What's the difference between floppy and stiffy?

Floppy


Definition:

  • (n.) Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An 8-French right Judkins guiding catheter with a single side hole (USCI), a 3.0 mm balloon dilatation catheter (ACS), and a 0.018 high torque floppy guide wire (ACS) were used.
  • (2) Repair of the floppy mitral valve did not eradicate all abnormalities; however, it did significantly improve the chest pain, weakness, dyspnea, and arrhythmias in all six patients.
  • (3) The other four patients had asymmetric keratoconus and floppy eyelid syndrome.
  • (4) Mitral regurgitation due to 'floppy' valves is frequently associated with areas of medical necrosis in the ascending aorta.
  • (5) The mitral valve excised at operation from three of the patients had morphologic characteristics of a floppy mitral valve, which was judged to be responsible for the echocardiographic findings.
  • (6) The majority was said to be found pale or blue, floppy and mostly unreactive.
  • (7) It is registered on floppy disk and suitable for use in MS-DOS on IBM personal computer, Olivetti or compatible.
  • (8) The signals of fetal movement obtained by actocardiograph were stored in a floppy disc every 250 ms for 5 minutes through an AD-converter, and were analyzed every 5 minutes with the computer to reveal 3-dimensional (3-D) histograms.
  • (9) Conditions associated with anatomically abnormal valves include rheumatic, floppy, Ebstein's anomaly, carcinoid, infective endocarditis, papillary muscle dysfunction, and other rarer causes such as radiation, hypereosinophilic syndrome, and endomyocardial fibrosis.
  • (10) Case 4, a 10-year-old girl had opisthotonus and floppiness since 4 months of age.
  • (11) In the group with floppy mitral valve, males were more prevalent than females (51:33).
  • (12) Left ventricular ejection fractions of 31 patients determined from first-pass or single-pass radionuclide angiography from the anterior position using a microcomputer system and floppy disc were compared to angiographic catheterization data obtained from the right anterior oblique position.
  • (13) SPOCC can be run on any dual floppy or hard disk personal computer that uses MS-DOS or PC-DOS 2.0 or greater.
  • (14) Data is stored as an ASCII file on floppy disks, and protocol reports are printed.
  • (15) Between October 1965 and April 1975, mitral valve replacement was preformed in 66 patients with myxomatous degeneration of the mitral valve ("floppy valve syndrome").
  • (16) A 2-month-old boy with delayed growth and development, brachycephaly, large anterior fontanelle, low-set folded ears, micrognathia, aortic coarctation, floppy abdominal muscles, and pes varus, was found to have a 46,XY,del(16)(q2100q2300) de novo karyotype.
  • (17) Energy transfer between fluorescein and Texas Red was observed in the "floppy" alpha beta heterodimer band, but not in the "compact" alpha beta heterodimer band.
  • (18) The "data acquisition module" (DAM) assists in bone length measurement from contact prints of hand radiographs and stores the 19 measurements on a floppy disk.
  • (19) The explanted valves were affected by: chronic rheumatic disease (1179, 91.5%), floppy mitral valve (84, 6.5%), bacterial endocarditis (19, 1.5%), and post-ischemic mitral incompetence (6, 0.5%).
  • (20) Although proteoglycan infiltration may not be a specific marker for floppy valve disease, its presence is associated with decreased molecular organisation of collagen in the chordae.

Stiffy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You mean, you couldn’t be seen at the Royal Academy in a nice frock and a stiffy?
  • (2) Assessments were made of duration of morning stiffiness, grip strength, articular index, joint size, and degree of pain.
  • (3) The affected cows were reluctant to walk, moved stiffy and in severe cases became recumbent.

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