What's the difference between declivity and proneness?
Declivity
Definition:
(n.) Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity.
(n.) A descending surface; a sloping place.
Example Sentences:
(1) The principle is to add a positive end-expiratory plateau (PEEP) to IPPV, with a subsequent increase in FRC (functional residual capacity) resulting in re-opening in first and foremost the declive alveolae, which can then once again take part in the gas exchange and possibly re-commence the disrupted surfactant production.
(2) The relations between the angle of declivity of the sacrum and radius and inclination of the lordotic curvature of the lumbar spine show good correlation.
(3) Vascular complications are frequent in paralyzing neurologic disorders, particularly in peripheral neurologic diseases: edema of the declive, cold feet, acrocyanosis, increased sudation.
(4) This was also true of the extra sulci, except for the declival sulcus which revealed a single gene influence.
(5) With regard to cerebellar vermis, the superior faces were more atrophic than the inferior faces in both OPCA and LCCA, but in OPCA, atrophy on the superior faces was dominant in the posterior lobe including declive and folium as against dominance in the anterior lobe in LCCA.
(6) The gene symbol 'declival sulcus of cerebellum' (dsc) is proposed.
(7) Ureterocalicostomy appears to be a helpful procedure in some defined situations where a declive drainage of the urine essential.
(8) Of particular interest, however, was our finding that several reticular areas of the midbrain and pons project to the portion of the medial acessory nucleus which relays in turn to auditory-visual areas of the cerebellar vermis (declive, folium and tuber).
(9) The finding showed hypoplasia of the declive, folium, and tuber in posterior vermis, but not of the anterior vermis, and hypoplasia of only the medial aspect of each cerebellar hemisphere.
(10) These images also can display (1) the corpus medullare and primary white-matter branches to the vermian lobules, including the lingula, centralis, culmen, declive, folium, tuber, pyramis, uvula, and nodulus; and (2) several finer secondary branches to individual folia within the lobules.
(11) The quantitative analysis includes: (1) coefficient of declination, pointing to the declivity of the anacrotic limb; (2) coefficient of propulsion, pointing to the time of formation of the maximum peak and (3) level of indentation, pointing to the height of the valve notch.
(12) Notably, the area of the most dorsomedial portion, the declive-folium-tuber, tended to be more strongly associated with age than other segments.
(13) The cell and DNA complement of the declive and central lobe are only slightly reduced in the cases of myelomeningocele, but there is frequently cellular and DNA loss throughout the pyramid and uvula to the nodule.
(14) "Declive" latero-terminal and latero-lateral hepaticocholedocho-jejunoanastomosis with a loop of the small intestine isolated by the Roux method was carried out in 6 patients (5 females and 1 male) according to absolute indications.
(15) Lipid granule-containing S cells appeared on postnatal day 10 and were most abundant in severely affected lobules, such as the declive and tuber, on day 30.
(16) The five regions of interest included the following: (1) lingula and centralis, (2) culmen, (3) declive, folium, and tuber, (4) pyramis, and (5) uvula and nodulus.
(17) The lingula, central lobule, culmen, superior portion of declive, anterior lobules and anteromedial half of simple lobule were severely degenerated, while other lobules were spared excluding moderate degeneration in inferomedian portion of the hemisphere.
(18) Results for 177 mice revealed that many brains had extra sulci present within the central lobe, the culmen, the declive and the uvula, and that patterns within a genetically uniform inbred strain were highly variable.
(19) There is a space here, a male declivity in the shape of my husband.
(20) Neoplasms originate at all levels of each continuum; subsequently, some move along its declivity.
Proneness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man.
(n.) The state of lying with the face down; -- opposed to supineness.
(n.) Descent; declivity; as, the proneness of a hill.
(n.) Inclination of mind, heart, or temper; propension; disposition; as, proneness to self-gratification.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia is characterized by an absence of seromucous glands in the oropharynx and tracheobronchial tree, making children with this disease prone to viral and bacterial respiratory infections.
(2) Moreover, the mucoid substances of the sensillum lymph are probably involved in water conservation, since sensilla are prone to water loss, because the overlying cuticle must be permeable to the chemical stimuli.
(3) Analysis of mice injected with helper-free P90A virus stocks demonstrates that the variants are generated during viral replication in vivo, probably as a consequence of error-prone reverse transcription.
(4) The effects of chronic dietary salt-loading and nifedipine therapy on hypertension-prone (SBH), -resistant (SBN) and parental (SB) Sabra rats were investigated.
(5) The major behavioural assessment was the Jenkins Activity Survey (JAS) designed to measure the coronary-prone behaviour pattern (Type A).
(6) In 25 patients we evaluated the efficacy of the prone position to counter these technical difficulties and found that the prone position offers visualization superior to the supine, especially in obese and uncooperative patients and those with abundant bowel gas.
(7) However, nonsuppression in the dexamethasone suppression test was not specifically associated with the pain-prone disorder, which was further characterized by the factor models of the Hamilton Depression Scale.
(8) Advancing age was associated with a reduction in cell proliferative responses to PHA in both substrains, although the rate of decline was significantly more rapid in the senescence-prone animals.
(9) Surviving cells show such cancer-prone genetic consequences.
(10) Aneurysms enlarge rapidly when coupled with infection and are prone to rupture, thus requiring extensive surgical repair.
(11) Asymmetrical gait pattern with mild gait disturbance was found more often in infants lying in supine than in prone.
(12) Using a biopsy procedure, splenic pancreas was removed from both 65 and from 80 day old diabetes prone BB rats.
(13) However, DIO-prone [3H]PAC binding was only 14-39% of DR-prone levels in 9 areas including 4 amygdalar nuclei, the lateral area, dorso- and ventromedial nuclei of the hypothalamus, median eminence and medial dorsal thalamic n. Although it is unclear whether this widespread decrease in [3H]PAC binding implicates brain alpha 2-adrenoceptors in the pathophysiology of DIO, it does correlate with a phenotypic marker (increase glucose-induced NE release) which predicts the subsequent development of DIO on a high-energy diet.
(14) The effect of varying amounts of dietary magnesium in conjunction with potassium (K) on hypertension and stroke mortality in hypertensive stroke prone (SHRsp) rats was studied.
(15) The results indicate the beta-globin domain is a mosaic of aggregation-resistant and aggregation-prone regions with the latter being associated with H1 and H5.
(16) Under the influence of immunosuppression cutaneous hyperkeratoses more rapidly evolve into squamous-cell carcinoma, multiple skin cancers occur in some patients, and keratoacanthoma is not only more frequent but also prone to early recurrence.
(17) This chromosome region in T cells is unusually prone to develop breaks in vivo, perhaps reflecting instability generated by somatic rearrangement of T-cell receptor genes during normal differentiation in this cell lineage.
(18) These data suggest that the error-prone repair pathway participates in mutagenesis by quercetin and its metabolites.
(19) The City is rife with gambling addicts whose habits contribute to a risk-prone culture of the sort which helped Kweku Adoboli lose UBS £1.5bn, according to one London trader.
(20) The spontaneously diabetic BB rat syndrome is associated with a marked lymphopenia, which affects all members of litters of diabetes-prone rats, and may be a necessary condition for the development of the disease.