What's the difference between autonomic and voluntary?

Autonomic


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the power of self-government; autonomous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
  • (2) The possibility that both IL 2 production and IL 2R expression are autonomously activated early in T cell development, before acquisition of the CD3-TcR complex, led us to study the implication of alternative pathways of activation at this ontogenic stage.
  • (3) There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance, impaired gall bladder contraction, and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes.
  • (4) Whereas the growth and division of normal cells is carefully regulated to meet the needs of the body, tumor cells proliferate autonomously and continually, eventually interfering with and destroying the functions of normal tissue.
  • (5) Prognosis of patients with these autonomic failures is poor.
  • (6) These studies establish this preparation as a reproducible model for the direct examination of autonomic influences on endocrine pancreatic function.
  • (7) In these cells no autonomous periodic activities were observed by light scattering.
  • (8) In this sense, there is evidence that in genetically susceptible individuals, environmental stresses can influence the long-term level of arterial pressure via the central and peripheral neural autonomic pathways.
  • (9) Autonomic dysfunction has been described in patients with advanced forms of cancer.
  • (10) The response to LBNP in the pentobarbitone-anaesthetized rat appeared not to be influenced by the autonomic nervous system.
  • (11) The three major RNA domains, as defined by secondary structure, appear to exist as autonomous structural units in three dimensions, for the most part.
  • (12) There were no marked differences in resting autonomic activity.
  • (13) Three motives are found for evaluating the quality of human life: allocation of scarce medical resources, facilitating clinical decision making, and assisting patients towards autonomous decision making.
  • (14) In this study we propose a method for the analysis of the relationship between heart rate changes and respiration as a possible diagnostic tool for cardiac autonomic damage.
  • (15) It is often difficult to study the neurological and autonomic changes in the scalp in these patients.
  • (16) In patients with Cushing's disease or Nelson's syndrome ACTH secretion is insensitive to naloxone, presumably because of an autonomous pituitary adenoma or hypothalamic derangement.
  • (17) The current opinion, based on different clinical tests, is that parasympathetic impairment occurs earlier in autonomic dysfunctions.
  • (18) BigDog Facebook Twitter Pinterest BigDog is a autonomous packhorse Funded by Darpa and the US army, BigDog is Boston Dynamics’ most famous robot, a large mule-like quadruped that walks around like a dog, self balancing and navigating a range of terrain.
  • (19) Since the three drugs had comparable mechanical and geometrical effects, the study provided evidence that, in men with essential hypertension, the smooth muscle tone of the brachial artery was significantly more sensitive to calcium inhibition than to autonomic blockade, causing a more important decrease in elastic modulus.
  • (20) Standard cardiovascular autonomic function tests were also performed in diabetic subjects.

Voluntary


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Proceeding from the will; produced in or by an act of choice.
  • (v. t.) Unconstrained by the interference of another; unimpelled by the influence of another; not prompted or persuaded by another; done of his or its own accord; spontaneous; acting of one's self, or of itself; free.
  • (v. t.) Done by design or intention; intentional; purposed; intended; not accidental; as, if a man kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.
  • (v. t.) Of or pertaining to the will; subject to, or regulated by, the will; as, the voluntary motions of an animal, such as the movements of the leg or arm (in distinction from involuntary motions, such as the movements of the heart); the voluntary muscle fibers, which are the agents in voluntary motion.
  • (v. t.) Endowed with the power of willing; as, man is a voluntary agent.
  • (v. t.) Free; without compulsion; according to the will, consent, or agreement, of a party; without consideration; gratuitous; without valuable consideration.
  • (v. t.) Of or pertaining to voluntaryism; as, a voluntary church, in distinction from an established or state church.
  • (n.) One who engages in any affair of his own free will; a volunteer.
  • (n.) A piece played by a musician, often extemporarily, according to his fancy; specifically, an organ solo played before, during, or after divine service.
  • (n.) One who advocates voluntaryism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Especially at a time when they are turning down voluntary requests and securing the positions of senior managers."
  • (2) Voluntary intake and nutritive value of diets selected by goats grazing a shrubland at Marin county, N.L., Mexico were determined.
  • (3) During ischaemia M1 stretch responses showed a more rapid and pronounced decline than did M2 responses and were abolished before voluntary power was appreciably affected.
  • (4) Decreased maximal voluntary squeeze pressures were less severe in continent patients with multiple sclerosis than in incontinent patients with multiple sclerosis.
  • (5) He got away with a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter and served five years.
  • (6) Speaking at The Carbon Show in London today, Philippe Chauvancy, director at climate exchange BlueNext, said that the announcement last week that it is to develop China's first standard for voluntary emission reduction projects alongside the government-backed China Beijing Environmental Exchange, could lay the foundations for a voluntary cap-and-trade scheme.
  • (7) Surface EMGs at rest and at voluntary eyelid opening after eyelid closing were investigated.
  • (8) Voluntary entropion, which has been reported only once before, was photographically documented in a 12-year-old girl.
  • (9) Criteria for evaluating the data were scanning pattern (voluntary preferred reading direction) and reading performance.
  • (10) The atrophies of motor cortex seemed to be responsible for the disorder of voluntary movement.
  • (11) The Coalition has also been warned about the costs of voluntary grants schemes.
  • (12) Lloyds said it would achieve many of the job cuts through making less use of contractors and voluntary severance but admitted that some compulsory redundancies may be inevitable.
  • (13) But there is one hitch: the four-storey building in Hammersmith is already home to more than 20 voluntary groups working with refugees, the homeless, former young offenders and a range of ethnic minorities including Kurds, Iranians and Iraqis – and they will have to move.
  • (14) The "size principle" is known to dictate the sequence of recruitment of motor neurons during voluntary or reflex activation of muscles.
  • (15) It is suggested that contracting extrafusal muscle fibres can modulate the discharge pattern of spindle endings and contribute to the variability of discharge during a voluntary contraction.
  • (16) In erect subjects, voluntary changes of shape at FRC did not change regional volume distribution.
  • (17) The centrally generated ;effort' or direct voluntary command to motoneurones required to lift a weight was studied using a simple weight-matching task when the muscles lifting a reference weight were weakened.
  • (18) Both the extensor indicis and the abductor pollicis longus are functional synergists and are under voluntary control of the brain.
  • (19) So far there have been 50 voluntary redundancies from editorial and a further 82 commercial jobs have been cut.
  • (20) fbi justified homicide chart Academics and specialists have long been aware of flaws in the FBI numbers, which are based on voluntary submissions by local law enforcement agencies of paperwork known as supplementary homicide reports.