What's the difference between briskly and bristly?

Briskly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a brisk manner; nimbly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Usually the focus driving the cell most briskly was located in one of the contralateral limbs and corresponded to the limb where muscle contraction was elicited by microstimulation with the same electrode.
  • (2) An increased mortality is recorded after its brisk rise (in particular after potent proton phenomena) and paradoxically also in case of very low density value.
  • (3) Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis are diseases which are characterized by a brisk acute phase response.
  • (4) For LH, basal levels were not different among each group, nor was there any difference in response to GnRH at any point in time after injection; however, there was a trend for the azoospermic group to respond more briskly.
  • (5) There was an improvement in body temperature within six hours of the first dose; this was accompanied by a brisk fall in serum CPK and cholesterol with a rapid rise of plasma T3 into the euthyroid range.
  • (6) The briskness of the response during tachycardia may also be a marker for underlying carotid sinus hypersensitivity.
  • (7) The identification of multiple receptor subtypes for 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) made by using radioligand binding techniques proliferated at a brisk rate in the 1980s.
  • (8) Add the broth to the pot and briskly simmer the mixture over medium to medium-low heat for about 2 hours for all the flavours to come together and mellow.
  • (9) Water immersion to the neck for 2 h caused a brisk diuresis, natriuresis and raised plasma ANP in 8 healthy subjects, suggesting that ANP is a mediator of diuresis and natriuresis during immersion.
  • (10) In adult humans the ventilatory response to sustained hypoxia (VRSH) is biphasic, characterized by an initial brisk increase, due to peripheral chemoreceptor (PC) stimulation, followed by a decline attributed to central depressant action of hypoxia.
  • (11) A brisk increase in plasma prolactin levels occurred in normal subjects during the administration of chlorpromazine and thyroid stimulating hormone releasing factor (TRH).
  • (12) These data indicate that an exercise intensity achievable by brisk walking (7.4 kph) is sufficient to evoke significant but short-term changes in serum HDL3-C concentrations in women.
  • (13) A brisk intraocular and systemic IgE antibody response followed the secondary intravitreal injection of either live or heat-killed larvae into animals systemically infected with A. suum.
  • (14) The effect of eyeball pressure on the heart rate was measured in 65 babies and was found to cause a brisk drop in heart rate in 32 babies.
  • (15) In the ferret, as in other species, two types of lateral geniculate neurone could be distinguished, and we have termed these X-cells and Y-cells; both groups responded briskly to visual stimulation but X-cells gave sustained and linear responses whereas Y-cells responded transiently and non-linearly.
  • (16) Of three methods studied, brisk shaking of samples in dilution blanks by hand and homogenization by a stomacher were compared relative to their capacity to recover the endotoxins and viable bacteria; blending with a Waring blender was compared with these two methods only on the recovery of viable cells.
  • (17) They discharged most briskly before visually guided eye movements, but also discharged before purposive eye movements made in darkness and responded to visual stimuli in the absence of saccades.
  • (18) But it is all merely worthless and meaningless froth while the city council permits a gateway to hell to do brisk business just a few streets away.
  • (19) Because it was 95 degrees and sunny, and because we were standing in a shadeless parking lot in the height of the afternoon, vendors selling bottled water were doing a brisk business.
  • (20) In the case presented, healing was brisk and complete, allowing early elbow mobilization.

Bristly


Definition:

  • (a.) Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Stimulation of the male bristly spines excited the medium-sized flexor excitors f3 and f4.
  • (2) The single-shelled virion, in contrast, exhibits a bristly surface.
  • (3) Monofilament sutures should be used with caution for bronchial anastomosis, as their bristly knots can perforate adjacent blood vessels.
  • (4) Stimulation of feathered hair (both sexes) and smooth hair (female only) sensilla produced responses characteristic of extension whereas bristly spines on the male accessory lobe excited only two flexor excitors without affecting any of the other postural motor neurons.
  • (5) Political activist @bristly_pioneer asked George Galloway's office how he'd be voting: "George Galloway – although saying he was going to vote against #debill – didn't even bother to turn up.
  • (6) Bristly spines may contribute to postural adjustments that assist mating.
  • (7) The tannins, delphinidin and procyanidin were isolated from flowers of white clover (Trifolium repens) and the leaves of Arnot Bristly Locust (Robina fertilis) respectively, and tested for mutagenic properties in a range of systems.
  • (8) The endopodite of the male swimmeret has an accessory lobe covered with short "bristly spines" (serrate setae).
  • (9) In addition, high energy intakes induced earlier juvenile moulting, this effect making the 56-day old carcasses rather bristly.

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