What's the difference between luffing and puffing?
Luffing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Luff
Example Sentences:
(1) This study suggests a high incidence of LUF when CC is administered to ovulatory patients, and its use in patients with ovulatory infertility is questioned.
(2) We followed 124 cycles and compared the preovulatory rise of progesterone in the groups of spontaneous ovulation and stimulated ovulation with those of ovulation of small follicles and cycles with LUF syndrome.
(3) The incidence of anovulation and LUF in the endometriosis population was 9% and 34%, respectively.
(4) Luteinized unruptured follicle (LUF) occurred in only one cycle (4%).
(5) Ten cases of luteinized unruptured follicle (LUF) syndrome out of 250 women with unexplained infertility were detected on ultrasonography, giving a frequency of 4%.
(6) Internal radiation therapy with transarterial injection of iodine-131-labeled iodized oil (Lipiodol Ultra-Fluide [LUF]) was evaluated in 15 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma and eight with hepatic metastases.
(7) One, with "ovulatory ranges" of progesterone, probably LUF syndrome and another, with "anovulatory levels", probably follicular cysts.
(8) Since Jewelewicz in 1975 first described the luteinization of an unruptured follicle (LUF), clinical evidence for the importance of this syndrome has been given by various groups of investigators.
(9) These results suggest that in LUF patients there is a disorder in the mechanism of LH action in the developing follicles.
(10) Apart from this finding, peptide levels in superovulated patients and LUF are similar.
(11) The incidence of LUF in stimulated cycles was 31.8%, significantly higher than that in spontaneous cycles (10.1%).
(12) The mechanisms of the formation of LUF are discussed on the basis of these results.
(13) The effective half-life of I-131 LUF is more than 4.5 days for the three groups.
(14) This study evaluates the eicosanoid concentration in luteinized unruptured follicles (LUFs) on the ovaries of patients who had been treated with inhibitors of prostaglandin synthetase.
(15) These findings suggest that LUF occurs occasionally in association with mild endometriosis.
(16) During the follicular phase, no substantial difference in follicle growth was found, but after the luteinizing hormone peak, LUF follicles, instead of rupturing, showed a typical accelerated growth pattern.
(17) In 19 cases, hormonal profiles for the aspirated follicular fluid coincided with the preoperative diagnosis, and in 6 of 19 cases (31.6%), the presence of entrapped oocytes, direct evidence of LUF, was demonstrated.
(18) Investigations are now under way to determine the specific relevance to infertility of macrophage aggregation; prostaglandin and related metabolite production by endometriotic lesions and macrophages; specific factors released by endometriosis that might directly impair ovum pick-up, fertilization, embryo transfer, or implantation; and ovulatory dysfunction including luteal phase deficiency and LUFS.
(19) We present a case of the solitary hepatic tuberculosis, of which angiographic findings originally suggested hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) given Lipiodol Ultra Fluid (LUF).
(20) Premature luteinization induces intrafollicular ovum retention without (LUF syndrome) or with follicular rupture.
Puffing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Puff
() a. & n. from Puff, v. i. & t.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Puf- strain of Rhodobacter sphaeroides (PUFB1) was constructed by deleting a portion of the proximal region of the puf operon and inserting a kanamycin resistance gene cartridge.
(2) Chromosome banding patterns are very similar between tissues, but puffing patterns show considerable differences.
(3) The adjacent region, 23B2, is slightly puffed and displays typical RNP particles, some of which may be observed close to band 2-23B1,2.
(4) At the same time the RNA quantity increases by a factor of 2. thermal denaturation profiles of formaldehyde fixed chromosomes show that the Tm of this region in puffed and non puffed state differ by 10 degrees C. Moreover these profiles suggest that a large fraction of histone-bound DNA is destabilized during puffing.
(5) He huffed and puffed, gazed at the heavens at times, and at one point he accused the country’s foremost human rights officer of verballing him.
(6) Habitual smokers of perforation-ventilated cigarettes and of channel-ventilated cigarettes (18 male and 18 female subjects each; nicotine yield 0.1-0.3 mg, 0.2 mg, respectively) were compared with respect to different smoke exposure indicators and puffing behavior.
(7) The boosts for perforation-ventilated cigarettes remained unchanged and were reached with only moderately intensified puffing behavior.
(8) Where there were pictures of powerful women, the images tended to be subversive: the same photograph of a grimacing Theresa May was used to illustrate three different stories about the home secretary, and two of the three pictures of the German chancellor showed Angela Merkel puffing out her cheeks, looking mildly absurd.
(9) People don’t have sex within only one borough – an example of why balkanisation is more expensive than collectivism The immediate anxiety was that elected officials are often not public health experts: you might get a very enlightened council, who understood the needs of the disenfranchised and prioritised them; or you might get a bunch of puffed-up moralists who spent their syphilis budget on a new aqua aerobics provision for the overweight.
(10) Southern blot analysis demonstrated that in PUFB1, the defective copy of the puf operon had replaced, through homologous recombination, the normal chromosomal copy.
(11) Heat a little oil in a pan then cook the dumplings until crisp and puffed, then roll in the cinnamon sugar.
(12) Fluorescence polarization measurements of the lipopholic probe, 1, 6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH), in the purified lymphocyte plasmalemma from mice fed a diet high in PUF indicated an increase in mobility.
(13) The pufBA messages, which end in a large intercistronic stem-loop structure, are long-lived processing products of the puf operon transcripts.
(14) The best subset of predictors, especially with respect to puffing parameters, was found to vary considerably across smoking conditions and dependent variables.
(15) The influence of temperature (17 and 31 degrees) on the maternal effect of mutation Puffed (Pu) in Drosophila hybrids has been studied.
(16) Last month I was given unrestricted access to the enormous archive the PCGG has assembled in its years of global detective work: the president’s handwritten diary, frequently puffed with self-regard; the notepaper headed “From the office of the president”, with scribbled sums endlessly totting up his cash; minutes of company meetings with his comments scrawled in the margins; contracts; “side agreements”; records of multiple bank accounts; hundreds of share certificates; private investigators’ reports; and tens of thousands of pages of court judgments.
(17) The polytene chromosome puffing patterns of Drosophila guanche were established and compared with those of Drosophila subobscura.
(18) David Cameron was “pumped up” ; Russell Brand and Ed Miliband exchanged “aint’s” and “innits” and puffed out their chests.
(19) The individual response to smoke might be assessed by an analysis of puffing on a single cigarette.
(20) Neither between-subject consistency nor within-subject reproducibility was improved by this paced puffing procedure, despite apparent topographical control.