What's the difference between clave and clavy?

Clave


Definition:

  • () imp. of Cleave.
  • () of Cleave
  • () of Cleave

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The conclave In one of his last acts as pope, Benedict issued a decree on Monday to allow the cardinals to bring forward the start of the conclave – which takes its name from the Latin phrase cum clave ("with key") and refers to the fact the cardinals used to be locked in until they made their choice – meaning the gathering could begin as soon as next week.
  • (2) Chymosin secretion was partly restored when the claves were again given a skim-milk diet.
  • (3) Four groups of five diamond burs were sterilized by four methods: (1) sterilization with a chemical agent (Sporicidin); (2) steam under pressure (autoclave); (3) dry heat (Dri-Clave); or (4) chemical vapor (Chemiclave).
  • (4) Twenty-one male and 43 female Holstein claves received either 0, 10, or 20% mustard meal starter rations from birth to 3 mo of age.
  • (5) Gain by claves fed 10% protein was equal to that by those fed 12.5% protein.
  • (6) A reduction of 19-25 in TD and increase of 4-18 in BV was observed on auto-claving and both the differences were significant (P less than 0.05) in all millets.
  • (7) There was no evidence that the added magnesium to the calcium solution improved the clinical response of parturient paresis cases in this spring claving season, as had been suggested previously.
  • (8) Water and glycosaminoglycan contents were measured in upper and lower thoracic aortas of claves and steers.
  • (9) Seventy-one 4 month old claves were vaccinated by the conjunctival route with different doses (10(6) to 10(10)) of living bacteria, either freshly prepared or lyophilized.
  • (10) The infection and the disease rates were significantly (P less than 0.01) different between claves and cows.

Clavy


Definition:

  • (n.) A mantelpiece.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As a result, subungual clavi, unguis incarnatus, unguis convolutus, or laterally turning onychogryposis like a cork-screw develop.
  • (2) A thirty-seven year old man presented with volar lesions resembling widespread clavi.
  • (3) No arthritic recurrences were observed, callosities, clavi and mild pain were rarely found.
  • (4) Repetitive frictional insults over years to human skin result in lichenification, callosites, and clavi (corns).
  • (5) The clavi-pectoral route provides a limited approach to the axillary vessels as they emerge from the costal-subclavian outlet.
  • (6) The spaces are: "Pleural suspensory Apparatus", interscalene spaces (vascular and neural), costo-clavicular, clavi-pectoral, retro-pectoralis minor, pre-humeral head, median nerve roots compass, pre-scalene space.
  • (7) All three deliberately present themselves in a very Roman way - the woman has her jewellery and the men wear clavi , white tunics with red stripes.

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