What's the difference between confine and incoercible?

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.

Incoercible


Definition:

  • (a.) Not to be coerced; incapable of being compelled or forced.
  • (a.) Not capable of being reduced to the form of a liquid by pressure; -- said of any gas above its critical point; -- also particularly of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide, formerly regarded as incapable of liquefaction at any temperature or pressure.
  • (a.) That can note be confined in, or excluded from, vessels, like ordinary fluids, gases, etc.; -- said of the imponderable fluids, heat, light, electricity, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We present a case of vesical amyloidosis in a patient with systemic amyloidosis secondary to a Rheumatoid Arthritis of length evolution, and which was diagnosed as a result of a pattern of massive incoercible hematuria.
  • (2) This is the case of a 29 year-old woman, admitted because of diarrhea and incoercible vomiting; later in the course of the disease she developed signs and symptoms of encephalopathy.
  • (3) Having noticed psychotic traits in some patients showing incoercible vomiting due to antineoplastic drugs we have thought of establishing a therapy with lithium in the days preceding the therapeutic cycle in order to reduce the emetic events.
  • (4) Spontaneous and induced writing were abundant and incoercible.
  • (5) Total prolapse in very rare; it is about 15 centimetres long curved posteriorly and often incoercible.
  • (6) We present a case of incoercible hemorrhagic cystitis provoked by the therapeutic association of systemic cyclophosphamide and pelvic radiotherapy in a woman with disseminated mammary carcinoma disease.
  • (7) Maxillar angiomas have a reserved prognosis not only because of their histologic malignancy but also because of the threat of incoercible hemorrhage with the removal of dentures.
  • (8) I also point out some differences from other disturbances of the analytic process, particularly the psychoanalytic impasse, the incoercible resistances, the negative transferences, and the different psychological disturbances which make up the notion of unanalysability.
  • (9) From this trial it appeared that sultopride is superior to fluanizone with regard to their sedative effects and that it has specific characteristics: a very powerful antipsychotic action, an increasing efficiency over time, as well as an improvement of incoercible agitation in children.

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