What's the difference between falling and galling?
Falling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fall
(a. & n.) from Fall, v. i.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
(2) In all groups, there was a fall in labeling index with time reflecting increasing tumor size.
(3) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
(4) In the clinical trials in which there was complete substitution of fat-modified ruminant foods for conventional ruminant products the fall in serum cholesterol was approximately 10%.
(5) Rise time and fall time constants have been quantified for describing kinetics of response.
(6) Elderly women need to follow the same strategies as postmenopausal women with more emphasis on prevention of falls.
(7) In the 153 women to whom iron supplements were given during pregnancy, the initial fall in haemoglobin concentration was less, was arrested by 28 weeks gestation and then rose to a level equivalent to the booking level.
(8) It is suggested that the rapid phase is due to clearance of peptides in the circulation which results in a fall to lower blood concentrations which are sustained by slow release of peptide from binding sites which act as a depot.
(9) Defibrotide prevents the dramatic fall of creatine phosphokinase activity in the ischemic ventricle: metabolic changes which reflect changes in the cells affected by prolonged ischemia.
(10) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
(11) Addition of extracellular mevalonate led to a concentration-dependent fall in both processes, although a higher concentration was required to produce the same effect on LDL degradation as on HMG-CoA reductase activity.
(12) The fall of the cell number in the liquor cerebrospinalis was more rapidly in the GAGPS treatment.
(13) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
(14) The asthma group's fall in FEV1 was also abolished.
(15) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(16) This transient paresis was accompanied by a dramatic fall in the MFCV concomitant with a shift of the power spectrum to the lower frequencies.
(17) As many girls as boys receive primary and secondary education, maternal mortality is lower and the birth rate is falling .
(18) Compliance during dehydration was 7.6 and 12.5% change in IFV per millimeter Hg fall in IFP (micropipettes) in skin and muscle, respectively, whereas compliance in subcutis based on perforated capsule pressure was 2.0% change in IFV per millimeter Hg.
(19) The fall of a tyrant is usually the cause of popular rejoicing followed by public vengeance.
(20) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.
Galling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gall
(a.) Fitted to gall or chafe; vexing; harassing; irritating.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance, impaired gall bladder contraction, and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes.
(2) The degree of the filling up and the dilation of the gall bladder, its functional state as well as the passibility of d. cysticus are evaluated by ultrasound examination and computer determination of the surface and dimensions of the gall bladder.
(3) One patient presented a rupture of the gall-bladder with formation of a bilioma in the adjacent liver tissue.
(4) When tissue metabolism was irreversibly inhibited by exposure to formaldehyde, hydrogen ion concentration and pCO2 were significantly decreased in the mucosal side of the chamber compared with the viable gall bladder.
(5) In 15 subjects the gall bladder emptied in relation to eating according to a double exponential function.
(6) On 3 April he announced on his website that he had inoperable gall bladder cancer, giving him, at most, a year to live.
(7) This is a report of the short- and long-term complications in a premature infant with tracheoesophageal fistula, including those related to central venous alimentation, seizures, chylothorax, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, dental erosions, gastroesophageal reflux, pulmonary problems, and gall stones.
(8) Adenomyomas of the gall bladder are rare benign neoplasms.
(9) The lack of symptomatic gall stones in cross sectional surveys is probably due to their rapid diagnosis and treatment.
(10) Histological examination suggested that the gall sludge in the pancreatic cyst was caused by the reflux of bile into the pancreatic duct through the papilla of Vater.
(11) The results were analysed according the morphological criteria (demonstration of the bile duct, intra-hepatic ducts, gall bladder and renal tract) and functional criteria (T max, half-time biliary excretion values, development of activity in the bile duct, in the gall bladder and in the gut).
(12) The number of stones per gall-bladder averaged 6.3 (1-20), size of stones 1.7 cm (0.5-2.8 cm), and duration of treatment 11.9 h (5-24 h).
(13) The types of metastasis expansion in the bones were determined radiologically: the most frequent--osteolytic, less frequent--mixed, and the osteoplastic type (prostate cancer, gall-bladder cancer, and pancreas cancer).
(14) Fractional turnover rate on the two regimens correlated with gall bladder emptying (n = 16, r = 0.61, p less than 0.01), but not with small intestinal transit time (r = 0.07, NS).
(15) Few to many cryptosporidia were present in the gall bladders and bile ducts of infected birds.
(16) Pulse rate and blood pressure were not affected by the gall bladder distension.
(17) Pancreatic duct abnormalities were more severe and occurred more frequently in patients with gall stones who had stones in the biliary tree than in patients with a normal biliary tree (postcholecystectomy patients, 55% v 25%) but the difference between the two groups just failed to be significant (chi 2 = 3.34).
(18) We conclude that a number of non-specific chronic inflammatory histological abnormalities were present in primary sclerosing cholangitis gall bladders.
(19) On histological examination, there were signs of acute cardiac failure; edema of the lungs, liver and gall bladder, partial myofibrillar degeneration and cytoplasmic vacuoles in the media of a small coronary artery.
(20) These investigations reveal that the great majority of cases of gall-stones are undiagnosed.