What's the difference between insult and reciprocally?

Insult


Definition:

  • (v. t.) The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
  • (v. t.) Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity.
  • (v. t.) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
  • (v. t.) To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.
  • (v. i.) To leap or jump.
  • (v. i.) To behave with insolence; to exult.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The variation of the activity of the peptidase with pH in the presence of various inhibitors was investigated in both control and insulted muscle fibres.
  • (2) To study these changes more thoroughly, specific monoclonal antibodies of the A and B subunits of calcineurin (protein phosphatase 2B) were raised, and regional alterations in the immunoreactivity of calcineurin in the rat hippocampus were investigated after a transient forebrain ischemic insult causing selective and delayed hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cell damage.
  • (3) Histopathological studies confirmed that mice fed 933cu-rev died from bilateral renal cortical tubular necrosis consistent with toxic insult, perhaps due to Shiga-like toxins.
  • (4) Combined with histological analysis, these results suggest a more rapid recovery of normal spermatogenesis after physical insult with LAC treatment.
  • (5) Mark Latham's insights, insults and feuds are why he's worth reading | Gay Alcorn Read more BuzzFeed political editor Mark Di Stefano, the reporter who broke the story linking Latham to the less-than-savoury @RealMarkLatham Twitter account , had been chasing Stutchbury for days.
  • (6) Among the various physiological factors involved in the development of a nephrotoxic insult, certain renal transport systems may be important.
  • (7) In addition, PROM is the result of direct bacterial insults or host-mediated autodestruction in response to bacterial presence or challenge.
  • (8) Postmortem biochemical indices may provide a useful adjunct to morphological studies in the identification of antemortem brain insult.
  • (9) This toxic effect, although not seen in intact nigrostriatal systems, may indicate L-dopa toxicity on transplanted DA cells, or on DA cells maximally activated to recover from insult.
  • (10) Under the conditions employed in these studies, repeated occlusions give rise to progressively more prolonged deficits in brain protein synthesis activity, which may thus provide a useful index of the severity of the accumulated ischemic insult.
  • (11) The loss of coronary reserve was less than that previously observed after a 15-min occlusion, suggesting that the magnitude of the postischemic vascular abnormalities increases with the duration of the ischemic insult.
  • (12) We also observed a difference in the pattern and severity of alterations between repeated ischemic insults and single ischemia.
  • (13) Unconsciousness was associated with a brief period of hypotension, so brief that in itself it caused no apparent insult.
  • (14) These findings suggest that NB-818 may be useful for clinical treatment of neurological deficit after an ischemic insult.
  • (15) For example, patients suffering from transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) experience onset of insult within 6 hours of a transfusion and have the presence of leukoagglutinins in their serum.
  • (16) This review article discusses the clinical manifestations and the diagnostic workup of insults to the kidney in patients with cancer.
  • (17) We have recently demonstrated in vitro a potential biological mechanism which could occur in vivo upon inhaling airborne graon dust, thereby constituting a potential inflammatory insult to the respiratory tracts of grain workers.
  • (18) It is hypothesized that transmission failure of interneuronal systems in the initial period following insult may be a general response occurring in wide areas of the central nervous system, and not restricted to areas to which mechanical stress is directly applied.
  • (19) These shape changes may become irreversible and, in fact, they may be encountered in different types of haemolytic disease, suggesting that the echinocytic and stomatocytic shape changes represent two fundamental ways in which red cells react to intrinsic and extrinsic insults.
  • (20) The Labour party erupted into open civil war as Ed Miliband loyalists and supporters of Johann Lamont, the Scottish Labour leader who resigned this weekend, exchanged accusations and insults.

Reciprocally


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a reciprocal manner; so that each affects the other, and is equally affected by it; interchangeably; mutually.
  • (adv.) In the manner of reciprocals.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this review, we demonstrate that serum creatinine does not provide an adequate estimate of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and contrary to recent teachings, that the slope of the reciprocal of serum creatinine vs time does not permit an accurate assessment of the rate of progression of renal disease.
  • (2) In crosses between inverted repeats, a single intrachromatid reciprocal exchange leads to inversion of the sequence between the crossover sites and recovery of both genes involved in the event.
  • (3) A reciprocal translocation, identified as t(6p+; 14q-), is described in a 38,XX intersex pig.
  • (4) From the results presented it appears that morphine produces a reciprocal change in the activity evoked in extensor and flexor reflex pathways.
  • (5) Don't we by chance come across this reciprocal spiral perspective when two people distrust one another without actually showing it?
  • (6) Reciprocal translocations involving the short arm of acrocentric chromosomes can segregate to produce partial duplications without associated deletions.
  • (7) In a second phase of the study, a comparison was made between mortality rates of male and female progeny of White Leghorn-Rhode Island Red reciprocal crosses.
  • (8) Finally, a reciprocal facilitating effect of RRs and augmenting responses (ARs), which was studied by combined stimulation of nucleus ventralis posterolateralis (VPL) and NCM, appeared to be dependent upon an intracortical mechanism.
  • (9) Three triacetinases (A, B and C) were shown to undergo reciprocal conversions under storage and during some purification procedures (effect of pH, ionic strength, ion-exchange chromatography, concentration, lyophilization, etc.).
  • (10) For this purpose the molecular models of Monod-Wyman-Changeux (MWC) and of Koshland-Nemethy-Filmer (KNF) are tested by showing how the different plots, direct, reciprocal, Scatchard and Hill, vary as do the parameters considered in these models.
  • (11) Some organization schemes concerning locomotor and scratching rhythmicity generators are considered, such as: two half-centres with reciprocal inhibitory connections and tonic excitatory influences on these half-centres: two half-centres with inhibitory-excitatory connections and tonic excitatory influences on one half-centre; ring structures consisting of more than two functional groups of neurons with excitatory and inhibitory connections between them.
  • (12) The factor is encoded by two genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, called TIF51A and TIF51B, which are regulated reciprocally by oxygen and by heme.
  • (13) A free T4 index (FTI) can be calculated from the values for T4 and TBG index, because the TBG index is reciprocally related to the serum uptake test (T3-resin).
  • (14) The staining of HRP-immunopositive cell bodies indicates that the pallial regions studied receive afferent projections from the main olfactory bulb and are reciprocally interconnected by intrapallial associative fiber systems.
  • (15) In the following, there will be indicated the approved techniques and methods of suturing the cleft palate and a new method will be discussed related to the reciprocal Z-type plastic operation.
  • (16) The agonist-antagonist pair was observed to generate a net force in two control modalities: proportional activation and reciprocal activation.
  • (17) Failure to mate was a major factor in interspecific crosses and was much more pronounced in crosses between P. polionotus females and P. maniculatus males than in the reciprocal cross.
  • (18) The reciprocal (equivalent) and nonreciprocal (excessive giving or receiving) exchange of services was measured by the frequency of exchange and perception of potential support between the dyad.
  • (19) Since indoleaminergic cells make reciprocal synaptic connections with rod bipolar cell terminals, which are depolarizing in the rabbit retina, we hypothesize that 5-HT2 receptors facilitate the synaptic transmission from the depolarizing rod bipolar cell thus facilitating ON-excitation in the retinal network while 5-HT1A receptors mediate an inhibitory process.
  • (20) By the fourth injection, arachidonic acid had fallen 48% below control and was accompanied by reciprocal increases of more saturated fatty acids including linoleic (18:2), oleic (18:1) and palmitic (16:0) acids.

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