What's the difference between extensible and extensile?
Extensible
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being extended, whether in length or breadth; susceptible of enlargement; extensible; extendible; -- the opposite of contractible or compressible.
Example Sentences:
(1) If ascorbic acid was omitted from the culture medium, the extensive new connective tissue matrix was not produced.
(2) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(3) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.
(4) During capillary growth when endothelial cells (EC) undergo extensive proliferation and migration and pericytes are scarce, hyaluronic acid (HA) levels are elevated.
(5) This method, which permits a more rapid formation of anastomoses, has been used to form Roux-en-Y jejunojejunostomies without extensive complications in six patients.
(6) The curve of mitoses peaked at the same time as that of TK activity but was only 68% as extensive.
(7) Our results show that large complex lipid bodies and extensive accumulations of glycogen are valuable indicators of a functionally suppressed chief cell in atrophic parathyroid glands.
(8) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
(9) Mitoses of nuclei of myocytes of the left ventricle of the heart observed in two elderly people who had died of extensive relapsing infarction are described.
(10) When labelled long-chain fatty acids or glycerol were infused into the lactating goat, there was extensive transfer of radioactivity into milk in spite of the absence of net uptake of substrate by the mammary gland.
(11) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
(12) Extensive proliferation has been shown to accompany the de novo generation of LAK cytotoxicity.
(13) Extensive sequence homologies and other genetic features are shared with the related oncogenic virus, human papillomavirus type 16, especially in the major reading frames.
(14) Binding of I to plasma proteins was extensive but was less than that of 5-chlorosalicylic acid.
(15) It is a specific clinical picture with extensive soft tissue gas and swelling of the forearm.
(16) Comparisons of ICR locations were made between flexion and extension, between left and right limbs, and between living and dead dogs, using analysis of variance.
(17) Furthermore, the local interneurons make extensive efferent synaptic connections with unidentified neurons in the terminal medulla.
(18) Light microscopy of both apneics and snorers revealed mucous gland hypertrophy with ductal dilation and focal squamous metaplasia, disruption of muscle bundles by infiltrating mucous glands, focal atrophy of muscle fibers, and extensive edema of the lamina propria with vascular dilation.
(19) The mechanical forces involved in neurite extension have begun to be quantified, and interactions between the actin and microtubule systems are being further characterized.
(20) Concurrent with this change in the level of enforcement of RBT was an extensive publicity campaign, which warned drinking drivers of their increased risk of detection by RBT units.
Extensile
Definition:
(a.) Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible.
Example Sentences:
(1) This report details an experience with patients treated at a Shock Trauma Center with extensile repair and immediate (within 48 hr) post-operative radiation therapy given as 5 daily fractions of 2 Gy in 5 to 7 days to a total dose of 10 Gy using megavoltage radiation therapy.
(2) These results indicate that genetic variants of type III collagen may influence the extensile properties of the aortic wall and that mutations in the type III collagen gene may be associated with aortic aneurysms.
(3) Preoperative angiographic evaluation of the superior gluteal artery is suggested for patients with acetabular fractures that are displaced into the sciatic notch and who will require an extensile surgical exposure creating an abductor muscle flap supplied by the superior gluteal artery.
(4) Extensile exposures used for complex acetabular fracture reconstructive surgery often create abductor muscle flaps pedicled on the superior gluteal artery.
(5) The extensile triradiate approach is discussed, along with current fixation methods and prosthetic choices.
(6) Using extensile exposure through a posterior Judet incision, rigid internal fixation, and early motion, results in eight cases were excellent.
(7) A 3,780-g newborn girl had multiple, bilateral eyelid adhesions taht connected the upper and lower eyelids by bands of extensile tissue.
(8) Tibial tubercle osteotomy provides a safe and reliable means of extensile exposure of the knee.
(9) 41 displaced intraarticular fractures of the calcaneus were treated with open reduction, limited internal screw fixation, bone grafting and percutaneous pinning, using an extensile postero-lateral approach.
(10) Apart from the union troubles involving only one column, all other cases justify the use of the extensile approach.
(11) The surgical approach and modified extensile approach include four fixation devices.
(12) Professor A. K. Henry coined the term 'extensile exposure'.
(13) A technique of trochanteric osteotomy that allows extensile exposure of the hip and wide exposure of the proximal femoral diaphysis for total joint replacement is described.
(14) Extensile surgical exposure, accurate reduction, and firm skeletal fixation are essential for this technique.
(15) Extensile exposure is mandatory for appropriate management.
(16) The T-shaped skin incision allows utilization of a standard posterior approach with conversion to the extensile exposure if necessary.
(17) The two different estimates of the change in entropy of collagen following tanning suggest that in basement membrane only about 45% of the collagenous protein has an extensile helical structure.
(18) The zonular fibres between the ages of 15 and 45 do not appear to change in their extensile properties so the elasticity modulus remains constant with a value of 3.5 X 10(5)Nm-2.
(19) We suggest that this mechanism transports proteins involved in cell locomotion, such as proteins necessary for adhesion, and could also produce an extensile force.
(20) This allows an extensile retroperitoneal approach suitable for exposure of both the mid-lumbar and lumbosacral spine.