What's the difference between classic and excursus?

Classic


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Classical
  • (n.) A work of acknowledged excellence and authority, or its author; -- originally used of Greek and Latin works or authors, but now applied to authors and works of a like character in any language.
  • (n.) One learned in the literature of Greece and Rome, or a student of classical literature.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) HSV I infection of the hand classically occurs in children with herpetic stomatitis and in health care workers infected during patient care delivery.
  • (2) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
  • (3) Classical treatment combining artificial delivery or uterine manual evacuation-oxytocics led to the arrest of bleeding in 73 cases.
  • (4) These experiments indicated that there were significant differences between the early classical C system of mice and those of human and guinea pig.
  • (5) The simultaneous administration of the yellow fever vaccine did not influence the titre of agglutinins induced by the classic cholera vaccine.
  • (6) N-Methoxysulphonamides showed no inhibitory activity, as predicted by the classic work of Krebs on N-substituted inhibitors.
  • (7) The interactions of 3 classical alpha-adrenergic antihypertensives of prevalently central type (St 155 or clonidine St 600; BR 750 or guanabenz) with the narcotic effects of pentobarbital have been investigated in the Mus musculus.
  • (8) The mother in Arthur Ransome's children's classic, Swallows and Amazons, is something of a cipher, but her inability to make basic decisions does mean she receives one of the finest telegrams in all literature.
  • (9) We have characterized the binding of the selective muscarinic antagonist [3H]pirenzepine ([3H])PZ) and the classical muscarinic antagonist (-)-[3H]quinuclidinyl benzilate ((-)-[3H]QNB) to muscarinic cholinergic sites in rabbit peripheral lung membranes.
  • (10) Fish were trained monocularly via the compressed or the normal visual field using an aversive classical conditioning model.
  • (11) Some of what I was churned up about seemed only to do with me, and some of it was timeless, a classic midlife shock and recalibration.
  • (12) Usually they are characterized by an increased level of complement components involved in the classical pathway and therefore reflect activation by antigen antibody complexes.
  • (13) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
  • (14) Classically, parathormone is known to increase bony reabsorption and raise serum calcium.
  • (15) Twelve mutations were searched for using classical techniques of molecular biology in a total of 126 patients.
  • (16) Here we compare this revised technique to the classical sucrose density centrifugation procedure.
  • (17) This study demonstrates that a second classical neurotransmitter, dopamine, can act to suppress regenerative neurite outgrowth.
  • (18) Classic technics of digital image analysis and new algorithms were used to improve the contrast on the full image or a portion of it, contrast a skin lesion with statistical information deduced from another lesion, evaluate the shape of the lesion, the roughness of the surface, and the transition region from the lesion to the normal skin, and analyze a lesion from the chromatic point of view.
  • (19) One cytotechnologist screened the slides for all occurrences of a standard set of classic cytopathologic signs.
  • (20) Detection of the noncarboxylated forms allows an indirect and specific measure of the vitamin K deficiency found in early, classic, and late hemorrhagic disease of the newborn (HDN), malabsorption syndromes, and drug related (warfarin, anticonvulsants, and antibiotics) states.

Excursus


Definition:

  • (n.) A dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This happy excursus appears in The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life (Yale, £25) , in a chapter entitled "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction of the Romantic Self", and is preliminary to, among numerous matters, a consideration of why the name Lucifer is not mentioned in Paradise Lost , and why Milton should have chosen not to give us in his great poem an account of Satan in his prelapsarian, luciferous state.
  • (2) After an excursus of the most frequent infectious aetiologies, they show their experience in RTI treatment, mainly acute LRTI, with a new fluorquinolone, ciprofloxacin, at the posology of 250 mg p.o.
  • (3) In an excursus, a sexual therapeutic strategy as specification of marital therapeutic treatment goals is described.
  • (4) The Author, after an excursus about ceramics used in dentistry and recent progress achieved in dental ceramics, explains restoration's aesthetic advantages in ceramic without any underlying metal structure.

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