What's the difference between crescendo and crescentic?
Crescendo
Definition:
(a. & adv.) With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score.
(n.) A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed.
(n.) A passage to be performed with constantly increasing volume of tone.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was a crescendo intensity and frequency of LIMA staining in an inverse relation to the degree of cell maturation and differentiation from type I intestinal metaplasia (60 per cent) to type II (85 per cent), type III (100 per cent), and dysplasia (100 per cent).
(2) Regardless of how many pillows I piled under my knees, it bubbled up until it hit a crescendo.
(3) The past seven days have seen a rising crescendo of outrage over superinjunctions; the challenge to the courts from Twitter; the PCC rapping the Telegraph for entrapment and this morning's European court judgment over Max Mosley .
(4) By definition, patients with angina of new onset, of a crescendo pattern, and with angina at rest are included in this high-risk group.
(5) But with unrest appearing to reach a crescendo, it is unclear whether the meeting will take place.
(6) During exercise, it increased progressively (crescendo type) as the exercise was increased in normal subjects.
(7) I’m a fan of epic crescendos so I’m glad that’s how the piece ends.
(8) The patient, a 53 year old man, had a crescendo-decrescendo holosystolic murmur, a third and a fourth heart sound, that is the typical auscultatory pattern of this lesion.
(9) Thursday's battle marked a crescendo in the clashes between two Syrian regime brigades and a collection of Jihadist and rebel groups wrestling for control of the northern Golan.
(10) In a 49-year-old man with crescendo angina, elevated serum cholesterol level and an old posterior myocardial infarction, selective coronary arteriography showed multiple arteriosclerotic aneurysms of the right coronary artery associated with extensive and severe arteriosclerotic disease of the left coronary artery.
(11) There was a rapid crescendo in violence , sparked by conflict between local residents and asylum seekers, and when morning came on 18 February the centre was in ruins.
(12) A 'crescendo' pattern of pre-infarction angina was rarely observed in both groups.
(13) Mitral preclosure resulted in mid- or end-diastolic crescendo murmur accompanied by soft first heart sound.
(14) Then the delivery, reminding me by the end of my mother's out-of-body sermon crescendos as she preached with me in tow from church to Pentecostal church.
(15) After 12 days the pain increased, but EKG and serum enzymes remained normal ("preinfarct," crescendo, unstable, or accelerated angina).
(16) In conditions of left ventricular hemodynamic failure caused by global hypoxemia, a separate abnormal mid-to-late diastolic "crescendo" type of transmissibility was found, and is defined as "Type 2".
(17) In the latter group of patients anginal episodes were more frequently associated with S-T segment elevation than with S-T segment depression (p less than 0.001), while the opposite was found in patients with crescendo angina.
(18) Two patients had prior history of syncope; one patient, of ventricular tachycardia; three patients, of pulmonary edema; and three patients, of crescendo angina.
(19) Subjects were also instructed to produce a slow crescendo.
(20) The criticism reached a crescendo in January when the BBC's Inside Out broadcast a report claiming the wages being paid to workers at Kibale were 'abysmal' and that viewers would do better to reduce their own carbon emissions than to buy offsets.
Crescentic
Definition:
(a.) Crescent-shaped.
Example Sentences:
(1) Histopathological observations demonstrated that OB-5 inhibited the incidence of crescent formation, adhesion and fibrinoid necrosis in the glomeruli by the 41st day.
(2) NGOs and even the Red Crescent are unwelcome: peacekeepers are rebuffed, hospitals doomed to failure.
(3) ANCA-associated vasculitides can be categorized into a number of distinctive clinicopathologic categories, eg, Wegener's granulomatosis, Churg-Strauss syndrome, pulmonary renal syndrome, microscopic polyarteritis nodosa, leukocytoclastic angiitis, and necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis.
(4) The second renal biopsy revealed cellular crescents with linear IgG deposition along GBM, a finding similar to the first one.
(5) The purpose of this experimental investigation was to quantify and evaluate the results of different microsurgical techniques in crescentic resection of a corneal wedge.
(6) In CT diagnosis for this type of dissection, cautions should be employed not only in an inhomogenous density area in the mediastinum and pleural cavity but also in the presence of deviation of intimal calcification and relatively high density area of crescent shape in aortic wall on plain CT.
(7) Crescent-shaped Balbiani's vitelline body consists of ribonucleoproteins, lipoproteins, and phospholipids.
(8) There is a crescent-shaped low density area extending forward from the high density area.
(9) The size and the angular tilt of the dark crescent appearing in the subject's pupil are derived as a function of five variables: the ametropia of the eye (Dsph, Dcyl, axis), the eccentricity of the flash, e, and the distance of the camera from the subject's eye, dc.
(10) Air crescent signs were seen in 40% of patients during or after bone marrow restitution.
(11) Coffee bean shaped or crescent shaped yeast-like elements are characteristic of Trichosporon and useful in differentiating Trichosporon from Candida but such histological features are less efficient than the immunohistochemistry in identifying mixed fungal infection.
(12) In group 1, predominant infiltration of macrophages and cellularly crescents were obtained in the glomeruli 7 days after the administration of the cultivated cells.
(13) On the other hand, when BC were ruptured, mononuclear inflammatory cells, mainly LeuM3+ and IoT15+ cells accompanied by significant number of T4+ and T8+ cells, constituted the glomerular crescents.
(14) There was a significant correlation between the intensity of each C3c and C9 deposition in glomeruli and the degree of glomerular adhesion to Bowman's capsules and crescent formation in patients with IgA nephropathy.
(15) The Libyan Red Crescent (LRC) is really one of the few actors left on the ground, along with a handful of national NGOs.” “The LRC volunteers are doing a fantastic job despite the difficult and challenging environment but at some point they will need support,” he said, adding that assessments were ongoing and a potential deployment by federation members from Tunisia was under consideration.
(16) Even though the Xenopus egg does not form a classical gray crescent, due to its particular pigment distribution, the reorganization process which specifies the future embryonic axis resembles that of the Rana egg.
(17) The shapes of false lumina assessed by enhanced CT scans at the time of discharge were categorized in three types; 21 patients (group A) without false lumina of the aorta, or with a small crescentic false lumen in the thoracic aorta (type a), six patients (group B) with intimal flaps and two contrast-material-filled lumina in the thoracic aorta (type b), and nine patients (group C) with expanded false lumina or a false lumen whose margin was convex towards a true lumen in the thoracic aorta (type c).
(18) In living spores posterior vacuole crescentic, in fixed ones it is strongly deformed together with hind pole of spores.
(19) These are the interstitial bodies, which are aggregates of extracellular material, and a kind of fibril or tubule, embedded in a fibronectin matrix and mainly found in the endophyllic crescent.
(20) This density was crescent-shaped in longitudinal sections, and a continuous band in cross-sections.