What's the difference between burned and burnet?

Burned


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Burn
  • (p. p. & a.) See Burnt.
  • (p. p.) Burnished.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
  • (2) Zinc in plasma and urine and serum albumin and alpha 2-macroglobulin were measured in 48 patients with burns.
  • (3) With the exception of PMMA and PTFE, all plastics leave a very heavy tar- and soot deposit after burning.
  • (4) The patient later died from complications of burns.
  • (5) In clinical situations on donor sites and grafted full-thickness burn wounds, the PEU film indeed prevented fluid accumulation and induced the formation of a "red" coagulum underneath.
  • (6) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
  • (7) For the purpose of studying the role of elastase and protease of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in bacterial infection in burns, the effects of the vaccines made from each enzyme, their toxoids and OEP on protection against infection in burned mice were studied.
  • (8) The authors report on their experience in the use of cultured keratinocytes in severely burned children, observed in the Surgical Emergency and Pediatric Surgery Department at the Gaslini Institute of Genova.
  • (9) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.
  • (10) This is triggered not so much by climate change but the cause of global warming itself: the burning of fossil fuels both inside and outside the home, says Farrar.
  • (11) It is often difficult if not impossible to include a pediatric patient in the planning of burn reconstruction.
  • (12) The fact that it is still used is regrettable yet unavoidable at present, but the average quantity is three times less than the mercury released into the atmosphere by burning the extra coal need to power equivalent incandescent bulbs.
  • (13) This phenomenon can have a special significance for defining the vitality in inflammation of bone tissue, in burns and in necrosis of soft tissues a.a. of the Achilles tendon.
  • (14) Kunduz hospital patients 'burned in beds … even wars have rules', says MSF chief Read more The resolution – which was supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and others – requests that Ban present recommendations on measures to prevent attacks and to ensure that those who carry them out are held accountable.
  • (15) A 26-year-old man with 40% full-thickness burns was treated by excision and split-skin grafting on the 7th post-burn day.
  • (16) We conclude that a burn involving the chest wall results in cardiopulmonary abnormalities, not seen after a body burn of a comparable size, which appear to be due to hyperthermia and an increased release of prostacyclin and O2 radicals.
  • (17) During treatment, the mother underwent an abortion and burned her face with kitchen chemicals.
  • (18) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
  • (19) Significant enhancement of IL-2 production by indomethacin was seen in the burned group (mean, 95%), but not in controls (mean, 23.8%) or normal mice (mean, 17.2%), and similar effects were seen with flurbiprofen.
  • (20) Twenty-one days of treatment of one group of burned rats with the selective beta 2-adrenergic agonist, clenbuterol, increased resting energy expenditure and normalized body weight gain, muscle mass, and muscle protein content.

Burnet


Definition:

  • (n.) A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You’re most at risk of being killed when you leave,” Burnet says.
  • (2) They could be upstairs or even behind the door,” says Burnet.
  • (3) In some cases, our staff can be more approachable.” The focus on domestic abuse started six years ago at Peabody, when Burnet was hired, and in that time the number of new cases reported has increased by 825%.
  • (4) You need to think about the fact it could be masked as something else.” If an employee spots the signs of domestic abuse, they report their concerns to the organisation’s specialist team, led by Burnet.
  • (5) According to the authors, although in a few cases the tumour may induce development of a clone secreting Igmc, usually carcinoma and Igmc are independent from one another and are due to a common mechanism : reduction in cell immunity, according to Burnet.
  • (6) The age dependence and the anatomical distribution of the lesions of such disorders imply a Burnet type 'forbidden clone' theory of ageing.
  • (7) Burnet spent three years working at domestic abuse charity Refuge before moving to Peabody, a large provider of social housing in London.
  • (8) The first, proposed by Cunningham, holds that clonal deletion as viewed by Burnet operates in early life; however, later in life all autoreactive B cells not eliminated during ontogeny are prevented from expanding and secreting anti-self antibodies by a compensatory suppressor mechanism.
  • (9) The discovery of the 'one cell - one antibody' dogma and the demonstration that only a small minority of B cells possessed receptors specific for a given antigen were consistent with Burnet's clonal selection hypothesis, which was later formally proven by preparing antigen-specific lymphocytes and inducing clonal activation in vitro.
  • (10) Burnet says the aim is to get the leaders in the community to act.
  • (11) I believe that Wally Rowe would have been interested, for every case I have described presents problems in the ecology of viruses, and like my mentor Macfarlane Burnet, Wally approached virology from an ecological point of view, whether he was thinking about the DNA provirus of retroviruses and the host chromosome, the pathogenesis of disease, or the spread of viruses in animal populations, all topics to which he made major contributions.
  • (12) Circulation of the Q fever agent with different virulent properties has indicated the necessity of purposeful diagnosis of this sickness both among the acute fever diseases and among flaccid course, subclinical and chronic ones not excluding the etiological role of the Burnet rickettsia.
  • (13) If the Burnet's hypothesis of the antieoplastic "immunological surveillance" is strictly interpreted, it would result unappropriate to speak of "immunosuppressive therapy" in malignant hemoblastoses and allied neoplastic diseases, although the treatment of such affections consists of the administration of mostly immune system-depressing agent.
  • (14) The model describing the reaction of the immune system to infectious agent invasion is constructed on the bases of Burnet's clonal selection theory and the co-recognition principle.
  • (15) By splendid irony, the unexpectedly available space in the vault at Westminster Abbey was soon filled ‑ with the bodies of a troop of illegitimate offspring of Charles II and their families, including the Earl of Doncaster, son of the king and his mistress Lucy Walter, and Charles Fitzroy, Duke of Cleveland and Southampton, his son by Barbara Villiers, the woman described by Bishop Burnet as "a woman of pleasure ... vastly expensive and consequently very covetous".
  • (16) Many problems still remain unsolved, but now as ever, the basis of most experimental studies is still formed by Burnet's clonal selection theory.
  • (17) Initially scheduled for only 13 weeks due to fears that its length would turn viewers off, it went on to become the most popular news show in Britain, launching the careers of some of our beest known newsreaders such as Alastair Burnet, Reginald Bosanquet, Sandy Gall, Alastair Stewart and Trevor McDonald.
  • (18) According to the Burnet's immune surveillance theory the T-lymphocytes eliminate malignant cells in an early stage.
  • (19) Burnet's clonal selection theory suggests that each B lymphocyte is committed to a single antibody specificity.
  • (20) The action of polyphenols of great burnet is more effective as compared with venoruton.

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