What's the difference between lethargic and saturnine?

Lethargic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Lethargical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Neurological examination revealed a lethargic man with good orientation to three spheres.
  • (2) These pigs also seemed more lethargic than controls and appeared sedated.
  • (3) On the other hand, the patient was noticed lethargic and showed parkinsonism i.e., rest tremor, cog-wheel rigidity, and hypokinesia.
  • (4) Physically, the patient appeared lethargic, and breathing sounds revealed diffuse rales and wheezing.
  • (5) Only miracidia classified as "active" or "slow" were capable of penetration, a capacity they retained for about 17 hours at 19 degrees C. Miracidia that were "lethargic" as a result of low temperature, old age or ultra-violet radiation lost their infective capacity.
  • (6) The colchicine-treated rats were lethargic and hypothermic as compared to controls.
  • (7) For the most part, however, this was a night when some familiar old failings could be detected in terms of England looking lethargic in possession.
  • (8) "People are now lethargic and listless because of starvation.
  • (9) Considered to be intoxicated from the acute effects of sniffing toluene or methylene chloride, the patient remained lethargic and ataxic despite removal from exposure and administration of supplemental oxygen.
  • (10) Upon presentation to the ED approximately 2.5 hr post-ingestion, the child was very lethargic and respirations were depressed.
  • (11) The child remained lethargic for several hours but otherwise had a normal neurological examination.
  • (12) The Gijon goalkeeper Ivan Cuellar was on fine form, particularly against Ronaldo, while Real’s approach play looked lethargic and too many passes went astray.
  • (13) A comfortable win was secured early here with Eddie Howe’s team, rightly lauded for their own achievements this season and previously unbeaten away this calendar year, made to look uncharacteristically timid, even lethargic at times, as Spurs swarmed all over them.
  • (14) Case 1: A 48-year-old woman, who complained of severe headache and vomiting on Feb. 10th, 1972, gradually became lethargic.
  • (15) Infected dogs were anorectic and lethargic and developed cutaneous lesions characteristic of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, including petechia, ecchymosis, edema, and necrosis.
  • (16) Lunch had an effect on mood, with subjects feeling more lethargic, feeble, clumsy, muzzy, dreamy, bored and mentally slow after the meal.
  • (17) Ataxia was not prominent in animals affected with transmissible mink encephalopathy; these animals gradually became more and more lethargic.
  • (18) On this day, though, the atmosphere became increasingly lethargic as the game wound down and Chelsea went out of the cup.
  • (19) This was one of their most convincing performances of the season, although it must be said that an uncharacteristically lethargic Everton contributed to their own downfall.
  • (20) These animals became lethargic, slouched and developed dyspnoea which became progressively more severe during the course of the study.

Saturnine


Definition:

  • (a.) Born under, or influenced by, the planet Saturn.
  • (a.) Heavy; grave; gloomy; dull; -- the opposite of mercurial; as, a saturnine person or temper.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to lead; characterized by, or resembling, lead, which was formerly called Saturn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The history of saturnine gout is almost as old as civilization itself.
  • (2) barks saturnine sheriff "Duke" Perkins, his smalltown beard quivering with indignation.
  • (3) Acute attacks in saturnine gout are frequently polyarticular and tophi rarely develop.
  • (4) "The more Smith talks about his role as reluctant pop star, the more the claustrophobic tone of Bastille's saturnine pop makes sense.
  • (5) The finely chiselled, rather saturnine features and piercing eyes were those of a colonial magistrate rather than a bland television personality.
  • (6) The clinical features of saturnine gout are essentially similar to those of primary gout; however, acute attacks tend to occur in the knee more frequently than the first metatarsophalangeal joint.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest It also captures Kovtun, a saturnine figure in a dark jacket, who flew to London from Hamburg.
  • (8) Incomplete regression of paralysis and persistant biological abnormalities after chelating treatment were demonstrative of heavy saturnine load even though the toxic exposure was brief.
  • (9) Among these diseases, lead or saturnine poisoning (colica saturnina) caused by lead monoxide PbO, also known as litharge, was much dreaded (a 17th-century physician from Goslar wrote a treatise on "Lithargyrii fumo noxio morbifico, vulgo dicto 'pit cat'"); a miner's disease associated with phthisis and pareses of a then unknown etiology; and in some cases even with hookworm disease that was much later recognised as yet another professional disease of miners.
  • (10) One hundred fifty years ago a young but distinguished French scientist, L. Tanquerel des Planches, published a most comprehensive work dealing with almost every known clinical, epidemiological, and occupational aspect of lead poisoning, Traité des Maladies de Plomb ou Saturnines exposing in its second volume, Paralysie de Plomb ou Saturnine his invaluable experience on lead palsy.
  • (11) Young off-duty local waiters for the most part, sallow and saturnine or handsomely jowly, smoking furiously between sets in the high cold frozen sun before they diligently remount the high cold frozen metal stairs past a flutter of busy-bee BBC continuity wizards: loop-fed multilingual script editors with one eye and one ear on the monitor, one ear clamped to a headphone, chill mittened fingers rewinding pages, an impossible third ear half-tuned to shouted stage directions.
  • (12) The relationship of these studies with guanase and to the etiology and treatment of saturnine gout, which appears in humans suffering from lead poisoning, is discussed.
  • (13) Chronic lead exposure is also implicated in the development of saturnine gout and hypertension.
  • (14) This provides a quantitative insight of the previously described 'capillary activation' phenomenon, caused by lead encephalopathy and reveals it as a significant sequel of saturnine action.
  • (15) As an actor in rep in the 50s, Pinter was always cast as the saturnine heavy, the man who could turn nasty at any moment, and he retains that aura, a still energy, a volcano that might just blow.
  • (16) The relation of these findings to saturnine gout is discussed.
  • (17) If Michelle had dressed herself and her daughters for defeat, she could hardly have chosen anything more saturnine.
  • (18) The diagnosis of saturnine gout rests on the history of exposure to lead, clinical features of lead toxicity, biochemical confirmation of high serum lead levels and other biochemical abnormalities, and the exclusion of other forms of gout.