What's the difference between crossing and crosswise?

Crossing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cross
  • (v. t.) The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean.
  • (v. t.) The act of making the sign of the cross.
  • (v. t.) The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds.
  • (v. t.) Intersection, as of two paths or roads.
  • (v. t.) A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street.
  • (v. t.) Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, when cross-linked to anti-CD4 or anti-CD8 antibodies a markedly enhanced proliferation of the corresponding subpopulation is observed.
  • (2) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
  • (3) The quaternary structure of ribonucleotide reductase of Escherichia coli was investigated, with the use of purified B1 and B2 proteins and bifunctional cross-linking agents.
  • (4) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
  • (5) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
  • (6) 10D1 mAb induced a substantial proliferation of peripheral blood T cells when cross-linked with goat anti-mouse Ig antibody.
  • (7) Mapping of the cross-link position between U2 and U6 RNAs is consistent with base-pairing between the 5' domain of U2 and the 3' end of U6 RNA.
  • (8) There was however no difference in the cross-sectional studies and no significant deleterious effect detected of tobacco use on forearm bone mineral content.
  • (9) Plasma for beta-endorphin assay was preincubated with sepharose-bound anti-beta-lipotropin to remove beta-lipotropin that cross-reacted with the beta-endorphin RIA.
  • (10) In crosses between inverted repeats, a single intrachromatid reciprocal exchange leads to inversion of the sequence between the crossover sites and recovery of both genes involved in the event.
  • (11) Further purification of ZAB by filtration through Sephadex G-100 gave a preparation (ZAB2) which contained the common antigen as shown by the cross-reactivity of anti-ZAB2 rat serum with seven stains of N. gonorrhoeae.
  • (12) On the other hand, as a cross-reference experiment, we developed a paper work test to do in the same way as on the VDT.
  • (13) No reversions to wild-type levels were observed in 555 heterozygous offspring of crosses between homozygous Campines and normals.
  • (14) No cross reactions were found between bluetongue and epizootic haemorrhagic disease of deer viruses.
  • (15) Seven patients were treated with combination chemotherapy, consisting of CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone) or MOPP (chloromethine, vincristine, procarbazine, prednisone), in some cases followed by non-cross-resistant second line chemotherapy, if no complete response was attained.
  • (16) [125I]AaIT was shown to cross the midgut of Sarcophaga through a morphologically distinct segment of the midgut previously shown to be permeable to a cytotoxic, positively charged polypeptide of similar molecular weight.
  • (17) Blood was cross-matched preoperatively in 47.7% of patients and 90% of this blood was either not administered or given as a delayed nonurgent procedure.
  • (18) Conjugational recombination in Escherichia coli was investigated by monitoring synthesis of the lacZ+ product, beta-galactosidase, in crosses between lacZ mutants.
  • (19) Crossed immunoelectrophoresis and sucrose density gradient ultracentrifugation of the patient's plasma showed his prothrombin to be qualitatively indistinguishable from normal prothrombin by these techniques.
  • (20) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.

Crosswise


Definition:

  • (adv.) In the form of a cross; across; transversely.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Resulting from old cleaning ceremonies and preventing or treating uncanny effects in children, it was been usual to lick forehead of newborn and children crosswise.
  • (2) This method described gives relief only when vitreous strands traverse the whole bulbus crosswise.
  • (3) The Laplacian operator in electroencephalographic measurements consists of a mathematical combination of the responses from a number of electrodes (e.g., five in a crosswise montage).
  • (4) The crosswise arrangement of the blastomeres in the rabbit at the 4-cell stage is a consequence of a 90 degree rotation of the polar axis in one hemisphere of the egg.
  • (5) Numerous nerve bundles of variable size were coiled around the anastomosing channels, and occasional bundles ran crosswise over the U-shaped bent vessels.
  • (6) Barium eluates of the liver and of the brain restored the effect of 3', 5'-AMP eliminated by BaSO4, crosswise and equally.
  • (7) It was demonstrated that the pattern of cleavage in the rabbit differs from that in the sea urchin, because the blastomeres at the 4-cell stage are arranged crosswise in the former, while they are situated next to each other in the latter.
  • (8) In crosswise mixed incubation experiments with isolated combined VLD and LDL and total lipoprotein depleted plasma from a control subject and a patient with fish eye disease, respectively, esterification of free cholesterol occurred.
  • (9) Spleen cells showed a markedly high level of activity 7 days after the reconstitution, followed by a decline, whereas the activity of bone marrow cells was very low on day 7 and increased crosswise.
  • (10) Helical fibres in crosswise arrangement rather than isolated sphincters are recordable from the pyloric region.
  • (11) Phage phiKZ has unique characteristics of particle (a large size of the head and the presence in the head of a structure which is visible on electron micrographs as crosswise striated substance).
  • (12) 2) Imaging of the right-ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) for evaluation of RVOT obstruction, including a crosswise imaging of aortic valve.
  • (13) The modification of the operation consists in additional longitudinal osteotomy of the sternum, suturing of the manubrium to the sternum shaft, non-suturing of the rib cartilages after resection, filling of the through-like groove in the reposited sternum with the fragments of the resected rib cartilages, and immobilization of the fragments of the longitudinally osteotomized sternum that are inserted crosswise with several (usually three) Kirschner wires, based on the thorax.
  • (14) For this purpose, a crosswise cut slice approximately 100 microns thick was cut off at the middle level of the root, which permitted comparative quantification of the instrumented area of the buccal and lingual canals.
  • (15) According to the muscle extent a variable number of electrodes are inserted crosswise the fibers.
  • (16) The reason for this is presumably the lack of biostability, the tendency of the fibres to fracture crosswise, and the much lower concentration of fibres in the critical length-diameter range.
  • (17) At the level of the second cell and crosswise to the building slighter temperature differences were observed and the temperature was higher.
  • (18) Physicochemical characterisation, precipitation, using polyclonal antisera, and crosswise neutralisation of lysis reaction were likely to suggest occurrence of immunological relationship reactions as well as differences between organ lysozymes, on the one hand, and intestinal lysozymes, on the other.
  • (19) A new type of nephrostomy is described with the following main characteristics: it uses a small multiperforated Silastic tube; its crosswise location allows perfect drainage of all of the calyces and the pelvis; it does not become obstructed nor move from its position; and it causes minimum traumatization of the renal parenchyma.
  • (20) The surface layer of the cuticle is crosswise and lengthwise ridged.

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