What's the difference between breakdown and phase?

Breakdown


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.
  • (n.) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down.
  • (n.) Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Because the mitogenic action of IL 2 resembles that of some growth factors, the possible role of phosphatidylinositol breakdown in the activation of T cells by IL 2 was examined.
  • (2) It is also becoming apparent that effects of insulin and other acute regulatory agents on muscle breakdown are limited to nonmyofibrillar components.
  • (3) The coronary vasodilator adenosine can be formed in the heart by breakdown of AMP or S-adenosylhomocysteine (SAdoHcy).
  • (4) Post-operative levels of C3 breakdown products were significantly higher in atheromatic patients than in controls, most likely due to the insertion of dacron arterial prostheses in the first group.
  • (5) F(ab')2 anti-Ig stimulates the rapid breakdown of inositol phospholipids in B cells, resulting in the prolonged release of inositol (poly)phosphates and diacylglycerol.
  • (6) The kinetics of the luminescent signal with the different luciferin esters varied significantly, indicating possible differences in the rates of uptake, breakdown and enzyme inhibition.
  • (7) The muscle-protein breakdown is sustained and the released amino acids are taken up by the liver and other RE structures where they are used as substrates for energy and for synthesis of defense-related proteins.
  • (8) At follow-up, the initial presence of signs of repression was significantly more common in such initially nonregressive patients as had escaped a later psychotic breakdown.
  • (9) Third, an indirect activation of protein kinase C may occur via an increase in the rate of phosphoinositide breakdown.
  • (10) The response is dose dependent for LPA concentrations from 10(-8) to 10(-3) M. Incubation of oocytes in LPA does not induce germinal vesicle breakdown.
  • (11) The breakdown of systemic fibrinogen may be important because of the anticoagulant effect this can produce.
  • (12) The breakdown of homocysteine, via the transsulphuration pathway, was augmented by Zn deficiency.
  • (13) Parallel sections were analyzed for possible parenchymal changes associated with the BBB breakdown.
  • (14) The breakdown of answers to both questions revealed a significant partisan divide depending on people’s voting intention, with Labor supporters much more likely than Coalition backers to see the commission as a political attack and Heydon as conflicted.
  • (15) The commonest finding is a slight to moderate breakdown of BCB function without evidence of intrathecal immunoglobulin synthesis.
  • (16) HOE was the most active compound, being able to accelerate PIP2 breakdown at concentrations between 10(-12) and 10(-6) M, while in the case of HEE the effective doses ranged from 10(-11) to 10(-7) M and from 10(-9) to 10(-6) M in the case of HNE.
  • (17) The critical membrane potential difference for breakdown is therefore pulse-length independent.
  • (18) Della Roe, Dhu’s mother, said the loss of her daughter had triggered an emotional breakdown.
  • (19) With ribosomes the pH optimum of proteolytic breakdown is at about 7.
  • (20) The findings link terminal breakdown of the blood-brain barrier and extensive viral antigen expression in CSF leukocytes with experimental CDV infection resulting in death.

Phase


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.
  • (n.) Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view; as, the problem has many phases.
  • (n.) A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form of enlightened disk; as, the phases of the moon or planets. See Illust. under Moon.
  • (n.) Any one point or portion in a recurring series of changes, as in the changes of motion of one of the particles constituting a wave or vibration; one portion of a series of such changes, in distinction from a contrasted portion, as the portion on one side of a position of equilibrium, in contrast with that on the opposite side.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the early phase of the sensitization a T-cell response was seen in vitro, characterized by an increased spleen but no peripheral blood lymphocyte reactivity to T-cell mitogens at the same time as increased reactivity to the sensitizing antigen was detected.
  • (2) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
  • (3) dl-Methionine stimulated the synthesis of cephalosporins when added after the growth phase.
  • (4) One of these antibodies, MCaE11, was used for immunohistochemical detection of MAC in tissue and for quantification of the fluid-phase TCC in ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid plasma.
  • (5) The first phase evaluated cytologic and colposcopic diagnoses in 962 consecutive patients in a community practice.
  • (6) An initial complex-soma inflection was observed on the rising phase of the action potential of some cells.
  • (7) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
  • (8) Under these conditions the meiotic prophase takes place and proceeds to the dictyate phase, obeying a somewhat delayed chronology in comparison with controls in vivo.
  • (9) Epidermal growth factor reduced plating efficiency by about 50% for A431 cells in different cell cycle phases whereas a slight increase in plating efficiency was seen for SiHa cells.
  • (10) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
  • (11) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
  • (12) Optimum rates of acetylene reduction in short-term assays occurred at 20% O2 (0.2 atm (1 atm = 101.325 kPa] in the gas phase.
  • (13) During the chronic phase, pain was assessed using visual analogue scales at 8 AM and 4 PM daily.
  • (14) High levels of spirochetes also were detected in diseased sites with phase-contrast microscopy.
  • (15) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.
  • (16) It is suggested that the rapid phase is due to clearance of peptides in the circulation which results in a fall to lower blood concentrations which are sustained by slow release of peptide from binding sites which act as a depot.
  • (17) This article reviews the care of the chest-injured patient during the intensive care unit phase of his or her recovery.
  • (18) We concluded that ketamine potentiates the Phase I and the Phase II neuromuscular blocks of succinylcholine.
  • (19) In later phases, mast cells appeared in the newly formed marrow in the external callus.
  • (20) Each patient contributed only once to each phase (105 in phase 1, 107 in phase 2), but some entered both phases on separate occasions.