What's the difference between complicated and involute?

Complicated


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Complicate

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The distribution and configuration of the experimental ruptures were similar to those usually noted as complications of human myocardial infarction.
  • (2) Hypothyroidism complicated by spontaneous hyperthyroidism is an interesting but rare occurrence in the spectrum of autoimmune thyroid disorders.
  • (3) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
  • (4) report the complications registered, in particular: lead's displacing 6.2%, run away 0.7%, marked hyperthermya 0.0%, haemorrage 0.4%, wound dehiscence 0.3%, asectic necrosis by decubitus 5%, septic necrosis 0.3%, perforation of the heart 0.2%, pulmonary embolism 0.1%.
  • (5) The origin of the aorta and pulmonary artery from the right ventricle is a complicated and little studied congenital cardiac malformation.
  • (6) There was one complication (4.8%) from PCD (pneumothorax) and no deaths in this group.
  • (7) Angle closure glaucoma is a well-known complication of scleral buckling and it is of particular interest when it occurs in eyes with previously normal angles.
  • (8) During this period he developed autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, a rare complication of myelofibrosis.
  • (9) In this study, standby and prophylactic patients had comparable success and major complication rates, but procedural morbidity was more frequent in prophylactic patients.
  • (10) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
  • (11) Trismus may be a complication from local anesthesia.
  • (12) The course of urogenital tuberculosis is complicated by unspecific bacterial infections of the urinary tract and nephrolithiasis.
  • (13) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
  • (14) The decline in the frequency of serious complications was primarily due to a decrease in the proportion of patients with open fractures treated with plate osteosynthesis from nearly 50% to 19%.
  • (15) This method, which permits a more rapid formation of anastomoses, has been used to form Roux-en-Y jejunojejunostomies without extensive complications in six patients.
  • (16) Such complications as intracerebral haematoma or meningeal haemorrhage may occur during the usually benign course of the disease.
  • (17) Surgical removal was avoided without complications by detaching it with a ring stripper.
  • (18) The use of an absorbable material may alleviate potential late complications associated with implantation of nonabsorbable materials.
  • (19) The patient later died from complications of burns.
  • (20) The course was further complicated by administration of gentamicin, an antibiotic known to potentiate neuromuscular blocking drugs.

Involute


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Involuted
  • (n.) A curve traced by the end of a string wound upon another curve, or unwound from it; -- called also evolvent. See Evolute.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here we report direct measurements of protein kinase C (PKC) activity in uninduced ectoderm, and in neuroectoderm shortly after induction by the involuting mesoderm, in Xenopus laevis embryos.
  • (2) The most common type of osteoporosis is involutional, and two subtypes are recognized: type 1 and type 2.
  • (3) The involution of crown odontoblasts after primary dentinogenesis in teeth of limited eruption is discussed.
  • (4) The treatment of hemangiomas with X-rays has been sharply criticized because of their tendency to involute spontaneously.
  • (5) Glands with only slight involution and containing numerous germinal centres were more commonly seen in young female patients.
  • (6) In conclusion, the association of T4 and iodide seems to be the best way to obtain a rapid and complete involution of thyroid hyperplasia.
  • (7) Less amount of parenchyma and growth of the stroma in baboons and a greater mitotic complex in rhesus monkeys show more pronounced involution processes in baboons.
  • (8) Further, CPA is unable to stimulate proliferation or restore the function of the involuted rat prostate.
  • (9) The MI response was however depressed in both age groups, and the thymus and bursa were involuted.
  • (10) It is concluded that the acute involution of the thymus in children with non-infectious and acute infectious diseases results in the progressive decrease of the production by the thymus of the immunomodulating polypeptides (thymic hormones) which is restored in the period of recovery.
  • (11) The involution progress of the tonsil is a shift from immature B- and T cell forms to matured differentiation stages.
  • (12) The interpretation of aspiration cytologic smears that contain a predominance of follicular components often presents a dilemma to the clinician who is treating a patient who has a dominant thyroid nodule, especially when thyroid-stimulating hormone suppression does not produce any significant involution of the dominant nodule.
  • (13) The time-courses of the biochemical and histopathological responses suggest that the lipid peroxidation may be an end-result, rather than a cause, of thymic involution and injury to thymic lymphocytes in nickel-treated rats.
  • (14) We conjecture that postmenopausal and involutional osteoporosis were far advanced before the development of acromegaly, explaining the coexistence of the two conditions.
  • (15) The myoepithelium of developing, lactating, and involuting mammary gland of the mouse exhibits a high alkaline phosphatase activity.
  • (16) Both the post-partum involution of the rat uterus and the rapid breakdown of collagen that accompanies it are extensively inhibited by oestrogenic hormones.
  • (17) These preparations revealed a failure of head involution and the loss or disruption of several head structures, including the salivary glands and the H-piece and ventral arm of the cephalopharyngeal apparatus.
  • (18) Thereafter, involution still continued and equal diameters for the horns were not found until 5 weeks after parturition.
  • (19) The enzymes glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase, 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, phosphoglucomutase, UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase, phosphofructokinase, ATP-citrate lyase and acetyl-CoA carboxylase have been assayed in rat mammary glands in various stages of involution after hypophysectomy and weaning.
  • (20) A total of 101 patients suffering from slowly progressive schizophrenia with hypochondriac symptomatology and a manifestation or a relapse of the disease in the involutional age have been studied.