What's the difference between devitation and levitation?
Devitation
Definition:
(n.) An avoiding or escaping; also, a warning.
Example Sentences:
(1) Devitalized homologous costal cartilage is widely employed as an implant in the management of the saddle nose.
(2) Osteoclasts were isolated from the long bones of neonatal rabbits and cultured on devitalized bovine bone slices for 8, 24, 48 and 72 h with and without prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) (10(-6) M).
(3) Such an osteogenetic response was also obtained when the cartilage had been devitalized before transplantation.
(4) Devitalized bovine arteries which were enzymatically reduced to a collagen reticulum, and tubes made of autologous fascia lata were implanted into the arterial bloodstream of dogs.
(5) A mathematical model is presented to describe the combined time-dependent and cycle-dependent fracture characteristics of devitalized cortical bone.
(6) Osteoclasts disaggregated from neonatal rat long bones were settled onto devitalized cortical bone substrate, and resorption was quantified by morphometry.
(7) Briefly, devitalized bovine bone wafers, with cells in situ, are fixed, stained with toluidine blue, and then examined by reflected light microscopy.
(8) Ancillary evidence of a devitalized viscus in a baby who appears to have complete gastric outlet obstruction should suggest the diagnosis of gastric infarction.
(9) Different culture conditions, devitalizing treatments, and preservation procedures were tested for the production of protein A-bearing cells of Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 12598.
(10) The mechanisms by which devitalized soft tissue enhanced infection are several.
(11) The viability of large epithelial areas suggested that the previously reported focal distribution of proliferating and nonproliferating areas in the cervical epithelium is a genuine phenomenon and not the result of focal epithelial devitalization acquired during incubation.
(12) Consequently, although it is possible to induce regeneration by grafting myogenic cells into a devitalized mince, this procedure has no effect when applied to a viable mince.
(13) Emergency debridement of devitalized soft tissue and bone, external fracture stabilization, and serial debridements prepared the wound for closure with predominantly free-muscle transfers performed an average of 17 days (range 3 to 43 days) after injury.
(14) Although the studies employing this method have definitively demonstrated that isolated osteoclasts have an avid capacity to resorb devitalized bone, the resorption in this model appears to be different from that of living bone as observed in vivo and in organ culture studies.
(15) The effect of ultraviolet (UV) radiation on the devitalization of eight selected enteric viruses suspended in estuarine water was determined.
(16) There seems to be little doubt among trauma surgeons that primary repair of arterial injuries is the method of choice, as long as there is little devitalized arterial tissue and the procedure can be accomplished without tension on the suture lines or stenosis at the repair.
(17) Although meticulous surgical technique is critical in any operation, the suggestions that carelessness in dissection or tissue handling, or inadequate hemostasis or debridement of devitalized tissues or of bony debris can cause HO are unproved.
(18) This increase in burn injury survival rates is the result of multiple changes in treatment; probably the most important changes are, first, a more aggressive management of the wound with prompt excision of devitalized tissues and immediate closure of the wound, and, second, a better understanding and management of metabolic, immunologic, and nutritional aspects of the injured patient.
(19) Other endodontic drugs, including disinfectants for caries cavities, sedatives for pulp, root canal disinfectants, and pulp devitalizing agents containing phenol, camphor, tricresol, formalin, and paraformaldehyde were also positive by rec-assay and would seem to potentially of damage cellular DNA in Bacillus subtilis.
(20) Electron-microscopic studies of skeletal tissue from infected old osteopetrotic mice showed virus particles associated with and budding from osteocytes and accumulated in devitalized osteocyte lacunae.
Levitation
Definition:
(n.) Lightness; buoyancy; act of making light.
(n.) The act or process of making buoyant.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the time, Andre Geim was probably best known for his "frog levitation" experiment.
(2) An electrode system is described for the near-simultaneous application and measurement of translational, levitational and rotational forces induced by AC electric fields, and this has been used to investigate the differences in the AC electrodynamics of viable and non-viable yeast cells.
(3) 7) Cesar Martinez (Zamora) makes the ball levitate after goal v Caracas Rising star 8) Barack Obama Singing Thriller by Michael Jackson You can’t Beat It 9) Hey Jude in a minor key Not quite White 10) Modern day Aladdin Riding rug-ged
(4) Instead, Dr Clements said teachers of TM and the maharishi's more advanced TM-Sidhi programme, in which devotees learn to use yoga to "levitate", were being encouraged to take teaching positions in South Africa and at the Maharishi University in Fairfield, Iowa, a campus built on Vedic architectural principles that is home to around 2,000 TM devotees.
(5) By now we all know the Falcons chief goal - levitation to the next playoff round (at the bare minimum), mandatory for a program that has failed to do so on three occasions under head coach Mike Smith .
(6) One story is about Howard Thurston, the American magician who perfected the levitating lady trick.
(7) Critics scoffed that it was out of date before it began because it was obvious to them that magnetic levitation would be the future of train travel.
(8) I’m sure the person had a valid reason but it should be clear that the Ka’bah should not suddenly be surrounding by whirring Segways.” A hoverboard is a levitating board that was popularised by Marty McFly in the Back to the Future films.
(9) Covent Garden has long been home to a diverse collection of living statues and fairground freaks, a levitating shaman competing with unicycling jugglers and motionless men in their silver-painted suits.
(10) During a well performed levitation of the right arm in hypnosis as compared to resting conditions, we found a global increase of cortical blood flow and a regional activation of temporal areas; the latter finding is considered to reflect acoustical attention.
(11) The device uses magnetic-levitation technology: four disc-shaped “hover engines” induce an opposing magnetic field in a special surface, enabling the Hendo to hover an inch above the ground.
(12) Bubble levitation of viruses delibrately injected into the surf produced 200 times more virus per milliliter in the aerosol than were present in samples from the surf.
(13) These drops have been suspended by acoustic levitation in a small chamber mounted on a stage of an optical microscope, which allowed easy viewing.
(14) Moving up through the ranks you get to the Vandals with their cloaking devices and stealth tactics; the chunky, well-armed Fallen Captains protected behind personal force fields; the wizards who levitate above the surface firing energy balls.
(15) Deltoid muscle fibrosis produced the unique clinical sign of gradual, involuntary, and irreducible arm levitation.
(16) He once described himself as the "Casanova of causes" and it's true that he embraced a staggering array of beliefs and crusades, ranging from the impressively enlightened (campaigning for euthanasia and against the death penalty) to the downright potty (believing, say, in the benefits of levitation).
(17) Another puzzle, dating back decades, is whether dust levitates from the lunar surface.
(18) After the pomp of the opening ceremony, which had featured can-can dancers, a levitating Eiffel Tower and David Guetta – among many other things – France struggled to come to terms with the occasion.
(19) The buble adsorption and virus concentration in the surf is analagous to industrial bubble levitation processes that concentrate metallic ores, enzymes, and finely divided organic crystals.
(20) A 1- to 3-minute exercise involving imagination (of an apple) and ideomotor ideation (hand levitation) is a simple, benign technique that is useful for illustrating to patients the nature of imagery and hypnosis.