What's the difference between bun and tun?

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.

Tun


Definition:

  • (n.) A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.
  • (n.) A fermenting vat.
  • (n.) A certain measure for liquids, as for wine, equal to two pipes, four hogsheads, or 252 gallons. In different countries, the tun differs in quantity.
  • (n.) A weight of 2,240 pounds. See Ton.
  • (n.) An indefinite large quantity.
  • (n.) A drunkard; -- so called humorously, or in contempt.
  • (n.) Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; -- called also tun-shell.
  • (v. i.) To put into tuns, or casks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tun Lwin, the retired director general of Myanmar's meteorology department told the Associated Press: "We are out of danger and the impact of the cyclone is almost over.
  • (2) Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) " @MAS have already spoken to the families of the passengers and crew to inform them of this development."
  • (3) Wu Tun 吴吞 (@wu_tun) @aiww use mine, more than happy to make it.
  • (4) Photograph: Oval Partnership In the early 2000s, when enclosed malls were the standard, architect Chris Law of the Oval Partnership proposed an “open city” concept for San Li Tun, an area in Beijing’s central business district.
  • (5) Patients who appear to respond best to high branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) solutions have been previously described by objective measurements such as total urinary nitrogen (TUN) excretion, oxygen consumption index (O2Cl), plasma lactate, plasma pyruvate, plasma glucose (PG) and urinary 3-methylhistidine.
  • (6) This dramatically reduces labor and overall costs for TUN determinations, while providing a more accurate and economical assessment of nitrogen excretion than UUN in a clinical setting.
  • (7) March 24, 2014 Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) "Using a type of analysis never before used in an investigation of this sort,they have been able to shed more light on MH370’s flight path."
  • (8) Communities are not getting enough of a say in the process when the pubs they treasure are threatened by closure or change of use.” John Harrison, who lives in the south Cambridgeshire village of Guilden Morden, is among the leaders of an ongoing campaign to save the village’s Three Tuns pub and agrees that ACV status has yielded mixed results.
  • (9) The prevalence of mottled enamel (dental fluorosis) was investigated among children, aged 6 to 15 years, in Chung-hsing New Village and in Tsao-tun Village.
  • (10) Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) I will be making a statement on #MH370 at 10pm Malaysian time tonight at PWTC.
  • (11) An unusual B-cell proliferation was noted in an individual (Tun) which was characterized by the presence of two separate populations of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cell staining on the surface and in the cytoplasm for either IgG(k) or IgA(k).
  • (12) For both normal and hospitalized populations, nitrogen balance calculated from UUN data exceeded that calculated from TUN data.
  • (13) With only one exception in Tsao-tun, none of the children in the two groups showed mottling in the "moderate" or "severe" classes.
  • (14) #MH370 March 24, 2014 Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) "We share this information out of a commitment to openness & respect for the families, two principles guiding this investigation."
  • (15) Triggering of effectors, as monitored either by incorporation of 32P into phosphatidylinositol or by transmethylation of phosphatidylcholine, was similar for the positive control YAC-1, STC, TUN, and LTC, whereas ASC appeared to be defective in triggering effectors.
  • (16) #MH370 March 24, 2014 Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) "Inmarsat, that provided the satellite data which indicated the northern & southern corridors,has performed further calculations" March 24, 2014 Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) "Based on their new analysis, Inmarsat & the AAIB concluded that the last position of #MH370 was in the middle of the Indian Ocean."
  • (17) March 24, 2014 Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) "With deep sadness and regret I must inform you that, according to this new data, flight #MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean."
  • (18) Total urinary nitrogen (TUN) and urinary urea nitrogen (UUN) in a 24-hour urine collection were measured under a variety of clinical and nutritional conditions in 81 patients for 564 study days.
  • (19) The efficiency of measuring 24-hr urine urea-nitrogen (UUN) and total urine nitrogen (TUN) in patients on general wards was measured.
  • (20) TUN determined by chemiluminescence evidently provides a simple means of calculating nitrogen balance more nearly accurately.

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