What's the difference between endangered and extant?

Endangered


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Endanger

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In conclusion it should be stated that there is some evidence for at least two defects of cellular immunity associated with AIDS and to some extent, with AIDS-endangered homosexuals suffering from lymphadenopathy: first the defect of PMNL to answer to concanavalin A with increased metabolic activity, and secondly the defect of PMNL to start phagocytosis induced by Zymosan with a subsequent release of oxygen radicals which are measurable as chemiluminescence.
  • (2) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
  • (3) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
  • (4) The administration is also attacked for endangering America with its proposals to dismantle the prison at Guantánamo Bay.
  • (5) Lynn Kramer, the zoo's vice-president of animal operations and welfare, said five lions were typically in the exhibit and have never appeared to endanger each other before.
  • (6) Endangered species should not be used in biomedical research and a continuing supply of wild-caught vulnerable species is also out of the question.
  • (7) Although most of the problems seen by the dentist in the hospital emergency room are not life-endangering, they can still cause considerable difficulty for the patient and anxiety for the doctor when not treated quickly and effectively.
  • (8) It is referred to an additional potential endangering by gun fumes and the measures for the protection of labour which are to be derived from this.
  • (9) Next year they will target 50 fin whales, 50 endangered humpbacks, and another 925 minkes.
  • (10) A number of clinical, investigational, immunological, and peroperative host factors are identified which will predispose the patient to a serious postoperative infection that may endanger his life.
  • (11) When dissecting each cadaver of rare or endangered animals its complete parasitological (not only zooparasitological) examination has to be carried out.
  • (12) A David Cameron government would endanger key public services, he said as he defended a controversial Labour advertising campaign warning cancer patients that their treatment would deteriorate under the Tories.
  • (13) Such consideration leads to the insight how deep in their basic feelings of vitality the schizophrenic person may be endangered.
  • (14) Japan should undertake some DNA research in Japanese fish markets, where endangered whales - including orcas and humpbacks - are being sold as minke whales.
  • (15) Surgical approach of such epiphysal lesions is justified not only to corroborate etiology but also in order to avoid an increase in the volume that could impair the epiphysal plate endanger the growth.
  • (16) A lawsuit filed with a federal court in Washington last week argues that night-time feeding could lead to long periods without water, endangering the hunger strikers.
  • (17) "They are essentially abandoning wolf recovery before the job is done," said Noah Greenwald, the endangered species director at the Centre for Biological Diversity.
  • (18) The closest this vision has come to being realised is the solar farm completed last year outside Wuwei city in Gansu, behind a zoo and breeding centre for endangered animals.
  • (19) We have suggested previously that many types of mutations might be induced by severe environmental stress, thereby enhancing genetic variation in an endangered population.
  • (20) The Obama administration is on a roll with proposing legislation that endangers our privacy and security,” EFF’s Mark Jaycox and Lee Tien wrote in a blog post last week, calling Obama’s recent proposals “recycled ideas that have failed in Congress since their introduction in 2011.

Extant


Definition:

  • (a.) Standing out or above any surface; protruded.
  • (a.) Still existing; not destroyed or lost; outstanding.
  • (a.) Publicly known; conspicuous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is extant a population of subjects who have average or better than average interpretive reading skills as measured by standardized tests but who read slowly and inefficiently.
  • (2) For example, most large extant lizards are herbivorous.
  • (3) Whereas all extant vertical clingers and leapers share certain femoral traits (i.e., long femur, proximally restricted trochanters, ventrally raised patellar articular surface), Galagidae and Tarsiidae share features of the proximal femur (i.e., cylindrical head, large posterior expansion of articular surface onto the neck) that clearly distinguish them from the specialized leapers of the Malagasy Republic (Indriidae and Lepilemur).
  • (4) This method provides an improvement in sensitivity over extant spectrophotometric methods and circumvents limitations of assays using radioactive pyruvate.
  • (5) His data also indicate that the supraorbital region in extant humans cannot be accurately modeled as a beam.
  • (6) On the basis of morphophysiologic relationships in extant populations, it can be assumed that mean annual osteonal creation frequency, and mean annual Haversian bone formation rate can be reliably determined in extinct populations.
  • (7) The older listener performance measures were compared with extant data from 20 normally hearing young adult listeners (mean age = 22 years).
  • (8) These findings suggest that thyroxine-potentiated mitogenesis promotes greater numbers of new motor neurons to the LMC while, simultaneously, target removal delays the loss of extant cells.
  • (9) Jeletzkya douglassae Johnson and Richardson is described as the oldest known representative of an extant squid group.
  • (10) Photoperiod-mediated differential responsiveness to 6-MBOA indicates that female house mice can discriminate long from short days, and these results suggest that the physiological mechanisms for photoperiodic responsiveness remain extant in this species previously characterized as nonphotperiodic.
  • (11) We derive twelve postulates, eight relating to the earliest vertebrate skeletogenic and odontogenic tissues and four relating to the development of these tissues in extant vertebrates and extrapolate the developmental data back to the evolutionary origin of vertebrate skeletogenic and odontogenic tissues.
  • (12) The numbers and local sequence environments of the two types of substitution mutation plus additions and deletions have been obtained directly in this study from differences between a large number of extant primate gene and pseudogene sequences.
  • (13) BP), and both resemble humans most closely among extant hominoids.
  • (14) The count of publications on geometric-optical illusions and the bibliography of extant books on the topic are brought up to date.
  • (15) Molecular modelling studies could not identify structural features of the aphidicolin-dCTP "overlap" that is unique to dCTP, relative to the remaining dNTPs, and that is consistent with the extant structure-activity data.
  • (16) The digital unit is compatible with all the extant radiographic equipment in our department and automatically supplies two images, the first one resembling a conventional radiograph, the second one characterized by a broader exposure range that allows a clear visualization of soft tissues.
  • (17) These data come from extant hosts and from paleobiogeography.
  • (18) Similarly, we have detected Amerindian genes, such as LDHB--Gua and TFchi, in proportions that relate this population with the extant Ngawbé (Guaymí).
  • (19) The central nervous system location of neurochemicals that are widely distributed among extant animals may give us clues to changes that occurred in the brains of these animals during evolution.
  • (20) Today all patients are alive and 7 present no recurrences of HCC on US and CT scans; the follow-up period was 18 months for 3 patients and 12, 9, 6, and 3 months for the extant 4 patients, respectively.

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