What's the difference between enclosure and surrounding?

Enclosure


Definition:

  • (n.) Inclosure. See Inclosure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Will the rate of late (four to five years) wound infection after operations done in a clean-air enclosure be lower than that after procedures done in a "normal" operating-room environment using preoperative, operative, and postoperative antibiotics?
  • (2) The La Parguera facility was established in part to contrast the social behavior of free-ranging groups with that in enclosures, as well as to compare the seasonal events linked to reproduction with those at Cayo Santiago.
  • (3) Inexperienced physicians are often unable to immediately identify these translucencies as air enclosures in the intracranial cavity.
  • (4) Mice were exposed to hypoxia by enclosure in cages covered with dimethyl-silicone rubber membranes for 1-14 days.
  • (5) On each trial, access to saccharin at normal ambient temperature was followed by injection of drug or saline and placement for 6 hr into a temperature-controlled enclosure.
  • (6) Quite a lot of things here are variations on the idea of enclosure, putting a roof up, spreading some kind of meniscus over the land.
  • (7) Expression of the DIT and DIT2 genes is restricted to sporulating cells, with the DIT1 transcripts accumulating at the time of prospore enclosure and just prior to the time of dityrosine biosynthesis.
  • (8) Our results show that use of ATB ANA microplates in an anaerobic enclosure is a valuable method in clinical practice.
  • (9) Comparative behavioral samples were obtained on 38 subjects in the existing indoor-outdoor run and in the enclosure.
  • (10) When observed as yearlings and 2-year-olds, juveniles who had had more protective early mothering showed less interest in the external environment, as measured by the percentage of time they spent looking outside the home enclosure.
  • (11) Two replicate experimental populations were established from each collection, and each replicate was then released into an enclosure surrounding a natural habitat at a central-latitude locality.
  • (12) The atmosphere in an enclosure equipped with an automatic life support system was examined during 30-day integrated animal experiments.
  • (13) The data showed the vertical flow room to exhibit significantly lower (P less than .05) contamination levels than the horizontal flow enclosure.
  • (14) perfringens strains isolated from feces of test subjects kept in an enclosure for 34 days.
  • (15) We compared monochromatic ultraviolet radiation of 254 nm with the use of a Charnley-Howorth air enclosure by bacterial air-sampling during 113 total hip arthroplasties.
  • (16) Using the rebreathing method, CO2 sensitivity of the respiration regulation system was investigated during a year-long enclosure study and head-down tilt tests of varying duration (up to 120 days).
  • (17) Addition of ATP and GTP to bound vesicles caused limited vesicle fusion, but enclosure of the chromatin was not observed.
  • (18) In the undrugged state both groups tended to scan the walls of the enclosure with the vibrissae side of the face.
  • (19) Sonography, computed tomography and scintigraphy were performed, and the prenatally diagnosed process was identified as a cystic growth in the right liver lobe with enclosure of the V. cava inferior.
  • (20) Males born and housed in a small woodland enclosure in 1979-1980 and well fed with grain did not experience the long period of regressed testes.

Surrounding


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surround
  • (a.) Inclosing; encircling.
  • (n.) An encompassing.
  • (n.) The things which surround or environ; external or attending circumstances or conditions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Such was the mystique surrounding Rumsfeld's standing that an aide sought to clarify that he didn't stand all the time, like a horse.
  • (2) The lesion (10.6 X 9.8 mm) was a well-defined ellipsoid granuloma due to a foreign body with a central zone of necrosis surrounded entirely by a fibrous wall.
  • (3) It was hypothesized that compensatory restraining influences of surrounding soft tissues prevented a more severe facial malformation from occurring.
  • (4) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
  • (5) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
  • (6) The usefulness of the proposed method is obvious in cases where the composition of a precipitate on LM scale is to be compared with the LM appearance of the surrounding tissue.
  • (7) Degraded visual acuity had a significant effect on cadence, foot placement, and foot clearance, but visual surround conditions did not.
  • (8) Computed tomography does not allow differentiation between these lesions and surrounding normal tissues.
  • (9) The efficacy of the process is dependent on immersion medium, while the degree of surrounding tissue damage is dependent on energy dose.
  • (10) In cat, DARPP-32-immunoreactive cell bodies identified as Müller cells were demonstrated in the inner nuclear layer (INL) with processes closely surrounding the cell soma of photoreceptors in the outer nuclear layer.
  • (11) In the univariate life-table analysis, recurrence-free survival was significantly related to age, pTNM category, tumour size, presence of certain growth patterns, tumour necrosis, tumour infiltration in surrounding thyroid tissue and thyroid gland capsule, lymph node metastases, presence of extra-nodal tumour growth and number of positive lymph nodes, whereas only tumour diameter, thyroid gland capsular infiltration and presence of extra-nodal tumour growth remained as significant prognostic factors in the multivariate analysis.
  • (12) Surrounding intact ipsilateral structures are more important for the recovery of some of the language functions, such as motor output and phonemic assembly, than homologous contralateral structures.
  • (13) The dual-probe system incorporates a central collimated probe for monitoring activity in the LV surrounded by an annular detector collimated in such a manner as to provide simultaneous real-time monitoring of the LV background activity.
  • (14) This technique is sensitive to the optical anisotropy within the muscle, including that due to intrinsic properties of the protein molecules as well as that due to the regular arrangement of proteins in the surrounding medium.
  • (15) Surrounding parenchyma may be partially compressed.
  • (16) The stage of a given malignancy, representing the degree of spread of the tumor to its local surroundings or distant sites, is the best predictor of long-term survival.
  • (17) At this stage of the observation period the labeling index was very low in surrounding liver, but still high in the gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase-positive areas.
  • (18) The third effect was a shift in center-surround balance towards a more dominant center.
  • (19) Although sound pressure levels are high, they are probably reduced before reaching the cochlea of the fetus because of the surrounding amniotic fluid and the fluid in the middle ear.
  • (20) Glial siphoning can distribute the potassium preferentially toward the blood vessels in the area, leading to an elevation in potassium concentration in the ECF surrounding the vascular smooth muscle of the arterioles.