What's the difference between avidity and pavidity?
Avidity
Definition:
(n.) Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire; as, to eat with avidity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The characteristics of an arterial wall chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan (CS-PG) subfraction that binds avidly to low-density lipoproteins (LDL) was studied.
(2) There was found an insignificant prevalance of the antibody avidity in the patients with the forms of the disease of moderate severity and severe.
(3) In osteoarthritic cartilage, compared with normal cartilage, there was no increase in water binding but water content increased by 9 per cent and the avidity with which the newly bound water was held also increased.
(4) In our studies of the 131I-labeled anti-Thy 1.1 antibody treatment of murine lymphoma we have used cell binding assays with a combination of Lineweaver-Burk analysis to determine immunoreactivity and Scatchard analysis to determine antibody avidity.
(5) Potassium and K analogs (Tl, Rb, Cs) are avidly taken up into viable tumor cells whose Na+, K+-ATPase activity is elevated.
(6) The percentage of kidney-fixing antibody in each fraction and the degree of proteinuria induced as determined 24 h after injection increased with the avidity of the antibody fraction when equal doses were administered.
(7) The results also demonstrated that there was not any apparent correlation between the receptor-binding avidities and in vitro monooxygenase enzyme-induction potencies for the most active polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons.
(8) We studied techniques to accurately quantify the adherence of L-[35S]methionine-labeled Candida albicans to human umbilical vein endothelial cells in a 96-well microtiter plate system while avoiding specific problems related to Candida coadherence and avid binding to plastic.
(9) Furthermore, we conclude that the pre-killer cell is distinct from a memory T cell because: i) its conversion to an effector cell is antigen-independent and ii) because, unlike the memory cell, pre-killers do not bind avidly to allogeneic cell monolayers.
(10) Avidity was estimated in liquid phase from the dissociation rate of preformed complexes of antibody and 125-iodinated insulin.
(11) Antibodies produced by PC-specific clones have a more restricted pattern of avidities and resemble in quality anti-PC antibodies produced in vivo.
(12) Cold target inhibition studies confirmed the cross-reaction, and together with conjugate dissociation studies, indicated that cross-reaction to be of lower "avidity" than the specific recognition of SB2.
(13) Avid, Boticca.com is a fashion website, which is about as girly as it gets, but you've come at it from a hard engineering background, haven't you?
(14) Thus, the avidity measurement is useful in understanding the immunological events which underlie various clinicopathological features of SLE.
(15) The aggregation, although of slow onset, was persistent and of high avidity.
(16) Nonopsonized L. pneumophila were avidly phagocytized by alveolar macrophages.
(17) Thereafter, 27S species adsorbed avidly to it and collapsed into characteristic configurations containing four globular domains, each linked to the others by three approximately 33-nm struts.
(18) High avidity DNP-binding cells gave rise to predominantly high avidity anti-DNP-PFC.
(19) Firstly, FcRIII do not cluster lannic acid-modified erythrocytes avidly bound to neutrophils but did not trigger clustering of FcRII.
(20) The study has revealed a faintly pronounced inverse correlation between the degree of avidity of serum antibodies and the level of infectious antigenemia.
Pavidity
Definition:
(n.) Timidity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Having given my consent to Pavid's love declaration, I went home and properly lost my mind.
(2) Pavid was the most charismatic and handsome boy in our class – obviously .
(3) And indeed, Pavid and I were still pretty close friends – we sat next to each other in class, and he would show me his gluey hands, and I would repeat jokes from 'Allo 'Allo, pretending that I'd made them up myself.
(4) It almost made sense the afternoon that Pavid sent over his emissary – Andy Webster – who said: "Pavid wants to go out with you.
(5) Crushingly, it did one of those full-body shivers babies are apt to do – jerking away with its eyes boggling open – and so I stopped practising getting off with Pavid Dreen with the baby, and went and ate a whole can of tinned peaches with evaporated milk – a dish we called "Dead goldfish" – which was my stress-relieving method of choice back them.
(6) When me and my sister started writing a sitcom about teenagers, we wanted to write about all the most agonising and awful things about being a teenage girl, and my hopeless non-affair with Pavid Dreen became the basis of the first episode: there's nothing quite like a fat, bookish teenage girl who wants to be "noble", and accidentally says "forsooth!"
(7) "Pavid says it was all a joke, and yowm dumped," he said, gleefully.
(8) Pavid looked me up and down, with his edgy, handsome eyes.
(9) As you may imagine, us playing Leia and Han in the playground fuelled my obsession with Pavid to the point of mania.
(10) I let out a sad Wookiee cry – "RARRRRRGHLE" – and then spent the next six months in agony, watching Pavid and Sasha basically getting it on in space while I was sent off to "mend the hyperdrive" (stand by the big bins).
(11) Pavid, because he was the handsomest, and edgy (Have I told you how edgy he was?
(12) So his name was David Preen, but I should give him the veil of anonymity, so let's refer to him for the rest of this confessional as "Pavid Dreen".