What's the difference between coster and zoster?

Coster


Definition:

  • (n.) One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Click here to view In The Other Woman, Cameron Diaz , Leslie Mann and Kate Upton team up to declare an all-out, scorched-earth War Of The Scorned Blondes against philandering husband Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
  • (2) It is shown that the time dependence of this structural relaxation--which was first published by Sargent (1975)--is at variance with a three capacitor equivalent circuit of the membrane, which was suggested by Coster and Smith (1974) on the basis of a.c. measurements.
  • (3) The energy imparted to biological tissue after the decay of incorporated Auger emitters stems from two sources: (a) energy deposition by the Auger and Coster-Kronig electrons and (b) the charge potential which remains on the multiple ionized atom after the end of the cascade.
  • (4) Rabbit corneal KS and DS PGs each contain two kinds of PG (Gregory JD, Coster L & Damle SP (1982) J. Biol.
  • (5) Radionuclides for therapeutic applications fall into three general categories: beta-particle emitters, alpha-particle emitters, and Auger and Coster-Kronig-electron emitters following electron capture.
  • (6) Comparison with the predictions of an earlier analysis of this system (Coster, 1965) shows that the latter is valid to a good approximation for membranes > 70 A in thickness.
  • (7) Evil-but-gorgeous Cersei has long been in a secret incestuous relationship with her no-less-evil-and-similarly-gorgeous brother Jaime, played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau with an eye to being as hunky and wisecracking as Errol Flynn in tights or Flynn Rider in Tangled.
  • (8) Estimates of Auger electron yields and yields of very-low-energy electrons from Coster-Kronig transitions are presented.

Zoster


Definition:

  • (n.) Shingles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Guillain Barré syndrome following herpes zoster is rare and only 25 cases have been reported to date.
  • (2) Ten patients developed zoster within the first 6 months following transplant.
  • (3) The distribution of cases of zoster was comparable with that of HIV infection.
  • (4) The immune adherence hemagglutination (IAHA) test was compared with the complement fixation (CF) test and fluorescent antibody (FA) test to measure the antibody titer to varicella-zoster virus (VZV) in 70 sera of convalescents 2 to 8 weeks after herpes zoster onset.
  • (5) These persons also have a greater chance of developing serious neurologic complications after an episode of Herpes zoster.
  • (6) Four patients with herpes zoster ophthalmicus developed peripheral corneal ulcers with steep central edges.
  • (7) It was found that gp63 has a region of homology with a herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) protein, encoded by US7, and also with varicella-zoster virus (VZV) gpIV.
  • (8) Our studies of in vitro cellular immune responses to herpesviruses have shown that, before treatment, lymphoma patients have decreased transformation to varicella-zoster virus antigen compared to herpes simplex virus and cytomegalovirus antigens.
  • (9) Oral acyclovir has relatively low bioavailability, which has made the value of this route of administration for the treatment or prophylaxis of herpes zoster infections uncertain.
  • (10) A homolog of UL49.5 is present in the genome of varicella-zoster virus, located between homologs of UL49 and UL50.
  • (11) A case of herpes zoster encephalitis which responded very rapidly to acyclovir is presented.
  • (12) Appropriate use of varicella zoster immunoglobulin to prevent or ameliorate maternal or perinatal infection depends on accurate identification of varicella-susceptible women.
  • (13) Past episodes of herpes zoster and of skin and genital warts were also associated with significantly increased HD risks.
  • (14) Patients with negative signals were found to suffer from mycobacterial infection (patient 1) or varicella-zoster virus infection (patient 6).
  • (15) We consider chronic ocular zoster as a distinct clinical entity, possibly expressing a failing local immune response against VZV.
  • (16) In the present study patients suffering from facial nerve palsy caused by a herpes zoster oticus were treated with aciclovir.
  • (17) We examined samples of serum from Japanese patients with unclassified uveitis, iridocyclitis caused by herpes zoster virus, Behçet's disease, Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome, sarcoidosis, or other conditions (sympathetic ophthalmia, Posner-Schlossman syndrome and acute anterior uveitis with ankylosing spondylitis).
  • (18) A 35-year-old previously healthy woman developed left hemiparesis sixteen weeks after the onset of right herpes zoster ophthalmicus.
  • (19) Significant increased risks were associated with a history of herpes zoster infection (odds ratio (OR): 2.3, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.1-4.9), chicken-pox (OR: 2.1, 95% CI: 1.2-4.1) and mumps (OR: 2.0, 95% CI: 1.1-3.8).
  • (20) This assumes that vaccine would be administered only once with measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, that there would be no increase in the number of varicella cases in older persons who are at increased risk for complications, and that there would be no deleterious effect on the occurrence and severity of herpes zoster.

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