What's the difference between erection and satyr?

Erection


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act of founding or establishing, as a commonwealth or an office; also, the act of rousing to excitement or courage.
  • (n.) The state of being erected, lifted up, built, established, or founded; exaltation of feelings or purposes.
  • (n.) State of being stretched to stiffness; tension.
  • (n.) Anything erected; a building of any kind.
  • (n.) The state of a part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 1986, Bill Heine erected a 25ft sculpture of a shark falling through the roof of his terraced house in Oxford .
  • (2) The effect of aspirin on the development of hypercoagulability in the penile blood during erection was studied in five Chacma baboons.
  • (3) Many failures of spontaneous erection will, however, respond to intracavernous injection of vasoactive agents postoperatively.
  • (4) Supine and erect blood pressure (sphygmomanometer) measurements and side effects were noted at the same times.
  • (5) Morphine (0.1 to 5 micrograms), but not U-69,593 (5 micrograms), injected into the PVN 10 minutes before oxytocin or apomorphine, was found to be able to prevent penile erection and yawning induced by the unilateral PVN microinjection of oxytocin (10 ng) or apomorphine (50 ng).
  • (6) One in four British homes could be fitted with solar heating equipment and 3,500 wind turbines could be erected across Britain within 12 years as part of a green energy revolution to be proposed by the government next week.
  • (7) The initial dosage in pharmacological erection therapy may be adjusted according to these risk factors.
  • (8) Significantly, more of the patients aged below 30 years reported erection sufficient for coitus (p less than 0.05).
  • (9) In erect subjects, voluntary changes of shape at FRC did not change regional volume distribution.
  • (10) Apomorphine (Apo), a short acting dopamine (DA) receptor agonist, stimulates growth hormone (GH) secretion, decreases prolactin secretion, induces yawning, penile erections and other physiological effects in man.
  • (11) This experimental model excludes the interference of subjective factors, such as erotic stimuli and libido on erection, and it seems that androgen deficiency has a direct effect on the neurophysiology of the erectile tissues resulting in a higher tonus of the detumescence factors, which can be explained by an incomplete relaxation of the sinusoidal smooth muscle.
  • (12) The patients were seen after a sustained erection of 20 hours maximum on 15 occasions and one patient was seen after a sustained erection of 36 hours.
  • (13) Fifty patients were studied with erect films at excretory urography.
  • (14) The veins which are not compressable during erection can eventually be obliterated under radiological control with the help of mini-coils.
  • (15) Patients showing a complete erection had their intrapenial blood volumes 4.2-11.2 times greater than before VSS (mean increase, 8.0 times).
  • (16) In nine normal subjects duplicate measurements were made in the erect (seated), supine, and lateral decubitus posture, at a constant tidal volume (700 ml) and frequency (1 Hz) starting from functional residual capacity (FRC).
  • (17) Erections were induced by cavernous nerve stimulation before and after atropine.
  • (18) In the light of previously published advice and reports, the experience gained from these two cases now dictates that investigation of an unexplained death occurring after exposure to, and change from, hyperbaric or hypobaric conditions, should begin with plain erect chest radiography on the body before autopsy.
  • (19) Although it is the world's biggest CO2 emitter and notorious for building the equivalent of a 400MW coal-fired power station every three days, it is also erecting 36 wind turbines a day and building a robust new electricity grid to send this power thousands of miles across the country from the deserts of the west to the cities of the east.
  • (20) Contraction of the ischiocavernosus muscles occluded the arterial inflow and venous outflow to the CCP, making it a closed system during peak erection.

Satyr


Definition:

  • (n.) A sylvan deity or demigod, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness.
  • (n.) Any one of many species of butterflies belonging to the family Nymphalidae. Their colors are commonly brown and gray, often with ocelli on the wings. Called also meadow browns.
  • (n.) The orang-outang.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But when he laughed – which was a lot – he looked like an elderly satyr.
  • (2) Yet Frost failed to convince Private Eye (launched in 1961), which routinely portrayed him in cartoons – scenes of toga'd Roman decadence were popular in the Profumo scandal phase of Harold Macmillan's rule – as "Juvenile, the court satyr with faithful audience of Daily Mail columnists," a man whose quiff cost 25 guineas at fashionable Raymonde's salon, the Eye told readers.
  • (3) Picasso is wheeled on too, but his print of a satyr contemplating a nymph is a homage to Rembrandt, not Rubens.
  • (4) The director of the notorious 1991 French folly Les amants du Pont-Neuf has been away from feature films for more than a decade, and returned at Cannes with the nuttiest offering on display, featuring that wonderful French actor Denis Lavant – part acrobat, part mime artist, part satyr – as Monsieur Oscar, who plays 11 different parts, changing in the back of a white limo as it glides around Paris from one rendezvous to another.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest V&A Collection Andrea Riccio Satyr and Satyress (1510-1520) V&A, London In Greek and Roman mythology satyrs are goat-legged followers of the wine god Bacchus, hairy votaries of sex, dance and ecstasy.
  • (6) Did I actually fancy this rather strange little satyr of a man in his funny heels?
  • (7) Comparison of these four patients suggests a characteristic phenotype in the 4q- syndrome: cleft palate, satyr deformity of the pinnae, snub nose, retrognathia and micrognathia, hypertelorism, oropharyngeal hypothonia or upper airway obstruction, cardiac defect, clinodactyly of the fifth fingers with absence of a flexion crease, simian lines, displaced or clinodactylous toes, and mental retardation.
  • (8) It's a big silver dish decorated with scenes of satyrs and other worshippers of Bacchus, a good theme for a boozy Roman banquet.
  • (9) My favourite scene is a very hot and very sweet threesome with Mouse, Ben and a beautiful youth dressed as a satyr.
  • (10) Here, however, the brilliant craftsman Riccio imagines a satyr couple, tenderly embracing in some balmy woodland nook.
  • (11) However, in a few species, including the ostrich, rheas, kiwis, some tinamous, the red-throated loon, screamers, the satyr tragopan, the great bustard, and the pin-tailed sandgrouse, the ceca are sacculated or have diverticula.
  • (12) The whole work is crammed and crowded with the Dadd mixture of intricate plant life and small figures on all scales – a miniature bacchanal with satyrs, and a dead deer on a pole that rushes along above Titania's head.
  • (13) The proband shows the full spectrum of anomalies, including imperforate anus, prominent perineal raphe, rectoperineal fistula, triphalangeal thumb, preaxial hexadactyly, syndactyly, clinodactyly, preauricular protuberances, hypoplastic satyr ears, sensorineural hearing loss and urorenal anomalies.