What's the difference between austral and occidental?

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.

Occidental


Definition:

  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or situated in, the occident, or west; western; -- opposed to oriental; as, occidental climates, or customs; an occidental planet.
  • (a.) Possessing inferior hardness, brilliancy, or beauty; -- used of inferior precious stones and gems, because those found in the Orient are generally superior.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the majority of cases the intelligence is preserved, which comprises the classic "occidental" (type 1) form.
  • (2) At the beginning of his career, Moreno as Freud, found himself in a transcultural position which allowed him to better observe the "classical occidental individual" captive of his stereotypal "Tinned culture".
  • (3) Oriental populations differed in that the scatter in red cell enzyme activity was significantly lower than in Occidental populations.
  • (4) These findings suggest the existence of an intermediate form of CMD between the Fukuyama type of CMD and the classical occidental type of CMD.
  • (5) A controlled field trial of the effectiveness of various doses of cholera El Tor vaccine was organized in Negros Occidental Province, an area of endemic cholera in the Philippines, in 1966 and 1967, on 359 600 volunteers.
  • (6) On a no treatment trial, a group of 24 oriental subjects rated cold pressor pain as significantly more painful and distressing than did a group of 24 occidental subjects.
  • (7) The median and mean age were significantly higher in the Occidental Jewish group.
  • (8) Its creative power and its primateship for the word is clarified by a selection of examples from oriental and occidental cultures.
  • (9) Incidence and mortality data on breast cancer in females from various Occidental (Western) and Japanese populations were analyzed.
  • (10) Occidental contributed only $25,000 in 2011, $12,500 in 2012 and $2,500 in 2013,” the board wrote.
  • (11) Authors present a prospective study of 130 cases of Mediterranean spotted fever treated between 1983 and 1985 in two Departments of Paediatrics of the Valles Occidental, area near Barcelona.
  • (12) According to our clinical observations from various aspects of stroke patients, such as the total incidence of aphasia, the incidence of aphasia after left brain damage of the dextrals, the aphasia that occurs in patients without hemiplegia, and the types of aphasia, a much higher incidence of crossed aphasia is seen among the stroke patients of the Han (the largest ethnic group in China) as compared with the Uighur-Kazaks (U-K) in China and the Occidentals documented in the literature.
  • (13) The remaining 12 Orientals and 12 Occidentals served as no treatment controls on trial 2.
  • (14) The signet-ring cell carcinoma of the bladder is a rare variant of mucus-producing vesical adenocarcinoma: sixteen cases have been reported in the Occidental and two other cases in Japanese literature.
  • (15) By photographing lesser known Occidental 15th to 18th century rare books on pulse readings from the New York Academy of Medicine and the Philadelphia College of Physicians and Surgeons, a clearer understanding of Oriental influences to Occidental cardio-vascular understanding is apparent.
  • (16) Far Eastern culture is based on the clan whereas occidental culture is based on the self.
  • (17) The author scrutinizes a text taken from the law of Justinian, 553 A. D., which assigns the Jews a place in the occidental-Christian system of thought.
  • (18) Earlier this month, shareholders overcame management opposition to similar proposals at Occidental Petroleum and PPL, a large utility holding company, and passed resolutions forcing the companies to more clearly explain how climate change could affect their businesses.
  • (19) From May 1964 to December 1965, a controlled field trial of the effectiveness of cholera and cholera El Tor vaccines was conducted in Negros Occidental, Philippines.
  • (20) These two cases are compared with 116 cases previously published in the occidental medical literature and with five histomorphometric studies demonstrating increased bone trabecula volume (BTV).