What's the difference between crescentic and growing?
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.
Growing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grow
Example Sentences:
(1) The cotransfected cells do not grow in soft agar, but show enhanced soft agar growth relative to controls in the presence of added aFGF and heparin.
(2) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
(3) Thus, B cells that grow spontaneously from the peripheral blood of SS patients spontaneously produce a B-cell growth factor.
(4) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(5) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(6) By growing purified human cytotrophoblasts under serum-free conditions and manipulating the culture surface, we were able to disassociate morphologic from biochemical differentiation.
(7) The form of the harvested crop, varietal characteristics and annual growing conditions have less bearing.
(8) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
(9) The move to an alliance model is not only to achieve greater scale and reach, although growing from 15 partner organisations to 50 members is not to be sniffed at.
(10) The rate of nuclei stained by Pr-122 is different from that of Pr-192 in both growing and quiescent cultures.
(11) "We presently are involved in a number of intellectual property lawsuits, and as we face increasing competition and gain an increasingly high profile, we expect the number of patent and other intellectual property claims against us to grow," the company said.
(12) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
(13) Their adaptive problems became worse while growing older until the age of 20.
(14) This receptor and a growing family of related cytokine receptors share homologous extracellular features, including a well-conserved WSXWS motif.
(15) In the DAUDI cell system, the acquired capability of tumor cell variants to grow in the presence of a relatively high concentration of vinblastine (VBL) is associated with a marked increase to NK and LAK susceptibility.
(16) In our work with bacteriophage T4, we observed that several T4 am mutants could grow on JM105.
(17) This will help nursing grow as a profession, particularly through entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial efforts.
(18) In WI-38, a normal human fibroblast, the rates of degradation of short lived and long lived proteins are identical whether the cultures are growing exponentially or are density-inhibited.
(19) Mu does not grow lytically in or kill him bacteria but can lysogenize such hosts.
(20) However, growing accustomed to “this strange atmosphere”, the Observer man became dazzled by Burgess’s “brilliance and charm”.