What's the difference between distinguished and undistinguished?

Distinguished


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Distinguish
  • (a.) Marked; special.
  • (a.) Separated from others by distinct difference; having, or indicating, superiority; eminent or known; illustrious; -- applied to persons and deeds.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
  • (2) The secondary leukemia that occurred in these patients could be distinguished from the secondary leukemia that occurs after treatment with alkylating agents by the following: a shorter latency period; a predominance of monocytic or myelomonocytic features; and frequent cytogenetic abnormalities involving 11q23.
  • (3) The "rehabilitation" and "institutional" meanings of the patient's admission to the clinic have been distinguished.
  • (4) In addition, lightly immunostained cells were distinguished in the caudal portion of the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus, area of tuber cinereum, retrochiasmatic area, and rostral portion of the paraventricular thalamic nucleus after colchicine treatment.
  • (5) This novel mechanism of receptor regulation, named transmodulation, should be distinguished from the reduction in total receptor number caused by the homologous ligand (downregulation) and from the change in affinity produced by the binding of agonists or antagonists to the same receptor site.
  • (6) This light microscopic comparison of viable FDA- and nonviable PI-stained cysts of G. muris demonstrates that 2 types of cysts can be distinguished and implies that structural differences can be used to identify these subpopulations of cysts.
  • (7) To distinguish the various types, we designated the 90 kd types from CBA and AKR mice C6A1 and C6A2, respectively, and the corresponding 100 kd types C6B1 and C6B2, respectively.
  • (8) Transient intermediates were distinguished from dead-end metabolites by the rapid formation and disappearance of the former.
  • (9) A nonspecific reaction of the marrow against extramedullary lymphogranulomatosis closely resembling to the so-called tumor myeopathy has to be distinguished from the localized marrow changes due to the tumor itself.
  • (10) Distant ischemia was distinguished from peri-infarctional ischemia by the presence of transient thallium defects in, or slow thallium washout from myocardium not supplied by the infarct-related coronary artery.
  • (11) MAb Q-1 distinguishes between Sendai virus-coated and uncoated lymphocytes only cells with low-affinity binding.
  • (12) Three types of plasminogen activator could be distinguished in extracts from human uterine tissue.
  • (13) When power-transformed scores are used to eliminate skewness, there is evidence for one distribution and it is not possible to distinguish single gene from multifactorial (polygenic or cultural) inheritance.
  • (14) Our studies have shown that infarcted dogs which exhibit inducible sustained ventricular tachycardia had late potentials and could be distinguished from those with no arrhythmias by the following QRS characteristics.
  • (15) Plasmid profiling was used to distinguish strains of lactobacilli inhabiting the digestive tract of piglets and the feces of sows.
  • (16) The 3C protease of poliovirus is distinguished from that of all other picornaviruses in that it only cleaves at Gln-Gly amino acid pairs within the viral polyprotein.
  • (17) The distinguishing feature of this study is the simultaneous measurement of sympathetic firing and norepinephrine spillover in the same organ, the kidney, under conditions of intact sympathetic impulse traffic.
  • (18) 4 types of differentiated cells are distinguished and changes connected with the processes of structural-functional restructuration are described.
  • (19) The "Mg(2+)-Sarkosyl crystals" (M band) technique distinguishes between membrane-bound and free intracellular DNA.
  • (20) With the use of these proteins as markers, phenotypes could be constructed that distinguished unstimulated, LPS-treated, primed, and fully activated macrophages.

Undistinguished


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The background rhythmic burst activity was undistinguishable in both states.
  • (2) A former defender who packed in a fairly undistinguished playing career to become a fitness coach, Menezes's stints in charge of Gremio and Corinthians were his most high profile management gigs prior to getting the Brazil job.
  • (3) Before his speeches on race, he was an obedient, relatively undistinguished servant of the state.
  • (4) Antisera prepared against axonal preparations isolated from bovine white matter only stained astroglia and were thus undistinguishable from anti-GFA sera in this respect.
  • (5) For a while Manchester United briefly threatened to add their name to what had hitherto been an undistinguished week for English teams in Europe’s premier club competition.
  • (6) Thin-section immunoelectron microscopy showed accumulation of viruslike particles undistinguished from immature HIV-1 virions in the culture medium of the cells infected with vC5.
  • (7) The midfield diamond, with Raheem Sterling at its front tip, was instrumental in making this one of the better performances of the Hodgson era and the level of opposition in Group E is so undistinguished it would need an extraordinary kind of meltdown now for England not to reach the tournament.
  • (8) Effects of Neurotropin, an analgesic and antiallergic drug, have been compared to those of an inert, undistinguishable placebo in a double-blind study on twelve experienced Sabena (Belgian national airline) Boeing-737 captains who were requested to operate in unexpected scenarios of emergency and ILS instrument approaches in a flight simulator of their company.
  • (9) These molecules were undistinguishable by gel electrophoresis analysis at six different acrylamide concentrations.
  • (10) But the trust, composed of 12 mostly undistinguished individuals, must acknowledge how wrong it was in selecting George Entwistle, an untried man who had risen without leaving much trace at the BBC.
  • (11) On the other hand, inhibition of 80% (average) of the proteinase activity by means of previous incubation of the trophozoites with human a2M gave way to minimal inflammatory lesions almost undistinguishable from the controls which were injected with PBS-A.
  • (12) The homogeneous enzyme appears to be undistinguishable from the corresponding enzyme derived from sheep lactating mammary gland, as judged by acrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate and by titration with antibodies raised against the enzyme purified from liver.
  • (13) Once back at school, he was a lonely child who suffered from dyslexia and had an undistinguished academic career.
  • (14) Delays in binding were not caused by different enzymatic activities, since 218 R1 and 218 R2 produce, in similar amounts, beta-lactamases undistinguishable in isoelectric point and Km of cephaloridine.
  • (15) On the contrary, in the late stages of renal amyloidosis, when pathologic changes lead to progressive nephrosclerosis, US findings appear aspecific, since they are undistinguishable from the patterns observed in other renal medical disorders.
  • (16) The SLE vacuolar myopathy is a pathological entity clinically undistinguishable from SLE myositis.
  • (17) Furthermore, the symptomatology they induce is undistinguishable from that induced by cardiotoxins.
  • (18) The BUDR-treated cultures were undistinguishable from the untreated mother cultures after 2 to 3 passages.
  • (19) To look at, it is a distinctly undistinguished and desolate-looking piece of utilitarian 1940s architecture.
  • (20) Klebocin with homologous activity on K. pneumoniae seemed to be undistinguishable from the compound with heterologous action on Staphylococci in the aspects that were characterized in this work; both were heat labile to the same degree; optimum pH was 7, acidity decreased klebocin activity more intensely than alkaline pH.