What's the difference between circ and sphere?

Circ


Definition:

  • (n.) An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) CIRC also recommended ‘that, unlike in the past, everything that occurs during committee meetings should be recorded in the minutes’.
  • (2) Am J Physiol 1987;253 (Heart Circ Physiol 22):H184-H193).
  • (3) The investigations were performed simultaneously with those described in Part I (Circ Res 1986; 58:552-564), where the effects of cholesterol feeding on vascular reactivity in rabbit arteries (n = 8 in each group) selected at random from the same group of animals was studied.
  • (4) Reflex changes in renal nerve activity during LAD + CIRC were abolished by interruption of cardiac sympathetic afferent pathways (n = 5).
  • (5) These responses were dependent on interruption of flow to a small proximal CIRC branch, and postmortem examination revealed that it perfused the sinus node region.
  • (6) In 22 patients, 10 controls and 12 patients with aortic stenosis before (pre) and after (post) valve replacement the systolic stiffness index k (circ-1) was determined using tipmanometry and frame by frame angiocardiography.
  • (7) Sixteen dogs were instrumented chronically with a left circumflex (CIRC) Ameroid constrictor, and with CIRC, left anterior descending (LAD), aortic, left atrial and pulmonary artery (PA) catheters.
  • (8) Following application of a critical stenosis to the circumflex coronary artery (CIRC), animals were placed on total bypass with vented, fibrillating hearts.
  • (9) To examine the alterations of intracellular Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i)-handling mechanisms in cultured vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) of rat aorta (Shin et al Circ Res 1991;69:551-556), we stimulated VSMCs by extracellular high K+, caffeine, and angiotensin II and evaluated Ca2+ influx through voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels, Ca(2+)-induced Ca2+ release, and inositol trisphosphate-dependent Ca2+ release from internal stores.
  • (10) One-minute occlusion of the circumflex (CIRC) coronary artery resulted in marked negative chronotropic responses and consistent alterations in atrial electrograms.
  • (11) Systolic myocardial stiffness constant was 15 circ-1 in controls, 14 circ-1 in preoperative and 12 circ-1 in postoperative AS patients (P less than 0.01 vs. controls).
  • (12) Myocardial metabolic consequences of subtotal and total coronary artery occlusion were compared in dogs during LAD and CIRC occlusion and in human subjects with subtotal and total anterior coronary artery occlusion.
  • (13) Same goes for Sarah Silverman, whose HBO comedy special is in the running for outstanding variety special and Lena Heady for her steely turn as Circe in Game of Thrones.
  • (14) Photograph: Silvia Marchetti The Parata inlet, 3km from the crowded Frontone beach, is where Odysseus (on his way back home from burning Troy) was bewitched by the sorceress Circe, who made him her slave.
  • (15) Regional myocardial metabolism was examined by means of coronary venous sampling in dogs having acute nonsimultaneous occlusions of the left anterior descending (LAD) and circumflex (CIRC) coronary arteries.
  • (16) After EA, mean arterial pressure fell 10% (P less than .001); myocardial blood flow increased 275% (P less than .001) in the nonischemic left circumflex artery (CIRC) area and increased 82% (P less than .01) in the occluded LAD area.
  • (17) In the Odyssey , Circe warns Odysseus against the Sirens "who enchant all who come near them".
  • (18) Previous studies of the renal papilla of the rat have suggested that the vasa recta capillaries can be well approximated by elliptical cylinders (C. Holliger, K. V. Lemley, S. L. Schmitt, F. C. Thomas, C. R. Robertson, and R. L. Jamison, 1983, Circ.
  • (19) A cluster analysis, using one co-occurrency texture feature (S-HOMOG), one density feature (S-DI), and two geometrical features (S-AREA and M-CIRC), showed that two clusters (C1 and C2) were present in the total group of CIN III and CIN.INV lesions.
  • (20) It feels fitting that someone should have had a supernatural experience: in Greek myth and Euripides' play, Medea is the granddaughter of the sun-god Helios and niece of Circe, a witch.

