What's the difference between deflower and reflower?
Deflower
Definition:
(v. t.) Same as Deflour.
Example Sentences:
(1) It told the story of a young HIV-positive skateboarder who sets out to deflower as many virgins as possible.
(2) In the Cabo Delgado region of northern Mozambique, this practice is called “Ithuna” , which means deflowering of the smaller labia.
(3) The fact a girl had already been "deflowered" meant she was seen as less likely to be disgraced by foreign men.
(4) Instead, it was "the sexual undertones of flowers", of anatomy and deflowering, which formed the starting point for the clothes.
(5) On the other hand, the theme of deflowering is hard to divide from loss of innocence.
(6) As Zosia's character on Girls once said: "I may be deflowered but I am not devalued."
Reflower
Definition:
(v. i. & t.) To flower, or cause to flower, again.
Example Sentences:
(1) Reconstituted freeze dried allogeneic skin grafts contained virtually no blood, a phenomenon possibly analogous to the 'no reflow' phenomenon of microsurgery.
(2) After 40 minutes of coronary occlusion and 20 minutes of reflow, significant cardiac weight gain occurred in association with characteristic alterations in the ischemic region, including widespread interstitial edema and focal vascular congestion and hemorrhage and swelling of cardiac muscle cells.
(3) The dynamics of changing dimensions of "no reflow" area following reperfusion after 30 min-1 h-long ischemia is characterized by three basic phases.
(4) With no font preferences, every designer can do a picture-perfect layout on every screen, because they don't have to reflow the text accordingly, which is what websites should always do," he says.
(5) The results of this investigation indicate that the posttransplanted deterioration of metabolic levels were possibly caused by the imperfect oxygenation due to cellular edema after blood reflow.
(6) Both indices of oxygen-derived free radical damage were increased after reperfusion in vivo with blood and may relate to the degree of tissue damage sustained during ischaemia and reflow.
(7) The longer the reflow period, the less enhanced will be the collateralization.
(8) Pharmacologic alteration of the no-reflow phenomenon was determined based on increased tolerance to ischemia in ibuprofen-treated free flaps.
(9) The same ischemia periods were also examined after 24 hrs of blood reflow.
(10) Neutrophils (PMN) have been implicated as mediators of the "no-reflow" phenomenon seen in skeletal muscle during reperfusion after ischemia.
(11) These results strongly suggest that a substantial portion of the damage responsible for myocardial stunning is caused by iron-catalyzed free radical reactions that develop in the initial seconds of reperfusion and can be prevented by administration of iron chelators started just before reflow.
(12) On the contrary, the cytochrome P-450 content remained unchanged during ischemic periods, but decreased during reflow periods.
(13) Developed pressure recovers to only 50% of control values during reflow, indicating that the presence of 5F-BAPTA in the cytosol does not protect against stunning, at least when the extracellular calcium concentration has been raised to 8 mM.
(14) Other possible granulocyte-related mechanisms of reperfusion injury include capillary no-reflow, causing microvascular ischemia and degranulation leading to enzyme-induced damage.
(15) Electron microscopic analysis of livers at reflow revealed Kupffer cells with numerous pseudopodia and lamellapodia, reflecting an activated state.
(16) Polymorphonuclear leukocyte-dependent chemiluminescence of the peripheral blood remained unchanged during occlusion, but increased markedly with time after reflow.
(17) Failure of the heterotopic flaps was apparently caused by the no-reflow phenomenon.
(18) The residual contrast defect in the risk area demonstrated immediately after reflow is a predictor of poor functional recovery of the postischemic myocardium.
(19) Adenosine agonists not only inhibit excitotoxicity but they also block granulocyte activation and the capillary no-reflow phenomenon which results.
(20) Prior to reflow, tissue ATP and total adenine nucleotide levels were severely reduced.