What's the difference between eleven and twelve?

Eleven


Definition:

  • (a.) Ten and one added; as, eleven men.
  • (n.) The sum of ten and one; eleven units or objects.
  • (n.) A symbol representing eleven units, as 11 or xi.
  • (n.) The eleven men selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a locality; as, the all-England eleven.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results of the oestrogen amplification test in eleven of the non-hyperprolactinaemic anovular patients were compared with the ovulatory response to 100 mg clomiphene given for 5 days.
  • (2) Eleven virus strains were isolated from ticks Hyalomma asiaticum asiaticum Schulce et Schlottke, 1929, and Hyalomma plumbeum plumbeum Panzer, 1796,collected in 1971-1974 in desert regions of the Uzbee S.S.R.
  • (3) Two hundred eleven adult emergency hand patients were prospectively tested over a 1-year period for drug and alcohol use.
  • (4) Eleven had hematological disorders, and 12 received steroids (sometimes with immunosuppressive or cytotoxic drugs).
  • (5) We performed a combined one-stage approach for the treatment of eighteen spastic subluxated or dislocated hips in eleven children who had cerebral palsy.
  • (6) Eleven per cent of the courses that responded provided no formal substance misuse training.
  • (7) Eleven (39%) had positive scans despite normal epicardial coronary arteries (7 patients) or a pretest risk of coronary disease less than or equal to 5% (4 patients).
  • (8) Eleven patients spontaneously passed the calculus, ten prior to delivery and one patient postpartum.
  • (9) Eleven tumors (23%) exhibited definite regression in the form of one or more segmental areas (defects) where the invasive component was replaced by mononuclear cell infiltrate and fibrosis.
  • (10) Eleven men with a less than 3% probability of coronary artery disease were used as a control population.
  • (11) Orthogonal field electrophoresis of the eleven strains still carrying pBR322 sequences revealed at least seven different integrating sites for the transforming DNA.
  • (12) Eleven rats were given twice-daily intraperitoneal injections of 20 mL of dialysis fluid containing 4.5% glucose for 6 weeks.
  • (13) Central nervous system toxoplasmosis was diagnosed in 12 immunosuppressed patients, eleven of whom had AIDS.
  • (14) Eleven women have died in India and dozens more are in hospital, with 20 listed as critically ill, after a state-run mass sterilisation campaign went horribly wrong.
  • (15) Eleven patients above the regression line had thrombosis in excess of fibrinolysis but the remaining 26 patients under the regression line had fibrinolysis in excess of thrombosis.
  • (16) Eleven effusions met one or more of three criteria commonly used to identify exudative effusions.
  • (17) Eleven patients had undergone replacement surgery in the knee joint area.
  • (18) Eleven months later and staff are still waiting to find out when – or if – the station will close and what exactly will replace it.
  • (19) Eleven were treated prior to clinical recurrence with 100% local control, no serious complications, and 86% long-term survival.
  • (20) A line in which 5-30% of the cells were lysable by anti-H-2Dd was cloned; all eleven clones had H-2Dd (13-69% lysable) demonstrating that H-2 modulates in vitro.

Twelve


Definition:

  • (a.) One more that eleven; two and ten; twice six; a dozen.
  • (n.) The number next following eleven; the sum of ten and two, or of twice six; twelve units or objects; a dozen.
  • (n.) A symbol representing twelve units, as 12, or xii.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Twelve families with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) were studied by linkage analysis using 10 polymorphic marker loci from the X-chromosome pericentromeric region.
  • (2) Twelve patients with South American mococutaneous leishmaniasis who attended the Hospital Amazonico in Peru between February and September 1974 were treated with amphotericin B.
  • (3) Even so, amputation of fifteen extremities and four other major excisions were required in twelve patients.
  • (4) One hundred and twelve dogs, including twenty C3-deficient dogs, were studied over a period of 6 years.
  • (5) Buserelin and Flutamide were administered three times daily, intranasally and orally respectively, at a dose of 1.2 mg and 750 mg for twelve months.
  • (6) The fine needle aspiration cytology features of twelve peripherally located bronchioloalveolar cell carcinomas of the lung diagnosed by fine needle aspiration biopsy are described.
  • (7) For a better understanding of the cytochrome P-450 mediated reactions, we studied the metabolism of midazolam in microsomal fractions prepared from twelve human livers.
  • (8) Twelve strains of the Crimean hemorrhagic fever (CHF)-Congo group of viruses the Bunyaviridae family were investigated with respect to sensitivity to lipid solvents and temperature, pathogenicity for animals, interactions with cell cultures and antigenic relationships.
  • (9) Twelve patients had normal hemodynamic data (group 1), nine had abnormal hemodynamic data only during exercise (group 2), and 11 had abnormal hemodynamic data at rest and during exercise (group 3).
  • (10) Twelve monkeys, Macaca fascicularis and Macaca mulatta, were investigated to study their renal microvasculature.
  • (11) Twelve mutations were searched for using classical techniques of molecular biology in a total of 126 patients.
  • (12) This paper describes a teaching process in which two 4th year medical students learn a family approach to problem solving during a short clerkship of twelve hours spread over four weekly sessions.
  • (13) Twelve healthy rabbits, in three similar subgroups, were exposed to pathogenic Escherichia coli and their immune response was studied under different experimental conditions.
  • (14) Twelve patients (group 1), all with coronary artery disease, produced myocardial lactate during pacing.
  • (15) Twelve weeks after withdrawal heart rate and blood pressure responses to mental stress were normalized.
  • (16) Twelve healthy volunteers were given single oral doses of bisoprolol 5 mg, 10 mg and 20 mg and atenolol 50 mg and 100 mg in a randomised, placebo-controlled study.
  • (17) Twelve young male smokers each participated in four conditions on 4 separate days: stress + nicotine, stress + placebo (stress alone), rest + nicotine (nicotine alone), and rest + placebo.
  • (18) Twelve subjects each received multiple doses of 150, 200, 250, and 300 mg of moricizine every 8 hours during 7 days of treatment.
  • (19) Twelve donor sites in 10 patients were observed in detail to assess the usefulness of this material.
  • (20) The efficacy of three different therapeutic regimes was studied in one group by the application of the drug to the entire skin for either five minutes, fifteen minutes, or twelve hours for eighteen days.