What's the difference between lessening and stasis?
Lessening
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lessen
Example Sentences:
(1) The transmission of alcoholism and its effects are thereby lessened for future generations of children of alcoholics.
(2) Bacteria can stop or lessen antibodies synthesis process.
(3) Behavioral variables, including interreinforcement interval and drug self-administration history, appear to be important determinants of whether or not reinforcement will be demonstrated, particularly among the benzodiazepines; but the range of conditions under which behavioral and pharmacological variables interact to promote or lessen the likelihood of self-administration of these drugs remains to be determined experimentally.
(4) "It is in my power to lessen their sentence – it's not excluded that that will happen."
(5) Diminished pressor responsiveness was considered to be due to concurrent reduction of central sympathetic vasomotor activity, because sympathetic nerve responses to hypothalamic stimulation were appreciably lessened in tripamide-treated SHR.
(6) The introduction of biological valves or of valves with a lessened risk of embolism is highly desirable in such cases.
(7) In this paper, these and related facts were summarized and some precautions were suggested to lessen the increase of resistant strains in this country.
(8) Recent improvements in surgical techniques and selective embolization have lessened the risks of surgical excision, decreased the blood loss, and diminished the time required for resection.
(9) We have previously shown that in the cat, taurine is an osmoprotective molecule that lessens mortality, neurological morbidity, and brain-cell dehydration during chronic hypernatremic dehydration.
(10) Rats given Sendai virus concurrently with the FCA, or any time after FCA was injected, did not have a lessened severity of the arthritic reaction, as compared with that in control animals.
(11) A decrease in relative risks since diagnosis of the first primary cancer was seen that may partly be attributed to a lessening of the intensity of medical surveillance with time.
(12) Incorporation of porosity into the grafts, which is necessary for tissue ingrowth, is expected to lessen this difference.
(13) The data strongly suggest that conferring the sick role on the mentally ill does not lessen rejection, but may, in some instances, increase social rejection.
(14) In contrast, hydroxyurea treatment was associated with a 1.5-fold to sevenfold increase in F cells and a 2.3- to 27-fold increase in the percentage of Hb F. In the three patients whose response reached a plateau, hydroxyurea treatment was associated with lessened hemolysis, decreased serum bilirubin and lactate dehydrogenase levels, and prolonged 51chromium-labeled RBC survival.
(15) O’Malley also called for: The relationship between federal immigration law enforcement and local law enforcement to be significantly lessened.
(16) Utilization of outpatient surgical centers helps reduce the cost of health care, lessens the disruption of patients' personal lives, and promotes their recovery through early ambulation and a lower incidence of postoperative nosocomial complications.
(17) It also lessened the hypertonus of isolated guinea-pig trachea caused by pilocarpine.
(18) The use of tissue allografts lessens patient morbidity and suffering and in many cases spares limbs and lives.
(19) Unlike acute combinations, chronic imipramine lessened the rate reducing effect of methadone.
(20) The results of a bronchial challenge to Aspergillus species, however, remained positive; these positive results suggest that long-term memory immune mechanisms may play an important role in the pathogenesis of hypersensitivity pneumonitis and lessen the importance of precipitins in establishing a diagnosis.
Stasis
Definition:
(n.) A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. It is one of the phenomena observed in the capillaries in inflammation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The main objective of these experiments was to develop and characterize a new experimental model of venous thrombosis, and determine whether a combination of vascular wall damage (crushing with hemostat clamps) and prolonged stasis produced more reproducible clots than prolonged stasis per se.
(2) This retrospective study of forty-six patients with stasis dermatitis found a 60.9 percent incidence of at least one significantly positive patch test reaction.
(3) Therefore, it appears that other processes, such as aggregation or stasis within tissues, may well be related to initiation of stone disease.
(4) Histological examination of the liver, spleen and kidneys showed congestion and stasis of blood in them, especially in glomerular vessels.
(5) Sixty-one patients had faecal stasis and 23 patients had diverticular disease.
(6) Escin was tested in the stasis edema, cotton-pellet-granuloma, and UV-erythema, i.e., in test models which seem specially suited to characterize the properties of this substance.
(7) In all burn wounds, there exists a zone of stasis which shows progressive microvascular deterioration.
(8) Intestinal stasis and mixing of urine and meconium may be predisposing factors for the calcification of meconium.
(9) The stasis of pancreatic juice in the ductal tree may result in such findings in the WHHL rabbit.
(10) The Fc-R+ and C3b-R+ mononuclear nonadherent cells were less represented in lymph in chronic stasis than in normals.
(11) In orthopaedic patients, DIC can develop following trauma (crush injuries), tissue necrosis, fat embolism, gram-negative or gram-positive sepsis, and venous stasis (bedrest).
(12) The pathological findings included intestinal stasis, intestinal blockage, acute intestinal rupture and intestinal rupture with peritonitis.
(13) The release of proinflammatory and vasoactive mediators such as leukotrienes (LT), thromboxanes, platelet activating factor (PAF), endothelins and others has been thought to be involved in the pathomechanism of mucosal injury, especially damage to the microvascular endothelium, increased vascular permeability, reduction in mucosal blood flow, vascular stasis, tissue ischemia and glandular cell necrosis.
(14) The plethysmographic measurement of the back flow apart from the phlebography of the arm is recommended for the diagnosis and control of the course of the stasis of the axillary vein.
(15) Chronic idiopathic gastric stasis can be responsible for unexplained dyspepsia.
(16) The diagnosis can be made by demonstrating abrupt cutoff of veins in the cavernous region, preferred retrograde flow of the anterior cavernous sinus, direct venous hemorrhage, and venous stasis.
(17) Sampling conditions (venous stasis, body position) contribute as does the handling of the blood sample before it reaches the laboratory, for example whether an anticoagulant is used and haemolysis, clearly meals have a major effect on serum triglycerides, but even when fasting there is probably also diurnal variation.
(18) There seems to be little evidence for permanent liver damage but very definite evidence for bile stasis and transient morphological changes.
(19) This reduction in flow is probably due to stasis in these superficial vessels, perhaps secondary to vascular damage.
(20) This haemoconcentrating effect of venous stasis seemed to be more pronounced in females than in males.