What's the difference between change and metaphysis?
Change
Definition:
(v. t.) To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance.
(v. t.) To alter by substituting something else for, or by giving up for something else; as, to change the clothes; to change one's occupation; to change one's intention.
(v. t.) To give and take reciprocally; to exchange; -- followed by with; as, to change place, or hats, or money, with another.
(v. t.) Specifically: To give, or receive, smaller denominations of money (technically called change) for; as, to change a gold coin or a bank bill.
(v. i.) To be altered; to undergo variation; as, men sometimes change for the better.
(v. i.) To pass from one phase to another; as, the moon changes to-morrow night.
(v. t.) Any variation or alteration; a passing from one state or form to another; as, a change of countenance; a change of habits or principles.
(v. t.) A succesion or substitution of one thing in the place of another; a difference; novelty; variety; as, a change of seasons.
(v. t.) A passing from one phase to another; as, a change of the moon.
(v. t.) Alteration in the order of a series; permutation.
(v. t.) That which makes a variety, or may be substituted for another.
(v. t.) Small money; the money by means of which the larger coins and bank bills are made available in small dealings; hence, the balance returned when payment is tendered by a coin or note exceeding the sum due.
(v. t.) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions.
(v. t.) A public house; an alehouse.
(v. t.) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once treatment began, no significant changes occurred in Group 1, but both PRA and A2 rose significantly in Groups 2 and 3.
(2) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
(3) The assembly reaction is accompanied by characteristic changes in fluorescence emission and dichroic absorption.
(4) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
(5) It is concluded that during exposure to simulated microgravity early signs of osteoporosis occur in the tibial spongiosa and that changes in the spongy matter of tubular bones and vertebrae are similar and systemic.
(6) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(7) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
(8) The pattern of the stressor that causes a change in the pitch can be often identified only tentatively, if there is no additional information.
(9) It has been generally believed that the ligand-binding of steroid hormone receptors triggers an allosteric change in receptor structure, manifested by an increased affinity of the receptor for DNA in vitro and nuclear target elements in vivo, as monitored by nuclear translocation.
(10) Changes in cardiac adenosine triphosphate (ATP), phosphocreatine (PCr) and inorganic phosphate (Pi) were followed and intracellular pH (pHi) was estimated from the chemical shift of Pi.
(11) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
(12) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(13) As collapse was imminent, MAP increased but CO and TPR did not change significantly.
(14) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
(15) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
(16) No significant change occurred in the bacterial population of our hospital unit during the period of the study (more than 3 years).
(17) The availability and success of changes in reproductive technology should lead to a reappraisal of the indications for hysterectomy, especially in young women.
(18) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
(19) The present study examined whether the lack of chronic hemodynamic effects of ANP in control rats was due to changes in vascular reactivity to the peptide.
(20) The pancreatic changes are unlikely to be an artefact, but rather a direct toxic effect of the alcohol as confirmed by the biochemical changes.
Metaphysis
Definition:
(n.) Change of form; transformation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Conservatively treated compressed fractures of the distal radius dorsal metaphysis healed despite primarily good reduction and consequent treatment with a decrease in dorsal length.
(2) Radiographically the bone cyst distinguishes itself by its central localisation in the metaphysis, where as the giant cell tumor has an excentric position in the epiphysis with a tendency of extending into the metaphysis.
(3) Bone mineral content of the distal tibial metaphysis of casted and uncasted limbs was measured by single photon absorptiometry.
(4) Quantitative bone histomorphometric analyses of the proximal tibial metaphysis were made in all experimental groups.
(5) The progressive valgus deformity might have been caused by stimulation of overgrowth of the medial tibial metaphysis.
(6) A graft consisting of semitendinosus and gracilis (SG) tendons is passed under the anterior horn of the medial meniscus through the knee joint, then brought out through the posterior capsule and secured to the lateral femoral metaphysis.
(7) Lesions were a cone of retained cartilage, confined to the postero-medial area of the proximal metaphysis of the tibiotarsus.
(8) With rapid distraction at rates of 1 mm per day (distractional epiphyseolysis) separation of the epiphysis from the metaphysis occurred by day 7, and by day 70 almost complete ossification of the cartilage and the elongated segment was evident.
(9) Osteosarcoma in the metaphysis to epiphysis of the left femur of a 17-year-old male is reported.
(10) After consolidation of the distraction area, this zone of chondrocytes, located in the metaphysis, was still producing new bone 20 weeks postoperatively.
(11) The fissures occurred after 20 months of treatment on average and were revealed by pain in the metaphysis with early high radionuclide uptake.
(12) The physis of the tibial tuberosity is composed primarily of fibrocartilage and fibrous tissue, with bone being added to the anterior portion of the tibial metaphysis by membranous bone formation.
(13) Histomorphometric studies of the tibial metaphysis also did not show significant differences in trabecular bone volume between sham-operated and ORX males.
(14) Histomorphometric analysis of bone alterations was performed using undecalcified longitudinal as well as grounded cross sections of the tibial metaphysis and diaphysis.
(15) They were not confined to the metaphysis of long bones.
(16) Spiral fractures in the shaft or distal metaphysis of the tibia predominated (73%); the incidence of concomitant fibular fracture was low.
(17) The microangiographic findings of the femoral epiphysis were classified into the following four types: 1) uniform distribution of radiopacity; 2) absence of radiopacity in the medial portion; 3) complete absence of radiopacity; and 4) intercourse of blood vessels between the epiphysis and the metaphysis.
(18) Stress fractures of the tibia commonly occur in the proximal metaphysis and heal readily with rest.
(19) Based on a correlative radiographic and histologic slab study of the wrists in 50 infants who died of unrelated diseases, the author's chief conclusions are as follow: 1) On the wrist radiograph of the infant, bone bark in the Ranvier's groove may appear as a "thorn-like" bony process on the margins of the metaphysis of the radius and ulna.
(20) To evaluate the response of both cortical and trabecular bone to MA, histologic studies were done at three separate sites in the tibia, cortical bone from the mid-shaft, and trabecular bone from the epiphysis and from the metaphysis.