What's the difference between goiter and loiter?

Goiter


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Goitre

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and its concentration were measured in thyroid tissues obtained from patients with Graves' disease, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, differentiated thyroid cancer, and endemic goiter (before and after iodine supplementation) as well as in normal thyroid tissue (paranodular tissue) from patients with follicular adenomas.
  • (2) A total of 5.8% abnormalities were found including nodular disease, thyroiditis, Graves' disease, hypothyroidism, simple goiter, and iatrogenic hyperthyroidism.
  • (3) Small oval cysts (less than or equal to 1 cm) with strong echo were all diagnosed colloid goiter.
  • (4) Levothyroxine therapy lowered the monoiodotyrosine and diiodotyrosine levels, ameliorated all her endocrinopathies, started her periods, and shrank the goiter.
  • (5) Rather, there was diffuse thyroidal hyperplasia of the micronodular variety, consistent with multinodular toxic goiter.
  • (6) The histological picture of the goiters was similar to that found in thiourea-treated teleosts and thiouracil-treated mammals.
  • (7) The data obtained suggest that the alkaline subfraction is characterized by an increased rigidity and apparently by altered structural properties in toxic goiter.
  • (8) The tumors included one goiter and one Hürthle cell adenoma, one lymphoma, one medullary carcinoma, two Hürthle cell cancers, and five papillary cancers, varying widely in clinical staging and histologic differentiation.
  • (9) The high incidence of goiter in older patients is probably due to insufficient iodine intake in youth.
  • (10) The increased functional activity of the endothelium, thinner walls of capillaries and the appearnace of a greater amount of fenestrations against the background of the thyroid stimulation are likely to be factors contributing to penetration of non-hormonal iodine products (iodine tyrosines and products of incomplete hydrolysis of thyroglobulins) into the circulation, which can be observed under certain pathological conditions accompanied by increased thyrotropic stimulation--such as diffused toxic goiter and diffuse non-toxic goiter.
  • (11) The long-term follow-up (up to 30 years) of the patients with reoperations for GATG recurrences, or subsequent development of a "goiter" has shown that GATG presented a metastasis of papillary thyroid cancer into the lateral lymph nodes of a neck.
  • (12) Of various possibilities analyzed, only a small goiter at the onset of therapy and tri-iodothyronine toxicosis were significantly favorable prognostic indicators that a remission would be maintained.
  • (13) Aim of this report is a stress of over-hasty classification to the surgical treatment of goiter diagnosed as hyperactive.
  • (14) Females of all ages had a higher prevalence of goiter than did males.
  • (15) To determine whether differences in TSH receptors could account for the differences in AC activity, we studied the 8000 g membrane particulate fraction from 28 thyroid tissues (10 papillary carcinomas, 6 multinodular goiters, 4 follicular adenomas, 3 follicular carcinomas, 2 Graves, 1 normal, 1 Hürthle cell adenoma, and 1 thyroiditis).
  • (16) The unusual case of a patient with goiter and left faciobrachiocrural paresis due to right temporoparietal infarction is reported.
  • (17) Iodine balance during pregnancy and lactation was investigated by measuring iodine concentration in the urine of 11 pregnant women, born and living in a moderately iodine deficient endemic goiter area in Northeastern Sicily, collected during the last week of pregnancy, and between the 5th and 7th day after delivery, and in their milk sampled simultaneously with the urine of their newborns.
  • (18) The child showed two types of signs : respiratory distress due to higher neurological disorders and a multinodular, non-compressing goiter.
  • (19) Benign disease was diagnosed in 345 patients (232 with benign nodular goiter, 98 with lymphocytic thyroiditis, three with granulomatous thyroiditis, and 12 with cysts).
  • (20) The knowledge of the anterior adjacent lamellae of the throat is very important for surgery of the goiter and parathyroid glands.

Loiter


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.
  • (v. i.) To wander as an idle vagrant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Neither in nor out of the house, visible but not seen, you could lurk here for an hour undisturbed, you could loiter for a day.
  • (2) Ward ignored a weak challenge from young Darnell Furlong as two more experienced Rangers’ players loitered in the vicinity with little intent, then Ward made his way into the box and struck a shot that deflected off Sandro into the net.
  • (3) Grafitti cakes his entrance hall, there is no heating, the lift has been broken for months and unemployed youths loiter with nothing to do.
  • (4) She wouldn't be found haunting the scene of the crime, as it were; loitering in the kitchen, in the maternity ward, at the school gate.
  • (5) As he puts it in his book Cities Under Siege: "The possibility of deploying swarms of armed and unarmed robots to loiter persistently across regions of the world deemed trouble spots is clearly a good fit with the Pentagon's latest thinking surrounding the long war."
  • (6) No wonder Roger Burman, Winterhill's barrel-chested headteacher, was beaming on Thursday morning as he welcomed a line of nervous teenagers into the school hall, some of whom confessed they had been awake since 5am ("and I usually get up at 1pm", giggled Amy Jones as she loitered outside).
  • (7) Deborah Kerr's screen name had loitered for a dozen years somewhere in the back of my brain.
  • (8) This game had ambled along cagily for almost half an hour, Uruguay tigerishly setting about stifling any hint of Colombian ascendancy, when Abel Aguilar nodded the ball forward to Rodríguez, loitering with his back to goal in a pocket of space just outside the Uruguay penalty area.
  • (9) 2.27am BST Ringside Kevin Mitchell in Las Vegas writes: Although there is a lot of loitering still, this terrific arena already has given Ashley Theophane his biggest audience, maybe half of the 16,000 capacity.
  • (10) Shani Pinney, a department official, said on Monday that such offenders were barred from working or volunteering in schools and from “loitering on school property”.
  • (11) It was barely disrupted when Darmian – who had at times looked a weak link after loitering in possession – dislocated a shoulder after challenging for a 50-50 ball with Khazri and was replaced by Donald Love, a Scotland Under-21 international.
  • (12) But stagnation remains the cloud loitering overhead, and, if the economy sulks its way through 2012 and living standards continue to fall, the polls may shift as voters' patience wears out.
  • (13) Analyses by five major diagnostic groups showed that patients with a primary diagnosis of drug or alcohol abuse had the greatest overall frequency of arrests and also the greatest frequency of arrests for burglary, offenses against public order such as peace disturbance or loitering, and probation and parole violations.
  • (14) As conditions are made safe for these blithe cretins they become more dangerous for Sherpas, whose job is to loiter in the dangerous parts of the mountain and secure them for ever greater numbers of incompetents to hurry through, en route to their photographs on the top of the world.
  • (15) "This guy is making me lose my concentration," he complains later as another man loiters nearby.
  • (16) In the suburb of Wilberforce, in an old building for the telecommunications company Airtel, a dozen students loiter on a wall waiting to relieve staff from the trauma at the Ebola hotline they are manning.
  • (17) Father Toño, who moved here from Madrid 14 years ago, chats over coffee while his guards – whose presence is the result of death threats from drug traffickers – loiter outside.
  • (18) While protest charges have typically been seen as tantamount to nuisance crimes, like trespassing or loitering, these were different.
  • (19) A berry meringue roulade to whip sad whites into shape and a thick, sharp lemon curd to save the souls of any feckless yolks left loitering about your fridge.
  • (20) Time to loiter in bookshops and catch a nice boy's eye over a copy of Patti Smith's autobiography?

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