What's the difference between conduction and conductor?

Conduction


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of leading or guiding.
  • (n.) The act of training up.
  • (n.) Transmission through, or by means of, a conductor; also, conductivity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
  • (2) 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.
  • (3) Based on several previous studies, which demonstrated that sorbitol accumulation in human red blood cells (RBCs) was a function of ambient glucose concentrations, either in vitro or in vivo, our investigations were conducted to determine if RBC sorbitol accumulation would correlate with sorbitol accumulation in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats; the effect of sorbinil in reducing sorbitol levels in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats would be reflected by changes in RBC sorbitol; and sorbinil would reduce RBC sorbitol in diabetic man.
  • (4) The experiment was conducted on 3 groups of calves.
  • (5) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
  • (6) Modulation of the voltage-gated K+ conductance in T-lymphocytes by substance P was examined.
  • (7) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
  • (8) Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) was prepared, and platelet aggregation studies were conducted directly or conducted on washed platelets prepared from PRP collected with ACD.
  • (9) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
  • (10) It is concluded the decrease in cellular volume associated with substitution of serosal gluconate for Cl results in a loss of highly specific Ba2+-sensitive K+ conductance channels from the basolateral plasma membrane.
  • (11) Stimulation of atrial H1-receptors is suggested to directly cause an increase in Ca-channel conductance independent of intracellular cAMP content.
  • (12) No report can be taken seriously if its authors weren’t even in Yemen to conduct investigations.” The UN team was not given permission to enter the country.
  • (13) Ofcom will conduct research, such as mystery shopping, to assess the transparency of contractual information given to customers by providers at the point of sale".
  • (14) Studies were conducted into the relationship between arthrosis and previous trauma.
  • (15) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
  • (16) Perceived quality of life interviews with the clients were also conducted at both times.
  • (17) We conclude that the rat somatosympathetic reflex consists of an early excitatory component due to the early activation of RVL-spinal sympathoexcitatory neurons with rapidly conducting axons and a later peak that may arise from the late activation of these same neurons as well as the early activation of RVL vasomotor neurons with more slowly conducting spinal axons.
  • (18) Studies were conducted to evaluate the effects of acute (24 h) thermal stress on anterior pituitary function in hens.
  • (19) We are currently conducting a trial to compare the ability of DHPG administered plus an anti-CMV immune globulin preparation with acyclovir to prevent posttransplant TI-CMV disease.
  • (20) Recent research conducted by independent investigators concerning the relationship between crime and narcotic (primarily heroin) addiction has revealed a remarkable degree of consistency of findings across studies.

Conductor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director.
  • (n.) One in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad train or a street car.
  • (n.) The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus.
  • (n.) A substance or body capable of being a medium for the transmission of certain forces, esp. heat or electricity; specifically, a lightning rod.
  • (n.) A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, as lithontriptic forceps, etc.; a director.
  • (n.) Same as Leader.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The orientation of the dilating balloon in the inlet and outlet portions of the left ventricle, change of the catheter-dilator is controlled due to a loop of the conductor connecting the right and left parts of the heart.
  • (2) The adrenergic fibres form developed plexuses different in the density of disposition of nerve conductors on the arteries of different segments of the spinal cord.
  • (3) (Peter Adamik) The Order of Merit (OM) awarded to individuals of greatest achievement in the fields of the arts, learning, literature and science, goes to the conductor Sir Simon Rattle , and to the heart surgeon Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub.
  • (4) The Audiant Bone Conductor has been heralded as an aid for use in conductive hearing loss; however, its possible use in unilateral sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) has also been proposed.
  • (5) The driver refused to stop at her village despite her repeated pleas and instead drove her, the only passenger on the bus, to a remote farmhouse where he and the bus conductor were joined by five friends.
  • (6) The extracellular potentials of single frog muscle fibers in homogeneous unbounded volume conductor at different temperature are calculated.
  • (7) The electrical conduction of the ECG from the fetal heart to the maternal abdomen has been modelled by using volume conductor models based on the measured actual geometry.
  • (8) This can be deduced from the facts that the inhibition by valinomycin is relatively insensitive to pH, is considerably greater in Na(+)- than in K(+)-containing buffers, and is not enhanced by the addition of proton conductors.
  • (9) The changes in the integral of the extracellular action potentials (EAPs) generated by an infinite homogeneous fibre in an infinite homogeneous and isotropic volume conductor were studied at different radial distances (yo) from the fibre axis, depending on the propagation velocity (v), duration (Tin) and asymmetry of the intracellular action potential (IAP).
  • (10) These stationary potentials can spread widely in a volume conductor and can even be detected in a non-stimulated subject making a close contact to the generator source.
  • (11) These phenomena were attributed to the complex spread of the bioelectrical potentials in the nonhomogeneous volume conductor formed by the tissues of the temporal bone.
  • (12) No conductor telling me when to come in, no legato or staccato to follow.
  • (13) It has been suggested that many attributes of gastrointestinal electrical activity cannot be adequately explained by classic "core-conductor" or "cable" models of excitation and conduction.
  • (14) The antennas are made of thin coaxial cables with a radiation gap or gaps on the outer conductor.
  • (15) We are thankful for the efficient therapy of the semi conductor Ga As Laser and the possibility that we have through the use of such an instrument to reduce the supply of the anti inflammatory medicines in patients that experience pain.
  • (16) Following reestablishment of the main blood flow a positive electrical potential (3--4 V) was fed on the prosthesis by means of a current conductor.
  • (17) Fields H3, H4, H5 send no afferent conductors to the post-commissural fornix.
  • (18) Out of interest, we were contacted by another reader this week who wrote to say that a train conductor she met on holiday last year, who lived in York, was saying how delighted he was that his rail company had upped the "commission rate he received on tickets sold on the train to people unable to produce a proper ticket".
  • (19) Myelinated nerve fiber excitation is determined from a core-conductor nerve model, whose nodal currents are described by the Frankenhaeuser-Huxley kinetics and the aforementioned field providing the applied potentials.
  • (20) Considering the brain as a volume conductor, the ways of revealing the ocular movement artefacts in the frontal EEG leads have been suggested.