What's the difference between current and rheoscope?

Current


Definition:

  • (a.) Running or moving rapidly.
  • (a.) Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
  • (a.) Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history.
  • (a.) Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
  • (a.) Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
  • (a.) A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity.
  • (a.) General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
  • (2) The influence of the various concepts for the induction of lateral structure formation in lipid membranes on integral functional units like ionophores is demonstrated by analysing the single channel current fluctuations of gramicidin in bimolecular lipid membranes.
  • (3) The outward currents are sensitive to TEA and their reversal potentials differ.
  • (4) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
  • (5) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
  • (6) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
  • (7) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
  • (8) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
  • (9) Schistosomiasis control currently relies primarily on chemotherapy which is both expensive and temporary.
  • (10) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
  • (11) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
  • (12) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
  • (13) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
  • (14) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
  • (15) Atmaca, who belongs to the Gregorian-Armenian church in Istanbul, said that he nevertheless holds the current pontiff in high regard.
  • (16) We analyzed the amounts and types of glycosphingolipids (GSLs) from peripheral blood lymphocytes, monocytes, and granulocytes isolated by counter-current elutriation.
  • (17) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
  • (18) Positivity was not correlated with current residence census tract socioeconomic indicators in black or white females.
  • (19) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
  • (20) As increases to the Isa allowance are based on the CPI inflation figure for the year to the previous September, the new data suggests the current Isa limit of £15,240 will remain unchanged next year.

Rheoscope


Definition:

  • (n.) An instrument for detecting the presence or movement of currents, as of electricity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cells from each fraction were suspended in phosphate-buffered saline, and their rheologic behavior was examined in a rheoscope.
  • (2) The effect of albumin on the immunoglobulin G (IgG)-induced and fibrinogen-induced aggregation of human erythrocytes was quantitatively examined by using a rheoscope combined with a television image analyzer and a computer.
  • (3) The contribution of membrane glycoproteins to the velocity of fibrinogen-induced erythrocyte aggregation was examined using a rheoscope combined with a video camera, an image analyzer and a computer.
  • (4) The aggregation was recorded by both microphotography and photometry in a counter-rotating rheoscope chamber.
  • (5) Hematocrit and RBC deformability (rheoscope) were similar in both patient groups and in controls.
  • (6) The deformability of human erythrocytes was investigated with a rheoscope to study the role of intracellular calcium in the dynamic cytoskeletal structure.
  • (7) Red blood cell deformability was determined by direct microscopic observation of red blood cells subjected to shear stresses of 1.2 to 13.3 Pa with a counter-rotating rheoscope.
  • (8) Relation between aggregating force (of fibrinogen and IgG) and disaggregating force (due to electrostatic repulsion among erythrocytes) in erythrocyte aggregation was investigated with a rheoscope combining a video camera, an image analyzer and a computer.
  • (9) The deformability of sickle erythrocytes at graded levels of PO2 were investigated in the rheoscope, a viscometric device consisting of transparent counter-rotating cone and plate.
  • (10) The effect of shear force (depending on shear rate and viscosity of extracellular medium) and hematocrit of RBC suspension on RBC deformation was studied quantitatively using a cone-plate rheoscope with various kinds of cells, ie, partially hemolyzed (PH) cells, density-fractionated intact cells, and diamide-treated cells.
  • (11) Ghosts, prepared by hypotonic lysis at 0 degrees C and resealing at 37 degrees C, were subjected to: measurement of the time constant for extensional recovery (tc); measurement of the membrane shear elastic modulus (mu) via three separate techniques; determination of the membrane viscosity (eta m) via a cone-plate Rheoscope.
  • (12) The deformability of human erythrocytes was measured in a rheoscope, as a function of intracellular calcium content (varied with ionophore (A23187) and CaCl2) without complete ATP depletion and echinocytic transformation.
  • (13) Rheoscopic analysis also showed that eta m was reduced for ghosts, with the degree of reduction (approx.
  • (14) The effect of pH on the velocity of aggregation of human erythrocytes was quantitatively examined with a rheoscope combined with a video-camera, an image analyzer and a computer, in relation to the morphological changes of erythrocytes and their aggregates.
  • (15) The effect of fibrinogen and fibrinogen-derived products on the velocity of rouleau formation of human erythrocytes was quantitatively examined with a rheoscope combined with a video-camera, an image analyzer and a computer.
  • (16) The effect of pH, temperature and osmotic pressure on velocity of erythrocyte aggregation was quantitatively examined with a rheoscope combined with a video-camera, an image analyzer and a computer, (a) in an artificial medium containing fibrinogen and albumin and (b) in diluted autologous plasma.
  • (17) The effect of intracellular calcium on the deformability of human erythrocytes was studied with a rheoscope, especially in relation to the dynamic structure of membrane cytoskeleton.
  • (18) The aggregation (especially the 'rouleau' formation) of human erythrocytes induced by polysaccharide and polyglutamic acid was quantitatively examined by using a low-shear rheoscope combined with a television image analyzer and a computer.
  • (19) This study evaluated the effects of different lipid A concentrations on red blood cell (RBC) deformation (rheoscope), the aspiration pressure required to aspirate RBC into 3.3 microns pipettes, the membrane shear elastic modulus (i.e.
  • (20) The kinetics of red cell aggregate formation were measured by a transparent rheoscope and a photoaggregometer at different shear rates.

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