What's the difference between deflexion and digression?

Deflexion


Definition:

  • (n.) See Deflection.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Furthermore, it is found that especially the deflexions in the coronal and sagittal plane covariate with the patients' complaints, but not with horizontal deflexion.
  • (2) Double-reciprocal plots of the reaction velocity of yeast, rat liver and Escherichia coli ATP-l-methionine S-adenosyltransferases (EC 2.5.1.6) as a function of the l-methionine concentrations (under saturating ATP conditions) demonstrate downward deflexions from linearity for the yeast and E. coli adenosyltransferases and an upward deflexion for the rat liver enzyme.
  • (3) Two of the receptors, types A and C, only responded when the hair was lifted up and away from rest; the third, type B, only responded vigorously when a hair was moved back toward rest from such a deflexion.
  • (4) The deflexion angle of the incident beam at which maximum intensity in spectral lines is obtained depends on sarcomere length as predicted by Bragg's formula.
  • (5) This deflexion appears to be an afterpotential, rather than a mechanical transient, since it is dependent on the duration of the preceding stimulus.
  • (6) In relay neurones with or without a tonic discharge component the ;dynamic on' response during a trapezoidal displacement of sinus hairs was found to be determined entirely or predominantly by the movement velocity and to be independent of the deflexion angle of a stimulus.
  • (7) Type C of the brain stem response (BSR) waveform (only 1 deflexion present) was revealed in 75% of tumors greater than 20 mm.
  • (8) The authors demonstrated experimentally that the origin of the pre-systolic deflexion, previously observed by many investigators in pressure recordings of the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery, is due to the effective atrial contraction, which, besides the pressure change, produces a blood flow from the ventricle towards the artery.
  • (9) The deflexion attitude of the fetal head in 223 consecutive breech deliveries was radiologically evaluated and classified into four grades.
  • (10) The number of components of high frequency tracings in the intrinsecoid deflexion was greater on the right ventricle.
  • (11) A series of 53 cases were successfully treated by deflexion osteotomy of the involved metatarsal head.
  • (12) An initial negative deflexion of the P-wave (qP) in the right precordial leads was recorder in these cases.
  • (13) Thirteen of them (19.7%) show a HV interval exceeding 55 ms or a pathological H deflexion (twisted and lasting 35 ms).
  • (14) This high value reflects the very small angles of cupular deflexion assessed on the basis of physical characteristics of the canal.8.
  • (15) The mathematical models constructed to explain the vestibular function have to take in account this response decline to coincide with the evolution of the slow phase velocity of the nystagmus, during the prolonged deflexions of the cupula produced by the clinical vestibular rotatory and caloric tests.
  • (16) In cases of child emergency, of considerable increase of delivery mechanism resistance, of immaturity and attitude of deflexion, an extraction by means of obstetrical forceps is performed.
  • (17) rotates in the opposite direction of the palatal plane, it may be concluded that the process of orthocephalization in this period is caused by the deflexion of the angle between the palatine bone and maxilla, while it before 14 d is caused by a combination of an interosseous deflexion in the palate and an upwards rotation of the palatine bone relative to the cranial base.
  • (18) When a diffraction line is scanned perpendicularly to the meridional plane, the light intensity shows fluctuations resembling those obtained by beam deflexion within the meridional plane.
  • (19) 5 min of ischemia caused inhibition of MAO activity (kynuramine as a substrate), alterations in substrate specificity and in kinetic curves form deflexion from hyperbolic type in all the brain structures investigated.
  • (20) Greatest deflexion sensitivity typically was at higher frequencies than could be attained in this experiment, but would be greater than the median threshold deflexion angle of 12 min found at 50 Hz.

Digression


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject.
  • (n.) A turning aside from the right path; transgression; offense.
  • (n.) The elongation, or angular distance from the sun; -- said chiefly of the inferior planets.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) How World of Warcraft train future soldiers One odder digression sees the two discussing whether or not MMORPGs, video games like World of Warcraft, are evil.
  • (2) Bilaterals in summit seasons can be stiff exchanges, where digressions can carry risks: not enough said, too much said.
  • (3) Discrepancies increase when moderate digressions from the adopted implant system rules are allowed, such as could commonly occur clinically.
  • (4) Her only digression from a rather set, humdrum routine came when in 1975 she divorced her husband and then two years later remarried him.
  • (5) It's the first interview he's done since his marriage and divorce and the split-up of the Ordinary Boys, and it all comes rushing out in a spate, a tangle of chronological confusions and jokes, and groans when I quote some of his old interviews back at him, and statements of contrition, and digressions about Dawkins or whatever, and here's the confounding thing - he's really nothing like I was expecting, not indie-boy sulky, or attempting to play it cool, he's just talkative and engaging, and he has a sense of humour about himself that, from reading his previous interviews, I wouldn't have even guessed at.
  • (6) Despite that initial exposure to sports commentary, Healey took a digression into the music industry in the early 90s, as a tour manager for various "shoegazing" bands, before a chance break landed him in the US as an alt rock DJ and ultimately as the voice of New England Revolution, before ESPN came calling.
  • (7) The PPI is but the ratio G1 cells to total 2C cells (or G2 to 4C cells, when cells also digress from the post-replicative stage of the cycle).
  • (8) That is why its tempo is so explicit with slowness, syncopated with digression.
  • (9) The paper digresses on events leading to anachronistic acquisition of immortal growth by normally dependent cells as well as on the time and path dependent incidence of cancer, in vivo.
  • (10) Comprehensive evaluation of work conditions of workers of different occupational groups (bulldozer, excavator and boring machine operators, embroideresses) helped create a new parameter of occupation harmfulness evaluation: mean arithmetic value and root-mean-square digression.
  • (11) Eleven studies were found that did not contain obvious digressions from several methodologic assessment criteria (adapted from the McMaster guidelines for the evaluation of clinical trials).
  • (12) But I digress in precisely the sort of way you would expect from someone shaped by a lifetime's exposure to Attenborough programmes.
  • (13) Since his meander to China becomes a superb digression into the Anglo-Chinese opium wars, perhaps it doesn't matter that he made the train thing up.
  • (14) Hugo's form, predicated on length, on digression and detail, is a deliberate accretion of overlapping examples: his scenes are all variations on the same theme.
  • (15) We only go along with the book's violence because there are the safety valves of unreliability and chapter-long digressions about Whitney Houston .
  • (16) In vitro comparisons indicated that although neither instrument accurately recorded intraocular pressure (IOP), compared with manometric measurements, results of both instruments indicated linear digression from manometric IOP values that could readily be corrected, thereby accurately estimating IOP in horses.
  • (17) After a brief digression on the etiopathogenesis of carbon monoxide poisoning, the paper underlines the importance of the timely use of hyperbaric oxygen treatment not only to impede the immediate effects of CO, but also to reduce the incidence of neurological complications.
  • (18) In Sebald, Norfolk is never the focus but rather the beginning of a digression.
  • (19) diGRESS-tiGRESS, in which digress is a real word, and DIgress-Tigress, in which tigress is a real word).
  • (20) I speak from the brain but I also speak from the heart,” he said, rambling like a rich know-it-all uncle – “I’m bringing back the jobs from China!” – with brief digressions into self-pity: “Macy’s was very disloyal to me.

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