What's the difference between flexure and plexure?
Flexure
Definition:
(n.) The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending.
(n.) A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.
(n.) The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
(n.) The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or substracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion.
Example Sentences:
(1) This ranged from heads inclined at a slight angle to the tail through to complete flexure.
(2) This report presents a patient with a tumor of the splenic flexure invading the diaphragm, greater curvature of the stomach, splenic hilum, and tail of the pancreas.
(3) These results confirm the success of sphincter-saving anterior resection combined with total mesorectal excision, routine full mobilization of the splenic flexure and cancercidal lavage of the distal rectum in the treatment of low rectal carcinomas; morbidity, local recurrence and survival are not compromised.
(4) In 1 case epidermoid epithelial metaplasia were found in the splenic flexure and in the rectum.
(5) Surgery of the perforated caecum and ampulla recti was carried out during the first 24 hours, and that of the sigmoid flexure on the seventh day.
(6) Flexural and torsional testing revealed that the use of an inclined lag screw or a prebent plate increases stability compared to the one achieved with an exactly contoured plate alone.
(7) Peritoneal signs warranted early laparotomy, which revealed coagulation necrosis of the anus, rectum, and colon up to the hepatic flexure without any free perforation.
(8) A llama, a miniature horse, and a miniature donkey with severe bilateral congenital flexural deformities of the metacarpophalangeal and metatarsophalangeal joints were treated successfully by arthrodesis with dynamic compression plating or external skeletal fixation.
(9) A suubsequent elective segmental distal transverse and descending colectomy revealed chronic ulcerative colitis; localized marked inflammatory giant pseudopolyp formation near the splenic flexure was responsible for the bleeding.
(10) In all the animals, enterokinase values were unequivocally the highest in the duodenal mucosa; in the other intestinal segments it displayed a marked aboral decrease, so that we found about 30% of duodenal activity in the jejunum, trace amounts in the ileum and zero values in the caecum and the sigmoid flexure.
(11) A study of the biaxial flexure strengths of polished vs. glazed specimens is needed to verify that current laboratory methods are appropriate for planned fatigue studies.
(12) The development of ciliary folds begins at the stage 45 by the flexure of the external layer in the ciliary zone.
(13) The lesions are predominant in the transverse colon and at the splenic flexure.
(14) The ceramic veneering had worse results only in the flexural strength test compared with the two bonding systems.
(15) The creep rates of six alloys for porcelain-fused-to-metal (PFM) restorations were determined as a function of flexural stress and temperature.
(16) This study tested the load transfer effectiveness of cast-joined structures under flexural loading conditions.
(17) The normal duodenojejunal flexure was found to be readily displaceable in neonates and could be pushed to the right of the spine in over two-thirds of patients less than 4 months old.
(18) Radical tumour resection requires complete mobilisation of the left colonic flexure, high ligature of the inferior mesenteric artery, and--in cases of extraperitoneal tumours--dissection along the fascias.
(19) The hernia contained the terminal ileum (20 cm) with caecum, part of the appendix, the ascending colon, hepatic flexure and the first third of the transverse colon.
(20) ISO or HSO were created 40 cm from the pelvic flexure and maintained for 60 mins under general anaesthesia.
Plexure
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of weaving together, or interweaving; that which is woven together.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors examined the infrastructure and distribution of calcium ions in the plexural muscles of a black-beetle (Blatta orientalis L.) after being fixed in a solution of osmiumtetroxide buffered with a cacodylate buffer (pH = 7.4) and according to the method of Carasso-Favard (1966).
(2) It was confirmed that the severest lesions were found in the muscularis propria and in the plexures of Auerbach ganglia.