What's the difference between countable and numerable?

Countable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being numbered.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Water containing ornamental fishes was found to frequently contain countable numbers of bacteria that were resistant to one or more antibiotic or chemotherapeutic agents.
  • (2) Two of our four subjects had reduced but countable numbers of CFU-E, BFU-E, and GFU-GM in methylcellulose culture.
  • (3) During the first day the vitality of the cells diminishes whereby they become stainable and countable.
  • (4) Such spleen colonies represent the bulk of the countable nodules that form the basis of the widely applied murine "stem cell" assay.
  • (5) A majority of SSI recipients had less than +100 in countable resources, and only about 12 percent of SSI recipients had more than +1,000 of resources.
  • (6) Using L-Arterenol and sodium citrate in combination with standard chromosome culture techniques, 12 of 17 consecutive tumors (75%) had countable figures ranging from 5 cells to 59 cells.
  • (7) "There might be some projects out there that are not flawed but they are hardly even countable let's say," said Filzmoser.
  • (8) Countable bone metastases detected by bone scintigraphy were evaluated whether the lesion showed apparent, faint, or negative Ga-67 uptake.
  • (9) Cemental annulations are easily countable in teeth from animals that have an exaggerated regular change of food intake from season to season.
  • (10) The canonical countable entity for 3- and 4-year-old children is a discrete physical object.
  • (11) Cells furnished tryptone (Difco) and glycerol just before aerosolization increased (in viable numbers and countable cells) almost twofold within 1 to 2 h after becoming airborne, whereas cells not furnished additional tryptone decreased in viable numbers at a faster rate than the number of particles removed by gravitational settling.
  • (12) This paper deals with isolated, countable items, often termed particles, in three-dimensional space.
  • (13) Epidemiologists, who by themselves work only with countable phenomena of the macro-world, must collaborate with specialists in subjects below the macro-level if they wish to improve the explanatory power and validity of their results.
  • (14) When heavily stained with Giemsa, the colonies of transformed cells were grossly visible and countable.
  • (15) So it is necessary to use always two inoculations for all specimens and the resistance is calculated on the medium inoculated with the same doses, for that, colonies on the control must be countable and suitable number that is 50-300.
  • (16) In order to receive payments under the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, an aged, blind, or disabled person's countable resources must fall below specified limits.
  • (17) Lymphoma 6C3HED-OG cells, known from previous work to be susceptible to the effects of guinea pig serum in vivo and dependent upon extrinsic asparagine for protein synthesis and growth in vitro, remained for the most part morphologically intact and countable in the electronic cell counter following exposures of 1 and 2 hr to the effects of heated (56 degrees C, 30 min) guinea pig serum injected into the peritoneal cavities of mice in which the lymphoma cells were growing rapidly; after exposures of 4 and 6 hr the bulk of the -OG cells remained still intact and countable in the cell counter, though by this time a small proportion of them (5 to 12%) proved stainable with eosin in wet preparations) hence were presumably nonviable.
  • (18) With a 90-min invasion time, the invasive potential of a strain was reflected by the multiplicity of infection needed to produce countable wells.
  • (19) Fourteen to 24 months later, 33% (10 of 30) of the mice had countable numbers of acid-fast bacilli (greater than 2 X 10(4)) with the characteristics of M. leprae in one or more homogenates prepared from ears, foot pads, nose or lungs.
  • (20) The earliest lymphocytes with sIg in fetal lambs were demonstrable at 52 days (96 mm crown-rump length) and countable by 56 days (110 mm CRL) at 0.3% sIg.

Numerable


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Capable of being numbered or counted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The taxonomic relationship of strains H4-14 and 25a with previously described Xanthobacter strains was studied by numerical classification.
  • (2) Glucocorticoids have numerous effects some of which are permissive; steroids are thus important not only for what they do, but also for what they permit or enable other hormones and signal molecules to do.
  • (3) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
  • (4) The region containing the injection stop signal (iss) has been cloned and sequenced and found to contain numerous large repeats and inverted repeats which may be part of the iss.
  • (5) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
  • (6) Numerical results for the population of England and Wales are shown.
  • (7) Transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that these blebs were devoid of organelles and microvilli; scanning electron microscopy revealed that the blebs were highly wrinkled and more numerous than were the projections observed in tissue from animals treated with testosterone alone, or in tissue from unoperated controls.
  • (8) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
  • (9) Further exploration of these excretory pathways will provide interesting new insights on the numerous cholestatic and hyperbilirubinemic syndromes that occur in nature.
  • (10) We present numerical methods for studying the relationship between the shape of the vocal tract and its acoustic output.
  • (11) An efficient numerical algorithm based on the cyclic coordinate search method to solve the latter is explained.
  • (12) History contains numerous examples of government secrecy breeding abuse.
  • (13) The numerical chromosome values in 53 human tumors were determined and compared with the modal DNA values as measured by flow cytometry.
  • (14) Electron microscopy revealed the presence of a hitherto unreported peculiar "pilovacuolar" inclusion in numerous mitochondria, composed of an electron dense pile or rod within a vacuole, while globular or crystalline inclusions were absent.
  • (15) There are numerous other male protagonists out there in desperate need of a sex change.
  • (16) This force will be numerically similar to the net driving Starling force in small pores, but distinctly different in large pores.
  • (17) However, when beta-xyloside-treated cultures were supplied with exogenous basement membrane, Schwann cells produced numerous myelin segments.
  • (18) Though the problems associated with Robin sequence may be numerous, especially if the primary cause of the sequence is a multiple anomaly syndrome, the most acute problems in affected newborns is upper airway obstruction.
  • (19) Moreover, the most recent combined application of the rat interstitial cell testosterone (RICT) bioassay and a novel multiple-parameter deonvolution model has allowed investigators to dissect plasma concentration profiles of bioactive LH into defined secretory bursts, which have numerically explicit amplitudes, locations in time, and durations, and are acted upon by determinable subject- and study-specific endogenous metabolic clearance rates.
  • (20) However, almost all of the numerous compounds found to inhibit ammonia oxidizers also inhibit methanotrophs, and most of the inhibitors act upon the monooxygenases.

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