What's the difference between flicking and fricking?
Flicking
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flick
Example Sentences:
(1) Nitrous oxide produced a dose-related analgesic response in rats (ED50, 67%) as measured by the tail-flick method.
(2) To test the hypothesis that EAA agonists are involved in transmission of nociceptive information in the spinal cord, we tested the effect of various opioid, sigma and phencyclidine compounds on the action of NMDA in the tail-flick, hot-plate and biting and scratching nociceptive tests.
(3) Antinociception was studied by measuring tail-flick response to hot (55 degrees C) water.
(4) Looping the tail of a "g", flicking the line up from the end of an "m", arcing it over an "a" or an "o".
(5) His first ball reaches Ali at hip height and he flicks him to fine leg for a boundary that takes him to a quite epic century.
(6) Three types of behavior of the compound eye of Daphnia magna are characterized: 'flick', a transient rotation elicited by a brief flash of light; 'fixation', a maintained eye orientation in response to a stationary light stimulus of long-duration; 'tracking', the smooth pursuit of a moving stimulus.
(7) On the tail flick method of rats, tolerance to the action of eptazocine was observed, similar to morphine, but not cross-tolerance between eptazocine and morphine.
(8) The CCK 8-induced analgesia or hyperalgesia was not seen in the tail flick test and was not associated with motor incapacitation or any other noticeable side effects.
(9) When Version came out, featuring covers sung by Winehouse, Allen et al, it was again assumed by some that Ronson had simply flicked through his diamanté-encrusted contacts book and got his friends to rehash a few old songs written by other people.
(10) The off-cell exhibits an abrupt pause just prior to the occurrence of the tail flick reflex (TF).
(11) Focal electrical stimulation and glutamate microinjection in the nuclei reticularis gigantocellularis (NGC) and gigantocellularis pars alpha (NGC alpha) both inhibit the nociceptive tail-flick (TF) reflex in rats.
(12) It has been shown that under all types of stimulation the latent periods (LP) of nociceptive reactions of paw licking and tail flick were significantly increased, as compared to baseline level, thus suggesting suppression of the pain sensitivity.
(13) administered DPDYN were determined in two nociceptive tests, involving thermal cutaneous (tail-flick) and chemical visceral (AcOH-induced writhing) stimuli, in which mu and kappa receptors are known to be activated differentially.
(14) The antinociceptive properties, as measured by the tail-flick and hot-plate tests, and the motor effects of an intrathecally-administered benzodiazepine agonist midazolam, alone, and in combination with morphine, was examined in rats.
(15) Suppression of the tail flick response to noxious heat and paw withdrawal response to noxious pressure were produced by electrical stimulation of arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus (ARH) in pentobarbital anesthetized rats.
(16) These results indicate that noxious cutaneous stimulation may release an agent in the spinal cord which facilitates the tail flick reflex, and that this agent is antagonized by a substance P antagonist.
(17) The effects of altering sensory input on the motoneuronal activity underlying antennular flicking have been tested.
(18) Irrespective of treatment history, mice showed a retest EPM profile of enhanced anxiety, with tail-flick data suggesting a major contribution of anticipatory factors.
(19) Analgesic potency was evaluated by prolongation of the time required to induce tail-flick.
(20) They were slightly more potent in the formalin test but had no or negligible effects in the tail-flick test.
Fricking
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) There is thus at least one example each of two-and three-dimensional forms which conform to the low concentration analysis up to 100% volume and so give a basis for the extensions to other and more complicated forms to complete a survey to work begun by Fricke in 1923.
(2) This work reports the results of an experiment carried out to investigate the compatibility of TG-21 ion chamber calibration with Fricke dosimetry near the extremes of the clinically available megavoltage photon energy range.
(3) First, we have to evaluate the equilibrium parameters, KF and n. Frick has shown how to determine those parameters for multicomponent solutions.
(4) The sensitivity is a factor of about six higher compared to ordinary ferrous sulphate solution, known as 'Fricke'.
(5) This permits a dose measurement which shows compared to the usual dosimetry of Fricke above all following advantages: dose specification related to water; displacement of the absorption maximum in the perceptible spectral sphere; increase of the sensibility and lower influence of pollutions.
(6) Furthermore, the Fricke constant phase model in which alpha = beta and phi = 0.5 pi beta was found not to be applicable in general.
(7) An extension of the model is made to describe the spin-lattice relaxation behavior of irradiated Fricke solution.
(8) Myotis [Frick 1952]), the tympanic cavity extends into the Recessus scalae tympani displacing the Membrana tympani secundaria medially from the lateral aperture of the Recessus scalae tympani (= Fenestra rotunda of mammals) and even into the plane of the Foramen perilymphaticum.
(9) Although Frick's methodological criticisms are well taken, there is additional evidence suggesting that response force can be strengthened by reinforcement and that such learning generalizes across behaviors.
(10) The Frick Collection , with its magnificent portrait of Philip in scarlet silk , had not yet been imagined, for Henry Frick was still a boy.
(11) In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the city was home to many of America's most successful "robber baron" industrialists, including Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Mellon brothers, as well as Henry John Heinz, the founder of the Heinz food company.
(12) With trimesic acid (1, 3, 5-benzentricarboacid) absorbed doses can be detected which are 1000 times smaller than with the Fricke solution.
(13) George Frick, generally regarded as the first American physician to limit his practice to ophthalmology, was also the first American to author a textbook on the eye.
(14) Dosimetry was performed with both Fricke dosimetry and ionization chamber.
(15) If you haven’t encountered Poehler yet, walk away from this article and please don’t come back until you’ve watched her performances in Mean Girls, Blades of Glory, Baby Mama, every clip of hers from Saturday Night Live (especially the time she rapped about Sarah Palin when she was about 10-and-a-half-months pregnant – in front of Sarah Palin ) and, most of all, Parks and Recreation, the best new US sitcom in fricking ages.
(16) In addition, the Maxwell-Fricke mixture theory was used to estimate the amount of hydrated water that relaxes far below 1 GHz.
(17) To exploit poor Oscar Wilde rather shamelessly, to mention Mail Online once is unfortunate, to do so twice suggests one needs to stop procrastinating so much by looking at Mail Online and do some fricking work as opposed to lobotomising oneself by reading yet more stories about how the dress of someone called Miranda Kerr fluttered slightly in the wind on her way to lunch.
(18) It took Sweden 18 minutes to get a shot on target but, when they did, it put them ahead, Marcus Berg holding off the challenge of Liechtenstein’s captain, Mario Frick, before shooting in.
(19) Various practical aspects of the NMR-Fricke system, such as the optimal initial ferrous concentration and the NMR frequency dependence of the sensitivity, are described.
(20) The Fricke constant phase model is a better representation of electrode behavior, but it also may not be valid in general.