What's the difference between emaciated and peaky?

Emaciated


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Emaciate

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Across a dusty lot sits a heap of scrap metal, patrolled by a couple of emaciated dogs, while a toddler squats in the street, examining the sole of a discarded shoe.
  • (2) On a snowless but chilly afternoon early in the Moscow winter, a 29-year-old man with a gaunt, emaciated face stepped on to the vast expanse of Red Square.
  • (3) The mother and stepfather of a four-year-old boy who was battered to death after being subjected to a six-month regime of starvation and physical torture will be jailed for life on Friday after being found guilty of murdering the boy, whose body was so emaciated that one experienced health worker compared it to that of a concentration camp victim.
  • (4) A 3 year old girl was admitted to hospital in an emaciated condition and with polydipsia in October 1974.
  • (5) A statistically significant difference was noticed in emaciated persons.
  • (6) The tissues of many of the test animals, especially from the Saudi Arabian and Nigerian oil-treated ponds, were clear, watery, and emaciated in appearance, which was not the normal condition of oysters from the Gulf during the period of the samplings.
  • (7) Lesions at the junctions of the gizzard and proventriculus were associated with the nematodes, and resulted in debilitation, emaciation and death.
  • (8) The man who devised these torments has a passing resemblance to El Greco's emaciated saints.
  • (9) All the infected heifers developed clinical trypanosomiasis manifested by massive parasitaemia, fluctuating pyrexia, anaemia, dull hair coat, emaciation, jugular pulse and enlarged superficial lymph nodes.
  • (10) Clinical signs in the live geese were weakness, lethargy, anorexia, emaciation and bile stained diarrhea.
  • (11) However such symptoms as loss of appetite, nausea and extreme emaciation were observed and caused death.
  • (12) With the index, we were able to compare the distribution and prevalence of emaciation between the population of nomadic herdsmen of the Adrar of Iforas and the population of sedentary agriculturalists of the Region of Gao in Mali.
  • (13) When deaths and symptoms of chronic emaciation not due to any apparent cause occurred in weaned lambs, the morphological changes observed suggested that the liver probably was the main organ, the function of which was impaired.
  • (14) In his most famous self-image , as he sits, ill and emaciated, holding a cane with a carved skull, he is doing more than acknowledge mortality: he is claiming to be the new King Death, inheriting the title Andy Warhol whose fragile head he portrayed with a transcendental clarity, in a portrait so real you feel you could reach into it and hold it, stroke the silver wig.
  • (15) The patient's chief complaint had been lumbago and emaciation, and a tumor in her left upper abdomen was found.
  • (16) The disorder is found to have the same basic characteristics in the male as in the female: namely, a phobic avoidance of normal weight associated with elective carbohydrate starvation and emaciation.
  • (17) Using univariate analysis, it was found that managerial position and long PPH (more than 11 h) were significantly related to CCE (relative risk of 3.0 and 2.2, respectively) as well as risk factors such as emaciation, left ventricular hypertrophy, excessive sleeping hours, obesity, cigarette smoking, and inadequate control of systolic blood pressure.
  • (18) These data suggest that cortisol production is excessive in emaciated patients with anorexia nervosa due to a disturbance of the hypothalamic-pituitary mechanisms regulating adrenocortical function.
  • (19) The pre-patent period was approximately 7 weeks and from that time onwards, the animals became progressively ill and emaciated.
  • (20) At terminal necropsy, diminution of body fat and atrophy of the spleen and thymus that correlated with emaciation were noted in the MPM-50,000 group.

Peaky


Definition:

  • (a.) Having a peak or peaks.
  • (a.) Sickly; peaked.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At atrioventricular transition level, the P wave was peaky or diphasic.
  • (2) Despite the promise of a layered saga involving communism, the IRA and betting syndicates, not a great deal happens in Peaky Blinders .
  • (3) Yeah, ha ha, the cheeky peaky blinders are leeching an extra grand and a half out of buyers just for accepting their offer on a property.
  • (4) Nothing too serious, maybe just a bit of a bad back or one of those newly invented illnesses which make you a bit peaky for decades – fibromyalgia, or ME … I think we should all pretend to be disabled for a month or so, claim benefits and hope this persuades the authorities to sort out the mess."
  • (5) Historical gangster epic Peaky Blinders was a double winner at the Bafta TV Craft Awards ceremony on Sunday night, where the BBC also took home awards for its Doctor Who specials commemorating the show's 50th anniversary and the special award for Strictly Come Dancing.
  • (6) In addition to Peaky Blinders' 1920s gangland epic, the BBC also has Quirke, an Andrew Davies adaptation of the John Banville novels.
  • (7) The players were more interested in keeping up to date with Peaky Blinders, Keane reckoned, but with reports of Hull City being interested in O’Neill, they really should be.
  • (8) Peaky Blinders Sam Neil either shoots Grace or himself.
  • (9) Peaky Blinders Its producers will be wary of any "British Boardwalk Empire" comparisons, since calling The Hour the "British Mad Men" weighted expectations unflatteringly.
  • (10) Peaky Blinders Steven Knight is a writer with an unusual knack for coming up with quirky ideas that go improbably big: he created Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
  • (11) Were there space I’d detail the show’s many other flaws – Andy Nyman’s Stella Street caricature of Winston Churchill, the phrase “we are family” uttered more times than at a Sister Sledge convention – but there isn’t, so let’s leave it at this: the show’s a right Peaky Blunder.
  • (12) In the past year BBC2 has produced excellent new British drama with series such as Peaky Blinders and The Fall (both re-commissioned for 2014).
  • (13) Peaky Blinders takes place in Birmingham, 1919, and Cillian Murphy stars as Tommy Shelby, leader of the eponymous gang, so-called because they carry blades in their caps.
  • (14) BLINDING LANRE BAKARE Being a Peaky Blinders fan isn’t easy.
  • (15) Knight again exceeded expectations in 2013 with Peaky Blinders, an idiosyncratic gangster drama set in Birmingham in 1919, which, through its title, introduced to common knowledge the legend of a gang who secreted razor blades in the peaks of their caps.
  • (16) The resulting activity densities along the small bowel were peaky and the overlap between the two labels in the border zone was minute, indicating that the intestinal contents were transported in isolated portions with only minor exchange of luminal contents between adjacent regions.
  • (17) The gang, known as the Peaky Blinders, were the inspiration behind the BBC2 drama of the same name.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest PEAKY GWILYM MUMFORD I’ll give Peaky Blinders this: it has style.
  • (19) Peaky Blinders, a hit with audiences when it aired last year, won an award for its director, Otto Bathurst, and photography and lighting craftsman George Steel.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fun, brutal, stylish … from left, Paul Anderson, Cillian Murphy and Finn Shelby in Peaky Blinders.

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