What's the difference between crease and creese?

Crease


Definition:

  • (n.) See Creese.
  • (n.) A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
  • (n.) One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker.
  • (v. t.) To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Were it the latter, you'd think he'd change the angle, either by moving across the crease or going around the wicket, because it's clear his man won't be tempted.
  • (2) Bifid uvula, preauricular pits, and abnormal palmar creases were also slightly more common in the patients, but the differences were not statistically significant.
  • (3) It seems to adequately provide the additional needed lift when nipple descent has been no more than 1.5 to 2 cm below the inframammary crease.
  • (4) A report is given on a small-for-date male infant showing the following symptoms: bilateral aplasia of humerus, radius, and ulna, shortened femora, bilateral cleft lip and cleft palate, stigmata of dysmorphism, and notably; simple helix formation of the ear, simian crease, clinodactylia, bilateral clubfoot deformity, hypospadia, thrombocytopenia, micrognathia, and contractures in the knee joints.
  • (5) Descent of a prosthesis below the desired inframammary crease is an infrequent but disturbing complication of augmentation mammaplasty, which may occur for a number of reasons.
  • (6) Two flaps are described which have been designed to resurface the skin around the basal flexion crease of the fingers.
  • (7) A single anatomic unit is rebuilt, transferring a strong new muscle strap with ideal supporting vectors and leaving scars in natural creases.
  • (8) The patient's main phenotypic features were short-limb dwarfism, craniofacial disproportion with prominent forehead, short neck and trunk with pectus carinatum, and platyspondyly, protuberant abdomen, acromesomelic shortness of limbs, bilateral palm simian crease, short feet with brachydactyly of the 2nd toe, and prominent heels.
  • (9) This method is useful in restoring eyelid contour defects, separating the eyelid lamella to lower the upper eyelid crease, and augmenting eyelids in anophthalmos.
  • (10) It hasn’t helped that one mischievous customer appears to have added a crease to the carton on the right to make it look even more like a penis.
  • (11) There are four basic surgical techniques applicable to the upper face: (1) direct browlift, (2) midforehead crease incision, (3) prehairline incision, and (4) posthairline incision.
  • (12) A prospective study of 125 consecutive patients undergoing coronary arteriography was carried out to evaluate the ear lobe crease with the presence and extent of coronary artery disease.
  • (13) The authors present a series of 74 patients who underwent injections of a biphasic copolymer (Bioplastique) to improve the facial contours or to fill deep creases and folds.
  • (14) The combined presence of ear-lobe crease and ear-canal hair was more definite and more sensitive index of underlying CAD.
  • (15) Temporal and frontal ptosis, as well as glabellar and frontal creases are treated through this approach.
  • (16) A posterior incision in the knee crease, rather than the conventional medial approach, gives expedient exposure for precise repair.
  • (17) Ambigouous genitalia, microcephaly, microphthalmia, hyoptelorism, single choanal opening, low-set ears, simian creases, Tetralogy of Fallot, bilateral hydronephrosis, and absence of the left ureter characterized an infant the died 1 hour postpartum with the karyotype 48,XXY,+13.
  • (18) The syndrome is characterized by short stature; a broad, prominent forehead, hypertelorism, congenital ptosis, a broad, short nose with anteverted nostrils, a long, broad upper lip, low-set, abnormally shaped and posteriorly rotated ears; simian palmar creases; brachyclinodactyly; short fingers; ligamentous laxity allowing for hyperextensibility of the fingers, genu recurvatum, flat feet; and an anomalous penoscrotal configuration resulting in "saddle" deformity with scrotal folds incircling the base of the penis.
  • (19) An ear lobe crease score was correlated with a coronary artery disease score, taking into account the variables of age, sex, and body mass index.
  • (20) With a mean frequency 1.75% of elderly primiparae, the operation took place in 60% of the cases in the year 1984 and in creased up to 80.95% during 1987.

Creese


Definition:

  • (n.) A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Displacement isotherms for amidephrine, benoxathian, oxymetazoline, phentolamine and WB 4101 were biphasic and were consistent with the presence of both alpha 1A- and alpha 1B-adrenoceptor subtypes as described by Morrow & Creese (1986) and Han et al.
  • (2) How to get there: “The larger roles will typically require a combination of experience and a relevant degree,” says Jos Creese, president of BCS, the Chartered Institute of IT.
  • (3) With fast (bolus) application of Cch this discrepancy is due to the speed of diffusion, while equilibration with continuous application is considerably impaired by cellular uptake of Cch (Creese and Taylor, 1967).
  • (4) On the basis of experiments made on striatal membranes, Leff and Creese [Molec.
  • (5) While focused stereotyped behavior produced by high doses of indirect sympathomimetics is blocked by removal of dopamine terminals in the corpus striatum (Creese and Iversen 1975), the locomotor activation produced by low doses of indirect sympathomimetics is blocked by removal of dopamine terminals in the region of the nucleus accumbens (Kelly et al.

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