What's the difference between atactic and tactic?

Atactic


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two male English Setters were noticed to be breathing rapidly, hyperexcitable, and atactic after roaming a rural area for 2 hours.
  • (2) Atactic and athetoid movements, optic atrophy, oculomotor abnormalities are observed in most cases.
  • (3) In contrast to published cases with neurological manifestations of infection with M. pneumoniae, the patient was disabled by persistent cerebellar symptoms with generalized ataxia and atactic dysarthria.
  • (4) Only little progress was achieved in atactic and athetoid patients.
  • (5) Four of 9 bST-treated cows and none of 8 control cows became atactic on the 1st d of heat stress.
  • (6) The neurological disturbances, characterized by hyper- and dysmetric movements and bilateral intention tremor with choreatic, atactic and even ballistic motor storms, appeared at 12 years of age.
  • (7) The differential diagnosis of atactic gait is discussed.
  • (8) Signs of neurotoxicity were remarkably similar in DXR or MXN treatment animals and included: head tremor, atactic-dystonic posture and circling behavior.
  • (9) Atactic gait was not observed, though vestibular response was abolished in three patients with Usher syndrome type I.
  • (10) Poly(2-vinylpyridine 1-oxide) inhibits the cytotoxic effects of quartz in cell cultures but the syndiotactic polymer behaves differently from the isotactic and atactic polymers.
  • (11) A 53-year-old female had developed slowly progressive dementia and atactic gait since the age of 45.
  • (12) Own observation: a 68-year-old man with a long history of cervicalgia, subsequently paraesthesias of the upper extremities, without a spastic atactic symptomatology of the lower extremities.
  • (13) For both stages examined there was a significant increase in the amount of 3H-concanavalin A bound by presumptive fusion areas in posterior regions of the nasal folds as compared with anterior regions; i.e., the atact between the nasal folds.
  • (14) Objective examination showed: slight hemiparesis in 37.5%, spastic-atactic gait disturbances in 31.5%, isolated damage to the corticospinal tracts with signs limited to one side of the body was more frequent in cortical atrophy, and these signs associated with ataxia were more frequent in subcortional atrophy.
  • (15) A 62-year-old woman with chronic lymphatic leukemia (CLL) (RAI stage IV) with multiple organ involvement and diabetes mellitus, three months prior to death presented with a symmetrical sensory neuropathy of the upper extremities with little motor impairment and, two months later, sensory atactic neuropathy of the lower limbs.
  • (16) It is therefore concluded, that this--highly accepted--training may be a valuable tool in neurological rehabilitation of atactic patients.
  • (17) Electroneuromyographical studies were performed in 39 patients with atactic-spastic and mixed forms of disseminated sclerosis.
  • (18) The data obtained were compared with electroneuromyographical studies in atactic and spastic syndromes of different origin.
  • (19) One patient had atactic diplegia, and one was athetotic.
  • (20) The Unterberger test, recorded by craniocorpography, demonstrates an increase of atactic patterns with increasing age.

Tactic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Tactical
  • (n.) See Tactics.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".
  • (2) For this to work, its leaders had to be able to at least influence the behaviour and tactics of the militant operators on the ground.
  • (3) "With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
  • (4) Time suggests that the FBI inquiry has been extended from a relatively narrow look at alleged malpractices by News Corp in America into a more general inquiry into whether the company used possibly illegal strongarm tactics to browbeat rival firms, following allegations of computer hacking made by retail advertising company Floorgraphics.
  • (5) The report says this tactic has helped the west uncover at least one of Iran's secret nuclear sites and, according to official statements by the Iranians, has caused enrichment centrifuges to break.
  • (6) His teams are always hard to beat, tactically disciplined and, most importantly, successful.
  • (7) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
  • (8) In a sign of deep unease among senior Tories at some of the party’s tactics, Forsyth accused the prime minister of having “shattered” the pro-UK alliance in Scotland and stirring up English nationalism after the Scottish independence referendum last year.
  • (9) The fact that Moyes did nothing to stem his threat down the right by leaving Shinji Kagawa, who offered no protection to Alexander Büttner, on too long was one illustration of a concerning tactical ineptitude.
  • (10) France was meanwhile leading a push, which diplomats said was backed by Britain, to hit more strategic military targets in Libya, beyond tactical airstrikes on Gaddafi's armour in the vicinity of cities such as Misrata and Ajdabiya.
  • (11) He wasn't the first to employ such scare tactics: in late October, the mayor of the Urals city of Izhevsk was caught on video telling veterans that their government allowances would be raised if United Russia received a high percentage of the vote.
  • (12) Among possible causes for the increase in deaths in the Mediterranean this year, the agency cited a worsening quality of vessels and smugglers’ tactics to avoid detection by authorities, such as sending many boats out at the same time, which makes the work of rescuers harder.
  • (13) These tactics yield litters at weaning whose variability has been very much reduced.
  • (14) Del Bosque had listened to the criticism, all that stuff about it being a negative tactic, and decided not to budge an inch, and who can blame him?
  • (15) That’s a dodgy tactic because the German penalties are so accurate.
  • (16) The instability of conjunctival flora with time implies a modification in tactics of bacteriological preoperative samples in order to obtain a better operative security.
  • (17) Attorneys for people caught on the US’s sprawling terrorism watchlists are expressing concern that the latest tactic by gun control advocates is blessing the legitimacy of a process they say threatens civil rights.
  • (18) The insurgency is still raging, and the president will have to inspire the security forces, choose generals to lead the fight, and plot tactics to beat a tenacious and experienced enemy.
  • (19) Tactical voting also delivered significant gains - up to 50 seats, on some estimates - to the Liberal Democrats in Labour's slipstream as the Tories came close to a freefall.
  • (20) Austin said: "Since the House of Lords judgment, the police have increased their use of the tactic of kettling, with disastrous consequences for the right to peaceful protest and the safety of protesters.

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