What's the difference between loca and loft?

Loca


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Locus

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In his memoir, he recalls the extravagant nicknames of some of the locas and transvestites whom he frequented: like their cross-dressed bodies, their names were a sort of parodic translation of their caricatured identity.
  • (2) In the presence of occult gross metastases detected by staging laparotomy, mastectomy will not provide additional protection against loca recurrence of disease.
  • (3) Plasma [Ca] was 32% less and 11% more in rats fed low (LOCA) and high Ca diets (HICA), respectively, than in rats fed a normal Ca diet (CONT).
  • (4) Use of LOCA may offer added safety in high risk patients, although to date, this conclusion has not been proved with clinical experience.
  • (5) Thus plasma membrane invaginations appear to be loca, rigid differentiations of the plasma membrane which may migrate laterally.
  • (6) Weanling male rats were administered 1 of 4 diets for 40 days: control (CONT), low Ca (LOCA), control plus Cd (CONT + Cd) or low Ca plus Cd (LOCA + Cd).
  • (7) Members of the Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology and the Society of Uroradiology were surveyed to assess both current practice and determinants of use of low-osmolality contrast agents (LOCA).
  • (8) LOCA were used most often for peripheral and pulmonary arteriography.
  • (9) No significant difference in Cd between CONT and LOCA was found except in femur, where it was increased.
  • (10) However, in the following areas, there are, as yet, no clear answers about the use of LOCAs: (a) reduction of overall mortality, (b) reduction of morbidity in elderly patients, and (c) reduction of the risk of nephrotoxicity in patients either with or without specific risk factors such as diabetes mellitus or renal failure.
  • (11) The fully developed pustule is an oval cavity with transverse long axis, entirely situated within a loca-ly hyperplastic epidermis.
  • (12) Species IgG antibody given intravenously 3-4 hours prior to oral immunisation with Vibrio cholerae led to a specific depression of both the systemic and loca limmune response.
  • (13) This survey suggests that IV use of LOCA is much less frequent than intraarterial use and that use is individualized to certain risk factors and certain examinations.
  • (14) 27 patients with olivopontocerebellar degeneration (OPCD), 13 patients suffering from Friedreich's disease (FD), 10 patients with Pierre Marie's familial ataxia (PMFA), 6 patients with late onset cerebellar atrophy (LOCA), and 10 patients with other forms of SCD were examined.
  • (15) Ten patients with sporadic late onset cerebellar ataxia (LOCA) are described.
  • (16) The importance of informed consent for use of contrast agents and of the appropriate role for LOCA remains unsettled.
  • (17) "We cannot rule out the possibility that a small-scale LOCA (loss-of-coolant accident) occurred at the reactor No 1 in particular."
  • (18) The clinical picture of patients with LOCA was either a 'pure' cerebellar or a 'cerebellar-plus' syndrome.
  • (19) Clear advantages to the use of LOCAs are (a) decreased pain and discomfort in painful examinations (in this regard, however, they are equivalent to dilute HOCAs in intraarterial digital subtraction angiography), (b) decreased myocardial and generalized hemodynamic effects, and (c) decreased osmotic load, perhaps important in infants or severely dehydrated patients.
  • (20) The most considerable changes in BAEP were discovered in FD and OPCD, whereas the least marked ones in PMFA and LOCA.

Loft


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is lifted up; an elevation.
  • (n.) The room or space under a roof and above the ceiling of the uppermost story.
  • (n.) A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft.
  • (n.) A floor or room placed above another; a story.
  • (a.) Lofty; proud.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Attach self-adhesive foam strips, or metal strips with brushes or wipers attached, to window, door and loft-hatch frames (if you have sash windows, it's better to ask a professional to do it).
  • (2) San Francisco Tenderloin map They could potentially gentrify this gritty, 50-block swath of downtown into condos, lofts, hipster bars, organic cafes and yoga studios, as has happened in other parts of San Francisco and the Bay area.
  • (3) It found that on average, loft insulation decreases home gas consumption by 1.7%, cavity wall insulation by 7.8% and a new boiler by 9.2% (median figures were slightly higher).
  • (4) This miscalibration, in turn, generates the orientation bias observed for deflector-loft birds.
  • (5) Toure then lofts a very neat ball over the defence and, though two City players are offside, Aguero is on.
  • (6) As well as 20 bedrooms there are a couple of loft-style apartments.
  • (7) Or take a free elevator ride to the roof of the old Sears Roebuck building ( southsideonlamar.com ) which is now loft housing.
  • (8) We are also embarking on the Great British Refurb; by regulating the energy companies we are insulating 6m homes between 2008 and 2012, with every suitable loft and cavity being insulated by 2015.
  • (9) Lofts it into the box and Barthez fumbles, gathers, then releases Henry.
  • (10) In addition, the cleaning of furniture and carpets cost £571.05, new loft insulation cost £546.75, and two claims for a chimney sweep were £43 and £75 respectively.
  • (11) I remember when Ornette moved into Manhattan to a loft on Prince Street in SoHo in the late 60s – he was ahead of the game on that front as well.
  • (12) He could only squirm in the stands as Robbie Keane lofted the clearest chance of the game into the face of Mark Schwarzer, who also foiled Kuyt and Torres.
  • (13) In his forthcoming book on the property market, All That is Solid , Danny Dorling describes how all those extensions and loft conversions means that at least a third of bedrooms in England and Wales – 22m – are "empty on any given night".
  • (14) In Britain, 10m (43%) of all lofts remain unlagged or very poorly lagged, and 8m houses with cavity walls (42%) have yet to be insulated.
  • (15) American, socialist and proud: meet Bernie Sanders's supporters Read more It’s 8pm on a Wednesday and in a Brooklyn loft, a Bernie Sanders screen-printing event is in full swing.
  • (16) He had already come close when, gifted the chance by a weak Julian Speroni punch, he lofted a shot into the unguarded net towards the end of a first 45 minutes that had tended to meander.
  • (17) Inexplicably, instead of rolling or walking the ball into an empty net, Giggs lofted a shot over the bar.
  • (18) He said he was strongly expecting the energy companies not to pass on the cost of the energy efficiency, or lag the loft, programme announced by Gordon Brown last month.
  • (19) Further, radio tracking revealed that the in-flight behavior of the hippocampal lesioned homing pigeons was characterized by numerous direction changes and generally poor orientation with respect to the home loft.
  • (20) All it took was Cesc Fàbregas’s lofted pass, arcing over Taylor, to open them up again.

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