What's the difference between damaging and mayhem?

Damaging


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Damage

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The variation in thickness of the LLFL may modulate the species causing damage to the cells below it.
  • (2) Using mini-pigs with an indwelling vascular catheter, the pharmacokinetics of chloramphenicol were investigated in healthy and liver-damaged animals.
  • (3) It has also been used to measure the amount of excision repair performed by non-replicating cells damaged by carcinogens.
  • (4) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
  • (5) Moreover, in DCVC-treated cells the mitochondria could not be stained with rhodamine-123, indicating severe mitochondrial damage and loss of membrane potential.
  • (6) Brain damage may be followed by a number of dynamic events including reactive synaptogenesis, rerouting of axons to unusual locations and altered axon retraction processes.
  • (7) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
  • (8) We have not yet been honest about the implications, and some damaging myths have arisen.
  • (9) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
  • (10) At 24 or 48 hours after ischemia, 63Ni, 99TcO4, and 22Na were preferentially concentrated in the damaged striatum and hippocampus, whereas 65Zn, 59Fe, 32PO4, and 147Pm did not accumulate in irreversibly injured tissue.
  • (11) After 2 weeks the rats were sacrificed and the brain damage evaluated by comparing the weight of the lesioned and unlesioned hemispheres.
  • (12) The results are consistent with our previous suggestion that lethality for virulent SFV infection results from a lethal threshold of damage to neurons in the CNS and that attenuating mutations may reduce neuronal damage below this threshold level.
  • (13) These findings suggest that aerosolization of ATP into the cystic fibrosis-affected bronchial tree might be hazardous in terms of enhancement of parenchymal damage, which would result from neutrophil elastase release, and in terms of impaired respiratory lung function.
  • (14) Damage to this innervation is often initiated by childbirth, but appears to progress during a period of many years so that the functional disorder usually presents in middle life.
  • (15) In case of isolated damage of deep flexor tendon of the II-V fingers at the level of the I zone there were made palliative operations of 12 fingers: tenodesis and arthrodesis of distal interphalangeal articulation in functionally advantageous position.
  • (16) To study these changes more thoroughly, specific monoclonal antibodies of the A and B subunits of calcineurin (protein phosphatase 2B) were raised, and regional alterations in the immunoreactivity of calcineurin in the rat hippocampus were investigated after a transient forebrain ischemic insult causing selective and delayed hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cell damage.
  • (17) Only group IV showed significant histological alterations such as glomerular sclerosis, interstitial damage, and increased glomerular area.
  • (18) In assessing damaged nets and curtains it must be recognised that anything less than the best vector control may have no appreciable impact on holoendemic malaria.
  • (19) Damage due to overstretching is probably the main cause.
  • (20) In open fractures especially in those with severe soft tissue damage, fracture stabilisation is best achieved by using external fixators.

Mayhem


Definition:

  • (n.) The maiming of a person by depriving him of the use of any of his members which are necessary for defense or protection. See Maim.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Oddly, Wagner fails to tell us what happens to Alberich, who, despite being responsible for all the Tarantinoesque mayhem, is the only character left standing by the end.
  • (2) MPs said the group's decision to target some of the UK's most prominent Muslim communities was a blatant attempt to provoke mayhem and disorder.
  • (3) The home secretary, the chancellor, and perhaps even the foreign secretary may go, and Labour faces its worst defeat in its history on Thursday, but the prime minister does not recognise his direct responsibility for the mayhem.
  • (4) All that talk of “populism” looks like pussyfooting around now that Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon is stoking up apparently intentional mayhem .
  • (5) The current mayhem over lethal injections has led some prominent public figures to say that the US supreme court should consider imposing a new moratorium.
  • (6) He also issued a warning that anyone responsible for inciting post-election mayhem would be barred entry to the United States, where millions of Nigerians live.
  • (7) Most local media outlets joined the government in presenting the constitution's enactment as the only means of achieving stability following three years of economic hardship and political mayhem since the fall of Hosni Mubarak.
  • (8) Like Rona Jaffe's novel of the 50s, The Best of Everything – a book that Rakoff loves and reread before she started work on My Salinger Year – it is concerned with what it feels like to move to the big city, to take on your first job, and to struggle to survive on a tiny salary when all the while your dreams are seemingly being snuffed out at every turn, and your love life is spiralling into muddle and mayhem.
  • (9) Non-governmental organisations reported scenes of mayhem at the port of Piraeus , where about 5,000 men, women and children amassed.
  • (10) Here is what Paulson sees coming: low double-digit inflation by 2012, killing the bond market, and restoring strength to equities and gold; US economic growth capped in 2011 and 2012; a weak US housing market; currency mayhem; and continued dollar weakness as Washington struggles to tackle its debt.
  • (11) The mayhem at the mosque was in many ways one of nightmarish deja-vu for many of those present.
  • (12) These are people who want to destroy our way of life by causing murder and mayhem on the streets of the UK.
  • (13) After being forced to apologise for the mayhem two weeks ago when fewer than 250 police were unable to marshal a crowd of more than 50,000, Scotland Yard sent almost four times as many officers onto the streets and quickly penned marchers into a section of streets.
  • (14) The mayhem came in direct defiance of a warning from Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy that rioters faced stiff punishments.
  • (15) For Thomas Bradley, a barber in Ferguson, the mayhem in this Missouri town has given the expression a literal meaning.
  • (16) He accuses Cameron of being simplistic by suggesting that criminality and police errors alone can explain the mayhem.
  • (17) As Tyler and Odd Future member Hodgy Beats stormed the set for their television debut, they mugged for the cameras, jumped around the interview seating and caused delightful visual mayhem, with The Roots performing as their live backing band.
  • (18) It is shocking to discover that our government has embroiled British personnel in the targeting process that is creating this mayhem.
  • (19) And in so doing, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are their safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.
  • (20) Tunis museum attack: 19 people killed after hostage drama at tourist site Read more Mounting mayhem in neighbouring Libya is part of the problem as hardline Islamist militants have managed to cross porous borders or have smuggled weapons to like-minded extremists such as Ansar al-Sharia, which has branches in Tunisia and elsewhere across the Maghreb region.

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