What's the difference between demersion and drown?

Demersion


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning.
  • (n.) The state of being overwhelmed in water, or as if in water.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In general a correlation exists between fish that lack or have small M-cells and a demersal habitat.
  • (2) The major water-soluble arsenic compound was isolated from the muscle of shortnose dogfish Squalus brevirostris and of starspotted shark Mustelus manazo, both of which are demersal sharks.
  • (3) Ciguateric fishes (mainly demersal reef fishes) cause a range of distressing and often debilitating gastrointestinal neurological and cardiovascular disturbances.
  • (4) It is suggested to differ: 1) common secondary transformation, when secondary flattening (for example, in birds) or secondary specialization (for example, in fish demersal roe) embraces the whole epithelium of the follicle.
  • (5) Surveys of demersal fishes and macrofaunal invertebrates in the North Atlantic indicate 1) there is little evidence of coherence and continuity of faunal zones around the ocean basin and 2) that the community concept should be abandoned because faunal assemblages only persist on a local scale.
  • (6) In contrast, white muscle from demersal species was unstained for the same enzymes and was devoid of mitochondria.
  • (7) Yolk proteins of prematuration occytes and postmaturation eggs were compared by SDS gel electrophoresis in several teleosts, including freshwater species that produce demersal eggs, estuarine and marine species with demersal eggs, and marine species with pelagic eggs.
  • (8) Analysis of gut contents indicates that during the day piper feed primarily on copepods, and terrestrial insects trapped on the water surface; after dark the demersal zooplankton which enter the water column form the major dietary component.
  • (9) Histochemical profiles and capillarisation data of the red and white muscle were compared to those of less active demersal species.
  • (10) Contrasting environmental conditions during embryogenesis of these two species may be reflected by the thin membrane and simple lamellar structure in the pelagic egg of the starry flounder, and the thick membrane and complex lamellar structure in the demersal egg of the pink salmon.
  • (11) When released into seawater, spermatozeugmata retain their structural integrity for varying periods (up to 24 hours) and become demersally distributed in still water.
  • (12) When gut samples were examined, the incidence was highest in demersal fish (cod and flatfish) as compared with pelagic fish (herring).

Drown


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.
  • (v. t.) To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
  • (v. t.) To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He's Billy no-mates with a Heckler & Koch sniper-rifle, drowning in loneliness, booze and depression.
  • (2) He had been extremely frustrated that indicators of economic recovery over the past few days had been drowned out by the clamour over the Labour leadership.
  • (3) 'The only way that child would have drowned in the bath is if you were holding her under the water.'
  • (4) This phenomena is strongly marked in spastic and mixed types of drowning and is absent in aspiration and reflex types.
  • (5) "So we do what we can to keep the red tide from drowning us.
  • (6) The identifiable causes of child drowning are absence of a safety barrier or fence around the water hazard, non-supervision of a child, a parental "vulnerable period", an inadequate safety barrier, and tempting objects in or on the water.
  • (7) Pictures of the Social Network star emerged on Twitter and Instagram on Wednesday, showing Garfield in full costume for Punchdrunk's current show, The Drowned Man , chewing seductively on a stick of straw .
  • (8) Examples and statistical data are drown from this series.
  • (9) The results are analyzed within the context of the child drowning and child development literature.
  • (10) It can be seen that the physiologic changes occurring in near-drowning are complex.
  • (11) But if anyone was drowned out, it was the Greens’ Natalie Bennett .
  • (12) But the overall drownings seem to be going up and I don’t know if it’s older people, if it’s young men being more brave around water.” Lawrence suggested children may be failing to continue swimming and water safety education once they have basic skills.
  • (13) These findings indicate a need for Los Angeles County to address the problem of drownings among infants and toddlers in private swimming pools and to investigate the failure of regulations requiring fencing of swimming pools to prevent these deaths.
  • (14) Both are alleged to have plied the Devon girl with drugs, raped her and left her unconscious to drown on Anjuna beach, metres from a bar in which the group had spent the evening drinking.
  • (15) He shouted “Cops Lives Matter” before being drowned out with the “Bernie” chant.
  • (16) As the party's internal electoral commission counted and recounted the votes during the day, appeals for calm were drowned out by waves of accusation and counter-accusation.
  • (17) The hemodynamic effects of the drowning solutions were explainable solely by the effects of anoxia.
  • (18) A drowning in Spartanburg, South Carolina, also was linked to the storm.
  • (19) It was reported that the Greek tourist board had asked TV networks to keep the crowd volume low amid fears Greek fans in the stadium would drown out the German national anthem with jeers.
  • (20) In order to study the initial pathological changes that occur in drowning, the authors developed an experimental model that closely simulates the actual changes in the nearly drowned patient.

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