What's the difference between fifteen and sixteen?
Fifteen
Definition:
(a.) Five and ten; one more than fourteen.
(n.) The sum of five and ten; fifteen units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing fifteen units, as 15, or xv.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fifteen sera ICA-IgG and ICA-protein A positive with high titres remained positive thereafter.
(2) Even so, amputation of fifteen extremities and four other major excisions were required in twelve patients.
(3) Fifteen patients of acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) were detected out of 2500 persons of Maheshwari community surveyed.
(4) Fifteen patients suspected to have Morton's neuroma were examined by computed tomography, which revealed the neuroma in seven cases.
(5) Fifteen days after axotomy of the olfactory nerves, two stained patterns which were numerously or sparsely labelled regions were observed.
(6) Fifteen SCI patients underwent a total of 224 ultrasonic bladder volume determinations and 57 urethral catheterizations.
(7) Nineteen Dacron velour fistula bypasses between the brachial artery and median basilic vein were performed in fifteen selected patients for a total dialysis period of ninety-six months.
(8) Fifteen apparently normal patients who had been cured of cryptococcosis were found, as a group, to have impaired responsiveness to skin testing with cryptococcin and mumps, minimal leukocyte migration inhibition when stimulated with cryptococcin or C. neoformans, but normal group responses to cryptococcin in Cryptococcus-induced lymphocyte transformation.
(9) Fifteen animals in Group 1 received a basal diet and were killed sequentially at 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8 weeks (three rats at each point) after the start of the experiment.
(10) Fifteen of 16 asymptomatic patients demonstrated clearing of Shigella from stool within 48 hours of therapy.
(11) The efficacy of three different therapeutic regimes was studied in one group by the application of the drug to the entire skin for either five minutes, fifteen minutes, or twelve hours for eighteen days.
(12) Fifteen patients with primary lymphoma of breast are reported from a 30-year review.
(13) Fifteen women were found to have cervical neoplasia, of whom nine had either never been screened before or had last been screened more than five years previously; a further two women (one of whom was found to have early invasive cancer) had previously had an abnormal smear for which the recommended follow-up had not been done.
(14) Twenty-six patients were subjected to coronary artery bypass surgery, eleven during the first 28 days and fifteen subsequently.
(15) Fifteen cases were neurologically and psychiatrically normal and ranged in age from 43 to 95 years.
(16) Fifteen consecutive patients on peritoneal dialysis who complained of chronic sleep disturbance and requested sedative were selected.
(17) Fifteen injuries resulted from direct penetration of a vessel and three were concussion or blast injuries.
(18) After incubation with the bacteria for fifteen days, the nitrogen and carbon contents were estimated.
(19) The rate of separation anomalies of monozygotic twins is assessed by a review of the literature: from 1 to twenty to fifty thousands for joined twins to 1 per cent fifty thousand to fifteen millions for diprosopus.
(20) Five hundred fifteen senior baccalaureate nursing students randomly responded to one of two packages of 18 one-item pharmacology achievement tests.
Sixteen
Definition:
(a.) Six and ten; consisting of six and ten; fifteen and one more.
(n.) The number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing sixteen units, as 16, or xvi.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
(2) Sixteen patients in whom schizophrenia was initially diagnosed and who were treated with fluphenazine enanthate or decanoate developed severe depression for a short period after the injection.
(3) The amino acid pools in Chinese hamster lung V79 cells were measured as a function of time during hyperthermic exposure at 40.5 degrees and 45.0 degrees C. Sixteen of the 20 protein amino acids were present in sufficient quantity to measure accurately.
(4) Sixteen patients (27%) manifested anomalies of the urinary tract: 12 had markedly altered kidneys, 8 of which were unilateral and ipsilateral to the diaphragmatic defect.
(5) In this paper we report sixteen new cases from Europe and North America, suggesting that Kabuki make-up syndrome may be more common outside of Japan than supposed.
(6) One hundred and sixteen patients with advanced and metastatic adenocarcinoma of the pancreas were randomized to treatment with combined Streptozotocin and 5-fluorouracil or combined Streptozotocin and cyclophosphamide.
(7) Sixteen (28%) showed an infarct appropriate to the symptoms.
(8) Sixteen smooth Brucella strains were lysed and digested by proteinase K, and the LPS fractions analysed by sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(9) In 210 cases of uveitis sixteen were associated with sarcoidosis.
(10) Sixteen pregnant patients with pelvic masses detected with ultrasound (US) were studied with magnetic resonance (MR) imaging at 0.35 T. Two patients were in their first trimester, eight in the second, and six in the last.
(11) Sixteen patients (2 of whom had had an abdominal procedure) underwent aortic valve replacement for aortic stenosis.
(12) Sixteen patients (7%) with inconclusive diagnosis had symptoms only of SI and UI but no objective findings.
(13) Three hundred sixteen female patients with cancer of the larynx, pharynx, and mouth were examined and the following cancer sites were compared with respect to alcohol and tobacco consumption: oropharynx, hypopharynx, larynx, epilarynx, lip, and mouth.
(14) The post-mortem examination revealed that in sixteen animals there was equally expressed hemorrhagic diathesis, five of which had clinical icterus, five manifested subclinical icterus, and six showed no icterus.
(15) Eleven and six first-calving heifers and sixteen and nine second-calving cows also received cloprostenol + relaxin and cloprostenol + phosphate-buffered saline, respectively.
(16) Sixteen patients with an accessory pathway were studied (eight surgical ablations, eight catheter ablations with radiofrequency energy).
(17) Sixteen patients, 6-15 years old, were tested, using an auditory target selection paradigm.
(18) Sixteen children (41%) subsequently relapsed, but all who reentered treatment became dry.
(19) Sixteen patients who remained wet had detrusor instability; 9 of these were cured by anticholinergic medications.
(20) Sixteen (12.80%) of the 125 male patients studied were G6PD deficient; 33 (18.96%) of the 174 females were heterozygous and 1 (0.57%) homozygous.