What's the difference between impale and transfix?

Impale


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See Empale.
  • (v. t.) To inclose, as with pales or stakes; to surround.
  • (v. t.) To join, as two coats of arms on one shield, palewise; hence, to join in honorable mention.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is suitable either for brief sampling of AP durations when recording with microelectrodes, which may impale cells intermittently, or for continuous monitoring, as with suction electrodes on intact beating hearts in situ.
  • (2) The impaled cardiac cells which generated transitional action potentials were identified in serial sections and studied with the light and the electron microscopes.
  • (3) Impalements of sufficient quality to demonstrate inhibition by carotid baroreceptor stimulation (blind sac inflation) were obtained for 9 cells.
  • (4) Impalement of identified principal cells from the serosal side with single-barrelled conventional or double-barrelled Cl(-)-sensitive microelectrodes was performed at x500 magnification.
  • (5) Electrical stimulation of the arcuate nucleus did not elicit any detectable synaptic response in impaled tanycytes, so that the functional significance of synaptoid contacts between neuroendocrine neurons and the postsynaptic tanycytes is not yet apparent.
  • (6) cell volume changes); luminal and contraluminal cell borders are well resolved for controlled microelectrode impalement.
  • (7) One of these interneurons was impaled intracellularly, characterized physiologically, and then labeled by intracellular horseradish peroxidase (HRP) injection to examine the distribution and ultrastructure of synapses.
  • (8) Application of TEA in the presence of bicuculline (10(-5) M) increased the amplitude and duration of the DS in neurons impaled with D890-containing electrodes.
  • (9) The relatively rare occurrence of this type of oscillation in impaled neurons, as compared with extracellular recordings in the same nucleus or to intracellular recordings in other dorsal thalamic nuclei, suggests that the interplay between the two intrinsic currents generating delta oscillation is particularly critical in lateral geniculate cells.
  • (10) The neurons are stimulated by a microelectrode impaled in the soma.
  • (11) Smooth muscle cells were impaled near the myenteric border between the circular and longitudinal layers.
  • (12) It is concluded that the leak impalement artifact is so significant in micro-electrode recordings from hamster eggs that it prevents routine reliable potential measurements.
  • (13) Intradendritic impalements were obtained to more accurately assess changes in the intracellular EPSP following HFS.
  • (14) Biological (stratum corneum) and artificial (cation-exchange resin beads, Bio-Rad AG 50W-X2) ion exchangers were impaled by glass microelectrodes filled with KCl solution.
  • (15) During whole-cell recordings, however, regular potential oscillations were observed in the cells that had not been impaled with a conventional microelectrode, as far as the Ca2+ buffer was not strong in the pipette solution.
  • (16) Following impalement with intracellular electrodes, the large calyciform nerve terminals innervating chick ciliary ganglion neurons exhibit pronounced inward rectification upon hyperpolarization that increases with increasing current strength.
  • (17) Human red cells in modified Ringer solution were impaled individually with 3 M KCl-filled glass microelectrodes.
  • (18) The physiological properties of these double-labelled corticospinal neurons were indistinguishable from those of comparable neurons which were impaled with biocytin-containing electrodes without prior RLM-labelling, and neurons studied with potassium acetate-filled electrodes in similar areas.
  • (19) This confirms (i) the intracellular location of the microelectrode and the absence of impalement artifacts, and (ii) the ineffectiveness of ADH upon the electromotive forces of the inner border.
  • (20) To suppress contractile responses and thereby facilitate sustained impalements, the muscle strips were bathed with a hypertonic solution containing sucrose.

Transfix


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to impale; as, to transfix one with a dart.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Major pin-tract infections are a potentially dangerous complication associated with the use of skeletal transfixation pins.
  • (2) Photograph: Getty So that was the grand import of the producer’s vision, realised on an unprecedented scale and to eventual rightful acclaim: despite Gagarin and the rest, Americans in particular (and then Australia, and Britain) became transfixed by all the unfolding tales and testimonies.
  • (3) In a series of trials involving a uniform axial load, different transfixing wire tensions, and the separation of paired proximal and distal rings, fragment displacement was measured.
  • (4) Transcutaneous wires and pins in wire-tension Ilizarov external fixators provide frame stability, transfix and transport bone segments, produce distraction, and stimulate transosseous osteogenesis.
  • (5) A modified Ilizarov external fixator was used to transfix the stifle joint in 13 dogs.
  • (6) The adjacent vertebrae were transfixed by two 3-mm Steinman pins placed vertically.
  • (7) We concluded that patients with non-union following high tibial osteotomy for osteoarthritis of the knee should undergo resection of the pseudarthrosis and transfixation compression as the treatment of choice.
  • (8) The windows become viewing stations to stare out of – transfixed by every small jet that magically lifts from the ground carrying tonnes of travellers and trinkets.
  • (9) The distal phalanx was then transfixed to the bone graft by 2 crossed-K-wires.
  • (10) The monofixateur is indicated for treatment of closed, open and infected fractures, pseudarthrosis, osteotomy adaption, arthrodesis and joint transfixations.
  • (11) I was transfixed by scholars such as Claire Pajaczkowska, who wore Doc Martens but were bringing us poststructuralism straight off the press.
  • (12) According to the principles of treatment for other tarsal injuries, we carried out open reduction with joint debridement, reconstruction of ligaments and internal stabilization with transfixation screws.
  • (13) Watching her on stage, as she coiled and uncoiled her impossible limbs, I had become transfixed by the question of what was going on in her head while she danced.
  • (14) Sahloul stood transfixed, the scene unfolding like a silent movie in front of him.
  • (15) With a stiff catheter in the urethra, via a horizontal 'H'-shaped perineal incision and through the puborectalis sling, the rectum was mobilised and the fistula transfixed.
  • (16) Anyway, back to these fraudsters, who are the least costly element of a leaky system, but nevertheless transfix the political imagination as though they were masterminds of cunning and audacity, whose long game were to destroy the fabric of society altogether.
  • (17) Because of delayed treatment, transfixation of carpal bones (necessary for stability), and surgical trauma, degenerative joint disease with osteophyte formation occurred in all 5 horses.
  • (18) Temperature measurements were performed during drilling, smooth part penetration (transfixing pins), tapping, and screwing.
  • (19) Rotational displacement was limited the most by transfixation between the vertebral bodies (position one or two).
  • (20) In order to prevent the making of a triangular-shaped crown, a false transfixed core removable is built over the intramobile component of the IMZ as well as pa periodontal ring.