What's the difference between fourth and quadrisection?
Fourth
Definition:
(a.) Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.
(a.) Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided.
(n.) One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four; one coming next in order after the third.
(n.) The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key.
Example Sentences:
(1) Having been knocked out of the League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup before Christmas, they lost an FA Cup fourth-round replay at West Brom on 1 February.
(2) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
(3) The fourth cluster included the type strains of Actinobacillus lignieresii, A. equuli, A. pleuropneumoniae, A. suis, A. ureae, H. parahaemolyticus, H. parainfluenzae, H. paraphrohaemolyticus, H. ducreyi, and P. haemolytica.
(4) Gardner proposed that anomalies at the exit of the fourth ventricle produce a communicating syringomyelia.
(5) Discriminant analysis was performed with the fourth child in the family as the index case.
(6) Symptoms consistent with major affective disorder were present in one half and depressive spectrum diagnoses were made in one fourth of the cases prior to final diagnosis.
(7) Cultured cells from fourth to ninth passage showed positive labelling for S 100 protein, carbonic anydrase (CAA), glutamine synthetase (GS), alpha cristallin (alpha C) and polyclonal glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) antibody, but were negative for both monoclonal GFAP antibody and also for Muller cells in the retina.
(8) Cholecystectomy provided successful treatment in three of the four patients but the fourth was too ill to undergo an operation; in general, definitive treatment is cholecystectomy, together with excision of the fistulous tract if this takes a direct path through the abdominal wall from the gallbladder, or curettage if the course is devious.
(9) When histamine (5 micrograms) was injected into three different levels of the ventricular system, the magnitude and duration of the resulting increases in plasma epinephrine and glucose were in the following rank order: the third ventricle greater than aqueduct much greater than fourth ventricle.
(10) After the fourth dose of L-asparaginase, he presented with severe headache and a CT scan showed a right temporal infarct.
(11) From the third day to the fourth week after this treatment, there was some recovery of the SF rate, and the SCR tended to reappear with a marked slowing down of its habituation.
(12) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
(13) So fourth, we must tackle the issue of a relatively large number of officers kept on restricted duties, on full pay.
(14) Guinea pigs exposed to 200 and 400 H. truncatum larvae elicited the greatest change in feeding efficiency during the fourth infestation.
(15) Nearly all 17 items of a behaviour rating scale had improved very significantly by the end of the fourth week, while in 82% of the patients of group A and 76% of group B results were rated good to very good.
(16) Three of the four leukaemic cell lines (JVM-2, JVM-3 and JVM-13) were induced by EBV + TPA and derived from prolymphocytic leukaemia (PLL) cases; the fourth (JVM-14) originated from a case of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) with increased percentage of prolymphocytes whose cells were stimulated in vitro with EBV.
(17) On the other hand, SM-3997 and buspirone exhibited dopamine antagonistic action, although the potency of SM-3997 was less than one fourth that of buspirone.
(18) One patient died of recurrent acute myocarditis at the fourth postoperative month and a second patient died in the sixteenth postoperative month.
(19) An ice axe, assumed to belong to Irvine, had been discovered in 1933 by the fourth British expedition to the mountain.
(20) When the fourth died of brain metastases, he too had less liver cancer than would be expected.
Quadrisection
Definition:
(n.) A subdivision into four parts.
Example Sentences:
(1) In both hemisected and quadrisected spinal cords, reproducible depolarization responses were induced by low concentrations of the neurokinin-1-selective agonist substance P methylester (10 nM-1 microM) or of the neurokinin-3-selective agonist senktide (3-300 nM).