What's the difference between imbalance and instability?

Imbalance


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The significance of minor increases in the serum creatinine level must be recognized, so that modifications of drug therapy can be made and correction of possibly life-threatening electrolyte imbalances can be undertaken.
  • (2) The time for 90% of this change in VelCO2 to occur (T90) was measured as an index of the rate of correction of body CO2 imbalance.
  • (3) imbalance between production and elimination of heat, or to fever, i.e.
  • (4) Imbalances of peptide and dopamine cotransmission and their modulation by neuroleptics may be relevant to the pathogenesis and pharmacotherapy of schizophrenia.
  • (5) We have already had the failure of House of Lords reform, the failure to change constituencies and the imbalance of MPs between England and the devolved assemblies.
  • (6) The power of the landed elite is often cited as a major structural flaw in Pakistani politics – an imbalance that hinders education, social equality and good governance (there is no agricultural tax in Pakistan).
  • (7) Selection for treatment resulted in imbalance between the groups: the treated couples had a longer mean duration of infertility (48 vs. 36 months), and were more likely to have had a laparoscopy as part of the investigation (72% vs. 48%).
  • (8) Diplopia and asthenopia following retinal surgery are rare, despite relatively frequent muscular imbalance, because of: (a) suppresion (which war frequently found even in orthophorics with good postoperative vision in both eyes); (b) compensation owing to fusional power, and (c) probable role of the sensory factor for the compensation of the subjective experience of cyclotropia.
  • (9) Preeclampsia is associated with an imbalance between thromboxane and prostacyclin.
  • (10) Various etiologic factors reported in the medical literature are discussed and analyzed, and an anatomicophysiologic explanation of a possible mechanism, based on sympathetic-parasympathetic neurostimulatory imbalance, is offered.
  • (11) Therefore, treatment should be aimed at correcting the hormonal imbalance both at hypothalamico pituitary axis level and at the ovarian level rather than simple substitution therapy.
  • (12) The immunomodulatory effect was associated with the initial immune deficiency and manifested itself by higher relative and absolute T-lymphocyte contents along with elimination of their subpopulation imbalance.
  • (13) A technique is described which has reduced our incidence of vertical muscle imbalance and ptosis following intraocular surgery.
  • (14) The weakening of rosette-forming function of lymphocytes, a decrease in a mitogenic response to PHA, dysimmunoglobulinemia, imbalance in antibody production, particularly hyperproduction of cardial antibodies in rheumatic fever were observed as was marked delayed-type hypersensitivity to tissue antigens, more frequently to purified cardial antigens--to myocardial cell membranes and myosin.
  • (15) The patient's immune deviation is consistent with a transient imbalance of lymphokine production in helper T cells.
  • (16) Imbalance between the needs of the cell and the needs of the organism is proposed to be the general mechanism of chronic diseases.
  • (17) Removal of the ribs from one side produces an imbalance in the symmetric weight transmission through the ribs on the two sides.
  • (18) He understands from the perspective of Asia that there is a real supply-demand imbalance,” Forgacs said.
  • (19) These case reports demonstrate again that thrombocytopenia in Hodgkin's disease take place in active phases as well as in periods of complete remission; in the latter thrombocytopenia may reflect a part of immunological imbalance closely related to the pathophysiological background of Hodgkin's disease.
  • (20) In contrast, in advanced stages of late-onset DAT, this imbalance between oxygen and glucose utilization rates in the brain became smaller and smaller, and cerebral blood flow diminished markedly; these biological brain parameters finally all settled down at between 55% and 65% of the corresponding control values.

Instability


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or condition of being unstable; want of stability, firmness, or steadiness; liability to give way or to fail; insecurity; precariousness; as, the instability of a building.
  • (n.) Lack of determination of fixedness; inconstancy; fickleness; mutability; changeableness; as, instability of character, temper, custom, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (4) Despite the removal of the cruciate ligaments and capsulo-ligamentous slide, no significant residual instability was found in either plane.
  • (2) By measurement and analysis of the changes in carpal angles and joint spaces, carpal instability was discovered in 41 fractures, an incidence of 30.6%.
  • (3) Unrecognized flexion injuries of the cervical spine may lead to late instability and neurologic damage.
  • (4) Hypermobility and instability following injury and degenerative joint disease is poorly understood and often not recognized as the cause of the patients symptoms.
  • (5) In these three patients, laxity of the knee in flexion was so severe that posterior instability could not be corrected merely by patellar relocation.
  • (6) Cubitus valgus or instability due to a pseudarthrosis of the lateral epicondyle or to ligamentous injury may stretch the nerve.
  • (7) The hypothesis that this instability would lead to more errors and longer decision times for distinguishing left-right mirror-image figures was not supported.
  • (8) 93 knees in 74 patients between 9 and 20 years of age were operated because of patello-femoral instability.
  • (9) Whereas in flexion stress all methods showed a sufficient stability, the rotation tests proved, that in case of a dorsal instability of the lower cervical spine, posterior interlaminar wiring or anterior plate stabilization showed no reliable stabilization effect.
  • (10) There is a paucity of informative data on the potentially important role of specific sites of chromosomal instability in oncogenic processes.
  • (11) "In-gel renaturation" analysis did not show any DNA amplification of high degree in AT22IJE-T. Cytogenetic analysis showed considerable chromosomal instability in the new cell line, and medium conditioned by these cells contained the clastogenic activity which is characteristic of the parental strain as well.
  • (12) Instability or a return to violence could follow the imposition of measures that would threaten the ability of the PA to govern in the West Bank.
  • (13) This approach was used in 42 shoulders with rotator cuff tears or posterior instability without complications of infection, failure of deltoid healing, or compromise of suprascapular or axillary nerves.
  • (14) Sixteen patients who remained wet had detrusor instability; 9 of these were cured by anticholinergic medications.
  • (15) Atlantoaxial instability, defined as a gap of over 4 mm, was present in seven (10%) children and two (2%) adults.
  • (16) With these scores we expect to facilitate the diagnostic screening, to indicate the way of therapy and to avoid unnecessary surgery for urinary incontinence in cases of motor-urge-incontinence (detrusor instability, unstable bladder), as long as a urodynamic examination is not feasible on every incontinent women.
  • (17) Midcarpal instability occurs at the triquetral-hamate joint and is characterized by a dynamic subluxation of the joint.
  • (18) Structural instability of pZG1 could therefore be due at least in part to the presence of single-stranded DNA.
  • (19) Oxidative stress is now shown to occur in BS cells and may be responsible for the observed chromosomal instability.
  • (20) It is therefore unlikely that the tyrosinylation status directly affects the intrinsic stability of assembled microtubules since the rate of length redistribution is both a sensitive assay and a function of the kinetic parameters governing dynamic instability.