What's the difference between effusive and maudlin?

Effusive


Definition:

  • (a.) Pouring out; pouring forth freely.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) BT Sport's marketing manager, Alfredo Garicoche, is more effusive still: "We're not thinking for the next two or three years, we're thinking for the next 20 or 30 years and even longer.
  • (2) The authors describe a case of expulsive choroidal effusion which occurred in the course of a fistulating operation in a child with Sturge-Weber syndrome.
  • (3) In all patients a Tenckoff's catheter for peritoneal dialysis was introduced and peritoneal effusion extracted and measured.
  • (4) Recurrent respiratory infections occurred in 17 (38%), and chronic recurrent middle ear effusions were noted in 33 (73%).
  • (5) On the seventh day, when middle ear effusions were absent, the ciliary activity had recovered to normal.
  • (6) Emergency CT showed evidence of pericardial effusion suggesting hemopericardium, enlargement of the ascending aorta and a peripheral semilunar filling defect which caused a slight deformation of the true channel.
  • (7) Subsequently, the inflammatory reaction diminishes, as can be seen on smears from tympanic effusions.
  • (8) We report a case of tamponade due to an effusion of blood which had occurred two weeks after an aorto-coronary bypass and was unusually located behind the left atrium.
  • (9) Control fluids of posttraumatic effusions were negative; among the other controls synovial fluid from 1 psoriatic arthritis patient reacted positively.
  • (10) In severely affected children who have chronic otitis media with effusion resistant to medical therapy, adenoidectomy is an effective treatment.
  • (11) The syndrome of ovarian hyperstimulation is an exceptional aetiology of pleural effusion.
  • (12) Eleven effusions met one or more of three criteria commonly used to identify exudative effusions.
  • (13) Bacteria present in effusions were identified, and their ability to produce beta-lactamase was also determined.
  • (14) Her chest roentgenogram showed a moderate amount of pleural effusion in the left pleural cavity without infiltration in the lung fields and no evidence of swollen hilar or mediastinal lymphnodes.
  • (15) In the case of a massive serous pleural effusion examination of the ingredients leads to diagnosis.
  • (16) Similarly, the estimation of individual normal serum proteins in effusion fluids is unlikely to be of diagnostic value.
  • (17) However, separation of the capsule from the bony glenoid can be detected if a joint effusion is present to adequately distend the joint.
  • (18) A retrospective study was made with the purpose of testing Ultrasound usefulness in differential diagnosis between empyematous and non empyematous evolution of parapneumonic effusions.
  • (19) Seventy-nine children have been followed with persistent middle ear effusion (MEE).
  • (20) On the basis of this experience, further investigation of the intrapericardial administration of cisplatin as treatment to control malignant pericardial effusions appears warranted.

Maudlin


Definition:

  • (a.) Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly.
  • (a.) Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.
  • (n.) Alt. of Maudeline

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No, he says, he didn't get intimations of mortality, he didn't get maudlin, he didn't think about how he'd never work again.
  • (2) A key scene sees a puppet Kim Jong-il sing a maudlin number by that name.
  • (3) The first day (there is more in front of the Senate Thursday) was like an endless wake, which led to rambling meditation, many maudlin congratulations, thanks and eulogies from representatives who will, at most, regret losing the chance to whack their favorite economic piñata.
  • (4) Why am I suddenly maudlin about old photographs of tiny children in school uniform and haunted by memories of nursery teas and long afternoons in the park watching small boys chase a ball?
  • (5) The endless mawkish comparisons, wailing headlines and maudlin snippets.
  • (6) But his ability to abruptly switch tack and tone, into poetry or maudlin song, makes him a fascinating performer.
  • (7) But you listen to the music and it has this maudlin depression and beauty at the same time."
  • (8) Gilbert is against a kind of maudlin attachment to grief, which doesn't progress.
  • (9) I trust the confessional quality will be instructive and not taken as maudlin or pseudo-Proustian.
  • (10) But being focused on making plans, such as arranging my own funeral, has stopped me from becoming maudlin.
  • (11) After the shooting, the boys’ respective journals were found and while Dylan’s was full of maudlin and often nonsensical dreams about killing himself, Harris’s was full of violent and sadistic fantasies about hurting others.
  • (12) She is far from maudlin, having expressed a wish to be cremated in a vodka-bottle shaped coffin before having her ashes scattered on the island of Lindisfarne, off the north-east coast.