What's the difference between fluctuant and fluctuation?
Fluctuant
Definition:
(a.) Moving like a wave; wavering
(a.) showing undulation or fluctuation; as, a fluctuant tumor.
(a.) Floating on the waves.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hearing loss is typically bilateral and progressive, with stepwise rather than fluctuant hearing decrements often triggered by relatively minor head trauma.
(2) Surely the study of these resting potentials would contribute to our understanding of the mechanisms of fluctuant hearing loss because these first order potentials are intimately related to the state of health of the inner ear.
(3) Glycerin, an osmotic diuretic, produces similar temporary beneficial effects primarily in patients in the fluctuant hearing stage of Meniere's disease.
(4) A 5-month-old female Gordon Setter was examined because of a soft, fluctuant, subcutaneous swelling in the right submandibular region.
(5) As a clinical expression of sarcoidosis, deafness is fluctuant in 50% of all cases, bilateral, and most often associated with facial palsy and uveitis, the vestibular reflexes being reduced.
(6) A thirty-two-year-old man presented with a history of infertility, recurrent epididymitis, and a fluctuant pelvic mass on rectal examination.
(7) With S. aureus Smith Diffuse, fluctuant, erythematous lesions with a peak diameter of 15 mm were observed; these lesions yielded purulent material containing gram-positive cocci and neutrophils and yielded growth of S. aureus on culture.
(8) But under immobilization stress, markedly fluctuant changes of CRF activity seen in the case of ether stress did not appear after the maximal response observed at 2 min, indicating that the response pattern was not vibratory.
(9) A 12-year-old Domestic Shorthair cat with a soft, fluctuant, subcutaneous mass, approximately 5 cm in diameter on the posterior aspect of the left tarsus was diagnosed as having protothecosis.
(10) A clinically manifest foreign-body reaction occurred in 41 patients (7.9%), producing a fluctuant swelling at the implantation site after an average of 12 weeks.
(11) In managing the acute pilonidal abscess, an intradermal injection is given over the indurated, fluctuant area as well as the midline orifice which can almost always be identified.
(12) The cutaneous lesions were characterized by tender swellings and fluctuant nodules and were the presenting manifestation of the disease.
(13) A fluctuant area at the center of the indurated mass yielded a Corynebacterium species.
(14) Fluctuant hearing loss is a very complex matter, which involves not only neurological and physiological concepts but considerable acoustic factors as well.
(15) Insulin and proinsulin levels were measured in 46 cases of fluctuant hearing loss and in 13 control cases.
(16) Mucinous pseudocysts are dome-shaped, fluctuant lesions that may affect the dorsal aspects of the toes.
(17) We have shown that experimentally-induced hydrops in the guinea pig systematically provokes an early low frequency (6.4 kHz and below) fluctuant hearing loss.
(18) It would appear, because of the greater frequency of fluctuant hearing loss than in Meniere's disease, that the cochlear labyrinth is more susceptible to hydrops than the vestibular labyrinth.
(19) Fluctuant bilateral abductor vocal cord paralysis was later recognized together with autonomic features suggesting a diagnosis of Shy-Drager syndrome.
(20) Finally, anaerobes were isolated in 17 (57%) of ulcers without bubo, 11 (65%) of ulcers with nonfluctuant bubo, and 18 (90%) of chancroid ulcers associated with fluctuant bubo.
Fluctuation
Definition:
(n.) A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as, the fluctuations of the sea.
(n.) A wavering; unsteadiness; as, fluctuations of opinion; fluctuations of prices.
(n.) The motion or undulation of a fluid collected in a natural or artifical cavity, which is felt when it is subjected to pressure or percussion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(2) The influence of the various concepts for the induction of lateral structure formation in lipid membranes on integral functional units like ionophores is demonstrated by analysing the single channel current fluctuations of gramicidin in bimolecular lipid membranes.
(3) During control, no significant difference between systolic fluctuation (delta Pa) and pleural swings (delta Ppl) was found.
(4) The fluctuations in [Ca2+]i measured with fura-2 were synchronized among the population of cells observed and were sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o).
(5) Large emission intensity fluctuations are observed from analyte species in inductively coupled plasmas.
(6) The titres of phase I antibodies fluctuated from 0 to 16 depending on the antigen applied.
(7) Macroscopic fluctuations of liver alcohol dehydrogenase enzymic activity in complex reaction consisting in ethanol oxidation and butyraldehyde reduction were studied.
(8) The curve of glucose fluctuations was smoother after 50 micrograms than after 100 micrograms and control.
(9) During a single reversal trial of two 2-wk experimental periods, teats of all glands of 12 Holstein cows were subjected to a milking routine conducive to large vacuum fluctuations and flooded teat cups.
(10) For the case of the fluctuating pressure, the strength of the artery becomes considerably lower than those under constant amplitude and two-step-multi-duplicated pulsatile pressure.
(11) The fluctuations in heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP) over 24-h were measured at 30-min and 1-h intervals, respectively.
(12) The large degree of inter-dose fluctuation between doses indicates that it is preferable to use pre-dose plasma sodium valproate levels to guide the clinical management of epileptic patients.
(13) Painful manifestations (arthralgia, myalgia), variable with fluctuations in the IS affection were observed in both groups (S1, S2).
(14) These apparent conflicting results between IK and the tail current could not be explained by extracellular K+ fluctuation, because 20 mM Cs+ alone depressed both factors, but an additional application of Ba2+ caused an increase in both components compared with those in the former condition.
(15) This model characterized the abnormal flow by a weak fluctuation of wall shear stress at the site adjacent to the vessel wall.
(16) The results of the present experiments show that capillary blood flow in the cerebral cortex fluctuates, whether the cat's head is supplied by the animal's intact circulation or by an artificial circulation system.
(17) Seasonal fluctuations in IOP were observed (P = 0.0007), with higher IOP occurring in the winter.
(18) Among all subgroups, the odds ratios adjusted for pertinent confounders and interactions fluctuated randomly by about 0.9 and showed no consistent trend with increased alcohol consumption.
(19) During 70 days or so from the time of recruitment until just before the beginning of the cycle during which a follicle is destined to ovulate, folliculogenesis is a continuous process dependent on gonadotrophins but independent of the fluctuations in their concentrations occurring during this time.
(20) The proportion of sampling runs characterized by normal fluctuating levels increased from 38% in the first 2 years of use to 80% during the 5th year of use.