What's the difference between cuffing and scuffing?
Cuffing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cuff
Example Sentences:
(1) To provide a seal with low pressure-high volume cuffed tubes, cuff sizes of 20.5 mm and 27.5 mm are recommended for female and male patients, respectively.
(2) Data from 30 cases of perivenous encephalitis (PVE) associated with viral diseases reveal pathological changes ranging from lymphocytic cuffing of vessels to severe vasculitis similar to the vasculitis of AHL.
(3) Moderate pulmonary edema, characterized by substantial fluid cuffing around extra-alveolar arteries and veins and by fluid accumulation restricted to the thick sides of the alveolar septa, is associated with increased vesiculation in alveolar vessel endothelium.
(4) The cuffed end of each tracheal tube was inserted into the neck of an empty flask, and the tube and flask were flushed with oxygen for 5 min before cuff inflation.
(5) Gross and histopathologic lesions of the cerebrum included an extensive necrotic cavitation within one cerebral hemisphere, disruption and rarefication of the subcortical white matter, prominent perivascular hemorrhage, and some mononuclear cell perivascular cuffing.
(6) This study provides evidence that although perivascular cuffing of tumor cells is not frequently seen in Ki-1 + lymphoproliferative disorders (3 of 116 cases in our consultation file), it may be a prominent architectural feature causing confusion with epithelial or mesenchymal tumors.
(7) Police said later that he fell to the ground while trying to flee with his hands cuffed behind his back and cracked his head on the ground.
(8) Brain lesions included diffuse degeneration and necrosis of neurons, microgliosis, perivascular cuffing, formation of syncytia and focal demyelination.
(9) A variety of wire-guides, dilators, and tracheal tubes were used as experience and proficiency were gained with the approach, and eventually, a simple modification of a standard low-pressure cuffed endotracheal tube was found to facilitate the procedure.
(10) Prolonged respiratory assistance by positive pressure ventilation via cuffed tracheostomy or endotracheal tube can be complicated by mucosal erosions, tracheal stenosis, tracheomalacia, excavation of the tracheal wall with loss of tissue and tracheoesophageal fistula.
(11) So we took the father, blindfolded him, cuffed his hands behind his back and put him in a military Jeep.” They dumped him like that at the entrance to the base.
(12) Single isolated (NREP) and five or more sequential repetitive apneas (REP) were created by clamping an indwelling cuffed endotracheal tube at end expiration.
(13) Intubation was performed with a cuffed tube after cessation of spontaneous respirations and relaxation of the jaw.
(14) Perivascular cuffings of inflammatory cells and large cytoplasmic inclusions of fuzzy nucleocapsids were found in the brain and spinal cord.
(15) Sick animals showed inflammatory lesions in the brain, both perivascular cuffings and infiltration of inflammatory cells in the choroid plexus and meninges.
(16) They pushed me down on the ground,” he said, and cuffed his hands behind him.
(17) All eyes showed prominent lymphocytic cuffing and mural infiltration of retinal veins, with sparing of the arterioles.
(18) The advantages and disadvantages of the implantable systems compared to the dacron cuffed silastic catheters are discussed.
(19) There were either laminar or widespread areas of cortical necrosis associated with neuronophagia, neuronal loss, glial proliferation, and perivascular lymphocytic cuffing.
(20) A possible role for a cuffed endotracheal tube in epiglottitis is discussed.
Scuffing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scuff
Example Sentences:
(1) What a complete mess - a miscued shot, scuffed clearance, and uncontrolled toe-punt as he fell - but a decisive mess all the same."
(2) He is famously fastidious, too, once refusing to give a fellow player a lift after training in case he scuffed the leather seats of the new Becksmobile.
(3) The Arsenal forward attempted a Panenka, scuffed it badly, and scored anyway as the goalkeeper dived to his left.
(4) Moffat, who likes a pop from distance, winds up and drives a scuffed shot past the Colorado post.
(5) A case report is described of a patient who developed severe hypercalcemia during slow continuous arterio-venous ultrafiltration (SCUF).
(6) Danny Welbeck rolled the ball to Wayne Rooney who was in acres of space just 12 yards from the Bayern goal, but the Manchester United No10 scuffed a shot wide when he should have done much better.
(7) By analyzing the scuffed surfaces of the metatarsal bars, the physician can determine whether or not the bars are firm and thick enough and in the proper position to relieve and divert pressure from the metatarsal heads.
(8) 3.34pm BST 34 mins: Brilliant build up play by Suarez outside the box, as he drops a shoulder to create some space, then shimmies past one defender, but his left-footed shot is scuffed and straight to Krul for an easy save.
(9) The Celtic full-back Adam Matthews, allegedly a transfer target for Swansea City, reached the byline after a surging run down the right flank but he undermined his efforts with a scuffed cutback which the goalkeeper Dusan Kuciak comfortably gathered.
(10) At least it would have been forgivable had he managed to hit the target, instead of scuffing a tame effort the wrong side of Mignolet’s right-hand upright.
(11) Open Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, plus Sun noon-6pm in July and August The Oxford Bar Photograph: Alamy When the Inspector Rebus ITV series was relaunched in 2006, with Ken Stott stepping into the scuffed brogues of John Hannah, there was a feeling they had finally got the right man to play Ian Rankin's bruised copper.
(12) He was teed up by Gervinho, who had put the fear into Colombia with another dribble, but Kalou scuffed straight at Ospina from 18 yards.
(13) As it was, United were lucky Arnautovic, having scored a beauty, could not make it 3-0 after he ran clear on 36 minutes and a traumatic first half for Van Gaal was summed up by Daley Blind trying a cross from the left, scuffing it out of play and ending up on his backside.
(14) After a mild bout of playground scuffing, the ball's eventually hacked clear, Heskey playing a big part, Peter McGushin will be no doubt pleased to hear.
(15) Moyes was not the only person to put his hands to his head in disbelief when Osman, under no pressure, scuffed his shot wide.
(16) Iatrogenic damage to the temporomandibular joint included scuffing of the articular surfaces of the glenoid fossa and articular eminence (31.8%), scuffing of the condylar articular surface (9%), one disc perforation (4.5%) and one perforation of the medial capsule (4.5%).
(17) Khodorkovsky, wearing a scuffed black jacket, and Lebedev, in a white tracksuit top, whispered to each other inside the enclosed dock and ignored the judge as he said the court had established their guilt.
(18) In this way, Scarlett's death might serve a purpose, finally puncturing that quasi-colonial arrogance so endemic in a certain stratum of UK society - that our children can go off anywhere and somehow their Britishness, class and a scuffed copy of Lonely Planet will protect them, decades of increasingly cultured and sophisticated holidays having resulted in a generation of nomad-naifs who seem to think that the entire world is just one big, safe, fluffy Centre Parc, policed by the friendly ghost of Michael Palin.
(19) Then Sterling slipped Bony in and he scuffed a shot wide.
(20) True to character, they rallied with only a scuffed shot preventing Houghton from scoring and Germany’s Tabea Kemme surviving English claims that she should have conceded a handball penalty.