What's the difference between longsome and protracted?

Longsome


Definition:

  • (a.) Extended in length; tiresome.

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Protracted


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Protract
  • (a.) Prolonged; continued.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) AL-ST works with another dose distribution in time than the conventional brachytherapy, so a higher fractionation of high-dose-rate afterloading is substituted for the classical protraction of low-dose-rate brachytherapy.
  • (2) Whereas a protracted inhibitory activity is observed in haemophiliacs after replacement therapy (isoantibodies) as well as in acquired haemophilia (autoantibodies), immediate inhibition is characteristic of antibodies directed against phospholipids.
  • (3) A small number of children with protracted diarrhoea, who have severe mucosal injury may not be able to handle even starch and may require diets based on short chain glucose polymers.
  • (4) The effects of maxillary protracting bow appliance were the maxillary forward movement associated with counter-clockwise rotation of the nasal floor and the mandibular backward movement associated with clockwise rotation.
  • (5) A high responsiveness to SCW antigens was seen more frequently in sarcoidosis patients with protracted clinical course.
  • (6) A downward protraction force produced relatively uniform stress distributions, indicating the importance of the force direction in determining the stress distributions from various orthopedic forces.
  • (7) Reports in the literature suggest a poor prognosis in the presence of this complication, because of protracted renal damage and chronic renal failure.
  • (8) However, in the majority (53%) of patients, late recurrence was local and survival subsequent to treatment of these metastases was often protracted, emphasizing the importance of long-term follow-up in all patients with cutaneous melanoma.
  • (9) According to data in the literature the hormetic effect comprises stimulation of the immune system, a general increase of the resistance of the organism, a reduced risk of cancer and in model organisms a protraction of the median life span was observed.
  • (10) Human cancers undergo protracted complex development from benign to malignant states, as most thoroughly documented in the mole-to-melanoma sequence.
  • (11) Pouch young are born prior to retinal innervation of the primary visual centers and spend a protracted period of development in the pouch, making them ideal for visual, developmental studies.
  • (12) They say an increasing number of “protracted refugees” living in centres in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq will attempt the treacherous journey to Europe because they cannot offer their families a life or a future in the camps.
  • (13) The duration of the pre-ejection period of the systole, the Q-Kd interval and Achilles tendon reflex was protracted.
  • (14) Initial clinical trials utilized a daily schedule of administration, which led to severe and protracted myelosuppression and inadequate evaluation of the antitumor spectrum of mitomycin-C.
  • (15) Immature granulocytes would not exit through a restrictive barrier even after protracted periods and were not responsive to chemoattractants.
  • (16) The predominant clinical characteristic of this complication was protracted pancytopenia, which required 2 to 5 months recovery time after treatment and did not resolve in one patient.
  • (17) RBE values increased as dose was protracted, largely due to the reduced effectiveness of protracted gamma irradiation; however, about 28% of the increase can be attributed to the increase in neutron-induced injury caused by dose protraction.
  • (18) I have not known any time in my half century in this business in which we have had this many simultaneous, complex and protracted crises, of no solution right now.
  • (19) Within each layer deriving from the cortical plate (layers VIa to II-III), GABA-immunoreactivity showed a protracted maturation in which the first GABA-positive cells were detected a few days after cell birth but substantial numbers of neurons began to express GABA considerably later.
  • (20) Dose response curves for acute and protracted exposures have been obtained for cells derived from patients with cancer-prone syndromes including ataxia telangiectasia (AT) and Bloom's syndrome.

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