What's the difference between booster and stage?

Booster


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After 11 months, all vaccinees received a 20 micrograms booster of the recombinant vaccine.
  • (2) The serum-antibody titres after the primary and secondary injections or after a booster dose given before 12 months after the primary injection did not remain above the protective level in most of the sheep injected for longer than about 5 months.
  • (3) Twelve non-atopic and 27 atopic preschool children were studied to determine the effect of pertussis booster vaccination on cutaneous histamine sensitivity and IgE antibody response to the naturally-occurring ragweed aeroallergen.
  • (4) The four non responders received a supplementary vaccination a month later, beside the booster dose given one year later (T12).
  • (5) A booster vaccination at 56 wk induced a significant serologic response within 1 wk, suggesting an anamnestic response but titers began to decline within 8 wk in most foxes.
  • (6) The protective immunity elicited by TR-5 lasted longer and the booster effect was more prominent compared to the split vaccine.
  • (7) Of the 56 non-responders, 48 received a 40 micrograms booster dose of vaccine 6 weeks after completion of the initial course and a further eight seroconverted.
  • (8) Age, tumor stage, and the size of the booster field were found to be factors which influenced the survival rate with a fair statistical significance.
  • (9) 2nd and 3rd polio booster figures were 66.0 and 57.8% for 1982 and 76.5 and 74.8% for 1983.
  • (10) Four persons without anti-HBs after the basic vaccination received in turn two booster doses: at the 3rd and 46th month.
  • (11) Specific antibodies were further demonstrated by Western blot 4 days after the first booster immunization at 3 weeks.
  • (12) The booster radiation dose (1000 rad) given to the liver seems to be inadequate in preventing metastases there, as all the deaths were due to liver metastases.
  • (13) The choice of the carrier seemed to play an important role for both the level and maintenance of the secondary IgG response, attained as a consequence of a booster immunization with TT-alum.
  • (14) Acetaminophen did not result in significant reductions in reaction rates after the booster at 18 months.
  • (15) But the spacecraft's rocket boosters failed to ignite after it had been launched into a parking orbit around the Earth in November.
  • (16) We found a theophylline induced decrease of PGE2 production of M phi in normal but an increase in immunized animals which was less pronounced if given concomitantly with a booster injection.
  • (17) Boutik Services (+33 6 0958 0988) in 1850 has cots, booster seats, changing tables, buggies and child skis for hire.
  • (18) Antirabies gammaglobulin induced some inhibitory effect, but 2-3 booster injections of the tissue culture rabies vaccine completely compensated this effect.
  • (19) A polyvalent antiserum capable of neutralizing 82 isolates of feline calicivirus made from cats in various parts of North America was produced by the sequential inoculation of SPF cats at three-week intervals with feline calicivirus strains F-9, 68-2024 and FS, followed by a final booster inoculation two weeks after the third inoculation with all three strains combined.
  • (20) These findings support current recommendations for measles booster revaccination of school-age children and adolescents.

Stage


Definition:

  • (n.) A floor or story of a house.
  • (n.) An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like.
  • (n.) A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a staging.
  • (n.) A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
  • (n.) The floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing dramatic compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited.
  • (n.) A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of any noted action or carrer; the spot where any remarkable affair occurs.
  • (n.) The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is placed to be viewed. See Illust. of Microscope.
  • (n.) A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
  • (n.) A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance between two places of rest on a road; as, a stage of ten miles.
  • (n.) A degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress toward an end or result.
  • (n.) A large vehicle running from station to station for the accomodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus.
  • (n.) One of several marked phases or periods in the development and growth of many animals and plants; as, the larval stage; pupa stage; zoea stage.
  • (v. t.) To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) CT appears to yield important diagnostic contribution to preoperative staging.
  • (2) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
  • (3) The intrauterine mean active pressure (MAP) in the nulliparous group was 1.51 kPa (SD 0.45) in the first stage and 2.71 kPa (SD 0.77) in the second stage.
  • (4) These cells contained organelles characteristic of the maturation stage ameloblast and often extended to the enamel surface, suggesting a possible origin from the ameloblast layer.
  • (5) When TSLP was pretreated with TF5 in vitro, the most restorative effects on the decreased MLR were found in hyperplastic stage and the effects were becoming less with the advance of tumor developments.
  • (6) Microelectrodes were used to measure the oxygen tension (PO2) profile within individual spheroids at different stages of growth.
  • (7) Measurement of urinary GGT levels represents a means by which proximal tubular disease in equidae could be diagnosed in its developmental stages.
  • (8) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
  • (9) 53 outpatients with HIV-infection classified according to the Walter Reed staging system (WR1 to WR6).
  • (10) In the stage 24 chick embryo, a paced increase in heart rate reduces stroke volume, presumably by rate-dependent decrease in passive filling.
  • (11) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
  • (12) The possibility that both IL 2 production and IL 2R expression are autonomously activated early in T cell development, before acquisition of the CD3-TcR complex, led us to study the implication of alternative pathways of activation at this ontogenic stage.
  • (13) Survival was independent of the type of clinical presentation and protocol employed but was correlated with the stage (P less than 0.0005), symptoms (P less than 0.025), bulky disease (P less than 0.025) and bone marrow involvement (P less than 0.025).
  • (14) Many thoracic motoneurons were able to survive up to posthatching stages following transplantation.
  • (15) An inverse relationship between the pumping capacity of the heart and vascular resistance was confirmed at different stages of examination and treatment of the patients.
  • (16) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
  • (17) This experimental system allows separation of three B lymphocyte developmental stages: early differentiation in vitro, progression to IgM secretion in vivo, and late differentiation dependent upon mature T lymphocytes in vivo.
  • (18) Congenitally deficient plasmas were used as the substrate for the measurement of procoagulant activities in a one-stage clotting assay.
  • (19) It has announced a four-stage programme of reforms that will tackle most of these stubborn and longstanding problems, including Cinderella issues such as how energy companies treat their small business customers.
  • (20) Residual cancer was found in the radical prostatectomy specimen in 11 of the 29 stage-A1 patients (38%) and in 66 of the 86 stage-A2 patients (77%).