What's the difference between death and depth?

Death


Definition:

  • (v. i.) The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
  • (v. i.) Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
  • (v. i.) Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
  • (v. i.) Cause of loss of life.
  • (v. i.) Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
  • (v. i.) Danger of death.
  • (v. i.) Murder; murderous character.
  • (v. i.) Loss of spiritual life.
  • (v. i.) Anything so dreadful as to be like death.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
  • (2) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
  • (3) Electrophysiologic studies are indicated in patients with sustained paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation or aborted sudden death.
  • (4) This death is also dependent on the presence of chloride and is prevented with the non-selective EAA antagonist, kynurenic acid, but is not prevented by QA.
  • (5) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
  • (6) Whereas strain Ga-1 was practically avirulent for mice, strain KL-1 produced death by 21 days in 50% of the mice inoculated.
  • (7) The strongest predictor of non-sudden cardiac death was the New York Heart Association functional class.
  • (8) There was one complication (4.8%) from PCD (pneumothorax) and no deaths in this group.
  • (9) In the case presented, overdistension of a jejunostomy catheter balloon led to intestinal obstruction and pressure necrosis (of the small bowel), with subsequent abscess formation leading to death from septicemia.
  • (10) We report a case of a sudden death in a SCUBA diver working at a water treatment facility.
  • (11) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
  • (12) Diphenoxylate-induced hypoxia was the major problem and was associated with slow or fast respirations, hypotonia or rigidity, cardiac arrest, and in 3 cases cerebral edema and death.
  • (13) In addition to the 89 cases of sudden and unexpected death before the age of 50 (preceded by some modification of the patient's life style in 29 cases), 11 cases were symptomatic and 5 were transplanted with a good result.
  • (14) The four deaths were not related to the injuries of parenchymatous organs.
  • (15) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
  • (16) There were no deaths attributable to the treatment.
  • (17) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.
  • (18) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
  • (19) This death toll represents 25% of avoidable adult deaths in developing countries.
  • (20) Serum sialic acid concentration predicts both death from CHD and stroke in men and women independent of age.

Depth


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops.
  • (n.) Profoundness; extent or degree of intensity; abundance; completeness; as, depth of knowledge, or color.
  • (n.) Lowness; as, depth of sound.
  • (n.) That which is deep; a deep, or the deepest, part or place; the deep; the middle part; as, the depth of night, or of winter.
  • (n.) The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.
  • (n.) A pair of toothed wheels which work together.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He spoke words of power and depth and passion – and he spoke with a gesture, too.
  • (2) Intestinal glands are not observed until 8.5cm, and are shallow in depth even in the adult.
  • (3) Survival and healing of "extremely severe" grade intoxication can only be obtained through a surgical intervention within the first hours; a laparotomy will indicate the depth of the lesions, which is not determined by endoscopy, and will consist of Celerier's stripping method and if necessary a gastrectomy, more seldom a cephalic duodeno-pancreatectomy.
  • (4) They were like some great show, the gas squeezing up from the depths of the oil well to be consumed in flame against the intense black horizon, like some great dragon.
  • (5) Tunnel-like formations at different depths of the oral epithelium contained higher numbers of bacteria than those seen on the adjacent oral surface.
  • (6) The carcinoma and lymphoma of the stomach were both small, and the depth of invasion was localized to the mucosa and submucosa, respectively.
  • (7) The enzyme profile of the epidermis was investigated in relation to depth.
  • (8) That's why the Trussell Trust has been calling for an in depth inquiry into the causes of food poverty.
  • (9) In each of the four study sites, focus group discussions or in-depth interviews were held with potential acceptors, current NORPLANT users, discontinuers, husbands of women in these three groups, and service providers.
  • (10) A small number of individuals operated during adolescence had also a shorter depth of the maxilla similarly as patients operated upon during early childhood.
  • (11) Dioptric aniseikonia was calculated between 1 month and 24 months after surgery (with Gruber's and Huber's computer program) on the basis of most recently obtained values (bulb axis length, depth of the anterior chamber, lens thickness, necessary refraction), and compared with subjective measurements taken with the phase difference haploscope.
  • (12) Depth was expressed as one of four levels: Level I, not deeper than the muscularis mucosa; Level 2, involving but not deeper than submucosa; Level 3, involving but not deeper than muscularis propria; and Level 4, involving periesophageal soft tissue.
  • (13) Thoughtful use of downloadable content provided depth too.
  • (14) Lesion dimensions ranged between 3.14 and 3.79 mm in diameter and 0.20 and 0.47 mm in depth.
  • (15) He said the system had been successfully deployed at depths of 365 metres after hurricane Katrina, but not by a BP crew.
  • (16) Pulmonary ventilation parameters (breathing depth, frequency and minute volume, and alveolar ventilation) of 5 healthy male test subjects who performed a 20-minute tilt test were analyzed.
  • (17) Furthermore, changes between merely perceived identical parts can result in apparent depth.
  • (18) More recently, Echinacea angustifolia - a wildflower native to North America and related to the daisy - was studied in depth by the Eclectics, a group of American medical herbalists practising from the 1850s to the 1930s.
  • (19) The results of this study indicate that, with all other factors held constant, a patient's attrition score tends to: increase with age, increase with bite depth, decrease initially with overjet until a critical value and then increase, and be unaffected by sex, interincisal angle, U1 to NA angle, Angle classification, posterior or anterior cross bites.
  • (20) The effects of the depth of injection and of skin temperature on the latency, magnitude, and duration of itch were examined.