What's the difference between device and polygraph?

Device


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
  • (n.) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
  • (n.) An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance.
  • (n.) Improperly, an heraldic bearing.
  • (n.) Anything fancifully conceived.
  • (n.) A spectacle or show.
  • (n.) Opinion; decision.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
  • (2) The reason for the rise in Android's market share on both sides of the Atlantic is the increased number of devices that use the software.
  • (3) Core biopsy with computed tomography (CT) or ultrasound (US) guidance may be such an alternative, particularly when a spring-loaded firing device is used.
  • (4) Socially acceptable urinary control was achieved in 90 per cent of the 139 patients with active devices in place.
  • (5) Good fixation was obtained in 4 cases using Steffee's devices.
  • (6) The image was altered in the expected way, which means that the device is suitable for investigating the possibilities of different filters to improve the diagnostic ability.
  • (7) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
  • (8) A device allowing pressure to be applied to a local skin site where the skin blood flow is followed using laser Doppler flowmetry is described.
  • (9) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
  • (10) The Nd-Yag-Laser seems to be a useful device in transsphenoidal surgery due to its potent coagulation effect and comfortable handling.
  • (11) However, localizing a functional region with PET has been severely limited by the poor resolving properties of PET devices.
  • (12) The devices worked as well on postphlebitic legs as on normal ones.
  • (13) Ten patients have undergone abdominal proctocolectomy with the formation of an ileal reservoir anastomosed onto the anal canal using a stapling device.
  • (14) The lack of pedestrian crossing devices, crosswalks, or sidewalks, however, was not associated with an increased risk.
  • (15) He added that 45% of traffic to Local World's extensive portfolio of websites – 76 newspaper sites, 26 This is … sites and 400 hyper local sites – comes from mobile devices.
  • (16) The latter animals were raised in an automated feeding device (Autosow) with an artificial diet simulating the nutritional composition of sow milk.
  • (17) "Android’s gain came mainly at the expense of BlackBerry, which saw its global smartphone share dip from 4 percent to 1 percent in the past year due to a weak line-up of BB10 devices," said Strategy Analytics' senior analyst Scott Bicheno.
  • (18) The authors consider that this device increases safety during this potentially hazardous procedure by eliminating the flammable polyvinyl chloride endotracheal tube and cottonoid packings most frequently used during this procedure.
  • (19) A training device is used in conjunction with an exercise program to teach muscle control for retention of a mandibular denture.
  • (20) We also used an optical device to stabilize images of the real world upon the retina.

Polygraph


Definition:

  • (n.) An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a manifold writer; a copying machine.
  • (n.) In bibliography, a collection of different works, either by one or several authors.
  • (n.) An instrument for detecting deceptive statements by a subject, by measuring several physiological states of the subject, such as pulse, heartbeat, and sweating. The instrument records these parameters on a strip of paper while the subject is asked questions designed to elicit emotional responses when the subject tries to deceive the interrogator. Also called lie detector

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Polygraphic recordings during sleep were performed on 18 elderly persons (age range: 64-100 years).
  • (2) Polygraphic and videotape recordings, carried out for several nights, showed that after nearly each REM period, he would wake up briefly, presenting eye blinking followed by a burst of generalized hypersynchronous theta to start his seizures.
  • (3) Twelve-hour polygraph recordings were made before and at various intervals after basal forebrain damage in a total of eight cats.
  • (4) Nine subjects who underwent a severe head traumatism with a brainstem dysfunction at the acute stage, were polygraphically recorded at the chronic stage under strict conditions of drug withdrawal and light-dark periods.
  • (5) The diagnostic differential between narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia may be difficult in those cases which clinically manifest only hypersomnia and the nocturnal polygraphic study does not show any differences between both diseases, particularly when the beginning of REM sleep is not presented in narcoleptic patients.
  • (6) As a method for identifying sleep disorders it has greater merits than conventional methods of polygraphic recordings.
  • (7) Polygraphic 23-hr recordings were carried out in 25 adult cats in order to examine the effects of both systemic and local injections of various histaminergic and antihistaminergic drugs on sleep-waking cycles.
  • (8) One hundred and seventy-three full-term newborns with hypoxic encephalopathy were subjected to polygraphic recordings (EEG, EOG, ECG and respiration) of 2.5-3.5 hr duration in the first 3 weeks in the period from 1970 to 1986.
  • (9) Yet the clinical picture, the child's personality and the polygraphic electroencephalographic recordings suggest that it should be treated sooner and more often than is usually done.
  • (10) A patient with acromegaly was shown to have obstructive sleep apnoea by polygraphic recordings.
  • (11) In order to overcome various drawbacks of the conventional polygraphic study of a relationship between myoclonus and EEG, the EEG preceding and following the myoclonic jerk was simultaneously averaged by the CNV program.
  • (12) The polygraphic night-sleep pattern of each patient was studied during two consecutive weeks.
  • (13) Continuous heart rate recordings were performed at room temperature (25 degrees C) with a Nihon Kohden polygraph model RM-45.
  • (14) For the purpose of quantitative demonstration of the sensitivity to chlorpromazine (CPZ) effects on brain functions of schizophrenics and normal subjects, polygraphic recordings of electroencephalogram (EEG) and electrodermal response (EDR) were performed before and 3 h after oral administration of 25 mg of CPZ: percent time waking EEG (per cent W-EEG) and number per minute of EDR were measured during the resting period and the period of calculation.
  • (15) Six women participated in a seven consecutive night polygraphic sleep study during which both 24-hour rectal, body temperature and wrist activity were continuously sampled and stored at one-minute intervals.
  • (16) Such manipulation may suppress some of the commonly used markers for that state (i.e., polygraphic) without affecting other variables of that state.
  • (17) Polygraphic sleep records showed that TRH transiently interrupted sleep on both nights in all of the four subjects.
  • (18) It is clear from the results of the pilot study that it was the sex offenders' belief that the polygraph would detect deception that led to the increase in disclosures.
  • (19) Polygraphic recordings also allow to evaluate diurnal residual effect upon vigilance.
  • (20) The few limited studies that have been performed suggest no greater accuracy for the types of testing done for this purpose than for the control question polygraph testing used in criminal cases.

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