numerical simulation.
(11) A Womersley model of intraluminal distribution of blood velocities enabled to determine from unsteadiness parameter alpha of Womersley, arterial diameter and maximal minimal and pulse (maximal-minimal) values of centerline velocity, the maximal minimal and pulse shear rate and shear stress (product between shear rate and viscosity) close to the endothelium.
(12) 23, 1985 with unsteady gait and memory disturbance.
(13) The calculation was carried out under the condition of unsteady, starting airflow and the results were examined by the means of color graphics animation.
(14) 12 year-old right-handed boy felt unsteadiness of the body and headache for several days.
(15) The transmission of muscle oxygen uptake (VO2) patterns to the pulmonary site is a basically nonlinear process during unsteady state exercise.
(16) In the third band the transmission of information is possible in the inversion regime with unsteady polarity of the reflex movement.
(17) Seventeen of these patients were examined by electronystagmography with caloric stimuli at 44 degrees, 30 degrees, 17 degrees and 0 degrees C. Most were free of subjective symptoms only one-third had slight unsteadiness after sudden head movement.
(18) The incorporation of the proposed model into finite volume methods is also demonstrated, in the context of unsteady, one-dimensional, radial heat conduction in cylindrical coordinates.
(19) A multivariate regression procedure showed that dizziness, vertigo and unsteadiness, transient ischemic attacks, antidepressant drugs, and poor subjectively experienced health characterized the fallers.
(20) Amid the recession and unsteady wages, men like Kishino feel that the pressure on them to be breadwinning economic warriors for a wife and family is unrealistic.