What's the difference between carriage and gait?

Carriage


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is carried; burden; baggage.
  • (n.) The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.
  • (n.) The price or expense of carrying.
  • (n.) That which carries of conveys,
  • (n.) A wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for elegance and comfort.
  • (n.) A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage.
  • (n.) A part of a machine which moves and carries of supports some other moving object or part.
  • (n.) A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage.
  • (n.) The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners.
  • (n.) The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Staphylococcal carriage seems largely to depend on individual characteristics rather than environmental factors.
  • (2) A higher proportion (14 of 40; 35%) had evidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection than had evidence of either hepatitis B virus (HBV) carriage (17.5%) or alcohol abuse (30%).
  • (3) Rail campaigners claim that the convoluted carriage-ordering system contributes to overcrowding.
  • (4) Bronchial carriage may, however, not always be associated with pathological effects.
  • (5) 2) Chronic HBsAg carriage in the adult household contact was associated with female sex of the index case and with being a sibling; among young subjects, household contacts were more likely to be chronic HBsAg carriers when the index case was the mother, a sibling, or an HBV-DNA-positive subject.
  • (6) This study further confirms the importance of skin carriage of group A streptococci as a precursor to pyoderma and demonstrates the importance of minor skin trauma as a predisposing factor.
  • (7) Japanese company Hitachi Rail is planning to invest £82m and create hundreds of jobs at a new train factory in Newton Aycliffe, Darlington, where it will build hundreds of carriages.
  • (8) The current uses of serotyping of N. gonorrhoeae include epidemiological studies, clinical purposes and surveillance of antibiotic resistance and plasmid carriage.
  • (9) Think, too, of the savings in road widening and new carriages – money that could be spent mending what we've got, or making travel safer or more comfortable, or spent on other things.
  • (10) The order is the largest yet for Bombardier’s Aventra trains, at 750 carriages, and is a boost to the Derby plant, whose future recently appeared in jeopardy.
  • (11) The carriage of C. diphtheriae was found to be 19.8%, 65.3% of them were toxin producing by counter-immunoelectrophoresis (CIEP).
  • (12) Efforts at prevention of non-A, non-B hepatitis associated with blood transfusion have thus far been hampered by the lack of reliable laboratory markers for carriers of this disease, and controversy exists over the implementation of screening tests on blood donors, using such nonspecific indicators of possible viral carriage as serum alanine aminotransferase levels.
  • (13) The epidemic strain, which was not agglutinated by commerical diagnostic antisera, was isolated from the hands of personnel in five instances directly incriminated hand carriage as the mode of spread.
  • (14) The city responded with a mixture of fear and defiance, sharing pictures of cuddly animals on hashtags for the attack in place of the usual images of police, and offering homes, mosques and even grounded train carriages as shelter for those stranded by the shutdown.
  • (15) These patterns are generally consistent with available information concerning the distribution of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) carriage in New Zealand and suggest that HBsAg carriage is likely to be a major risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma in New Zealand, as it is in other countries.
  • (16) In renal transplant recipients carriage was positively related to treatment with ranitidine, consumption of more than three types of cheese in the previous 20 months, and consumption of English cheddar cheese more than once per week.
  • (17) The objectives of this preliminary study were to determine the prevalence of oral candidal carriage and infection in a group of HIV-positive individuals and compare the humoral immune responses in serum and saliva in this group with a control group of HIV-negative subjects.
  • (18) "My service is not as frequent as it should be and has very old carriages," he said.
  • (19) An association between fecal carriage of Streptococcus bovis and colorectal carcinoma has been reported.
  • (20) The carriage rates were 89% in children, 39% in adolescents and 34% in adults.

Gait


Definition:

  • (n.) A going; a walk; a march; a way.
  • (n.) Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
  • (2) Gains in gait pattern, ease of bracing, and reduced pelvic obliquity were noted.
  • (3) In the improved group, the families reported that the gait abnormality preceded the dementia in 11 patients and occurred at the same time in five.
  • (4) Candidates for a counselor-training program (136 Ss; 86% women; average age 44 yr.) took the GAIT in 18 groups and completed written forms for staff screening.
  • (5) On admission, neurological examination revealed staggering gait and the right cerebellar ataxia showing dysmetria and dysdiadochokinesis.
  • (6) In the gait initiation protocol, the amplitude and synchronization of the TA burst were directly correlated with velocity of movement, while the relative delay between soleus inhibition and TA activation was inversely correlated.
  • (7) No significant improvements or losses were found in a large series of gait parameters.
  • (8) Asymmetrical gait pattern with mild gait disturbance was found more often in infants lying in supine than in prone.
  • (9) In this paper, the authors reported a case of 6-year-old girl who complained of the progressive gait disturbance.
  • (10) The data suggest that throughout most of the gait cycle and normal stair climbing, the passive structures contribute a small portion of the total moment, usually well less than 10%.
  • (11) The function of the prosthesis was assessed through clinical assessment and force plate gait analysis.
  • (12) A 52-year-old female was admitted with a chief complaint of progressive gait disturbance over the previous 16 months.
  • (13) Mean tandem gait speed improved 48% after training.
  • (14) Normal gait was associated with flexor contraction only when the foot was lifted and placed on the ground, whereas during ischaemic blockade flexor contraction continued during the interval between foot lifting and foot placement.The `freezing' or `blocking' gait in Parkinson's disease was found to be associated with coactivation of flexor and extensor muscles and this phenomenon occurred only in patients with features of flexion dystonia in the electromyographic recordings of their tonic stretch reflexes.
  • (15) Moreover in the symmetrical gaits spatial phase shifts between unilateral limbs were equal to zero, which means that hind and fore limbs were placed in the same point during successive steps.
  • (16) Also, the FES antigravity action obtained raises hopes for substantially improving FES induced reciprocal gait.
  • (17) Clinical gait analysis is a term that can be applied to numerous methods of evaluating a subject's walking pattern.
  • (18) Six children with low-level myelomeningocele underwent gait analysis.
  • (19) The functional recovery of the patients was assessed every week by using the Barthel Index and the Action Research Arm test, by registering walking velocity, and by performing gait analysis.
  • (20) These changes were considered to be the result of talipes equinus and waddling gait, which are commonly demonstrated in patients with DMD.