What's the difference between drip and tear?

Drip


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.
  • (v. i.) To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips.
  • (v. t.) To let fall in drops.
  • (n.) A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops.
  • (n.) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw off the rain water.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Infants were fed the same quantity of formula each day, either for 5 minutes or by continuous drip for 2 to 3 hours.
  • (2) If all 102 patients had received conventional IV drip infusions, the total patient equipment charges would have been $4,610.40.
  • (3) Particularly, the losses during blanching and thawing (drip) are discussed.
  • (4) Drip infusion pyelogram revealed a decrease in the left renal function and the presence of the gas in the pyelocalyceal system.
  • (5) Never leave a tap dripping - it can waste up to four litres a day.
  • (6) In the treatment of 31 cases of acute infections of pediatric field including upper and lower airway infections, empyema, whooping cough, acute urinary tract infections and phlegmon, CMNX was administered intravenously either as one shot injection as drip infusion.
  • (7) Appropriate conditions for administering the drug by intravenous drip infusion to neonates and infants at ages of more than 1 week were investigated taking observed blood levels and achieved peak levels and trough levels calculated using the one-compartment open model into account.
  • (8) In 4 patients with peritonitis drug levels in the ascites were determined following administration of BRL 28500 by drip infusion.
  • (9) Experiments show that the primary source of air bubbles in such a system is the drip chamber.
  • (10) The pathways involved in protein transport across the lymphatic endothelium of the rat renal cortex after in vivo drip fixation were studied ultrastructurally.
  • (11) Ampicillin-cloxacillin (Viccillin S 'Meiji') by intravenous drip infusion was used in gynecological infections, with the following satisfactory results.
  • (12) It’s also a legal authority that is exempt from oversight by Congress or the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, meaning we know even less about it than the other NSA powers that have been dripping out over the last year and a half.
  • (13) Two hundred and forty-nine patients are divided into four homogenous groups to compare the efficacy of Cimetidine versus antacids, as well as the mode of delivery--bolus versus continuous drip--in the prophylaxis of acute hemorrhagic gastritis in critically ill patients.
  • (14) As regards method of administration, CMNX from a vial was dissolved in physiological saline or distilled water for injection, and the solution was administered by 3 to 5 minutes one shot intravenous injection (15 cases), or CMNX was diluted with large volume parenteral product and administered by 30 to 60 minutes drip infusion (10 cases).
  • (15) Many had plastic nodules stuck to their skull, to allow the nurses to attach them to a drip.
  • (16) Dopamine drip may be used as a renal rescue, whereas heparin is indicated for thromboembolic phenomena and surgery reserved for abdominal catastrophies.
  • (17) Anaesthesia was induced by thiopentone and was maintained either by a continuous drip of thiopentone or by inhalation of halothane.
  • (18) The PTT was checked every 4 hours and the heparin drip was titrated to keep the PTT at 50 to 60 seconds.
  • (19) Indeed the lack of trust suggests that funds will be drip-fed to Greece and that a longer-term agreement will be very difficult to reach.” According to local media Tsipras has called an emergency meeting with top ministers to discuss the situation, including chief negotiator Euclid Tsakalotos, the deputy prime minister, Yannis Dragasakis, and the state minister, Nikos Pappas.
  • (20) These steps include a careful guidewire technique, insisting on spontaneous free back-dripping of blood from newly introduced catheters after removal of the guidewire, aspiration of blood with a syringe and flushing with saline and contrast.

Tear


Definition:

  • (n.) A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids.
  • (n.) Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
  • (n.) That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
  • (v. t.) To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.
  • (v. t.) To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home.
  • (v. t.) To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
  • (v. t.) To move violently; to agitate.
  • (v. i.) To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily.
  • (v. i.) To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.
  • (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To determine the accuracy of double-contrast arthrography in complete rotator cuff tears, we studied 805 patients thought to have a complete rotator cuff tear who had undergone double-contrast shoulder arthrography (DCSA) between 1978 and 1983.
  • (2) For the case described by the author primary tearing of the chiasma due to sudden applanation of the skull in the frontal region with burstfractures in the anterior cranial fossa is assumed.
  • (3) For the 20 patients who received treatment in the latter period (1987-1990), we gave priority to conservative treatment for type T cases that were free from complications, and adopted a treatment method attaching greater importance to the resection of intimal tears.
  • (4) Recently the presence of a coating inhibitory factor was described in human tears which can prevent the binding of proteins to a solid phase.
  • (5) The typical signs of muscle tears and neuromuscular diseases in relation to normal sonomorphology are discussed.
  • (6) In one case MRI showed a false image of tear of the supra spinatus m. on its anterior edge.
  • (7) If a tear is found, remove all unstable meniscal fragments, leaving a rim, if possible, especially adjacent to the popliteus recess, and then proceed to open cystectomy.
  • (8) In contrast, significant tear IgG increase was observed during the rejection phenomenon.
  • (9) At least one of these manipulative tests was positive in 79% of meniscal tears.
  • (10) Tests were undertaken to study resistance to tears in laser welded dental metal alloys.
  • (11) Death, helicopter crashes and tears: nurses' career-defining moments Read more Of course, we still continue to accept and treat patients as we always have.
  • (12) Even a long tear with a stable reduced position can be expected to show good healing.
  • (13) Shell casings littered the main road, tear gas hung in the air and security forces beat local residents.
  • (14) According to Israeli media reports, the US statement had caused "senior officials in Jerusalem to tear out their hair".
  • (15) The patients usually had a history of recurrent hamstring "tears."
  • (16) Egged on by Israel, Trump has threatened to tear up Obama’s landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
  • (17) This approach was used in 42 shoulders with rotator cuff tears or posterior instability without complications of infection, failure of deltoid healing, or compromise of suprascapular or axillary nerves.
  • (18) Perhaps it’s the lot of people like my colleagues here in the centre and me to wrestle with our consciences, shed tears, lose sleep and try to make the best of a very bad, heart-breaking job and leave the rest of the world to party, get pissed and celebrate Christmas.
  • (19) The MRI scan is a highly accurate, noninvasive modality for documentation of meniscal pathology as well as cruciate ligament tears in the knee.
  • (20) Lateral ligament tear is often associated with anterior cruciate ligament tear.

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