What's the difference between inflate and turgesce?

Inflate


Definition:

  • (p. a.) Blown in; inflated.
  • (v. t.) To swell or distend with air or gas; to dilate; to expand; to enlarge; as, to inflate a bladder; to inflate the lungs.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate one with pride or vanity.
  • (v. t.) To cause to become unduly expanded or increased; as, to inflate the currency.
  • (v. i.) To expand; to fill; to distend.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Philip Shaw, chief economist at broker Investec, expects CPI to hit 5.1%, just shy of the 5.2% reached in September 2008, as the utility hikes alone add 0.4% to inflation.
  • (2) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
  • (3) The buses recently went up by 50p per journey, but my wages went up with national inflation which was pennies.
  • (4) As increases to the Isa allowance are based on the CPI inflation figure for the year to the previous September, the new data suggests the current Isa limit of £15,240 will remain unchanged next year.
  • (5) But when, less than two weeks out from the election, voters were asked to name the issues most important to them in the campaign, they nominated unemployment, inflation and economic management, rather than immigration and border control.
  • (6) Although the unemployment rate is 4.8%, it can come down further without wage inflation starting to rise.
  • (7) VAT increases don't just hit the poor more than the rich, they also hit small firms, threaten retail jobs and, by boosting inflation, could also lead to higher interest rates."
  • (8) The data suggest that slow injection with the high tourniquet inflation pressure is better, although the differences in leakage with an intact tourniquet were not statistically significant.
  • (9) We report on a membrane inflation method of wound spreading in intact human corneas using the Baribeau Micronscope.
  • (10) To explore relations between preload, afterload, and stroke volume (SV) in the fetal left ventricle, we instrumented 126-129 days gestation fetal lambs with ascending aortic electromagnetic flow transducers, vascular catheters, and inflatable occluders around the aortic isthmus (n = 8) or descending aorta (n = 7).
  • (11) Each study consisted of a 2-h control period followed by 4 h of increased lung microvascular pressure produced by inflation of a balloon in the left atrium.
  • (12) The deal will also be scrutinised to see if its claims of new billions to jump start world economies prove to be inflated.
  • (13) The tidal volume increase under CO2 inhalation was suppressed by the inflation reflex but other afferent vagal nerves seemed to be closely associated with the increased respiratory rate.
  • (14) It's also worth noting that if the Help to Buy scheme really does inflate house prices, by waiting five years before you buy you run the risk of not actually being able to save enough for a 10% deposit, because you'll need a bigger amount than you now need.
  • (15) Philip Shaw, chief economist at Investec, said: “Clearly, there is a much greater chance that the euro hits parity with the US dollar once again, as it first did in 1999.” Stock markets climbed and bond yields fell as the markets digested the full implications of the massive QE project that will involve the ECB buying €60bn (£45bn) of bonds a month until September 2016 or when eurozone inflation nears the central bank’s 2% target.
  • (16) I still can’t figure out who this is aimed at: I’m imagining characters who think they’re in Wolf of Wall Street, with such an inflated sense of entitlement that even al desko meals need to come with Michelin tags.
  • (17) Threadneedle Street has shaved 0.75 points off borrowing costs in but has not moved since April and with rising energy bills likely to push inflation close to 5% in the coming months is thought more likely to raise bank rate than cut it when the Bank meets this week.
  • (18) The inflation used to calculate benefits is CPI, which doesn't include housing costs or council tax, unlike RPI.
  • (19) In the past, Draghi has rebuffed those attacks and stressed low rates and QE were needed to get inflation back to target.
  • (20) 1: Good news It's been a scarce commodity throughout the Osborne chancellorship, but he will have a decent amount of it to dish round the chamber – notably lower inflation and higher growth than was being forecast a short while ago.

Turgesce


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To become turgid; to swell or be inflated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In rabbits exposed to lead poisoning electron microscopy revealed the presence in reticulocytes and erythrocytes of differently sized vacuoles, an amassment of ferritin granules in the mitochondria along with autophaging vacuoles; leucocytes evidenced turgescence of the mitochondria, up to and including their destruction and emptiness; the blood platelets showed an abundant vacuolization with disordered distribution of the serotonin and glycogen granules.
  • (2) The 227 others, that is 96%, had 1 to 4 saphenae which were pathological, palpable, with hyperplastic wall, more or less turgescent outside all effort.
  • (3) Perineal turgescence, an index of estrogenicity, was inhibited by 4-OHA administration.
  • (4) After 24 hours, though vasculo-exsudative end inflammatory reaction were weak, an intense functional stimulation of fibroblasts was obvious (turgescent cells with numerous organelles).
  • (5) The antifungal agent caused the yeasts to become round and turgescent and to cluster; budding appeared to be affected also, as seen by scanning electron microscopy.
  • (6) XI, for psychogenic turgescence to appear; the efferent pathways seem therefore, to emerge from the cord quite close to the level which receives testicular afferent pathways; --underly or overly Th.
  • (7) Rapidly accuring edema and turgescence of the brain, rising intracranial pressure lead to the dislocation of the brain attended by a clinical picture of a grave secondary lesion of the brain stem.
  • (8) Two hours after the incision, a cellular necrosis was seen and vessels were obliterated by a turgescent endothelium, explaining the bloodless character of wounds with laser.
  • (9) A threshold Vm for membrane breakdown (Vc) of 0.58 and 0.51 V is estimated for the turgorless unfertilized eggs and the turgescent (4.8 bar) zygotes, respectively.
  • (10) Various venous compressions during pregnancy are responsible for some hematurias, increased collateral abdominal circulation, and turgescent haemorrhoids and vulvar varicose veins.
  • (11) It is suggested that the aversive nature of the stomach turgescence caused by increased water intake may be an additional mediating factor in septal aggression.

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