What's the difference between flaccid and flaccidity?

Flaccid


Definition:

  • (a.) Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ruthenium red (RuR) inhibits Ca2+ uptake and transmitter release in synaptosomes, and produces flaccid paralysis when injected intraperitoneally (IP) and convulsions after intracranial administration.
  • (2) The barostat quantitates muscular wall tone indirectly by measuring its reciprocal, e.g., the volume of air within a flaccid intraluminal bag that is maintained at a constant and preselected pressure, by an electronic feedback mechanism.
  • (3) The protein synthesis rate was lower in the central core than in the periphery of incubated flaccid control muscles.
  • (4) On admission, he was comatose and flaccid with his four extremities.
  • (5) The sodium ionophore monensin induces a suppression of motility, leading to a rapid flaccid paralysis (in approximately 1.5 h at 1 x 10(-7) M, and within a few minutes at higher concentrations).
  • (6) The aim of the article is to show that its indication to reinforce flaccid musculature or to cover muscular defects of the abdominal wall is fully justified even in a time of routine use of plastic nets.
  • (7) We studied the influence of sepsis on muscle protein synthesis and degradation in vivo and in muscles, incubated flaccid or at resting length.
  • (8) The patient developed a confluent maculopapular erythema and large flaccid bullae of trunk, legs, feet and mucous membranes, with fever up to 38 degrees C. Toxic epidermal necrolisis (TEN) was supposed and the diagnosis was confirmed by a skin patch test followed by cutaneous biopsy.
  • (9) We also confirm that a tetanus toxin-derived fragment, the Ibc fragment, which is not transported retrogradely, produces flaccid paralysis.
  • (10) This negative pressure of the anterior mediastinum would result from an absent cardiac mass which was displaced leftward, favoured by an enlarged and flaccid pericardial sac.
  • (11) We analyzed the results of transfers of the iliopsoas or external oblique muscles performed to augment the abductor power of the hips in 149 patients with flaccid paralysis of the hips.
  • (12) The neurological manifestations developed during adolescence with slurred and slow speech with scanning, muscle flaccidity, sings of Trömner and Jacobson, intentional tremor, equilibrium disturbances.
  • (13) Sacral shingles is associated with sensory loss and flaccid detrusor paralysis.
  • (14) The results suggest that a noradrenergic alpha-adrenoceptor system maintains penile flaccidity in the dog.
  • (15) Of the four surviving cases with flaccid paralysis, three had residual weakness in their lower limbs and walked with an abnormal gait 3 years after the acute paralytic attack.
  • (16) An infant presented at birth with symmetrical flaccid paraparesis limited to lower legs and feet, and involving the proximal and distal muscle group.
  • (17) Rats injected with 10(6) 9L gliosarcoma cells showed progressive weight loss, flaccid paralysis, and neurogenic bladder dysfunction and had a median survival of 11 days.
  • (18) Moreover, combined beta-endorphin and haloperidol treatment produced flaccidity in most animals.
  • (19) The stimulator has been working satisfactorily since November 1965.This stimulator could eventually also be used in purely sensory sacral lesions, in well-selected incomplete lower motor neuron lesions, and in flaccid detrusors of the myogenic type.A review of the literature up to the time of this report shows only a few encouraging but incomplete results in humans.
  • (20) Six malnourished children presenting with acute flaccid paralysis caused by hypokalaemia are described.

Flaccidity


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being flaccid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ruthenium red (RuR) inhibits Ca2+ uptake and transmitter release in synaptosomes, and produces flaccid paralysis when injected intraperitoneally (IP) and convulsions after intracranial administration.
  • (2) The barostat quantitates muscular wall tone indirectly by measuring its reciprocal, e.g., the volume of air within a flaccid intraluminal bag that is maintained at a constant and preselected pressure, by an electronic feedback mechanism.
  • (3) The protein synthesis rate was lower in the central core than in the periphery of incubated flaccid control muscles.
  • (4) On admission, he was comatose and flaccid with his four extremities.
  • (5) The sodium ionophore monensin induces a suppression of motility, leading to a rapid flaccid paralysis (in approximately 1.5 h at 1 x 10(-7) M, and within a few minutes at higher concentrations).
  • (6) The aim of the article is to show that its indication to reinforce flaccid musculature or to cover muscular defects of the abdominal wall is fully justified even in a time of routine use of plastic nets.
  • (7) We studied the influence of sepsis on muscle protein synthesis and degradation in vivo and in muscles, incubated flaccid or at resting length.
  • (8) The patient developed a confluent maculopapular erythema and large flaccid bullae of trunk, legs, feet and mucous membranes, with fever up to 38 degrees C. Toxic epidermal necrolisis (TEN) was supposed and the diagnosis was confirmed by a skin patch test followed by cutaneous biopsy.
  • (9) We also confirm that a tetanus toxin-derived fragment, the Ibc fragment, which is not transported retrogradely, produces flaccid paralysis.
  • (10) This negative pressure of the anterior mediastinum would result from an absent cardiac mass which was displaced leftward, favoured by an enlarged and flaccid pericardial sac.
  • (11) We analyzed the results of transfers of the iliopsoas or external oblique muscles performed to augment the abductor power of the hips in 149 patients with flaccid paralysis of the hips.
  • (12) The neurological manifestations developed during adolescence with slurred and slow speech with scanning, muscle flaccidity, sings of Trömner and Jacobson, intentional tremor, equilibrium disturbances.
  • (13) Sacral shingles is associated with sensory loss and flaccid detrusor paralysis.
  • (14) The results suggest that a noradrenergic alpha-adrenoceptor system maintains penile flaccidity in the dog.
  • (15) Of the four surviving cases with flaccid paralysis, three had residual weakness in their lower limbs and walked with an abnormal gait 3 years after the acute paralytic attack.
  • (16) An infant presented at birth with symmetrical flaccid paraparesis limited to lower legs and feet, and involving the proximal and distal muscle group.
  • (17) Rats injected with 10(6) 9L gliosarcoma cells showed progressive weight loss, flaccid paralysis, and neurogenic bladder dysfunction and had a median survival of 11 days.
  • (18) Moreover, combined beta-endorphin and haloperidol treatment produced flaccidity in most animals.
  • (19) The stimulator has been working satisfactorily since November 1965.This stimulator could eventually also be used in purely sensory sacral lesions, in well-selected incomplete lower motor neuron lesions, and in flaccid detrusors of the myogenic type.A review of the literature up to the time of this report shows only a few encouraging but incomplete results in humans.
  • (20) Six malnourished children presenting with acute flaccid paralysis caused by hypokalaemia are described.

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