What's the difference between function and punction?
Function
Definition:
(n.) The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.
(n.) The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body.
(n.) The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind.
(n.) The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession.
(n.) A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all functions of x.
(v. i.) Alt. of Functionate
Example Sentences:
(1) Activity of Na,K-ATPase activity was measured as a functional marker for synaptosomal membranes.
(2) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
(3) Among the pathological or abnormal ECGs (25.6%) prevailed the vegetative-functional heart diseases with 92%.
(4) 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.
(5) We also show that proliferation of primary amnion cells is not dependent on a high c-fos expression, suggesting that the function of c-fos is more likely to be associated with other cellular functions in the differentiated amnion cell.
(6) Elements in the skin therefore seemed to enhance nerve regeneration and function.
(7) The possibility that the ventral nerve photoreceptor cells serve a neurosecretory function in the adult Limulus is discussed.
(8) Renal micropuncture and microdissection techniques with ultramicro fluid analysis have been applied to evaluate single nephron function in the skate, Raja erinacea.
(9) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
(10) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(11) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
(12) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
(13) We have examined the insertion of bovine 17 alpha-hydroxylase (P45017 alpha) into the endoplasmic reticulum of COS 1 cells to evaluate the functional role of its hydrophobic amino-terminal sequence and membrane insertion.
(14) We sought additional evidence for an inverse relationship between functional CTL-target cell affinity on the one hand, and susceptibility of the CTL-mediated killing to inhibition by alpha LFA-1 and alpha Lyt-2,3 monoclonal antibodies on the other hand.
(15) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
(16) The strongest predictor of non-sudden cardiac death was the New York Heart Association functional class.
(17) We maximize an objective function that includes both total production rate and product concentration.
(18) Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are frequently accompanied by deteriorated renal functions and by pathological lesions in the glomeruli.
(19) Based on several previous studies, which demonstrated that sorbitol accumulation in human red blood cells (RBCs) was a function of ambient glucose concentrations, either in vitro or in vivo, our investigations were conducted to determine if RBC sorbitol accumulation would correlate with sorbitol accumulation in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats; the effect of sorbinil in reducing sorbitol levels in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats would be reflected by changes in RBC sorbitol; and sorbinil would reduce RBC sorbitol in diabetic man.
(20) However, the relationships between sociometric status and social perception varied as a function of task.
Punction
Definition:
(n.) A puncturing, or pricking; a puncture.
Example Sentences:
(1) Before, the range of indication was clearly outlined, the technique of punction, obtaining and processing of material was discussed, and the complications and limits of the methods were pointed to.
(2) Echography facilitated, in this way, the punction of the trapped aqueous.
(3) In the first case (tubo-ovarian abscess) the patient became pregnant 2 months after de punction having actually a physiologic evolution.
(4) Significant connections were found between clinical pathological findings next to the position of punction and the occurrence of local complications.
(5) In this study a new trocar-cannula-unit(10 French) is introduced, which was used in a prospective randomised comparative study in 74 patients for suprapubic bladder punction.
(6) RVRS by direct peroperative punction indicates (a posteriori) hormonal secretion from the right kidney lower pole.
(7) Compared to the poor prognosis of an untreated pregnancy, we consider the punction even of large volumes of amniotic fluid as a procedure of an acceptable risk.
(8) Risky surgery in the acute phase of the disease could be avoided by ultrasonic guided percutaneous punction and placing of several, partly transhepatic, catheters.
(9) Mild hematuria can be expected at almost every punction, so it should not be treated as a complication.
(10) These last ones are most used and include the punction and the drainage of the blood of the cavernous body and sometime the "shunt" spongio-cavernosum.
(11) In patients with signs of intracranial hypertension caused by subdural haematoma or brain oedema following craniocerebral trauma significantly increased concentrations of HVA and 5-HIAA were found in the cerebrospinal fluid obtained by means of lumbar punction in relation to a control group comprising patients with lumbar disc prolapse.
(12) Resistance to the usual treatment and the evolution of the disease with association of pulmonary manifestation and fever have lead to the diagnostic of Wegener granulomatosis confirmed by ANCA test and renal punction.
(13) The results with dimethylsulfoxide show that the currently employed techniques of punction, preparation, freezing and thawing of bone marrow are suitable for clinical application.
(14) Twenty-six patients, aged 38 to 78 years, with testicular hydrocele were treated by aspiration, punction and tetracycline instillation.
(15) 5.5% of the histologically ascertained cold nodules were malignant, in 19% of the cases with cold nodes thyroid punction revealed cystic lesions.
(16) There was no statistically significant correlation between the levels of calcitonin and serotonin with the age, weight, height, sex, values of analogic visual scale 2, 4, 6, 12 and 24 hours after lumbar punction, and duration of the analgesia.
(17) Short bibiolographical review of Werner Kümmel and Karl Beck especially about their scientifical work concerning diagnostical and therapeutical punction of the frontal sinus.
(18) Pleural punction should be avoided because of possible complications, abdominal punction is helpful, whereas pneumoperitoneum is dangerous in the present respiratory insufficiency.
(19) It means a thorough biochemical and functional exploration, scintigraphy (as an outpatient), radiography of neck and its soft tissues, eventually tomography and more seldom are required: the echography, scan (as an out-door patient), punction.
(20) In the present case of an intramural utriculus cyst a conservative approach (cyst punction) is indicated.