What's the difference between biga and quadriga?

Biga


Definition:

  • (n.) A two-horse chariot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Barcelona’s all-time leading scorer asked to be substituted in the eighth minute after he had tried to return to the match following a collision with Las Palmas’ Pedro Bigas.
  • (2) The Argentina forward went down after just three minutes, hurting his knee after shooting under pressure from the Las Palmas defender Pedro Bigas Rigo.
  • (3) In our country indusprial health is promulgated by the medical services of SUVA (Swiss Accident Insurance Institute) and BIGA (Federal Office for Industry and Labour) on one hand and by the lecturers of universities and at the ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) as well as by plant physicians on the other hand.

Quadriga


Definition:

  • (n.) A car or chariot drawn by four horses abreast.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Because of the normal interconnections of the profundus tendons, such adhesions can block the excursion of the profundus tendons to intact fingers, resulting in the quadriga syndrome, or profundus tendon blockage.
  • (2) These complications all occurred in the case reported here, who also presented with syndrome of the quadriga.
  • (3) At the level of the MP joint, the dorsal aponeuroses are furthermore linked by oblique fibrous structures, which lead to functional impairment of the neighboring MP joints in maximal flexion and extension of a finger due to an effect of tenodesis (so-called quadriga phenomenon).
  • (4) This mechanism can be described as the Quadriga-Syndrome of the extensor apparatus.
  • (5) The list of complications also includes rupture, bowstringing, skin necrosis, infection, recurvatum, the lumbrical plus finger, and the quadriga syndrome.

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