What's the difference between gray and stratus?

Gray


Definition:

  • (superl.) White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove.
  • (superl.) Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
  • (superl.) Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames.
  • (n.) A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint.
  • (n.) An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The anatomic and functional development of the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) was studied in the gray short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica.
  • (2) While the heaviest anterogradely labeled ascending projections were observed to the contralateral ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus, pars oralis (VPLo), efferent projections were also observed to the contralateral ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VLc) and central lateral (CL) nucleus of the thalamic intralaminar complex, magnocellular (and to a lesser extent parvicellular) red nucleus, nucleus of Darkschewitsch, zona incerta, nucleus of the posterior commissure, lateral intermediate layer and deep layer of the superior colliculus, dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, contralateral nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and basilar pontine nuclei (especially dorsal and peduncular), and dorsal (DAO) and medial (MAO) accessory olivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral (external) cuneate nucleus (LCN) and lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), and to a lesser extent the caudal medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and caudal nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH), and dorsal medullary raphe.
  • (3) There was good agreement between the survival of normally oxygenated cells in culture and bright cells from tumors and between hypoxic cells in culture and dim cells from tumors over a radiation dosage range of 2-5 Gray.
  • (4) White lesions (NRL) against a gray background on cut section of brain increase in size with increasing time of arrest.
  • (5) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
  • (6) Proenkephalin A-related immunoreactive neuronal perikarya were detected in the central gray, reticular formation, nucleus raphes, trapezoid body, nucleus parabrachialis lateralis and medialis, nucleus spinalis nervi trigemini, nucleus dorsalis nervi vagi, and in the nucleus tractus solitarii.
  • (7) Ratios of lobar to global gray matter metabolism also were calculated.
  • (8) To summarize this case, one should consider the possibility that excessive polytherapy induces seizures, particularly in patients with structural brain abnormalities such as heterotopic gray matter.
  • (9) But Vokes’s second-half penalty and Gray’s 61st-minute strike won it for Burnley and left Fulham two points away from the relegation zone.
  • (10) Low numbers of [125I]endothelin-1 [( 125I]ET-1) binding sites were detected in the gray matter of the human frontal cortex, with little binding in the white matter.
  • (11) North Wiltshire MP James Gray said he was "very glad" Islam4UK had abandoned its march, which he said had been shown to be a "media stunt".
  • (12) Total RNA extracted from both white and gray matter of brain tissue from multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and controls was analyzed using a reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction for the presence of the nucleic acid of human coronavirus (HCV) 229E and OC43, the two strains characterized to date and associated with respiratory infections.
  • (13) Bouton-like terminals were found to be of two types according to their vesicle content, namely, boutons with ovoid, clear synaptic vesicles forming Gray type-1 synapses and boutons with pleomorphic clear synaptic vesicles forming Gray type-2 synapses.
  • (14) These findings support the view that the periaqueductal gray matter is actively involved in endogenous mechanisms of analgesia.
  • (15) I want to make it very clear that the state’s attorney’s office did not release the Freddie Gray autopsy report,” she said.
  • (16) ruber, anterodorsolateral midbrain tegmentum, superior and inferior colliculi, pontine gray, cerebral peduncles, medial pontine reticular formation, raphe and vestibular nuclei did not affect the acoustic structure of the calls tested.
  • (17) Single axon collaterals arising from the descending axons gave off terminal fibers to the left or the right gray matter.
  • (18) Colloidal gold labeled with monoclonal antibody recognized human hemoglobin was agglutinated with hemoglobin and changed the color from red to gray.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A child praying at the vigil site for Freddie Gray in Baltimore.
  • (20) Phoenix will next be seen in James Gray's Lowlife, a historical drama about immigrants in 1900s New York.

