What's the difference between effluent and effluvia?

Effluent


Definition:

  • (a.) Flowing out; as, effluent beams.
  • (n.) A stream that flows out of another stream or lake.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Measurement of adenosine in coronary effluent and in ventricular tissue by radioimmunoassay verified that no residual elevated adenosine remained following perfusion and washout.
  • (2) Uptake of IMP was calculated from the arteriovenous difference of 14C-IMP across the lung and lung effluents and homogenates were analyzed for the presence of metabolites of IMP.
  • (3) For obtaining protein isolates, water, whey, and waste effluents from a potato processing plant were used as extraction solvents.
  • (4) Physical compatibility was assessed using effluent obtained after coinfusion of vancomycin with parenteral nutrition solution.
  • (5) Effluent study revealed no distal embolization; however, six perforations and four dissections occurred.
  • (6) Bacterial genera in the GAC effluents and in the GAC units themselves were similar to those found in the raw water and in the sand beds.
  • (7) In contradistinction, infusion of MMI did not affect the T4:T3 or T4:rT3 ratios in thyroid effluent.
  • (8) Monitoring the effluent at a single wavelength (405 nm) provides a rapid and simple method of detecting and isolating only those peptides which contain cysteine residue(s).
  • (9) Aggregated virus was not dispersed by one-step dilution (7,000-fold) in distilled or untreated lake water but was dispersed if phosphate-buffered saline or clarified secondary sewage plant effluent was used as diluent.
  • (10) Analysis of the effluent perifusate as well as the water soluble inositol-containing substance after sonication of stimulated islets revealed that most of the metabolite of inositol phospholipid is inositol-triphosphate, the hydrolysis product of phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate.
  • (11) 5-Aminosalicylic acid and its metabolite, N-ac-5-ASA, were measured in the plasma, urine, and ileostomy effluent of 24 ileostomates who ingested 750 mg Rowasa I following an overnight fast.
  • (12) Analysis of dialysate for 48 h after cessation of drug administration demonstrated ciprofloxacin to be present in effluent from only two of the six patients, confirming its poor peritoneal elimination.
  • (13) No large fragments were found in 11 of 12 effluents.
  • (14) Pasteurized effluent developed C(2)H(2) reduction activity when incubated under anaerobic but not under aerobic conditions.
  • (15) Although cytotoxicity was associated with the first 63% of the column effluent corresponding to fractions 1 through 7, significant activity (256) was demonstrable only in fractions 2, 3, 4, and 5.
  • (16) To analyze the potential mediator(s) involved in flow-induced endothelium-dependent vasodilation, we measured the wall tension of intraluminally perfused canine femoral artery segments and compared the content of 6-ketoprostaglandin F1 alpha (determined by radioimmunoassay) and the relaxing activity of the effluent (determined by bioassay on canine coronary artery rings).
  • (17) Graft segments, effluents, and seeding suspension were assayed in a beta scintillation counter.
  • (18) Fiber intake was negatively correlated with water concentration of the effluent (r = -0.61).
  • (19) Noradrenaline overflow from and the potassium content of circumflex territory venous effluent was unchanged.
  • (20) Heart effluent was serially collected during perfusion for creatine phosphokinase activity (CPK) analysis.

Effluvia


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Effluvium

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thus postfebrile and postpartum alopecias are telogen effluvia that involve shedding of club hairs, whereas drug-induced alopecia and alopecia areata involve shearing and loss of growing hairs.
  • (2) A novel indoor air quality investigation was associated with carbon dioxide and methane accumulation, presumably from effluvia from geologic sources.
  • (3) Photograph: Alamy 2: Key players in gross-out movies Farrelly brothers The duo added sympathetic characters to all the effluvia.
  • (4) While actorly logorrhea flows into the outstretched mics of the presenters – the usual effluvia of "gifts", "blessings", "journeys", "privileges" and "honours" – my fellow groundlings turned their attention to their McDonald's and Doritos instead.
  • (5) Stevan Monkley-Poole argues in this thought-provoking article that nursing cannot afford to sit passively on the fence while the world we inhabit is drained of its precious resources and systematically poisoned by the effluvia of 'civilised' society.
  • (6) I hope that when the academics have got their magical lie detection machine working properly, they will then extend its capabilities to warn users sternly against reading the face-meltingly banal pseudoinspirational effluvia of Paulo Coelho, the preeningly obsessive rantings of nu-atheists, and the passive aggressive narcissism of writers who only ever retweet praise for themselves.

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