What's the difference between blasted and blooming?

Blasted


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Blast
  • (a.) Blighted; withered.
  • (a.) Confounded; accursed; detestable.
  • (a.) Rent open by an explosive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
  • (2) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .
  • (3) However, the blasts formed mixed colonies consisting of erythroblasts, granulocytes, macrophages, and immature blasts when cultured in methylcellulose with PHA-leukocyte conditioned medium.
  • (4) A proportion of blasts from five of 10 cases of AML expressed receptors for IL-2 (IL-2R) when tested directly ex-vivo with monoclonal antibodies against the receptor.
  • (5) The patients were divided into two equal groups according to the degree of perivascular and paratrabecular infiltration: those with minimal (one to three layers of blasts and promyelocytes) and those with marked (four to eight layers of blasts and promyelocytes) infiltration.
  • (6) Sequential analyses of the serologic reactivity of cells from AMML patients undergoing chemotherapy corresponded with the clinical course of the patient, even though there was little correlation between the percentage of blast cells present and the per cent cytotoxicity with the antisera.
  • (7) Conversely, the expression in the more differentiated blast cells obtained from 10 of 11 AML patients classified as M1 and M2 were at levels similar to the levels in HL-60 cells.
  • (8) We concluded that patients with MDS with excess of blasts and blastic transformation may be treated with aggressive chemotherapy with low toxicity and high remission rate, similarly to de novo acute myeloid leukemia.
  • (9) "Everyone has been blasted by anonymous figures who crushed the economy.
  • (10) At the second admission, blasts were present in the peripheral blood, and later accounted for 49% of the total leukocyte count.
  • (11) Lymphocyte blast transformation, serum immunoglobulins, and circulating immune complexes were also evaluated.
  • (12) In the phase of blast crisis, the bone marrow demonstrated a significant rise of the portion of the G2 cells and of the mitotic index.
  • (13) Lymphocytes with low floating density lyse NK-sensitive target cells and leukemic B-lymphocytes, increase the lytic activity with respect to blasts of K-562 line under the effect of alpha-interferon.
  • (14) During tumor growth, a population of T cell blasts appears that may be involved with an immune response against the tumor.
  • (15) In the high-grade component, the blasts occurred in clusters or sheets, and often possessed plasmacytoid cytoplasm; glandular invasion was a rare event.
  • (16) The results showed that increasing age of the donors and the presence of anti-CMV antibodies are significantly associated with low proliferative responses of PBMC, whereas the HLA-B8 antigen and female donor sex were found to be associated with high blast cell formation after PWM stimulation.
  • (17) You can also blast individual eyeballs from their sockets, or – if you're particularly skilful – make their testicles explode like a pair of microwaved eggs.
  • (18) Fifteen injuries resulted from direct penetration of a vessel and three were concussion or blast injuries.
  • (19) A2HSGP did indeed inhibit blast transformation in these cell populations.
  • (20) Late-night hosts blast Trumpcare: 'Needless suffering for low and middle-income people' Read more In the Harvard study, the researchers had 9,000 people in their dataset – enough that they were able to ensure they were really measuring the impact of a lack of health insurance.

Blooming


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bloom
  • (n.) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
  • (a.) Opening in blossoms; flowering.
  • (a.) Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They were a small bunch of daffodils and now they're blooming.
  • (2) The localization of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) genome in chromosomes of human B-lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) transformed with EBV, and the effect of EBV DNA on the level of sister chromatid exchange (SCE) in Bloom's syndrome (BS) B-LCLs, were examined with chromosomal in situ hybridization techniques using a 3H-EBV DNA probe.
  • (3) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
  • (4) "Tell Harold Bloom, I've had much posher recommendations," she says, chuckling.
  • (5) We report the occurence of Norwegian scabies in a 13-year-old boy with Bloom's syndrome who had impaired humoral and cell-mediated immunity.
  • (6) Dose response curves for acute and protracted exposures have been obtained for cells derived from patients with cancer-prone syndromes including ataxia telangiectasia (AT) and Bloom's syndrome.
  • (7) The concentration of acetate in the interstitial water fell from about 100 microM (immediately after sedimentation of the spring diatom bloom) to a relatively constant value of about 20 microM in late summer, during which acetate utilization appeared to be balanced by production.
  • (8) In addition, three experiments in the present study have demonstrated that the findings in Bloom's sole interpretable experiment were artifacts due to a methodological flaw.
  • (9) It also suggests that the chromatid breaks and deletions in Fanconi's Anemia represent a defect in step two of the replication bypass mechanism and that the high frequency of SCE's and quadriradials in Bloom's Syndrome represent the SCE overload effects of a defect in crosslink repair.
  • (10) In all cases, patient's age, tumor size, histological type and Scarff-Bloom-Richardson grade, and presence or absence of axillary lymph node metastases and of vessel invasion in tumor borders were recorded.
  • (11) We discuss in particular the mattress-model approach by Mouritsen and Bloom, who take matching between protein and lipid hydrophobic thicknesses as a determining factor for the phase behavior.
  • (12) The neurotoxic blooms consisted largely of benthic Oscillatoria species which were also observed in the stomach contents of the poisoned dogs.
  • (13) Over the decades, the Mauna Loa readings, made famous in Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth, show the CO2 level rising and falling each year as foliage across the northern hemisphere blooms in spring and recedes in autumn.
  • (14) On a clear day you can see the Timahoe round tower to the south, the Wicklow mountains to the east and the Slieve Bloom mountains to the west, but even when the skies are hazy, the views are majestic.
  • (15) Burns characteristically bloomed during the several seconds following laser application by both modalities, possibly indicating a deep source of energy absorption.
  • (16) The main cause for such algal blooms is an overload of phosphorus, which washes into lakes from commercial fertiliser used by farming operations as well as urban water-treatment centres.
  • (17) Water-bloom spots in which Oscillatoria prevailed can transform into the spots of Anabaena.
  • (18) Harmful algal blooms fuelled by water pollution are getting so large that they are visible from space.
  • (19) DNA ligase activity was studied in several untransformed or virus-transformed human cell lines from normal donors and from Bloom's syndrome (BS) patients.
  • (20) According to Buddhist folklore, it blooms only once every 3,000 years; someone feared it would encourage superstition.