What's the difference between hilarity and laughter?

Hilarity


Definition:

  • (n.) Boisterous mirth; merriment; jollity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Of the patients with peripheral lung cancer lesions smaller than 2 cm who underwent surgery, 21% had peribronchial, hilar, or mediastinal lymph node metastasis.
  • (2) Two patients had hilar lymph node metastases, one of them had also involvement of pericardium.
  • (3) Among patients with N1 disease we observed more frequent hilar metastases in the more advanced tumors (p less than 0.05).
  • (4) After injection of HRP-WGA into the contralateral hippocampus 2% of hilar NPY-i neurons were retrogradely labeled and symmetric NPY-i synapses were found on the cell bodies and dendrites of unstained HRP-WGA labeled neurons.
  • (5) Her chest roentgenogram showed a moderate amount of pleural effusion in the left pleural cavity without infiltration in the lung fields and no evidence of swollen hilar or mediastinal lymphnodes.
  • (6) I think the “horror and outrage” Roberts complains of were more like hilarity, and the story still makes me laugh (as do many others on Mumsnet, which is full of jokes as well as acronyms for everything).
  • (7) In 17 patients with hilar cholangiocarcinoma and intrahepatic bile duct dilatation, the relationships between lobar or segmental atrophy, compensatory hypertrophy, and patency of portal vein branches were evaluated with computed tomography (CT) and angiography.
  • (8) Thus, it was concluded that CDDP is very effective for patients with lung cancer and that CDDP administered by BAI is useful for hilar-type squamous cell carcinoma.
  • (9) The main finding is a hyperlucent lung with small hilar shadows on chest x-ray.
  • (10) The management team gets changed, amid much hilarity when a continental breakfast of croissants and fruit is brought in.
  • (11) Presence or absence of lung cancer and the presence and severity of silicosis of the parenchyma, pleura, and hilar glands were documented from necropsy reports.
  • (12) The earliest formed SSIR neurons, generated on E12 and E13, are preferentially distributed to the subiculum, those generated on E14 are most commonly observed throughout the CA1-CA3 fields of the hippocampus and SSIR neurons which become postmitotic on E15 are more heavily represented in the hilar region of the dentate gyrus than cells born at other stages of development.
  • (13) Hemorrhage, congestion, consolidation, edema and fibrin exudation were prominent in the hilar region of the lungs.
  • (14) Discordance in antigen expression between primary and metastatic lesions (ie, positive primary tumors with negative metastatic lesions and negative primary tumors with positive metastatic lesions) was observed in the following order of frequency: extrathoracic metastatic lesion, contralateral lung, mediastinal lymph node (N2), and ipsilateral peribronchial and hilar (N1) lymph nodes.
  • (15) The chest roentgenographic findings in Takayasu's arteritis include widening of the ascending aorta, contour irregularities of the descending aorta, arotic calcifications, pulmonary arterial changes, rib notching, and hilar lymphadenopathy.
  • (16) Eighty animals were divided into four equal groups: I--splenectomy, II--50% splenectomy with the upper half left in situ connected to the short gastric vessels, III--50% splenectomy with the lower half left in situ connected to the hilar vessels, and IV--splenectomy with implantation of splenic fragments.
  • (17) It was concluded that intrahepatic cholangiojejunostomy for unresectable hepatic hilar carcinoma, contributed to a temporary return to normal life, gave better results than external biliary drainage.
  • (18) Pleural lesions, bronchial ectasis and mediastinal and hilar lymph node changes could be diagnosed.
  • (19) Two patients with sarcoidosis involving pulmonary hilar lymph nodes developed the nephrotic syndrome.
  • (20) Twenty-five out of 33 patients with the lymph nodes metastases had hilar metastatic lymph nodes.

Laughter


Definition:

  • (v. i.) A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See Laugh, v. i.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Enuresis risoria" or "giggle incontinence" is a particular condition characterized by a sudden, involuntary, uncontrollable and complete emptying of the bladder during giggling or hearty laughter.
  • (2) Their hearty laughter far surpassed any private hopes of entertaining this endearingly stodgy bunch.
  • (3) It’s even slower than the public service” (much laughter) “and it’s all stage managed”.
  • (4) Foreign aid, NHS queues, he pressed hot button prejudices, interrupted other speakers, his quick wit won both laughter and applause.
  • (5) It felt just amazing.” But there was laughter when it was suggested that she might extend that record by a few days with gold in the 5,000m.
  • (6) "Thank you for coming, despite some of the hiccups we have had," Tutu said to laughter and applause at St George's Cathedral, Cape Town.
  • (7) Earlier Davies had raised laughter in the Grimond Room in Westminster's Portcullis House when he asked the judge, recently promoted to president of the Queen's Bench Division, whether he had any "regrets" about his report.
  • (8) Perhaps the only thing Katie does get to take home is her antipathy to laughter.
  • (9) When President Obama stands up and says - as he did when he addressed the nation in February 2011 about Libya - that "the United States will continue to stand up for freedom, stand up for justice, and stand up for the dignity of all people", it should trigger nothing but a scornful fit of laughter, not credulous support (by the way, not that anyone much cares any more, but here's what is happening after the Grand Success of the Libya Intervention: "Tribal and historical loyalties still run deep in Libya, which is struggling to maintain central government control in a country where armed militia wield real power and meaningful systems of law and justice are lacking after the crumbling of Gaddafi's eccentric personal rule").
  • (10) He is part of a travelling circus, certainly, but the laughter stopped a little while ago.
  • (11) Behind us we could still hear shooting, the screams, the laughter of the bastard as he shot, and his shout to us: "You won't get away!"
  • (12) Laughter is a partly involuntary act involving complex pathways in the central nervous system.
  • (13) That is why I am not the leader of the Labour party,” he said, to laughter and a round of applause.
  • (14) One patient had precocious puberty, epileptic laughter, and abnormal behavior; the other had cerebral seizures.
  • (15) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
  • (16) There was laughter, but the room at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles fell silent as it appeared Foster, 50, had a serious point to make.
  • (17) But, she appeared to leave the door open to a possible eventual return, adding to laughter from the crowd that "everyone always says that when they leave these jobs".
  • (18) In a move that sparked laughter and jeers in the Commons, the shadow chancellor pulled out a copy of the Quotations from Chairman Mao to make a point about George Osborne’s attempts to sell off state assets to the Chinese.
  • (19) With the eight lanes of France’s most famous avenue cleared of all traffic on Paris’s first car-free day , the usual cacophony of car-revving and thundering motorbike engines had given way to the squeak of bicycle wheels, the clatter of skateboards, the laughter of children on rollerblades and even the gentle rustling of wind in the trees.
  • (20) Nanu Nanu LG x August 12, 2014 Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) Rest in Peace+Laughter Robin Williams.