What's the difference between backup and blockage?

Backup


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Accordingly, the New York State rabies diagnostic laboratory has replaced the MIT with the in vitro procedure as a backup for the fluorescent-antibody test in the routine diagnosis of rabies.
  • (2) A total of 60 Gy was delivered in 30 fractions, with backup temporary pacing and continuous ECG monitoring used for the first 5 fractions.
  • (3) Pant had to buy extra hard drives to serve as backup copies of the top-secret files.
  • (4) I live in a town of 1,500 people with seven pharmacies as well as pain clinics and methadone clinics and the full backup industry.
  • (5) In the remaining 1,014 procedures (79%) (backup group), although the surgical team was "in house," they were not necessarily ready for an immediate intervention.
  • (6) Cooperative group protocols, used in the clinical setting of pediatric oncologists, with extensive resources and major referral center backup, have improved the prognosis of childhood ALL.
  • (7) These results indicate that the contribution to cell survival of UV endonuclease, an enzyme specific for pyrimidine dimers, is manifest if the backup by the Uvr homolog is absent.
  • (8) Carbamazepine receives special attention because of its status as the most promising backup treatment for lithium.
  • (9) My personal favorite part was Beyoncé had her backup singers and dancers in pantsuits.” Each celebrity who joined Clinton for her last push seemed to top the previous night, giving her closing appearances an aura of celebration.
  • (10) Joeri Van Bogaert, president of the FTTH Council, a lobbying group funded by telecoms manufacturers (but explicitly not telecoms companies), notes that if you introduce high-speed links, suddenly all sorts of connections become possible: video from local services streamed directly, high-speed real-time backups (100Mbps is twice as fast as USB 2.0), real-time high-quality interactive multiplayer games and so on.
  • (11) When flight controllers initially could not confirm deployment of the antennas in the minutes following its launch, they selected the backup rendezvous plan of two days and 34 orbits instead of the planned four-orbit, six-hour rendezvous.” A spokesman at Russian mission control said that the Progress “reached orbit but the full volume of telemetry (data transmissions) is not being received.” Russia’s mission control website said that the ship would dock with the ISS, where the international crew of six people awaits the cargo, on April 30.
  • (12) Power demands and battery backup capability of equipment should be considered in future equipment purchases.
  • (13) A community woman, with educational, social service, and medical backup support from the Children and Youth Program, made home visits 7 to 10 days after the birth and between regularly scheduled well-child-care visits.
  • (14) Study findings indicate that efforts to reduce hospital backups must address specific barriers to timely LTC placement, including shortages of institutional and noninstitutional LTC services, and the lack of financial incentives for LTC providers to accept heavier care patients.
  • (15) Also, if greater than 3,500 ml is expected additional backup (i.e.
  • (16) The ribbon procedure appears to be a viable form of timeout, provided that disruptive behaviors during timeout can be tolerated within the setting, or a backup procedure such as exclusionary timeout can be tolerated within the setting, or a backup procedure such as exclusionary timeout is available when needed.
  • (17) Backup decongestant medication decreased during treatment with azelastine and increased during the placebo regimen.
  • (18) The Daily Staff Log is an empirically refined instrument to assess staff hours spent in direct patient and collateral contact, clinical backup time, consultation, education, and administration.
  • (19) Some, however, expressed frustration at what they saw as indecisive tactics by their senior command, as well as a general lack of police numbers and of riot-trained backup officers.
  • (20) His backup, Daryl Richardson, is inactive, meaning that rookie Bennie Cunningham should see some action in relief of Stacy.

Blockage


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The blockage of the tubular system by the calcium oxalate deposits leads to a temporary reversible increase in serum urea and serum creatinine.
  • (2) Instead, we discovered that the size of the basal cisterns around the brain stem enabled us to predict blockage earlier and more reliably.
  • (3) In some of the rabbits, a rise in antibody Level occurred without appearance of weakness, while it is still likely that AChR antibody could be necessary for the induction of neuromuscular blockage.
  • (4) If beta-blockage does not cause lowering of aqueous humor secretion, in itself responsible for the maintenance of intraocular pressure, what is the mechanism of action?
  • (5) Other characteristics of the LHP that were demonstrated include: a lack of blockage by GABAA receptor antagonists, a probable voltage sensitivity (decrease in amplitude in the depolarizing direction), and an apparent brief onset latency (less than 10 ms) when the early IPSP was blocked by picrotoxin.
  • (6) Furthermore, cycloheximide administered prior to or along with ACTH resulted in the blockage of any new transcription of the cytochrome P-450(11)beta gene as evidenced from the level of RNA.
  • (7) Speculatively, the blockage by dbcAMP of the morphogenetic cascade in the co-cultured system may be related to the inhibition by dbcAMP of testis cord formation in organ cultures of fetal gonads reported by others.
  • (8) Another potential cause of a blockage in the discussions was the future of Maria Eagle , the shadow defence secretary.
  • (9) Blockage of these sites leads to aggregation patterns in which the side-by-side contacts of aggregating cells are abolished.
  • (10) At necropsy, a stricture was found at the ileocecal junction that resulted in blockage and dilation of the ileum proximal to the stricture.
  • (11) These findings indicate alternative metabolic pathways may be operational in newborn rat brain enabling it to circumvent major blockage in thiamine-dependent reactions.
  • (12) Cultures incubated with 3.6 microM-cycloheximide for up to 9 h and supplemented with p-nitrophenyl beta-D-xyloside during the last 75 min of treatment showed increased synthesis of [3H,35S]chondroitin sulphate, demonstrating that UDP-hexose precursors for glycosaminoglycan synthesis are not rapidly depleted on blockage of protein synthesis.
  • (13) The difference was because of the high incidence of blockage of the stents causing recurrent jaundice, but the stents could easily be replaced.
  • (14) Despite a 30% rate of luminal blockage in stents retrieved after indwelling times up to 3 months, the incidence of clinical obstruction in stented tracts up to 3 months was 4%, confirming other reports that significant urine flow occurs around rather than through hollow, vented stents.
  • (15) This might indicate a toxic metabolic blockage in the transformation of monoiodotyrosine to diiodothyronine.
  • (16) Blockage of the balloon system was possibly caused by twisting the system to reach and pass the lesion in the branch of left circumflex coronary artery.
  • (17) Hysteroscopic hydrotubation may be an alternative treatment for tubal blockage.
  • (18) For H(+) ion blockage, a simpler model, in which H(+) enters the channel only from the bathing medium, is found to be sufficient.
  • (19) The pathological findings included intestinal stasis, intestinal blockage, acute intestinal rupture and intestinal rupture with peritonitis.
  • (20) Christmas 2013 caused 2,635 sewer blockages in Yorkshire alone.