Stratus


Definition:

  • (n.) A form of clouds in which they are arranged in a horizontal band or layer. See Cloud.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Correlations with an immunoradiometric assay (Embria), using 522 samples, gave: Stratus = 0.999 (Embria) -3.3; r = 0.969, and Magic Lite = 1.225 (Embria) -3.03; r = 0.971.
  • (2) We studied the influence of endogenous albumin and thyroxin-binding globulin concentration on five automated, nonisotopic methods of measuring FT4 [Enzymun on ES300 (one-step), Stratus I and II (essentially two-step), Delfia (two-step), and IMx (two-step)] in a mixed patient population.
  • (3) The green patches are of scattered low clouds (stratocumulus, stratus, fog).
  • (4) However, intra- and interassay precision was substantially better with the Stratus hCG assay, and this may allow earlier confirmation of pregnancy.
  • (5) The Stratus automatic analyser can replace radioisotopic methods, thus eliminating radioactive hazards.
  • (6) We evaluated four new nonisotopic immunoassays of free thyroxin (FT4)--Amerlite FT4 (Amersham International), Magic Lite FT4 (Ciba Corning Diagnostics), Stratus FT4 (Dade--Baxter Travenol), and FT4 Enzelsa (Compagnie ORIS Industrie)--by comparison with two FT4 radioimmunoassays: Amerlex and Sclavo.
  • (7) Automated digoxin immunoassays with the Abbott TDx, Dade Stratus, and Du Pont aca were evaluated against an RIA similar to the Centers for Disease Control Candidate Reference Method.
  • (8) The advantageous features of the Stratus mass assay were as follows.
  • (9) Stratus TSH results were outside the reference range for 20% of clinically euthyroid patients (n = 126), and 2.4% had undetectable levels.
  • (10) Recently developed fluorescent enzyme immunoassays (FEIs) for follitropin (FSH) and lutropin (LH) designed for the Stratus analyzer were compared with a typical dual FSH-LH radioimmunoassay (RIA) procedure.
  • (11) First, we evaluated the financial impact of a rapid, monoclonal antibody-based CK-MB mass assay (Stratus, Dade Division, Baxter Laboratories, Miami, Fla) for the direct measurement of CK-MB in serum samples from 65 patients admitted to the coronary care unit with the possible diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction.
  • (12) Blood specimens from each patient were assayed for apparent SDCs in triplicate using a fluorescence polarization immunoassay (FPIA, TDx Digoxin II, Abbott) and a digoxin radioimmunoassay (RIA, GammaCoat I125, Clinical Assays) and in duplicate using a fluorometric enzyme immunoassay (Dade Stratus, American Dade).
  • (13) We determined that a membrane-associated, high-molecular-mass form of alkaline phosphatase was a cause of these falsely increased values and instituted an approach to identify falsely increased Stratus CK-MB values.
  • (14) In a previous evaluation of a "sensitive" radial partition fluorescent immunoassay on the Stratus system, thyrotropin (TSH) values exhibited a positive bias in icteric samples when compared with results of a nonsensitive radioimmunoassay.
  • (15) (acoustic) Crimson And Clover (acoustic) Sweet Thing (aborted) Funknroll (acoustic) Q & A (2) Stratus incl.
  • (16) On average, the higher ALP values were associated with larger discrepancies between Stratus and RIA TSH values, although several samples with increased ALP did not have falsely increased Stratus TSH values.
  • (17) The reliability and precision of three digoxin immunoassays--Baxter Dade Stratus (BDS), Syva affinity column enzyme-mediated immunoassay (EMIT), and the reference assay Abbott TDx fluorescence polarization immunoassay following ultrafiltration (FPIA-UF)--were compared in eight digoxin toxic patients treated with digoxin fab antibodies.
  • (18) Dibenzepine has a thymeretic rapid and intensive action and a slow thymoanaleptic effect on the same personality stratus of Clorimipramine.
  • (19) The method was compared with immunoradiometric (Bioclone Australia), chemiluminescent (Amerlite; Amersham), and immunoenzymometric assays (Stratus; Dade).
  • (20) Samples were measured using the Abbott TDx assay with and without ultrafiltration of the sample and the Dade-Stratus radial partition assay.