What's the difference between austral and meridional?

Austral


Definition:

  • (a.) Southern; lying or being in the south; as, austral land; austral ocean.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Another strain of BHV-1, which exhibits a specific neuropathogenic potential [Hall et al., Austral.
  • (2) The Polar Psychology Project brings together three organizations from Canada and Argentina to study human adaptation to the boreal and austral circumpolar environments.
  • (3) Pompe's disease is characterised by an absence of lysosomal alpha-glucosidase, but this enzyme is also inhibited by Castanospermum australe seeds.
  • (4) All 18 2-year-old Brahman bulls grazing in a paddock containing Castanospermum australe trees were diagnosed as heterozygotes for Pompe's disease by measurement of mononuclear cell alpha-glucosidase activity.
  • (5) Correlated with the breakup of the austral landmasses (Gondwanaland) of the Neotropical and Australian regions from the Antarctic continent, the age of this host-parasite community is estimated to be between 60 and 70 million years old.
  • (6) It was therefore assumed that the bulls had consumed C. australe seeds.
  • (7) In this text, delivered at the inauguration of the 1988 academic year of the Universidad Austral, the author outlines the personality and academic career of Professor Amador Neghme, recently deceased.
  • (8) Crude sample solution prepared from the seeds of Castanosperum australe was fractionated by preparative liquid chromatography.
  • (9) Four risk factors are brought to the fore: male, more than 50 years old, birth in Austral archipelago and in this case AgHBs carriage.
  • (10) A large net trap was used to sample mosquito populations attracted to horses at three sites each in Santa Fe and Rio Negro Provinces, Argentina, during the austral summer of 1984.
  • (11) Does this tempt you to cycle the Carretera Austral?
  • (12) In 1988, a hepatitis immunization programme, using a Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell recombinant vaccine, was implemented for newborn children in the Austral archipelago (French Polynesia).
  • (13) Through comparing the morphological evolution to the host range and the geographical distribution we can suggest Dipetalonema sensu-largo may be interpreted as a gondwanian lineage which may have evolved after the three main austral continents drifted apart.
  • (14) Forty-one individuals from Rurutu Island (Austral Archipelagos) and 41 individuals from the Gambier Archipelagos have been typed for HLA; for blood groups ABO, Rh, MNSs, P, Kell, Kp, Lewis, Lutheran, Kidd; for the electrophoretic systems G6PD, 6-PGD, PGM1, PGM2, AcP, ADA, GPT, Est-D, GLO I, and for the immunoglobulin allotypes Gm and Km.
  • (15) It is concluded that immunization of newborns and infants, using vaccine alone, should be the most effective strategy for reducing HBV infection in the Austral Islands archipelago.
  • (16) An in vitro assay demonstrated that a crude aqueous extract of seeds from these C. australe trees contained a potent inhibitor of mononuclear cell alpha-glucosidase.
  • (17) The relative risk for birth in Austral archipelago reach to 9.23.
  • (18) Photograph: Karen Darke The Carretera Austral, the 1,240km highway through southern Chile, felt like being on a Patagonian forest roller coaster.
  • (19) Non-lactating female tammars were pinealectomized (N = 5) or sham-operated (N = 6) in October, during the austral period of increasing daylength.
  • (20) However, removal of the bulls to a paddock free of C. australe and retesting 2 months later indicated that 15 were homozygous normal.

Meridional


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the meridian.
  • (a.) Having a southern aspect; southern; southerly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Preload (the diastolic diameter of the left ventricle) was within normal limits, while afterload (end-systolic meridional wall stress) was significantly decreased in the acromegalic group.
  • (2) When a meridional-size lens is used to provide magnification in the horizonal meridan for one eye the resulting stereopsis distortion is readily accounted for in the terms of the binocular disparity caused by changed angular relations.
  • (3) Acuity for the direction of drift for these stimuli is of the same order of precision as orientation acuity for static or drifting gratings, and exhibits a meridional anisotropy that favours the principal meridians.
  • (4) Intraoperative end-systolic meridional and circumferential stresses fell significantly in patients with aortic stenosis but remained unchanged in those with aortic regurgitation.
  • (5) Amblyopia was due to anisometropia in 24 cases (50%), strabismus in 9 cases (18.7%), high astigmatism (meridional) in 7 cases (14.5%) and other causes or a combination of factors in 8 cases (16.7%).
  • (6) On the optical diffraction patterns from isolated I-disks the meridional reflections measuring 38.5, 19.2, 12.8 nm are present.
  • (7) Contrast (modulation) sensitivities for gratings of various spatial frequencies and orientations have been determined for meridional amblyopes.
  • (8) Left ventricular end-systolic meridional wall stress (Ses) was then calculated.
  • (9) We conclude that the meridional anisotropy of orientation discrimination, which favours the vertical and horizontal is a result, in part, of the influence of non-visual mechanisms.
  • (10) From these data, meridional stress at end systole was calculated and stress-dimension and stress-shortening relations were derived; measurements of metabolic parameters were made simultaneously.
  • (11) The intensity changes observed in the low-angle meridional X-ray reflections from rat tail tendon, similarly treated, also can be explained by the presence of these bulky complexes.
  • (12) X-ray diffraction indicated that the original cross-beta peptide conformation remained unchanged; however, sulfate binding did produce an intense approximately 65 A meridional reflection not recorded with control peptides.
  • (13) Nevertheless, these features together with the behaviour of the equatorial reflections and the meridional region of the third myosin layer line indicate that a sizeable fraction of the crossbridges may become axially disposed with an actin based periodicity.
  • (14) The internal surface of the pars plicata and the anterior pars plana was characterized by regular meridional ridges and grooves in the younger age group but was irregular in older age group.
  • (15) LV pressure, meridional wall stress (sigman), wall thickness (h), and radius (R) were measured in each patient throughout the cardiac cycle.
  • (16) These connections are mediated by the tips of the meridional muscle.
  • (17) The term meridional amblyopia (MA) defines an amblyopia in one meridian, orthogonally to which the visual acuity is normal.
  • (18) Integral widths of the 14.3-nm meridional reflection measured along the meridian and of the equatorial 1,1 reflection remained almost constant during tension development, while that of the 1,0 reflection tended to decrease.
  • (19) Histological examination of the lens epithelium revealed that a marked disorganization of the meridional rows is associated with the opacity.
  • (20) The structural study reveals an asymmetric pseudo-octahedral N3O3 metal coordination sphere with meridional stereochemistry.