What's the difference between enrollment and number?

Enrollment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of enrolling; registration.
  • (n.) A writing in which anything is enrolled; a register; a record.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For enrolled nurses an increase in "Intrinsic Job Satisfaction" was less well maintained and no differences were found over time on "Patient Focus".
  • (2) All children enrolled in grade 2 were invited to join the study.
  • (3) Higher enrollment rates were associated with lower fertility in every model in which prior fertility was controlled.
  • (4) There were 407 participants enrolled in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging.
  • (5) Sixty-two serum concentrations were obtained from 12 infected patients enrolled in a vancomycin pharmacokinetic study.
  • (6) Seventy-seven schools responded, representing a total of 9,930 students enrolled.
  • (7) Greenpeace alone have enrolled 500 people to participate in the action, she said, with local organizations taking part in other enrollment drives.
  • (8) To determine the contribution of gender and race to the course of infarction, 816 patients with confirmed myocardial infarction who were enrolled in the Multicenter Investigation of the Limitation of Infarct Size (MILIS) were analyzed.
  • (9) Fifty-five patients with antibodies to HCV and chronic liver disease have been enrolled in the study.
  • (10) In March-May 1988, we collected data on enrollment of 1,445 Army families with grade school children in the Active Duty Dependents Dental Insurance Plan at two Army posts.
  • (11) Thirteen children with very short small bowel (less than or equal to 38 cm jejunoileum) beginning in the first month of life were enrolled in a home parenteral nutrition program between 1977 and 1984.
  • (12) A total of 2,208 male subjects, enrolled as merchant marine seamen at the Civitavecchia (Italy) harbor from 1936 to 1975 were followed up through 1989 in order to evaluate their mortality experience.
  • (13) The study population is 1,179 healthy infants enrolled at birth between May 1980 and January 1984 into the Tucson Children's Respiratory Study, Tucson, Arizona.
  • (14) In a group of inpatients interviewed, immunization coverage was 22%, 46% of the mothers had been enrolled in school at some time, and only 17% of the families had a latrine at home.
  • (15) Six atopic subjects with grass pollen allergy and six nonallergic healthy volunteers were enrolled into this study.
  • (16) The core sample was a group of 106 men who had sex with other men before 1980 and who are currently enrolled in two longitudinal studies of AIDS.
  • (17) Sixty patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis due to birch pollen were enrolled in an open, randomized parallel group study.
  • (18) This return rate by schools accounts for 95 per cent of the total student enrollment.
  • (19) A total of 922 postsecondary students enrolled in 6 health-care disciplines in Ottawa, Canada were surveyed for hepatitis-B immunization status.
  • (20) A questionnaire investigation enrolling more than 300 orthodontic patients and their parents was conducted into the subjective appraisal of treatment means and doctor-patient-interaction.

Number


Definition:

  • (n.) That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things expressible by figures.
  • (n.) A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a multitude; many.
  • (n.) A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door.
  • (n.) Numerousness; multitude.
  • (n.) The state or quality of being numerable or countable.
  • (n.) Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things.
  • (n.) That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; -- chiefly used in the plural.
  • (n.) The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed (usually) by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of a word indicating the objects denoted or referred to by the word as one, or as more than one.
  • (n.) The measure of the relation between quantities or things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical value.
  • (n.) To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of; to enumerate.
  • (n.) To reckon as one of a collection or multitude.
  • (n.) To give or apply a number or numbers to; to assign the place of in a series by order of number; to designate the place of by a number or numeral; as, to number the houses in a street, or the apartments in a building.
  • (n.) To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
  • (2) These included bringing in the A* grade, reducing the number of modules from six to four, and a greater attempt to assess the whole course at the end.
  • (3) When micF was cloned into a high-copy-number plasmid it repressed ompF gene expression, whereas when cloned into a low-copy-number plasmid it did not.
  • (4) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
  • (5) Nutritionally rehabilitated animals had similar numbers of nucleoli to control rats.
  • (6) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
  • (7) The hemodynamic efficiency of the drive was tested in a number of in vivo experiments.
  • (8) The final number of fibers--140,000-165,000--is reached by the sixth week after birth.
  • (9) On removal of selective pressure, the His+ phenotype was lost more readily than the Ura+ Trp+ markers, with a corresponding decrease in plasmid copy number.
  • (10) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
  • (11) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
  • (12) Since 1979 there has been an increase of 17,122 in the number of beds available in nursing homes.
  • (13) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
  • (14) All the twins were born in years 1973-1987, the total number was 2,226 boys and 2,302 girls.
  • (15) The number of neoplastic cells in each cell suspension was determined by cytologic criteria.
  • (16) aeruginosa and Enterococci) were significantly reduced in number during the manipulation (Fig.
  • (17) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
  • (18) Further, at the end of treatment fewer patients had depressive symptoms and the total daily number of hours of wellbeing and normal movement increased.
  • (19) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
  • (20) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.