What's the difference between fib and jib?

Fib


Definition:

  • (n.) A falsehood; a lie; -- used euphemistically.
  • (v. i.) To speak falsely.
  • (v. t.) To tell a fib to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Trans-, long- and short-axial images were interpreted quantitatively by circumferential profile analysis, and the extent of fibrotic tissue (%FIB) was estimated by integrating hypoperfused areas in six to eight consecutive short-axial slices.
  • (2) Glutamic acid residues were found in FIB amino acids.
  • (3) After the applied treatment changes were recorded in the count of lymphocytes T and B, the shiftings in the group of patients, having been treated with FIBS, were marked more distinctly, particularly in the count of lymphocytes T.
  • (4) Unlabelled fibronectin inhibited the following binding of labelled fibronectin to beads pretreated in HS-FIB.
  • (5) Simultaneous high, mid, and low right atrial endocardial bipolar electrograms were analyzed during acute A Fib induced by a rapid train of stimuli (20-40 Hz) for 1-3 seconds in anesthetized closed-chest dogs (N = 7, total of 72 episodes).
  • (6) Even my mum has tales to tell of her time on the dole, and of welfare inspectors busting in at 7am to check that none of the members of her sharehouse were sleeping in the same bed, and thus fibbing about their relationship status on their claim forms.
  • (7) We studied 102 children with newly diagnosed acute leukemia (50 retrospective: Group A; and 52 prospective: Group B) with prothrombin time (PT), partial thromboplastin time (PTT), thrombin time (TT), fibrinogen (FIB), and fibrin degradation products (FDP).
  • (8) After optimal preculture with IFN-gamma, class II positive FIB were fully competent to restimulate proliferative responses of two DR specific T cell clones and one DP specific T cell line.
  • (9) The transplanted tumor showed both papillo-tubular and solid growth patterns, in which positive reactions for AFP, CEA, ferritin (FER), carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA 19-9), albumin (ALB) and fibrinogen (FIB) were confirmed by the avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex method.
  • (10) Only mAbs BRhD2 and FIB 1 (which recognizes an epitope in the sequence 174-186) can inhibit IL-1 beta-induced thymocyte proliferation, whereas all four can inhibit the adjuvant capacity of IL-1 beta in vivo.
  • (11) The 22-year-old Londoner is not able to sustain the fib for long.
  • (12) This failure was not due to a direct suppressive effect of FIB and could not be corrected by exogenous IL1 or by factors contained in conventional mixed leukocyte culture supernatants.
  • (13) This displacement was not evident at lens positions simulating low plasma concentrations where large amounts of a-fib adsorbed.
  • (14) Transection of the common fibular (FIB) nerve caused an immediate reduction in the total amount of soleus (SOL) motor unit activity, which declined further during the following 10 days and then remained stable at less than half of normal values.
  • (15) The genotypic symbol fib is proposed for the spiroplasma fibril protein gene.
  • (16) The finding of increased FIB in DPVDs could have important implications for drug and surgical therapy in this group of patients.
  • (17) There were no correlations between EM-score and %fib.
  • (18) The presence of one or two additional FIB sites in the downstream region had no effect.
  • (19) The experience gained on a very treat number ofpatients shows that it is evident that the best method is the transposition of the tendons M. fib.
  • (20) Among the laboratory findings, WBC was 8, 100 (B 1, St 6, S 77, L 14, Mon 2), RBC 375 x 10(4), Hb 12.5, Ht 37, PLT 3.5 x 10(4), PT 15.6, PTT 68, Fib 158, FDP 10 and AT-III 75.

Jib


Definition:

  • (v. i.) A triangular sail set upon a stay or halyard extending from the foremast or fore-topmast to the bowsprit or the jib boom. Large vessels often carry several jibe; as, inner jib; outer jib; flying jib; etc.
  • (v. i.) The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended.
  • (v. i.) To move restively backward or sidewise, -- said of a horse; to balk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Jejunoileal bypass (JIB) has been widely performed for treatment of excessive obesity.
  • (2) Thirty women, operated on with JIB 11 to 17 years earlier, were examined by colonoscopy with multiple biopsies, systematically taken for histologic evaluation and flow cytometric DNA analysis.
  • (3) Numbers of intestinal goblet cells containing specific acid mucins were determined in male Sprague-Dawley rats receiving azoxymethane (total dose 90 mg kg-1) with or without jejunoileal bypass (JIB).
  • (4) Contents of sulphomucins and especially sialomucins were consistently higher in the small bowel and colon of rats receiving azoxymethane alone, but again the highest values were observed in animals with azoxymethane plus JIB.
  • (5) Malabsorption of calcium and low fasting urinary calcium excretion in the JIB patients were associated with high tubular reabsorption of calcium, the latter presumably attributable to a compensatory increase in circulating parathyroid hormone (PTH).
  • (6) Arthritis after JIB appears to be associated with circulating immune complexes containing secretory IgA.
  • (7) The use of a protein supplemented diet alone markedly reduced the detrimental effects of JIB.
  • (8) In Experiment 1 rats given a cherry-flavored solution immediately after JIB surgery subsequently displayed a strong aversion to the cherry flavor compared to Bypass and Sham-Bypass control groups.
  • (9) Jejunoileal bypass (JIB) has been a widespread operation for treatment of morbid obesity.
  • (10) Louis van Gaal likes the cut of the German’s jib, and would apparently cost around £20m.
  • (11) Forty-five patients who had been subjected to jejuno-ileal bypass (JIB) surgery for morbid obesity and 10 obese nonsurgery subjects were studied.
  • (12) We conclude that hyperoxaluria in JIB patients is associated both with intestinal hyperabsorption and with enhanced tubular secretion of oxalate, and that in some patients with IHC hypercalciuria is due to reduced tubular reabsorption of calcium.
  • (13) Patients with JIB have a marked and persistent increase in cell proliferation in the large intestine and may be at increased risk of developing colonic cancer.
  • (14) Still, if you like the cut of Ukip's jib, you might like to think of its members as bold trailblazers for the future of the radical right.
  • (15) Particularly well-documented are the feeding and drinking effects of JIB and vagotomy.
  • (16) In rats JIB causes adaptive colonic hyperplasia and enhances colorectal neoplasia.
  • (17) Jejunoileal bypass (JIB) has been widely used to treat patients with morbid obesity for the past 20 years.
  • (18) That dress earned universal praise for its elegance, boldness and simplicity, though some jibbed at its sleevelessness.
  • (19) The jejunoileal bypass (JIB) has met with increasing disfavor as a result of its unacceptably high complication rate.
  • (20) The role of the kidney in states of hyperoxaluria and hypercalciuria was investigated in seven patients with hyperoxaluria after jejunoileal bypass (JIB) and six patients with idiopathic hypercalciuria (IHC).

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