What's the difference between destruction and destructor?

Destruction


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.
  • (n.) The state of being destroyed, demolished, ruined, slain, or devastated.
  • (n.) A destroying agency; a cause of ruin or of devastation; a destroyer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But soon after aid workers departed, barrel bombs dropped by Syrian helicopters caused renewed destruction.
  • (2) High mortality, severe destruction of pancreatic B-cells and presence of sporadic mononuclear infiltrations in islets and around excretory ducts were observed.
  • (3) Lung metastases leading to death were observed in one patient with small-cell osteosarcoma despite complete destruction of the primary tumor by preoperative chemotherapy.
  • (4) Since alkaline phosphatase, a glycoprotein, is not affected, the destruction is selective and presumably involves only the most exposed membrane components.
  • (5) Intravenous urography revealed destruction of the right kidney resembling Wilms tumor.
  • (6) Lawmakers across the globe are beginning to recognize the need to deter this destructive conduct.
  • (7) Finally, the uptake was completely abolished by prior mechanical or osmotic destruction of the intima.
  • (8) The weapon is 13 metres long, weighs 60 tonnes and can carry nuclear warheads with up to eight times the destructive capacity of the bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the second world war.
  • (9) While a clearcut relationship cannot be established between heavy metal music and destructive behavior, evidence shows that such music promotes and supports patterns of drug abuse, promiscuous sexual activity, and violence.
  • (10) Quite the contrary, in cases of higher nervous activity disturbances, destruction of the organelles and desintegration of spine apparatuses is clearly pronounced.
  • (11) Granule cell destruction began early, and was widespread by 2 days in vitro, when oligodendrocyte destruction also began in treated cultures.
  • (12) The ferrochelatase-inhibitory activity, porphyrin-inducing activity, and cytochrome P-450- and heme-destructive effects of a variety of analogues of 3,5-diethoxycarbonyl-1,4-dihydro-2,4,6-trimethylpyridine (DDC) were studied in chick embryo liver cells.
  • (13) A simple technique that consists of curetting the subcutaneous tissue in the necrotic area of the lesion, to prevent the local destructive actions of the toxin, is described.
  • (14) The high proteolytic activity of BCC demonstrated in this study may be an important factor in the proliferative, invasive and destructive behaviour of this tumour.
  • (15) North Korea has produced tons of propaganda films that portray America’s destruction.
  • (16) The object of these studies was to investigate whether destruction of the renal medulla in normal rats would alter vascular capacitance.
  • (17) We simply do whatever nature needs and will work with anyone that wants to help wildlife.” His views might come as a surprise to some of the RSPB’s 1.1 million members, who would have been persuaded by its original pledge “to discourage the wanton destruction of birds”; they would equally have been a surprise to the RSPB’s detractors in the shooting world.
  • (18) The tissue destructive process is slower in older than in younger people, and the prognoses in correctly treated cases is good.
  • (19) Although these two destructive entities are completely different in many respects, they share a common denominator: the initial lesions are brought about by an aggregate of bacteria known as plaque.
  • (20) It is concluded that the massive destruction of the normal anatomy in the lateral semicircular canal may be the morphological basis of a functional endolymphatic fistula for drainage of the endolymphatic hydrops.

Destructor


Definition:

  • (n.) A destroyer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) L. destructor showed the least inhibition by the other antigens, suggesting it possessed the fewest common allergens.
  • (2) In contrast, the B. kulagini extract was only able to inhibit the L. destructor system in sera from Brazil and not in sera from Sweden.
  • (3) Using hybridoma technology, monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) were generated against the non denatured extract of the L. destructor.
  • (4) Among the tested allergens, D. pteronyssinus and L. destructor yielded the highest prevalences of positive RAST results, namely 5.2 and 6.8%, respectively.
  • (5) All participants underwent skin prick test with a standard panel of allergens, four types of flour and the storage mites Acarus siro, Lepidoglyphus destructor and Tyrophagus putrescentiae, RAST to storage mites and flour, and measurement of total IgE.
  • (6) RAST and RAST-inhibition assays were used to study the prevalence of specific IgE to Blomia tropicalis (Bt), Lepidoglyphus destructor (Ld), and Df.
  • (7) The clinical significance and allergenic cross-reactivity of the storage mites Lepidoglyphus destructor and Acarus siro and the house dust mites Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus and Euroglyphus maynei were investigated with specific IgE antibodies by use of the RAST and the RAST-inhibition technique.
  • (8) Every week, for 20 weeks, the growth of naturally occurring grain storage fungi on wheat infested with the three commonest British grain storage mites, Acarus siro, Glycyphagus destructor and Tyrophagus longior, was compared with that on uninfested wheat.
  • (9) Forty-three patients with criteria for allergic sensitization to wheat flour (skin tests, specific IgE to wheat flour and positive challenge tests) were included in a study to investigate the prevalence of cosensitization to Lepidoglyphus destructor (Ld).
  • (10) The symptomatic farmers had not only a positive RAST to storage mites but they developed more than a 20% fall in FEV1 when challenged with Lepidoglyphus destructor (L. destructor) extract.
  • (11) The role of storage mites Acarus siro, Lepidoglyphus destructor, and Tyrophagus putrescentiae, compared with that of cow dander, as a cause of allergic rhinitis was studied by nasal challenges in a population of 106 non-smoking dairy farmers.
  • (12) Three species of mites, Tyrophagus longior, Glyciphagus destructor, and Acarus farris have been isolated from the dust of barns of farms in Orkney.
  • (13) The pattern of reactivity varied between the different sera, two responded primarily to D. pteronyssinus and A. siro and four sera to D. pteronyssinus and G. destructor.
  • (14) There was a fairly high correlation between positive RAST results to L. destructor and B. kulagini based on sera from both Sweden and Brazil.
  • (15) A major allergen of the storage mite Lepidoglyphus destructor (Lep d I) has been purified by affinity chromatography using an anti-Lep d I monoclonal antibody.
  • (16) In the present work a study has been made of the prevalence of allergy to two storage mites, Tyrophagus putrescentiae and Lepidoglyphus destructor in a population of 105 young adults in the east of France.
  • (17) The former was associated with G. destructor, the latter with G. destructor and A. siro.
  • (18) The allergenic similarity of the pyroglyphid mite D. pteronyssinus and the glycyphagid mite L. destructor was investigated with a new immunoblotting inhibition technique allowing simultaneous comparison of several allergens.
  • (19) We obtained a sensibilization rate of 7% for Acarus siro (d70), 17% for Lepidoglyphus destructor (d71), 3% for Tyrophagus putrescentiae (d72) and 13% for Glycyphagus domesticus (d73).
  • (20) The gas produced by stink glands of T. destructor may inactivate the spores of N. whitei but does not affect those of A. tribolii.

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