What's the difference between disgregate and scatter?

Disgregate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To disperse; to scatter; -- opposite of congregate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This phenomenon accounts for a metabolic depletion of the myocardium: the higher the number of fibrillation episodes previously induced and subsided (either spontaneously or not) in the same animal, the faster the course of the phenomenon; 4. the vectorial analysis of the fibrillation potentials and, particularly, the graphic construction of "depolarization" and "repolarization" vectorcardiograms, in the differenttypes or variants of ventricular paroxysms, show that the basic mechanisms leading to ventricular electric activity disgregation are the multiple re-entry and the irregular spreading of the activation front; 5. on the basis of the acquired data, the authors believe that the "circus movement" theory (Wiggers) is still the most suitable for explaining the onset and the evolution of ventricualr fibrillation.
  • (2) Some pathological lesions can arise from the rests that survive after the disgregation of various odontogenic epithelial structures destined to disappear with growth: the epithelial root sheath, the dental lamina and the external epithelium of the enamel organ.
  • (3) Some general characteristics common to all patients are reviewed, among them: age (all patients are adolescents); vulnerability of personality and ego weakness; absent father; narcissistic mother; disgregation of the family and pathological communication among their members; unaccepted griefs; magic expectations on the activity of the drug.

Scatter


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.
  • (v. t.) To cause to separate in different directions; to reduce from a close or compact to a loose or broken order; to dissipate; to disperse.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow; as, to scatter hopes, plans, or the like.
  • (v. i.) To be dispersed or dissipated; to disperse or separate; as, clouds scatter after a storm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Using an in vitro culture system, light scatter analyses, and two-color flow cytometry, we provide evidence that the interleukin-2 (IL-2) and transferrin receptors can be induced within 48 hr on nonproliferating immature thymocytes.
  • (2) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
  • (3) Proliferating cells were abundant and scattered throughout the stratified epithelium before the appearance of villi.
  • (4) Furthermore, experiments with the fluorescence-activated cell sorter revealed increased forward light scatter from resting exudate PMN compared to blood PMN.
  • (5) Quantitative measurements of image contrast were carried out for B-mode images of anechoic spheres (cysts) embedded in a random scattering medium.
  • (6) The angular distribution of the scattered light was obtained as a function of time and compared with the rates at which hydrolysis products were formed.
  • (7) It is found that, whereas the spatial resolution achievable with such a system is only dependent upon its temporal resolution, the scattering characteristics of the tissue being imaged will strongly affect the ultimate imaging performance of such a system.
  • (8) In these cells no autonomous periodic activities were observed by light scattering.
  • (9) The scatter measurement was made using a standard imaging geometry with both beam stops and an additional x-ray detector placed behind the standard imaging detector.
  • (10) Type C-like particles were found inter- and intracellularly in gland and vessel lumina and scattered in the connective tissue.
  • (11) Modifications in quaternary structure induced by variation of these physicochemical parameters were followed by means of X-ray and quasi-elastic light-scattering and quantified in terms of weight average molecular weight (M), radius of gyration (Rg) and hydrodynamic radius (Rh).
  • (12) Cape no longer has the monopoly on talent; the stars are scattered these days, and Franklin's "fantastically discriminating" deputy Robin Robertson can take credit for many recent triumphs, including their most recent Booker winner, Anne Enright.
  • (13) Dome-shaped, fungiform papillae were scattered among these filiform papillae.
  • (14) Visible light activates a large guanosine cyclic 3',5'-phosphate (cGMP)- and phosphodiesterase (PDE)-dependent infrared light-scattering change in suspensions of photoreceptor disk membranes.
  • (15) The angular distribution of the scattered acoustic field from an inosonifying source will directly relate to the distribution of surface fibrillatory changes.
  • (16) The electron spectroscopic diffraction (ESD) mode of operation of an energy-filtering electron microscope offers the possibility of being able to avoid the background from inelastic scattering in selected-area electron diffraction patterns.
  • (17) Single particles or small clusters were scattered across the cell membrane.
  • (18) Fibrinogen was scattered in the intercellular spaces, and located in the inner layer or edges of the thickened intima of the bifurcation with increasing plaque formation.
  • (19) From the different shapes of the scattering curves of the native phosphofructokinase at pH 7.5 in the presence of 15 mM ATP and of the cross-linked tetramer or octamer, it can be inferred that the shapes of the protomers are different: in the presence of ATP the protomers are elongated, having an axial ratio of 1.8 to 2.0; the cross-linked state reveals a spherical protomer of radius 33.0 A, similar to that of the native enzyme at pH 7.5 in the presence of fructose 6-phosphate or fructose 1,6-bisphosphate.
  • (20) Cells taking up label are found scattered throughout the large cartilaginous epiphyses.

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