What's the difference between disc and quoit?

Disc


Definition:

  • (n.) A flat round plate
  • (n.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc. Same as Disk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
  • (2) Two cases of posterior lumbar vertebral rim fracture and associated disc protrusion in adolescents are presented.
  • (3) It is suggested that the intercalated disc functioned as a barrier to the freezing process.
  • (4) The increased release of alkaline phosphatase from the particulate matrix by lysophosphatidylcholine was confirmed by disc electrophoresis.
  • (5) The correlation of posterior intervertebral (facet) joint tropism (asymmetry), degenerative facet disease, and intervertebral disc disease was reviewed in a retrospective study of magnetic resonance images of the lumbar spine from 100 patients with complaints of low back pain and sciatica.
  • (6) Patients should be evaluated by perimetry using an appropriate strategy and contrast sensitivity testing, along with careful examination of the optic discs.
  • (7) Albumin was highly purified from a commercially available rat albumin preparation (Fraction V) using disc electrophoresis.
  • (8) The intervertebral discs expand centrally and become increasingly convex.
  • (9) The average repetitive yields and initial coupling of proteins spotted or blotted into PVDF membranes ranged between 84-98% and 30-108% respectively, and were comparable with the yields measured for proteins spotted onto Polybrene-coated glass fiber discs.
  • (10) The most frequently occurring signs were: tilting of the disc (89%), oblique direction of the vessels (89%) and myopic astigmatism (96%).
  • (11) Clinical findings and operative results of 212 operated cases of disc protrusion are analyzed in this paper.
  • (12) The initial effects of chymopapain, a chemonucleolytic agent, on the intervertebral disc of dogs were studied by light and electron microscopic techniques.
  • (13) Astrocytes nearer the optic disc showed the stellate shape characteristic of mature cells.
  • (14) Chemonucleolysis is a procedure in which an enzyme is injected into the intervertebral disc for the purpose of alleviating sciatic pain.
  • (15) Existing visual field defects in three patients were slightly aggravated and in four patients, with a pathological optic disc, visual field loss developed.
  • (16) Immunohistochemical studies support earlier reports of a rich nerve supply to the posterior longitudinal ligament, a less developed innervation of the anterior ligament and the outermost annular ring, and a total lack of innervation in deeper parts of the intervertebral disc.
  • (17) We analyzed 80 consecutive cases of lumbar disc herniation who underwent an extraperitoneal anterolateral discectomy according to clinical and radiologic parameters.
  • (18) The disc-gel patterns of the 8 m urea-soluble proteins showed that C. perfringens caused extensive proteolysis in pig muscle and a lesser extent of proteolysis in rabbit muscle.
  • (19) The cervical discogenic (painful disc) syndrome consists of scapular pain radiating to the head, shoulder and upper arm, often associated with paraesthesiae but without neurological deficit.
  • (20) Manganous chloride and Congo red incorporated into blotting paper discs have been used to differentiate gonococci from meningococci.

Quoit


Definition:

  • (n.) A flattened ring-shaped piece of iron, to be pitched at a fixed object in play; hence, any heavy flat missile used for the same purpose, as a stone, piece of iron, etc.
  • (n.) A game played with quoits.
  • (n.) The discus of the ancients. See Discus.
  • (n.) A cromlech.
  • (v. i.) To throw quoits; to play at quoits.
  • (v. t.) To throw; to pitch.

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