What's the difference between healing and pealing?
Healing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Heal
(a.) Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words.
Example Sentences:
(1) Together these observations suggest that cytotactin is an endogenous cell surface modulatory protein and provide a possible mechanism whereby cytotactin may contribute to pattern formation during development, regeneration, tumorigenesis, and wound healing.
(2) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
(3) Five patients have been examined by defecography before and four after closure of a loop ileostomy performed to cover healing of the pouch and ileoanal anastomoses.
(4) The ulcers on seven of ten legs (70%) treated with Unna's boots and on 10 of 14 legs (71%) treated with elastic support stocking healed.
(5) Grafts of intermediate thickness (M III) showed excellent clinical healing of the donor and the recipient site.
(6) In the controlled wound care group, only three ulcers in three patients achieved complete healing; the remaining 24 ulcers in 20 patients failed to achieve even 50% healing in the stipulated 3-month period.
(7) To investigate the possibility that an abnormality of gastric emptying exists in duodenal ulcer and to determine if such an abnormality persists after ulcer healing, scintigraphic gastric emptying measurements were undertaken in 16 duodenal ulcer patients before, during, and after therapy with cimetidine; in 12 patients with pernicious anemia, and in 12 control subjects.
(8) Survival and healing of "extremely severe" grade intoxication can only be obtained through a surgical intervention within the first hours; a laparotomy will indicate the depth of the lesions, which is not determined by endoscopy, and will consist of Celerier's stripping method and if necessary a gastrectomy, more seldom a cephalic duodeno-pancreatectomy.
(9) It was concluded that a few days delay between trauma and treatment did not necessarily lead to a delayed healing.
(10) Lateral upper and lower lid lysis allows the needed extended period of healing.
(11) Conservatively treated compressed fractures of the distal radius dorsal metaphysis healed despite primarily good reduction and consequent treatment with a decrease in dorsal length.
(12) Both models showed the expected wound-healing defects of the diabetic rats.
(13) The prognosis was adversely affected by obesity, preoperative flexion contracture of 30 degrees or more, wound-healing problems, wound infection, and postoperative manipulation under general anesthesia.
(14) This, however will not result in normal lower leg bones, as can be concluded from the fact that spontaneous fractures have occurred partly even in the locomotor apparatus after the pseudarthroses had healed.
(15) The patient experienced an uneventful recovery and at the 6-week follow-up, the pelvic organs were within the normal limit and all wounds had healed.
(16) No perforations, stenoses or thermic lesions after wound healing were observed.
(17) Instead of healing the nation after a fractious referendum he inflamed the situation.
(18) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
(19) Experiments have been performed using CO2 laser-assisted microvascular anastomoses, and they demonstrated the following features, in comparison with conventional anastomoses: ease in technique; less time consumption; less tissue inflammation; early wound healing; equivalency of patency rate and inner pressure tolerance; but only about 50 percent of the tensile strength of manual-suture anastomosis.
(20) These results suggest that the bacterium may not play an important pathogenetic role in ulcer healing and relapse, when patients are managed using an H2-blocker.
Pealing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peal
Example Sentences:
(1) With the promise of a new set starting at midnight, his third of the night, I arrive around 11pm to hear him still in full flow, vein-popping saxophone pealing out into Mornington Crescent.
(2) Black smoke rising from the chapel's chimney signifies an inconclusive vote (traditionally damp straw was added to make the smoke black but a chemical compound is now used instead); white smoke – and the pealing of the basilica's bell to avoid any confusion about the colour of the smoke – means that a new pope has been elected.
(3) Of a sudden from the belfry in the square there broke out again a wild midnight peal of bells.
(4) Unique aspects of the prehistory and current distribution of the Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans Peale) have been applied to the problem of determining the biogeographical origin of its parasites as found on 'exulans only' islands of New Zealand.
(5) The peals of laughter that greeted this piece of deadpannery were perhaps indicative of the committee's eagerness to put its guest at his ease.
(6) In patients with myocardial infarction there was good correlation between the minimum plasma zinc level and the peal value of plasma enzymes, and also with some clinical estimators of prognosis.
(7) Furthermore, both the size and number of cells recovered in fractions 7 to 11 (which include the modal peal volume of unseparated hepatocytes) were increased.
(8) I ask you – would the Germans discriminate against our bicycles, if they thought we would discriminate against their BMWs?” he asked, to peals of laughter.
(9) The clang of an approaching train's warning to pedestrians to get off the open tracks has become part of the city's soundtrack, along with the constant honking of car horns, the five-times-a-day Muslim call to prayer, the occasional peal of church bells and the Friday afternoon siren that marks the start of the Jewish sabbath.
(10) Websites have been constructed; commemorative gold coins and stamps are to be issued; a peal of bells will ring from churches; a series of lectures around the world, starting with one by Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, will emphasise the document’s enduring importance; the British Library will host the largest exhibition in its history; special songs and poems will be performed; Magna Carta will even get its own display at the Notting Hill carnival.
(11) Ectoparasite records are presented for four species of commensal murid rodents (Rattus rattus palelae Miller & Hollister, R. argentiventer (Robinson & Kloss), R. exulans (Peale) and Mus musculus castaneus Waterhouse) in Sulawesi Utara, with particular reference to the potential for these arthropods to bite and transmit pathogens to humans.
(12) 2.57pm BST Bells have started pealing as the planes slowly come to a halt near assembled mourners.
(13) A little light relief amid the gravitas of an occasion which amounted to the most important ruling in the court's 61-year history was offered by a slip of the tongue by Vosskuhle who called the petitions to block the ESM "justified" before changing it to "unjustified" after being corrected by a colleague, as peals of laughter filled the courtroom.
(14) He is more obviously shy than Koenig – they met during a production of Romeo and Juliet at Columbia – but he has a ready grin and emits little peals of laughter at unexpected moments during our conversation.
(15) One man, carrying a large German flag which flaps in the wind, is heard greeting his friends with “Heil Deutschland” to be met by peals of laughter.
(16) Its peal will be answered by the bells of churches all along the river and theirs, in turn, echoed by others up and down the land.
(17) Her laughter is the only kind I've ever heard that actually deserves the word "peals": she reels in her seat with it.
(18) Band-pass was set up between 1 and 125 Hz and latencies and amplitudes were studied for both types of evoked responses, PEATs and PEALs.
(19) Linearity in the intrinsic and radiation sensitized response of the 280 degree C TL peal for both pellet and powder forms has been studied with regard to ultraviolet dosimetry over the range 10(-2) to 5 x 10(4) mJ cm-2.
(20) A little light relief amidst the gravitas of an occasion which amounted to the most important ruling in the court's 61 year history was offered by a slip of the tongue by Vosskuhle who called the petitions to block the ESM “justified” before changing it to “unjustified” after being corrected by a colleague, as peals of laughter filled the courtroom.