What's the difference between bun and gun?

Bun


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Bunn

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 131I-hippuran uptake of the renal cortical slices and histopathological examination as well as serum creatinine and BUN levels were used as parameters for assessing renal damage.
  • (2) On days 70 and 94, both blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and serum creatinine (sCR) values in the vehicle-treated rats were significantly higher than those in normal rats (without treatment with PAN and PS).
  • (3) Patients were monitored postoperatively by determination of BUN, serum creatinine, blood glucose, serum and urinary amylase levels, and Doppler assessment of the graft was carried out at regular intervals.
  • (4) A single high sodium dialysis results in a rise in serum sodium that osmotically parallels the fall in BUN.
  • (5) During CAVH serum creatinine showed an insignificant decline, whereas BUN even increased.
  • (6) Male rats experienced some weight loss (15%) and slight increases of ALT and BUN, but there were no effects of either DCA or TCA on any of these responses.
  • (7) Hot cross buns must be made and eaten on Good Friday before 11 o’clock, otherwise their meaning is lost.
  • (8) With the aim of studying this aspect, 16 patients with glomerulopathy associated with schistosomiasis mansoni were evaluated (proteinuria and levels of BUN and creatinine) before therapy, 1 week, 1 month, 2-3 months and 6 months after therapy of the parasitic infections.
  • (9) The severity of the acidosis in the 24-mo-old rats was related to serum creatinine and BUN.
  • (10) APAP-induced renal damage, as judged by BUN and histopathology, was not altered in young or middle-aged rats following unilateral nephrectomy.
  • (11) Brush the buns with the egg and sprinkle with pearl sugar.
  • (12) Urinalysis and assays for plasma hormone values, including cortisol, beta 2-microglobulin, potassium, and BUN, showed no changes during treatment.
  • (13) Bromocriptine produced no significant change in the BUN or the serum concentrations of creatinine, inorganic phosphate or PTH.
  • (14) Davis, however, said she had issued a new policy, effective immediately, to abide by Bunning’s order.
  • (15) The peritoneal clearance of smaller molecules such as BUN, creatinine, uric acid and phosphate also tended to be higher in diabetics after infusion of 1.5% Dianeal for 4 hours.
  • (16) BUN levels were within the normal range except on day 7.
  • (17) Because extrarenal factors may alter BUN and SC, it is necessary to correlate these values with clinical and other laboratory data to differentiate renal from extra-renal azotemia.
  • (18) Before and after ESWL, Bun, Cr, B2-mG (of blood and urine), activity of blood plasma renin AT-II, -GT, NAG, mucoprotein of plasma, etc were also determined.
  • (19) Blood for BUN, creatinine, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) was obtained prior to ischemia and on days 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, and 10.
  • (20) BUN was significantly elevated, while Scr was significantly depressed, in untreated patients with hyperthyroid Graves' disease.

Gun


Definition:

  • () of Gin
  • (n.) A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary.
  • (n.) A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon.
  • (n.) Violent blasts of wind.
  • (v. i.) To practice fowling or hunting small game; -- chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
  • (2) Where he has taken a stand, like on gun control after the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, Obama was unable to achieve legislative change.
  • (3) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
  • (4) One might expect that a similar news spike and rebounding of support for stricter gun control can happen, given President Obama's new push.
  • (5) But at least one customer signalled that America's gun lobby might be on the cusp of a moment of introspection.
  • (6) The Guardian neglects to mention 150,000 privately owned guns or that Palestinians are banned from bearing arms.
  • (7) said Wanis Kilani, a uniformed rebel driving a pickup truck with a machine-gun mounted on the back.
  • (8) At one, in the Gun and Dog pub in Leeds on Tuesday, a witness described how the meeting descended into chaos when one of the rebels smashed a glass and threatened to attack Griffin supporter Mark Collett.
  • (9) Asked if France had “jumped the gun and didn’t tell us”, Fox said he was notaware of anyone in government who knew about the impending airstrikes.
  • (10) "He [Copernicus] stuck to his guns when he came under fire for it, and he was right."
  • (11) In combination, the features of these vectors afford useful advantages over expression vectors previously described, especially for the application of shot-gun cloning of genomic DNA to generate expression libraries.
  • (12) Hours after the firefight ended, and just a few dozen kilometres away, a "very reliable" member of the Afghan local police turned his gun on two British soldiers.
  • (13) I went to see the Who recently, which was fantastic, but the band I truly love has to be the one I first got into, Guns N' Roses.
  • (14) Regarding the shots fired from Brelo’s gun, O’Donnell said they could have been the ones causing death, but so could others fired by other officers before his shots from the hood of the vehicle.
  • (15) He casts his history of bipartisan negotiation as a form of steamrolling practicality, and many of his actual policies, save regarding gun control, fit comfortably within the far right framework.
  • (16) Trying to escape, speaker Mohammed Magariaf's jeep was hit by a fusillade of machine-gun fire.
  • (17) When the vote came, she and the other gun law advocates who crowded into the public gallery had been told not to talk, stand or take notes.
  • (18) Following a mass killing at a Colorado cinema in July, applications to buy guns rose more than 40% in a week.
  • (19) The coroner also raised concerns that although the aim of the operation in which Duggan was killed was to take guns off the streets, little attempt was made to seize weapons believed to be held by Hutchinson-Foster.
  • (20) Any unilateral action by the president seemed sure to inflame gun advocates, who argue that gun sales are protected under the second amendment and who equate gun control with tyranny.

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