What's the difference between cest and girdle?

Cest


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman's girdle; a cestus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Research conducted under norm theory (NT) has provided impressive evidence of an if only (IO) effect associated with postoutcome processing of aversive events that are highly consistent with formulations in CEST.
  • (2) According to cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST), individuals have 2 systems for processing information, a rational system and an experiential system.
  • (3) In the experiments performed in chick embryos, using the chick embryo screening test (CEST)-1 and CEST-2 technique, 100 various classes of chemical substances have been tested for teratogenic activity.
  • (4) We must now wait until 1.30pm BST, or 2.30pm CEST, to hear Mario Draghi's statement and the question & answer session to find out what has been agreed on the bond-buying programme....
  • (5) Three experiments (N = 1,331) demonstrated that research findings on suspiciousness about coincidences (Miller, Turnbull, & McFarland, 1989) can be accounted for in terms of subjective probability, as predicted by cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST) but in contrast with the norm theory (NT) account offered by Miller et al.
  • (6) This exception includes danger to the life or health of the mother, risk of serious hereditary disease or other congenital abnormality, and pregnancy due to rape or in cest; in cases of serious need, in which social and economic damage to existing children may be expected, the presiding judge may dismiss the case.
  • (7) The prediction of minimum concentrations at steady state on the basis of these parameters corresponded well with actually obtained Cest f following repetitive administration of PB.
  • (8) As primary treatment cest-tube drainage was more effective than closed chest tubes.
  • (9) Responses across 4 conditions (2 probability levels x 2 outcome types) and across the 3 experiments supported predictions derived from CEST but not those derived from NT.
  • (10) The temporal course of Cest f obtained from Cs after an oral single dose of 50 mg PB in a healthy adult male volunteer was approximated as a triexponential equation.
  • (11) Two studies involving vignettes adapted from NT were conducted that tested 4 hypotheses and corollaries derived from CEST.
  • (12) The Bacteroides conjugal elements tested were six conjugal tetracycline resistance (Tcr) elements (which appear to be chromosomal), i.e., Tcr ERL, Tcr V479, Tcr Emr ERL, Tcr Emr 12256, Tcr Emr DOT, and Tcr Emr CEST, and the conjugal erythromycin resistance (Emr) plasmid pBF4.
  • (13) We'll also get an update on the German economy, with the monthly ZEW economic sentiment data published at 10am BST ( 11am CEST ).
  • (14) The ECB will announce its decision on interest rates at 12.45pm BST ( 1.45pm CEST ), followed by a press conference 45 minutes later.

Girdle


Definition:

  • (n.) A griddle.
  • (n.) That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus.
  • (n.) The zodiac; also, the equator.
  • (n.) The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant.
  • (n.) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
  • (n.) The clitellus of an earthworm.
  • (v. t.) To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.
  • (v. t.) To inclose; to environ; to shut in.
  • (v. t.) To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In April 1986, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the thorax and shoulder girdle was presented to the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Anatomists.
  • (2) In severely impaired limbs, there was a marked shift in both the peak EMG angle and the angular domain of EMG activity for both biceps and triceps muscle groups, away from the normal elbow flexion-extension axis towards external humeral rotation and shoulder girdle elevation.
  • (3) Two cases of Tikhor-Linberg resection for rhabdomyosarcoma and malignant chondromyxoid fibroma and two cases of scapulectomy for metastatic disease of the shoulder girdle are reviewed.
  • (4) Weakness and amyotrophy of shoulder girdle were noticed.
  • (5) It is stated that the clavicle contributes significantly to the stability of the shoulder girdle, and that in man the presence of this bone represents an increase in the degree of freedom of the upper extremity mobility pattern, dependent on the transversal shape of the thoracic diameter.
  • (6) (2) It is suggested that the boundaries of the bipolar limb system lie in the girdle skeleton and at the distal end of the limb, respectively, and that it is the apical epidermis of the growing or regenerating limb which defines the distal boundary conditions.
  • (7) The author investigated postural change of respiratory function in 12 patients with myotonic dystrophy (MYD), and 7 patients with limb-girdle dystrophy (LG) and overnight polysomnography was performed on 10 patients with MYD and 5 patients with LG.
  • (8) There thus exists a passive control, of ligamentous origin, of movements of the shoulder-girdle.
  • (9) Repetition strain injury of the supraspinatus muscle is not an isolated event, but rather a form of microtrauma that affects the entire shoulder girdle.
  • (10) This procedure is manifested in the region of system-immanent weak spots of the positional and locomotor system and, in the pelvic girdle region by tipping of the pelvis in ventral direction, with consecutive evasive shifts of the vertebral column and extremities.
  • (11) The girdle epidermis of adult Mopalia muscosa secretes several types of structures, including calcareous spicules and innervated hairs.
  • (12) Unstained fibers were observed in mitochondrial myopathies, in Becker, Emery-Dreifuss, limb-girdle, facio-scapulo-humeral muscular dystrophies, muscle infarction, polymyositis, motor neuron diseases and neuropathies.
  • (13) Thirteen were located within or between muscles of the limbs, limb girdles, and head and neck.
  • (14) In the remaining two patients, one with limb girdle dystrophy and the other with dystrophia myotonica, cardiomyopathy was present in addition to the conduction disturbance.
  • (15) Although fractures of the humerus, scapula, and clavicle are common throughout life, most problems encountered between the ages of 15 and 60 are related to the ligaments, tendons, and muscles of the shoulder girdle.
  • (16) In 95 fresh and fixed anatomical preparations, peculiarities of topographic-anatomical relations and morphometric indices of magistral arteries and their large branches have been studied in the pelvic girdle and a free hind extremity in mongrel dogs according to the type of their habitus.
  • (17) Other unusual features included the absence of muscle cramps at any stage, asymmetrical wasting of the shoulder girdle muscles and calf hypertrophy.
  • (18) This phenomenon was observed, though to a lower degree, in limb-girdle muscular dystrophy.
  • (19) Downward migration of shoulder girdle and muscle variations are analyzed.
  • (20) His symptoms consisted principally of parasthesias and proximal weakness of both upper and lower extremities with atrophy of the shoulder and pelvic girdles.

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