What's the difference between blasted and leafless?

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.

Leafless


Definition:

  • (a.) Having no leaves or foliage; bearing no foliage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And if you do break all the rules for that highly discounted leafless thing that you are sure you can rescue, good luck.
  • (2) He had close and affectionate relations with the monarchs, as revealed in one poem entitled Lines for January 20th death of his father, George V. The poem reads: "Beyond the river-side; The frozen fields stretch wide; To where the beech-clumps bide; Leafless and still; In snow upon the hill; I think of One who died."
  • (3) An avenue of eight 25ft tall leafless willows stand above a sinister black pool to make the point that British woods and gardens face a host of new killer pests and diseases such as ash dieback.
  • (4) In the leafless trees of this region were cold, random and silent flares of light.
  • (5) The Ukrainian steppe is still frost-burned and the trees leafless at this time of year.
  • (6) The Fe was less well absorbed (P less than 0.01) from the mature peas (0.251 (SE 0.021)) than from the immature (0.384 (SE 0.032] or leafless peas (0.344 (SE 0.026)).
  • (7) Iron retention in adult male rats given 3 g dried ground peas, immature and mature (Pisum sativum cv Dark-skin perfection) and leafless (Pisum sativum cv Filby), extrinsically labelled with 0.25 muCi 59Fe, was measured by whole-body counting.
  • (8) The blackthorn that hunkers into the tufted grassland has been held in readiness, and over the week I have watched the buds swell in their leafless transition from dormancy.
  • (9) He was speaking at the Chelsea Flower Show, where the Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera) garden features leafless willows to illustrate the threat faced by the UK's trees .
  • (10) (May 1937) Lines for January 20th Beyond the river-side The frozen fields stretch wide To where the beech-clumps bide, Leafless and still, In snow upon the hill: I think of One who died.
  • (11) The availability of Fe from the leafless peas was compared with that of defatted soya-bean flour by the same technique.
  • (12) The Victoria Country Fire Service said some 850 square miles (2,200 kilometres) were burned out, with entire forests reduced to leafless, charred trunks.
  • (13) Immature and leafless peas appear to be a better source of available Fe than soya-bean flour, despite similar fibre levels, but with maturity the Fe in peas is rendered less available.

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