What's the difference between foal and focal?

Foal


Definition:

  • (n.) The young of any animal of the Horse family (Equidae); a colt; a filly.
  • (v.t.) To bring forth (a colt); -- said of a mare or a she ass.
  • (v.i.) To bring forth young, as an animal of the horse kind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was, however, no difference in the overall elimination rate constant between foals and mares.
  • (2) Follow-up evaluation for all foals was completed at various times after physiologic closure of the physes.
  • (3) However, when hypoxia occurred during colic surgery in the last 60 days of pregnancy, the mares either aborted or delivered severely compromised foals that did not survive.
  • (4) Eighteen live foals resulted, of which 11 appeared abnormal on the basis of behaviour.
  • (5) Although the beginnings and endings of these periods are not definitive, these periods may be conceptually useful in evaluating a foal's behavior.
  • (6) The information presented here will be useful in the diagnosis and management of renal disease and azotaemia in foals.
  • (7) Evaluation of immunoglobulin levels in 24 hour post suckle samples would prove of value not only in diagnosing CID foals, but in recognising FPT in otherwise normal foals.
  • (8) Information about the resulting foals was obtained and correlations examined.
  • (9) No evidence was found to support the hypothesis that the normal, term neonatal foal actively maintains EEV greater than Vrx.
  • (10) A study of gonadotrophin production in horses and donkeys bearing hybrid foals has yielded fascinating results about the immunology of pregnancy.
  • (11) The disease in foals has been recognised in America since 1973.
  • (12) Each sire family consisted of a sire, his foals, and the dams of those foals.
  • (13) In 5 of these foals, strain gauges also were applied to the radius of the left forelimb.
  • (14) Esophageal stenosis was diagnosed in a 7-day-old Thoroughbred foal referred for evaluation of bilateral milky nasal discharge.
  • (15) The potential association of mare- and foal-related factors with FPT were assessed by reviewing a series of multiple logistic regression models.
  • (16) All seven premature foals survived, whereas four of the seven full term foals died.
  • (17) The foal with acute disease had distinct green-tan focal necrosis and thickened mucosa of the large intestine.
  • (18) The foals and yearlings were allowed to graze on open pasture throughout the experiment to provide a natural source for bot and helminth infections.
  • (19) Removal of the fixation appliances 16 weeks after implantation in three foals from each of groups I and II failed to reverse the degree of ulnar dysplasia.
  • (20) Significant age-related changes were observed in values for the major kinetic terms describing the disposition of chloramphenicol in foals; the greatest changes were observed between 1 day and 3 days of age.

Focal


Definition:

  • (a.) Belonging to,or concerning, a focus; as, a focal point.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Macroscopic lesions included mild congestion of the gastric mucosa and focal consolidation of the lung.
  • (2) New indications are still being investigated, for example in focal tremors and spasticity.
  • (3) These findings may not indicate a redistribution of renal blood flow through resistance changes in specific parts of the renal vasculature but may represent the consequences of focal cortical ischaemia, most prominent in the outer cortex.
  • (4) Wilder Penfield's development of surgical methods for treating focal cerebral seizures, beginning with his early work in Montreal in 1928, is reviewed.
  • (5) Initiation of the alternative pathway by the cryptococcal capsule is characterized by a lag in C3 accumulation and the appearance of a limited number of focal initiation sites which resemble those observed when the alternative pathway is activated by zymosan and nonencapsulated cryptococci.
  • (6) Light microscopy of both apneics and snorers revealed mucous gland hypertrophy with ductal dilation and focal squamous metaplasia, disruption of muscle bundles by infiltrating mucous glands, focal atrophy of muscle fibers, and extensive edema of the lamina propria with vascular dilation.
  • (7) In this series there were 45 patients (40%) with independent focal interictal EEG epileptic abnormalities over frontobasal cortex (with or without independent spiking over interomedial temporal region).
  • (8) Out of 50 epileptics in 31 cases temporal-lobe epilepsy was present, in 15 the seizures and EEG changes were generalized, in 4 cases focal non-temporal-lobe epilepsy was recognized.
  • (9) Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis was diagnosed by strict histologic criteria in 103 patients.
  • (10) The periodic pattern was assumed as subclinical focal seizure discharges from the right anterior temporal deep structures.
  • (11) After 40 minutes of coronary occlusion and 20 minutes of reflow, significant cardiac weight gain occurred in association with characteristic alterations in the ischemic region, including widespread interstitial edema and focal vascular congestion and hemorrhage and swelling of cardiac muscle cells.
  • (12) Subjects with past history of chronic substance abuse, neurologic disease, or focal findings on MRI or CT were excluded.
  • (13) Shock-wave delivery and focal size of three different generators-electrohydraulic, electromagnetic and piezoelectric--were compared.
  • (14) Neither temporal dispersion nor focal conduction block occurred.
  • (15) Chemically induced transformation of the stable heteroploid cell line (F1706) was manifested by an easy to read focal alteration.
  • (16) Imaging studies had shown no change in his brain stem lesion, which at autopsy was found to be a focal collection of fibrillary astrocytes.
  • (17) Two-thirds of the respiratory infections occurred in the first 3 postoperative months and were generally localized processes (focal pneumonitis, nodule(s), abscess, or empyema).
  • (18) On visual inspection the nephrograms showed no focal changes.
  • (19) Ultrastructurally, the atrial myocardial cells in all three patients were hypertrophied, and two patients had evidence of focal cell degeneration; the atrium was markedly dilated, but atrial arrhythmias were not noted.
  • (20) However, focal outbreaks in small scale still occurred every year.

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