Sphere


Definition:

  • (n.) Rank; order of society; social positions.
  • (n.) A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center.
  • (n.) Hence, any globe or globular body, especially a celestial one, as the sun, a planet, or the earth.
  • (n.) The apparent surface of the heavens, which is assumed to be spherical and everywhere equally distant, in which the heavenly bodies appear to have their places, and on which the various astronomical circles, as of right ascension and declination, the equator, ecliptic, etc., are conceived to be drawn; an ideal geometrical sphere, with the astronomical and geographical circles in their proper positions on it.
  • (n.) In ancient astronomy, one of the concentric and eccentric revolving spherical transparent shells in which the stars, sun, planets, and moon were supposed to be set, and by which they were carried, in such a manner as to produce their apparent motions.
  • (n.) The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which it may be applied.
  • (n.) Circuit or range of action, knowledge, or influence; compass; province; employment; place of existence.
  • (n.) An orbit, as of a star; a socket.
  • (v. t.) To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to insphere.
  • (v. t.) To form into roundness; to make spherical, or spheral; to perfect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
  • (2) Quantitative measurements of image contrast were carried out for B-mode images of anechoic spheres (cysts) embedded in a random scattering medium.
  • (3) The relation between genetic counseling and the procreation sphere among the studied families is presented.
  • (4) Despite Facebook's size and reach, and its much-vaunted role in the short-lived Arab spring , there are reasons for thinking that Twitter may be the more important service for the future of the public sphere – that is, the space in which democracies conduct public discussion.
  • (5) I care far more that women are absolutely essential to political life, influential at every level, and are leading dynamic conversations in the public sphere around social and cultural change.
  • (6) The algorithm is an improvement over the sphere model in that it considers two distinct surfaces: an ellipsoid, to model the region of the skull on which the sensors are placed, and a sphere as the medium in which the current dipole model is considered.
  • (7) The yolk spheres, which were free of precipitates, gave the characteristic signal of the nitrogen K-edge.
  • (8) In family therapy, the analysis of secret implies not only to define the network of the concerned persons, but also the definition of the bonds between the secret and loyalties, the distribution of power, the alliances and the definitions of the private sphere (proper to each family) and of the protective function of the secret.
  • (9) The sphering agent lysolecithin is less effective in reducing red cell deformability, when the external calcium-concentration is kept low.
  • (10) The magnitude of changes in both energy interaction and intensity were used to explore the degree of outer and inner sphere coordination, incidence of covalency and the extent of metal 4f-orbital involvement in chemical bonding.
  • (11) Ultrastructurally, hemolytic concentrations of tributyltin can be visualized in the electron microscope by osmium staining during fixation as electron-dense spheres penetrating the lipid bilayer of the erythrocyte plasma membrane.
  • (12) In the present paper the images produced by spheres of varying diameter (d = 4,6,8,10 mm) embedded in a homogeneous substance of varying densities (H' = 3,48,93,137 Hounsfield units) as produced by computer tomography were studied.
  • (13) The typical elements of risk (tobacco, age, socio-professional sphere) reappear in this study.
  • (14) Our results showed that a lower percentage of normal subjects and a lower percentage of constipated patients were able to pass a 1.8 cm incompressible sphere compared with a 50 ml deformable balloon, although constipated patients found it more difficult than normal subjects to expel both types of simulated stool.
  • (15) A transient 5-coordinate intermediate might play a role in the mechanism of action of carbonic anhydrase by facilitating ligand exchange reactions within the inner coordination sphere of the Zn(II) ion at the active center.
  • (16) The expression of WAP appears to be dependent upon the formation of the alveoli-like spheres: prevention of sphere formation by fixation or drying of the matrix abolishes the expression of WAP.
  • (17) The SAR patterns in birds, however, varied markedly from those obtained from spheres of comparable mass.
  • (18) The depth of FAD incorporation into the enzyme molecule as calculated according to the outer sphere electron transfer theory is 6.1 A.
  • (19) For the hard-sphere model used in these calculations, it was found that current helix-coil transition theory does not predict the correct perturbed dimensions.
  • (20) These questions are the points of collision of two immensely important spheres of interest in our everyday life.

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