What's the difference between infra and supra?

Infra


Definition:

  • (adv.) Below; beneath; under; after; -- often used as a prefix.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The air flow is determined by the differential pressure principle, CO2 measurement is by the infra-red technique and O2 analyser is of the paramagnetic type.
  • (2) Carbon dioxide lasers emit infra-red radiation at a wavelength of 10600 nm, making them suitable for tissue vaporisation, incision and vessel coagulation.
  • (3) Therapeutic procedure are based either on physical media: infra-red rays, gamma-rays, electric fields for the transformation of temperature or using chemical mixtures containing methyl bromide, carbon tetrachloride and hydrogen sulphide.
  • (4) The chance of detecting splenic and hepatic involvement was definitely higher in patients with nodal disease above and below the diaphragm in comparison with those with either supra-diaphragmatic or infra-diaphragmatic adenopathy.
  • (5) Ultra-violet and infra-red rays are inactive on the autonomic retina and on the hypothalamus.
  • (6) The hydration of the main-chain carbonyl (CO) groups in proteins have been studied using infra-red spectroscopy, and computer-graphics analysis of high resolution protein crystal structures.
  • (7) An infra-umbilical entry into the peritoneal cavity through a small incision, without anesthesia, for the identification and cannulation of an umbilical artery was employed for monitoring and therapy in five prematurely born neonates.
  • (8) This persisted for 1-4 minutes and then progressively subsided passing through a period of 3:2 intra- infra-hisian AV block until it reached 1:1 conduction with transient left bundle branch block.
  • (9) Volatile degradation products were isolated from a solution of L-dehydroascorbic acid in phosphate buffer solution of pH 2,4,6 and 8 heated under reflux for 3 h or left at 25 degrees C for 200 h. The products were identified by comparison of their gas chromatographic retention data, infra-red and mass spectra with those of authentic compounds.
  • (10) They were concentrated in the infra- and supra-nuclear cytoplasm.
  • (11) These results show that the attachment of polynuclear moieties in estradiol 17 alpha-, 4- and 16 alpha-, positions gives rise to compounds which are of potential utility in a new non-radioisotopic receptor assay since the metal-carbonyl markers are readily detected by high-sensitivity Fourier-transform infra-red spectroscopy.
  • (12) An infra-red photoelectric device monitors the horizontal component of eye movement.
  • (13) The lack of chemical concordance between the synthetic products and the haptens has prompted a re-examination of these structures utilizing the instrumental techniques not previously available of fast atom bombardment-mass spectrometry, Fourier transform infra-red, and high resolution NMR spectroscopy.
  • (14) The decreased height of the alveolar bone level at the site of the infra-occluded primary molar has been reported to normalize after the eruption of the permanent successor.
  • (15) The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of low-energy infra-red laser treatment on wound healing in rats, both histologically as well as by gross observation.
  • (16) Although the tumour was detected in the periphery and appeared to extend centrally, extensive surgery suggested that the tumour had its origins in the infra-temporal fossa.
  • (17) Two types of paralysis could be distinguished, an upper one affecting both the infra- and the supraspinatus muscles (12 patients), and a lower one involving only the infraspinatus muscle (4 patients).
  • (18) Parinaud's syndromes may occur in infra- and supratentorial space-occupying lesions, but very careful differential diagnosis must be made in those cases.
  • (19) The carbon monoxide compound of cytochrome o also has absorbance bands in the near infra-red, and these may be attributable to a low-spin ferrous haem compound.
  • (20) On the other hand, repolarization worsened whenever an impairment of infra or intrahisian conduction occurred.

Supra


Definition:

  • (adv.) Over; above; before; also, beyond; besides; -- much used as a prefix.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Differences regarding subfraction patterns of the gamma-globulin region seemed to be influenced of whether supra- or infratentorial structures were affected.
  • (2) Attention is drawn to the desirability of differentiating between supra- and sub-gingival calculus in the CPITN scoring system and to the excessive treatment requirements that arise from classifying everyone with calculus as requiring prophylaxis and scaling.
  • (3) In one case MRI showed a false image of tear of the supra spinatus m. on its anterior edge.
  • (4) These two types of supra-ependymal structures seem to contain 5-hydroxytryptamine.
  • (5) Brain tumors of supra- and subtontorial localization were detected.
  • (6) Some cell processes were present on the AP surface, but no supra-ependymal cell bodies could be seen over the AP proper.
  • (7) When patients had recovered from the spinal shock phase, emptying of the bladder supplemented by alpha-adrenergic blocking preparations and clean intermittent catheterization were instituted in the patients with supra-sacral lesions.
  • (8) With age there is a progressive deterioration in the capsulo-tendinous cuff of the shoulder: When rotator cuff lesions are limited (in general to the supra-spinatus), the cuff remains continent and functional, thereby ensuring good centering of the humeral head.
  • (9) Post-Gd images were equivalent to pre-Gd images in the evaluation of supra- and infrasellar extensions of macroadenomas.
  • (10) Since the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy performed in 1987 by Philippe Mouret in Lyon (France), there has been a real revolution in the field of visceral surgery: more and more operations are performed by this mini-invasive surgical method: lithiasis of the common bile duct, Nissen and Heller procedure, truncal vagotomies, abdominal and thoracic, supra-selective vagotomies, hernia, appendectomy, band sections during intestinal occlusion, resection of the colon and rectum, oesophagectomies ...
  • (11) One of the most annoying complications of rhinoplasty is the supra-tip hump (pollybeak).
  • (12) This is shown by serial reconstruction analysis of the largest diameter of synapses from maximal arc and chord length measurements at the subpial and supra Purkinje level.
  • (13) Loudness scaling is suggested as a method of eliciting supra-threshold measurements which might be helpful in the fitting of hearing aids.
  • (14) From March, 1976 to February, 1979, 28 cases of adult acute leukemia of which 24 were evaluable were treated in irreversible relapse with high dose chemotherapy (piperazinedione) and supra-lethal total body irradiation (TBI) in conjunction with autologous bone marrow transplantation (ABMT).
  • (15) It may also be interesting to elucidate supra-pontine structures which activate the identified brainstem-spinal cord inhibitory system.
  • (16) The chance of detecting splenic and hepatic involvement was definitely higher in patients with nodal disease above and below the diaphragm in comparison with those with either supra-diaphragmatic or infra-diaphragmatic adenopathy.
  • (17) The indications included a disease of the sinus node (8 cases), supra-ventricular arrhythmias associated to conduction disorders (3 cases) and a cardiomyopathy with conduction disorders (1 case).
  • (18) A right ventricular artificial demand pacemaker was implanted into a 59-year-old man with supra-Hisian complete heart block.
  • (19) Surgery for vertebral-basilar insufficiency comprises only 5.2% of all 1422 supra-aortic reconstructions performed during this period.
  • (20) Many clinical types can be distinguished among the post-phlebitis varicose veins : Substitution varicose veins : pre and supra pubic varicose veins that should be left intact-superficial post-phlebitis venous insufficiency which is characterized by a saphenous insufficiency that is not significantly different as a whole in its physiopathology from the essential saphenous insufficiency, and requires therefore the same forms of therapy.

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