What's the difference between eighth and scattered?

Eighth


Definition:

  • (a.) Next in order after the seventh.
  • (a.) Consisting of one of eight equal divisions of a thing.
  • (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by eight; one of eight equal parts; an eighth part.
  • (n.) The interval of an octave.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The present study was done in order to document the ability of the eighth cranial nerve of the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) to regenerate, the anatomic characteristics of the regenerated fibers, and the specificity of projections from individual endorgan branches of the nerve.
  • (2) Ventilation-perfusion lung scans and contrast ascending venography were performed on the sixth to eighth postoperative days.
  • (3) This is the eighth reported case of malignant schwannoma arising in the intracranial trigeminal nerve.
  • (4) George Osborne’s eighth budget is unlikely to be a radical affair , as the state of the public finances and the upcoming EU referendum limit the chancellor’s room for manoeuvre.
  • (5) Ethyl oleate-hydrolyzing activity was about one-eighth of the synthesizing activity.
  • (6) In one normal ear, ten noise trauma ears, 11 Meniere disease ears, and 24 eighth nerve lesion ears to reflexes or reflex decay that were suggestive or retrocochlear lesions were observed.
  • (7) A modified version of the National Adolescent Student Health Survey (NASHS) was administered to 3,803 eighth- and tenth-grade public school students during the fall of 1988.
  • (8) In a third study, 4 fertile women with approximately normal cycles were given daily doses of 5 mg of ethinyl estradiol from the twenty-first to the twenty-eighth day of the cycle during 2 cycles.
  • (9) Plasma samples were obtained after the first and eighth doses.
  • (10) The eighth group did not receive any dietary constituent in the water and was designated as the control group.
  • (11) He pointed out that the eighth amendment of the US constitution “prohibits the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain through torture, barbarous methods, or methods resulting in a lingering death”.
  • (12) At the eighth week, however, effect of the VLCD and the supplemental LCD in terms of weight reduction did not differ significantly.
  • (13) Component 4 principally reflects the second volley of activity within the eighth nerve terminals, and outflow from the ipsilateral superior olivary complex ascending in that lateral lemniscus, with a possible contribution from activity in the contralateral CNC.
  • (14) We were trying to come back,” Jeter said of the eighth.
  • (15) The maximum allowable residual artifact is one eighth the amplitude of the capture window.
  • (16) Replicable robust potentials were readily obtained from a recording electrode on the eighth nerve less than half a second after as few as 15 stimulations.
  • (17) The entire amino acid sequence of the alpha subunit (Mr 64,000) of the eighth component of complement (C8) was determined by characterizing cDNA clones isolated from a human liver cDNA library.
  • (18) A spine-tingling roar rolled off the Kop after an eighth consecutive league win lifted Liverpool above Manchester City and Chelsea with perfect timing.
  • (19) Saido Berahino started on the bench for the eighth straight game with Anichebe given his first Premier League start since May.
  • (20) On the other hand, the step-test has shown on the eighth day a reduction of the heart rate during recovery.

Scattered


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Scatter
  • (a.) Dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread.
  • (a.) Irregular in position; having no regular order; as, scattered leaves.

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.