What's the difference between disc and thin?

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.

Thin


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.
  • (superl.) Rare; not dense or thick; -- applied to fluids or soft mixtures; as, thin blood; thin broth; thin air.
  • (superl.) Not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not having the individuals of which the thing is composed in a close or compact state; hence, not abundant; as, the trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.
  • (superl.) Not full or well grown; wanting in plumpness.
  • (superl.) Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease.
  • (superl.) Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
  • (superl.) Slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering; as, a thin disguise.
  • (adv.) Not thickly or closely; in a seattered state; as, seed sown thin.
  • (v. t.) To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).
  • (v. i.) To grow or become thin; -- used with some adverbs, as out, away, etc.; as, geological strata thin out, i. e., gradually diminish in thickness until they disappear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are going to all destinations.” Supplies are running thin and aftershocks have strained nerves in the city.
  • (2) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
  • (3) Pitlike surface structures seen in negatively stained whole cells and thin sections were correlated with periodically spaced perforations of the rigid sacculus.
  • (4) Thin films (OD approximately 0.7) of glucose-embedded membranes, prepared as a control, showed virtually 100% conversion to the M state, and stacks of such thin film specimens gave very similar x-ray diffraction patterns in the bR568 and the M412 state in most experiments.
  • (5) Dose distributions were evaluated under thin sheet lead used as surface bolus for 4- and 10-MV photons and 6- and 9-MeV electrons using a parallel-plate ion chamber and film.
  • (6) Separation of PL by thin-layer chromatography revealed a prevalence of phosphatidylcholine followed by phosphatidylethanolamine.
  • (7) Thin layers of carbon (20 microns) and vacuoles (30 microns) suggested a large temperature gradient along the tissue ablation front.
  • (8) The ruling centre-right coalition government of Angela Merkel was dealt a blow by voters in a critical regional election on Sunday after the centre-left opposition secured a wafer-thin victory, setting the scene for a tension-filled national election in the autumn when everything will be up for grabs.
  • (9) When [14C]methyl-labelled N,N-dimethylformamide was injected and urine samples investigated by radio thin layer chromatography, the major area of radioactivity corresponded to the Rf of N-(hydroxymethyl)-N-methylformamide.
  • (10) Three cases of gastroduodenal perforation and one case of ulceration and extreme thinning of the gastric wall occurred in preterm babies treated with dexamethasone for bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
  • (11) Take-out: Apple can still innovate and Apple can still generate irrational lust out of thin air.
  • (12) The triglycerides are isolated by means of thin-layer chromatography.
  • (13) The OPL first appears as a thin, discontinuous break in the cytoblast layer that is frequently interrupted by the profiles of migrating neuro- and glioblasts.
  • (14) It's bad enough that they're so thin,” said Kilbourne.
  • (15) A specific vitamin A-dependent fluorophore was isolated from these retinas using thin-layer chromatography (TLC).
  • (16) Thinning of the dermis and the arrangement of collagen in parallel bundles appear to be constant findings.
  • (17) Thin-layer chromatogram with immunostaining revealed that serum IgG from this patient reacted with GM1, GD1a, GD1b, but did not react with GM2 and GT1b.
  • (18) A CT of the chest revealed typical thin-walled cysts of lymphangioleiomyomatosis.
  • (19) Homogenates of mucosa and muscle layer were incubated with (14C)-labelled arachidonic acid, and prostaglandin formation was determined using thin-layer chromatography.
  • (20) Draining of thin films has thus a dehydrating effect as well as a sorting and ordering effect.