What's the difference between cad and wad?

Cad


Definition:

  • (n.) A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards.
  • (n.) A lowbred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In conclusion, 99Tcm-MIBI SPECT provides a reliable method for detecting CAD.
  • (2) ST-segment elevation is an uncommon finding in these patients and does not reliably differentiate those with and without fixed CAD.
  • (3) The nuclear runoff experiments also demonstrated that the CAD gene expression was shut down in less than 4 h after induction, well before morphological changes were observed in these cells.
  • (4) In a prospective study, the influence of the length of the time interval on spontaneous variability was investigated in 100 patients with CAD or IDC and untreated ventricular arrhythmia of Lown grade IV.
  • (5) Therefore, we studied 122 consecutive clinically stable patients with angiographically defined CAD (greater than 75 per cent luminal stenosis) and a positive exercise test.
  • (6) These changes in EF were accompanied by the development of wall motion abnormalities, which occurred in segments of myocardium that were supplied by coronary arteries with angiographic CAD (more than 50% diameter narrowing).
  • (7) The correlation between elevated cholesterol and coronary artery disease (CAD) has emerged slowly, with the strongest statistical links appearing recently.
  • (8) Angiograms were evaluated by two angiographers for presence or absence of coronary artery disease (CAD, defined as one or more coronary artery stenoses of 50% or greater in diameter, and no CAD, defined as no stenosis of 25% or greater in diameter, respectively).
  • (9) When combined with atrial pacing, 2-D echocardiography and thallium 201 perfusion imaging are of similar value for diagnosing the presence of CAD in patients with stable chest pain.
  • (10) A consecutive series of 198 patients (148 men and 50 women, mean age 51 years, range 18 to 76) with pure, isolated, severe aortic regurgitation was retrospectively studied to determine the prevalence of angiographically significant coronary artery disease (CAD) and its relation to angina pectoris and coronary risk factors.
  • (11) These study designs will be discussed and compared with other studies, and the expected impact on CAD event rates presented.
  • (12) The trimers are found to be in slow equilibrium with hexamers and higher oligomers composed of multiples of three copies of the CAD polypeptide chain.
  • (13) Ninety percent of patients with VA were cigarette smokers and 70% were heavy smokers (more than 20 cigarettes daily), compared with 53% and 33% in patients with CAD (p less than 0.001) and 30% and 15% in those without heart disease (p less than 0.001).
  • (14) Some clinical results of the application of this method on CAD patients are presented and discussed.
  • (15) Several large-scale, observational epidemiologic studies in the United States and abroad have shown a strong independent inverse relation between HDL and CAD.
  • (16) Propranolol therapy did not significantly affect the ST segment of the exercise ECG in the normal subjects or the CAD patients without an ischemic control exercise ECG.
  • (17) Of the 96 patients, 21 had AP, 10 (48%) with angiographically significant CAD and 11 (52%) without (CAD).
  • (18) In patients with mild to moderate degree of CAD, PGI2 was found to be well tolerated.
  • (19) The cad operon encodes lysine decarboxylase and a protein homologous to amino acid antiporters.
  • (20) The interaction of Type A behavior and social support in relation to the degree of coronary artery disease (CAD) severity was investigated.

Wad


Definition:

  • (n.) Woad.
  • (n.) A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.
  • (n.) Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.
  • (n.) A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc.
  • (v. t.) To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.
  • (v. t.) To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak.
  • (n.) Alt. of Wadd

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is suggested that this early immune maturity may play a role in the hardiness of WAD goats and in their relative resistance to helminth and protozoan infection as compared with local sheep.
  • (2) Six of the WAD goats carried natural infections of H. contortus and T. colubriformis and eight other (tracer) goats acquired their infections from a grass paddock artificially contaminated with H. placei, C. pectinata and C. punctata, during May to October.
  • (3) The structure and morphology of the sternum from 33 West African dwarf (WAD) and sixteen Danish Landrace breed goats were studied radiographically.
  • (4) Well, he doesn’t have a mandate to break the law and he doesn’t have a mandate for handing out big wads of cash out on the ocean,” she said.
  • (5) The osmotic fragility of erythrocytes of West African Dwarf (WAD) goats and of WAD sheep was determined at different temperatures and pH.
  • (6) Look,” Kasich said as he celebrated his big win in his home state of Ohio, “this is all I got.” At this point, he held open his suit jacket to reveal no counterfeit watches, concealed weapons or wads of cash.
  • (7) Classic monoconic canal filling: Wadding paste + zinc oxyde paste-iodoform eugenol.
  • (8) Other members of Congress have been hit with wads of "evidence" and demands for meetings by supporters of the birther movement.
  • (9) When the penalty fine was eventually paid the man peeled a £20 note from a wad of notes that would have choked a donkey.
  • (10) I sit in the control room for one session, as the composer leafs through a vast wad of papers, and calmly speaks directions to the assembled musicians on the other side of a glass divide.
  • (11) He and his entourage would spend raucous weekends in luxury resorts, paying with wads of cash pulled carelessly from their pockets.
  • (12) There are also discussed the infectious complications of the nasal wads and great stress is laid upon avoiding errors in therapeutical measures.
  • (13) Labor’s immigration spokesman Richard Marles said Abbott’s refusal to deny the practice had left the door wide open to the idea the government was handing wads of taxpayer’s cash to smugglers.
  • (14) One hundred fifty patients suffering from severe protein-calorie malnutrition, admitted in 1 month to the Pediatric wards of Wad Medani Hospital, Sudan, were classified according to the Wellcome classification.
  • (15) Even as he handed out wads of petrodollars to impoverished developing countries, their leaders mocked him behind his back for being a buffoon and a clown.
  • (16) Water samples from four areas [Kass, Kosti, Wad Medani and Omdurman] two of which are known for endemic goitre did not appear to have any goitrogenic effect in our preliminary experiment using porcine thyroid follicle cell preparations.
  • (17) Another three WAD goats were artificially infected with mixed cultures of L3 of the latter three nematodes, while five goats were inoculated with 1500-2000 L3 of H. contortus harvested from cultures incubated at 25-30 degrees C for 8 days either in the dark or under normal laboratory conditions.
  • (18) They didn’t feel like they needed to blow their wad in the trailers.” There’s not an ounce of cynicism in his enthusiasm.
  • (19) Just need to make it count in the red zone and not blow their metaphorical wad on stupid plays."
  • (20) At the end of the period of exposure the substance remaining on the skin was recovered with the aid of cotton wads or Tesa adhesive tape and the spectrum of metabolites in the skin and the rinsing fluid determined by thin-layer chromatography.

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