What's the difference between confine and coniine?

Confine


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.
  • (v. i.) To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with.
  • (n.) Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.
  • (n.) Apartment; place of restraint; prison.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Confined placental chorionic mosaicism is reported in 2% of viable pregnancies cytogenetically analyzed on chorionic villi samplings (CVS) at 9-12 weeks of gestation.
  • (2) Thus, the estrogen-sensitive phase was confined to the early portion of FPH stimulation.
  • (3) Increased amino acid incorporation into hepatic proteins in tumor-bearing animals and also probably in cancer patients is due to a net increased hepatic protein synthesis, probably not confined to acute-phase reactants only.
  • (4) After haemorrhage in conscious rabbits total renal blood flow fell by 25%, this fall being confined to the superficial renal cortex.
  • (5) Pathological changes may, thus, be initially confined to projecting and intrinsic neurons localized in cortical and subcortical olfactory structures; arguments are advanced which favor the view that excitotoxic phenomena could be mainly responsible for the overall degenerative picture.
  • (6) The overall results indicate an inherited impairment of 3-HSD activity confined only to C-21 steroid substrates and, thus, suggest the existence of at least two 3-HSD isoenzymes under independent genetic regulation.
  • (7) In all 4 cases, their reactivity outside the gastrointestinal tract is mainly confined to tracheal epithelium.
  • (8) Similarly at ) degrees glutamine is confined to the simultaneously determined sucrose or mannitol spaces...
  • (9) Although it appears to come within the confines of privacy, assisted suicide constitutes a more radical change in the law than its proponents suggest.
  • (10) Of the strains tested, only the germ-free ND 1 mouse appeared to be susceptible to infection, and this was confined to the stomach mucosa; lesions contained large numbers of hyphal and mycelial forms with blastospores.
  • (11) Confirmatory tests of sinus disease are transillumination (useful in adolescents if interpretation is confined to the extremes--normal or absent); radiographic findings of opacification, mucous membrane thickening, or an air-fluid level; and sinus aspiration (indicated for severe pain, clinical failures, or complicated disease).
  • (12) Significantly more slow acetylators stopped treatment because of nausea or vomiting, or both, but serious toxicity was not confined to either group.
  • (13) He was held there for another eight months in conditions that aroused widespread condemnation , including being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and being made to strip naked at night.
  • (14) At an ultrastructural level, 15-1 immunogold-labeling in the epidermis was confined to the surface of cells exhibiting Birbeck granules.
  • (15) The cytolytic activity of peritoneal SEA reactive effector cells was confined to the TCR alpha beta+ CD4- CD8+ CD45RC- cell population.
  • (16) Three patients were confined to a wheelchair after 3 years of follow-up.
  • (17) This observation confirms that idiotypic recognition is confined to a limited number of clonal products, despite the fact that a very heterogeneous antibody population was used forthe anti-idiotypic immunization.
  • (18) The neighbouring neocortical areas receive afferents neither from the mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus nor from the ventral mesencephalic tegmentum; their catecholamine innervation is mainly confined to the superficial layers and appears to be of noradrenergic nature.
  • (19) Thus definitive evidence of fetal infection confined to red cell precursors is documented.
  • (20) More patients are being encountered with early Stage I lesions that are confined to the breast or with minimal axillary involvement.

Coniine


Definition:

  • (n.) See Conine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Neurological features were present in all of our cases: coniine had a curare-like effect on the neuromuscular junction, whereas cicutoxin was convulsant on the central nervous system.
  • (2) The Conium alkaloids, coniine and gamma-coniceine, were quantified in the hay, the plants from the responsible hayfield, and the urine of affected animals.
  • (3) Coniine was detected in skeletal muscle and liver of birds dying after ingestion and was present in some survivors 7 days post-treatment.
  • (4) Both arthrogryposis and spinal curvature were produced and were similar to the defects produced by the piperidine alkaloid coniine.
  • (5) In addition rhabdomyolysis was noted in the 17 subjects poisoned by coniine.
  • (6) Our cases seem to be the first with histopathologically proven acute tubular necrosis in coniine intoxication.
  • (7) A number of chain length and ring saturation analogs of coniine were not teratogenic.
  • (8) Coniine predominates in mature plants and seed, whereas gamma-coniceine predominates in early growth of the plant.
  • (9) The primary toxicants in poison-hemlock are coniine and gamma-coniceine.
  • (10) No congenital defects arose in offspring from maternal inhalation of either the teratogenic alkaloid coniine, or from the teratogenic green plant.

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