What's the difference between centimeter and decimeter?

Centimeter


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Centimetre

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Expressed per centimeter of gut length, total DAO activity was also enhanced by +141% in segment B (P less than 0.05 vs controls) and by +87% in segment C (P less than 0.01 vs controls) of resected rats.
  • (2) Patients less than 60 years of age, with tumors of less than 0.5 centimeter in diameter and with no history of weight loss, survived best.
  • (3) Ten centimeter long, 4 mm internal diameter segments of an unreinforced, experimental PTFE graft were implanted into 36 mongrel dogs as carotid interpositions.
  • (4) Results are best expressed as G cells per centimeter length of mucosa.
  • (5) H+ was injected a few centimeters away from the probe observation area.
  • (6) The optimal length of ileal reservoir is approximately 10 to 15 centimeters for children and 18 to 22 centimeters for adults.
  • (7) At least eight centimeters of the posterior aspect of the proximal region of the humeral diaphyseal cortex can be exposed through the interval between the lateral head of the triceps and the deltoid muscle.
  • (8) Reactive astrocytes oriented along the degenerated axons were identified at distances of up to several centimeters from the central infarct.
  • (9) Detailed analysis of microsphere distribution in a cubic centimeter of normal liver and the calculation of dose to a 3-dimensional fine grid has shown that the radiation distribution created by the finite size and distribution of the microspheres results in an highly heterogeneous dose pattern.
  • (10) In contrast to singleton pregnancies, advanced labor with more than four centimeters cervical dilatation should not preclude good chances for successful treatment.
  • (11) The pattern of distribution of holes per square centimeter was different for the subchondral plate of the medial plateau than it was for that of the lateral plateau.
  • (12) In experiments on male Wistar rats it has been found that physical factors applied in medicine (laser radiation of low intensity with wave length 0.89 microns, microwaves of centimeter range of 2450 MHz, and ultrasound of low intensity 880 KHz) changed catalytic activity of liver microsomal and rostenedione 16 alpha- and 6 beta-hydroxylating cytochromes P-450h and P-450p and blood corticosteroids level.
  • (13) Six measures of asbestos-in-air concentration were considered: (1) total asbestos structures per cubic centimeter: (2) chrysotile structures per cubic centimeter; (3) amphibole structures per cubic centimeter; (4) structures per cubic centimeter at least 0.5 micron long and at least five times wide; (5) structures per cubic centimeter at least 5 microns long; and (6) structures per cubic centimeter at least 5 microns long and at least 0.2 micron wide.
  • (14) A primary wave front spread radially for several centimeters from the pacing site, and no BKTs appeared in the areas covered by the primary wave front.
  • (15) One-centimeter collimation contiguous scans through the chest were obtained in all patients.
  • (16) Encapsulated and sometimes cystic, they varied from a 2-centimeter nodule to a smoothly bosselated 10x8x8-centimeter mass weighing 300 grams.
  • (17) However, between the ages of 13 and 40 weeks, the female Hyp mice have an increase in bone mineral content per centimeter length to the level of the normal mice.
  • (18) One centimeter segments were cultured, either with or without a transverse laceration across 90% of the midsection of the tendon segment.
  • (19) Even when two-thirds of height measurements are within two centimeters of their true value, the median estimate of the correlation is .095 below its true value for the sample.
  • (20) In 18 of 20 (90%) the mitral orifice was imaged successfully in early diastole by two-dimensional echocardiography so that mitral valve orifice area could be measured directly in square centimeters.

Decimeter


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Decimetre

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The thymus of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients was exposed to combined action of bitemporal UHF electric field and decimeter waves to study immunomodulating effect of the combination.
  • (2) We used decimeter waves; wave length of 69 cm and a frequency of 433.92 MHz.
  • (3) Central AS of the II degree of activity was more sensitive to decimeter waves while for peripheral and rhizomelic forms the results of crysonal phonophoresis were more positive.
  • (4) The trend in immunobiological responses to transcerebral action of decimeter microwaves was studied in intact rabbits.
  • (5) Less therapeutic response to the direct stimulation of the adrenals with decimeter waves stems from the deficient function of the latter consequent to long-term corticosteroid therapy.
  • (6) the cellular-divisional (of the non-nervous tissues) related to the egg and the neural-extensive originating in the sperm and characterized by sprouting of processes even several decimeters long from a single nerve cell body.
  • (7) It was shown that the thyroid gland exposure to decimeter waves at these intensities resulted in functional shifts in energy and plastic processes in myocardium and capillary blood supply.
  • (8) Besides, effects of decimeter waves on mice thymocyte-induced expression of Thy-1 antigen were studied.
  • (9) The authors used a new noninvasive method, decimeter radiothermometry, to measure cerebrocranial temperature in 68 patients with brain tumors.
  • (10) The projection zones of the thymus and adrenal glands of the test animals were subjected to the action of decimeter, or ultrahigh frequency (UHF), waves, while the corresponding zones of the control animals were subjected to imitation UHF irradiation.
  • (11) A study was made of the effects of microwave irradiation of different intensity within decimeter and centimeter ranges in vitro on the guinea-pig thymocyte-induced receptor expression to their own and rabbit erythrocytes.
  • (12) Continuous 10-day exposure of the heart and adrenal regions of rabbits with myocardial infarction to electromagnetic field produced by decimeter waves leads to activation of kallikrein-kinin system.
  • (13) The effect of decimeter electromagnetic waves, ultrasound, induction therapy, crysanol phonophoresis was compared in relevant treatment of 180 AS patients.
  • (14) Electron microscopy studies using automatic ultrastructural morphometry have determined changes in cardiomyocyte ultrastructure on exposure of the heart area to decimeter waves.
  • (15) Bitemporal exposure of the adrenals to UHF electric field and decimeter waves was studied as a component of combined therapy for stage I-II chronic SLE.
  • (16) To study the sensitivity of some central brain structures to the action of an electromagnetic field of decimeter waves (EMF of DW) a dynamic investigation of single unit activity was undertaken.
  • (17) The exposure of the thyroid to decimeter waves initiated PIR by 2.5-fold activation of medullar lymphocytes and by a 80% increase in the thymic function.
  • (18) No response was achieved in combined action on the thyroid of the electric field and decimeter waves.
  • (19) The combined exposure to bitemporal UHF electric field and decimeter waves of the adrenals doubles glucocorticoid synthesis abolishing the inhibitory action of the UHF therapy on thyroid function resultant in much more suppressed PIR.
  • (20) An animal experimental study on solid Walker-tumors was undertaken to determine the therapeutic effects utilizing hyperthermy in the form of combined decimeter wave megavolt treatment.

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