What's the difference between measuring and stereometry?
Measuring
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Measure
(a.) Used in, or adapted for, ascertaining measurements, or dividing by measure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
(2) Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, volumes, and temperatures of expired gas were measured from the tracheal and esophageal tubes.
(3) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(4) The measure destroyed the Justice Department’s plans to prosecute whatever Guantánamo detainees it could in federal courts.
(5) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
(6) However, when first trimester specimens were analyzed, the direct-product measurements were significantly larger than the corresponding 3H2O assay results.
(7) Activity of Na,K-ATPase activity was measured as a functional marker for synaptosomal membranes.
(8) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
(9) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
(10) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(11) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(12) Heart rate (HR), pulmonary ventilation (V), oxygen consumption (VO2), carbon dioxide production (VCO2), and respiratory quotient (RQ) were measured.
(13) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
(14) Measurement of the intraspinal monoamine level revealed a decrease in the intraspinal norepinephrine level in the treated animals.
(15) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(16) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(17) Although measurements are easily obtained with a tape measure, the validity of these measurements is not known.
(18) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
(19) The fluctuations in [Ca2+]i measured with fura-2 were synchronized among the population of cells observed and were sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o).
(20) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
Stereometry
Definition:
(n.) The art of measuring and computing the cubical contents of bodies and figures; -- distinguished from planimetry.
Example Sentences:
(1) The methods of stereometry were used to study dynamics of accumulation of collagen fibres and alteration of the number, sizes and state of mast cells of rat lung during the period of 12 months after single local X-irradiation with doses of 10, 14.3 and 20 Gy.
(2) Metallic implants (tantalum balls, 0.5 mm in diameter) were inserted in the calvaria during surgery, and the child was examined postoperatively by roentgen stereometry at intervals of about 100 days (total observation time, 309 days).
(3) By stereometry, the sebaceous gland volumes gradually increased during the course of treatments with TS and DMSO, whereas the volumes of TD-treated sebaceous glands increased, reached the maximum on day 7, and then decreased.
(4) The effect of vagotomy on parietal microflora was studied in intact rats and rats with chronic experimental gastric ulcer using stereometry, as well as light, transmission and scanning electron microscopy.
(5) With the aid of light, electron transmission and scanning electron microscopy and radioautography and stereometry, the influence of low-intensive laser irradiation (LILI) (infrared) was studied in normal rat liver and in experimental cirrhosis and hepatitis.
(6) 26 placentas of Kirghiz women from the town of Narin situated at the altitude of 2020 m above the sea level (moderate altitude), 22 placentas of women from Murgab (3600-3800 m above the sea level, high altitude) and 22 placentas of Frunze city (760 m, control) women were studied by means of organo--and stereometry using a standardized schema.
(7) The articulatory displacement of maxillary bones during and after rapid maxillary expansion (RME) was studied with metallic implants and roentgen stereometry (RSA) for 3653 days in a girl aged 12 at start of treatment.
(8) Interaction of DAPI with GAG was electrostatic and depended on stereometry of DAPI-binding sites on the GAG molecule.
(9) The effect of experimental chronic duodenal ulcers and vagotomy on fundal gland epitheliocytes and membrane microflora has been studied in rats using light microscopy and stereometry on semithin sections.
(10) Quantitative mathematical techniques such as stereometry or informative entropy indicated the adaptive nature of the described lesions in the epiphysis and its role in pathogenesis of the clinicomorphological type of tuberculosis.
(11) Condylar displacement after oblique sliding osteotomy was examined in 8 patients by X-ray stereometry and plain radiography.
(12) By stereometry, the melanocytes had a significantly larger cytoplasm and a smaller nucleus in volumes compared with the basal keratinocytes.
(13) The rules of stereometry are frequently violated in calculating parameters per unit sectional area.
(14) Computer-assisted stereometry of the hypothalamic nuclei revealed that, in addition to the well-known severe damage in the arcuate nuclei (ARC), the volumes of the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) and ventromedial hypothalamic nuclei (VMH) were also reduced significantly in the MSG-treated rats.
(15) Changes in nuclear morphology were quantitated by stereometry and related to variations in RNA and residual, non-histone proteins (NHP).
(16) This study confirms that roentgen stereometry ( = exact measurements from stereoradiographs), being an accurate and objective method, adds greatly to previous methods of postoperative assessment in craniofacial skeletal disorders.
(17) The geometric parameters of each electrode were determined from stereometry using two-dimensional X-ray images.
(18) We investigated the ontogeny of provasopressin gene expression in neurosecretory neurons of the supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei of developing mice by semi-quantitative in situ hybridization and immunohistochemical techniques in combination with stereometry of vasopressin-immunoreactive neurons.
(19) By means of the planimetry and stereometry methods ultrastructural peculiarities of macrophages in the developing dermis++ and in the focus of a subacute experimental inflammation have been investigated.