What's the difference between difference and manometer?

Difference


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a difference of quality in paper; a difference in degrees of heat, or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty?
  • (n.) Disagreement in opinion; dissension; controversy; quarrel; hence, cause of dissension; matter in controversy.
  • (n.) That by which one thing differs from another; that which distinguishes or causes to differ; mark of distinction; characteristic quality; specific attribute.
  • (n.) Choice; preference.
  • (n.) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish the bearings of two persons, which would otherwise be the same. See Augmentation, and Marks of cadency, under Cadency.
  • (n.) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
  • (n.) The quantity by which one quantity differs from another, or the remainder left after subtracting the one from the other.
  • (v. t.) To cause to differ; to make different; to mark as different; to distinguish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
  • (2) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
  • (3) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
  • (4) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
  • (5) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
  • (6) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
  • (7) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
  • (8) Phospholipid methylation in human EGMs is distinctly different from that in rat EGMs (Hirata and Axelrod 1980) in that the human activity is not Mg++-dependent, and apparent methyltransferase I activity is located in the external membrane surface.
  • (9) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
  • (10) The outward currents are sensitive to TEA and their reversal potentials differ.
  • (11) During control, no significant difference between systolic fluctuation (delta Pa) and pleural swings (delta Ppl) was found.
  • (12) This difference was not due to ATPase activity in the assay.
  • (13) No differences between the two substances were observed with respect to side effects and general tolerability.
  • (14) Five probes of high specificity to individual chromosomes (chromosomes 3, 11, 17, 18 and X) were hybridized in situ to metaphase chromosomes of different individuals.
  • (15) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
  • (16) For male schizophrenics, all symptom differences disappeared except one; blacks were more frequently asocial.
  • (17) Between 22 HLA-identical siblings and 16 two-haplotype different siblings, a significant difference in concordance of reactions for the B-cell groups was noted.
  • (18) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
  • (19) Snooker, which became and remains a fixture in the BBC2 schedules, was chosen for showing because it is the sport in which different shades are most significant.
  • (20) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?

Manometer


Definition:

  • (n.) An instrument for measuring the tension or elastic force of gases, steam, etc., constructed usually on the principle of allowing the gas to exert its elastic force in raising a column of mercury in an open tube, or in compressing a portion of air or other gas in a closed tube with mercury or other liquid intervening, or in bending a metallic or other spring so as to set in motion an index; a pressure gauge. See Pressure, and Illust. of Air pump.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The use of a water manometer would have caused overestimation of the intravascular volume status of this patient during the nodal rhythm.
  • (2) The type of manometer, cuff size, and cuff placement are also important factors in obtaining accurate blood pressure readings.
  • (3) (2) Tympanometrically measured middle ear pressure (MEP) was almost equivalent to the actual MEP recorded by a manometer when the tympanic membrane was normal.
  • (4) The animals were chronically instrumented with a microtip manometer in the left ventricle, two pairs of piezoelectric crystals for sonomicrometry and a hydraulic occluder around the circumflex branch of the left coronary artery and arterial and venous catheters.
  • (5) An air chamber attached to a Hg-manometer has in an upper wall a round window 8 mm in diameter, closed by a 0.05 mm-thick rubber membrane.
  • (6) To stop the arteriolar flow and allow perfusion pressure, as set by a mercury manometer, to be built up in the lumen of the vessel, the glomerulus was sucked into a constriction pipette.
  • (7) Compared with the manometer, none of the tonometers accurately measured IOP over the range between 0 and 100 mm of Hg.
  • (8) The bag pressure differed significantly from the infusor pressure as the blood bag emptied, making the usefulness of the infusor manometer questionable.
  • (9) These variables were recorded by means of a double-lumen catheter introduced in the aorta of four anesthetized closed chest dogs, and connected to critically damped manometer systems.
  • (10) The external pressure was measured by a small airfilled plastic cushion connected to a mercury manometer.
  • (11) Additionally, Pao can be easily and accurately measured by a slowly responding mechanical manometer.
  • (12) In the cases of 10 cardially healthy humans and 5 patients with heart disease, the left ventricular pressure as well as different parameters of contractility - deduced from the pressure curve and its first derivative - were determined by a catheter-tip manometer (Statham SF - 1).
  • (13) The performances were recorded with an intraventricular balloon equipped with a tip-manometer catheter.
  • (14) Haemodynamic variables were measured with the Mills combined left ventricular catheter-tip manometer and aortic electromagnetic blood velocity transducer.
  • (15) A mercury-in-glass manometer (sphygmomanometer) is used to measure the gas pressure proximal to a flow restrictor (consisting of a hypodermic needle hub) and it is this pressure head which, for a given gas, dictates the flow produced.
  • (16) A procedure is described for generating alkali in a closed manometer vessel, by mixing mercuric oxide and a solution of sodium iodide, for use in a method for measuring the oxygen consumption at physiological bicarbonate concentrations.
  • (17) This manometer was only visible to the investigator.
  • (18) Two lots of the commercial myelogram trays yielded nonviable gram-negative bacilli from 50% of the specimen tubes and 33.3% of the manometers tested.
  • (19) The oscillometric test instrument and a standard mercury manometer were connected with a Y tube.
  • (20) Data were obtained from nine dogs chronically instrumented with three sets of piezoelectric diameter gauges to assess ventricular volume and high-fidelity manometers to measure pressure.