What's the difference between countable and separable?

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.

Separable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided; as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was tested for recovery and separation from other selenium moieties present in urine using both in vivo-labeled rat urine and human urine spiked with unlabeled TMSe.
  • (2) Chapter one Announcement of the Islamic Caliphate The announcement of the renewal of the caliphate in Iraq in the year 1427AH [2006] was the arbiter between division and separation as well as the glory of the Muslims.
  • (3) The adjacent gauge was separated from the ischemic segment by one large nonoccluded diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery.
  • (4) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
  • (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) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
  • (7) In the present study, respirometric quotients, the ratio of oral air volume expended to total volume expended, were obtained using separate but simultaneous productions of oral and nasal airflow.
  • (8) The sensitivity of an indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) test (screening test) for the detection of antibodies to cytomegalovirus (CMV) was examined by using 128 serum specimens and quaternary aminoethyl (QAE)-Sephadex A50 column chromatography to separate IgM from IgG class antibodies.
  • (9) This experimental system allows separation of three B lymphocyte developmental stages: early differentiation in vitro, progression to IgM secretion in vivo, and late differentiation dependent upon mature T lymphocytes in vivo.
  • (10) The individual classes of drugs are first treated separately to highlight specific aspects of their quantification, and this is followed by an overview of those methods permitting the concomitant analysis of two or more antiepileptic compounds.
  • (11) The ADAM derivative of carnitine was separated from decomposition products of the reagent and related compounds such as amino acid derivatives on a silica gel column eluted with methanol-5% aqueous SDS-phosphoric acid (990:10:1).
  • (12) Each patient contributed only once to each phase (105 in phase 1, 107 in phase 2), but some entered both phases on separate occasions.
  • (13) Twenty volunteers were used for the measurement of pedal pressures for 15 trials during three separate sessions.
  • (14) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
  • (15) Densitometric analysis of myofibrillar proteins separated with sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis indicated that troponin I and troponin T were degraded during 60 minutes of CGI.
  • (16) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
  • (17) Sephadex LH-20 column chromatography was used for the separation of the steroid prior to assay.
  • (18) The deletions and substitutions appear to occur in separate molecules.
  • (19) The canine system allows quantitative separation of native heme containing alpha and beta chains which recombine to for tetrameric hemoglobin with normal functional properties (n = 2.17).
  • (20) Prothrombin isolation on DEAE Sephadex failed to separate the abnormal population (prothrombin Clamart) from the normal one.