What's the difference between merling and mewling?
Merling
Definition:
(n.) The European whiting.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cases of ununited fracture of the femoral neck, treated by a technique described by Brackett (1927) and modified by Merle d'Aubigné (1968) are reported.
(2) The scores of clinical results according to the Merle d'Aubigené and Postel scale were as follows: pain 4.48, walk 3.99, movements 4.02.
(3) At an average follow-up of four years, assessment by the Merle d'Aubigńe score showed 83% excellent or good results.
(4) Rats moving freely in their cages were injected into substantia nigra with bidistilled water, with NaCl solutions of various concentrations or with a multionic Merle's solution.
(5) Fifteen patients with 17 hips have been operated and followed-up and by using the Merle d'Aubigné evaluation there was an improvement of some 3--4 points in pain, walking, and total motion.
(6) The modified Merle d'Aubigne and Postel score averaged 5.3 for pain, 3.7 for walking ability, and 4.0 for range of motion (ROM) in patients with healed infections.
(7) Between October and December 1987, a total of 232 of these patients were examined and the results rated according to Merl d'Aubigne's classification: 166 (71%) were classified as very good or good, 49 (21%) as satisfactory, and 17 (7%) as unsatisfactory.
(8) These findings are interpreted as obvious gene dosis effects of the incompletely dominant merle gene which is used to produce a characteric harlequin dappling in many breeds of dogs.
(9) In January 1960, he played the first of his celebrated prison shows at San Quentin, where one of the inmates yelling him on was Merle Haggard, locked up on a burglary charge.
(10) So-called physiological saline solution (0-9% NaCl) was found to be most toxic and the multionic Merle's solution most suitable among the control fluids tested.
(11) Based on the well known surgical techniques of Juvara, Merle d'Aubigné and J.Böhler, a precedure was presented which has been clinically tested for 6 years.
(12) Luckily for Cash, he had already met June Carter (Obituary May 17 2003), who had co-written Ring Of Fire with Merle Kilgore.
(13) Note from Dr. Merle A. Sande--We have recently come to appreciate the fact that successful chemotherapy of opportunistic infections in patients with AIDS is akin to treatment of certain malignancies: In both instances, induction, followed by maintenance, therapy is required.
(14) Ike had grown up in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, and was a gifted guitar-picker whose playing helped to shape the playing of such country greats as Merle Travis and Chet Atkins.
(15) Radiographic and clinical assessment before and after surgery according to Ficat, Arlet and Merle D'Aubigné.
(16) Of the 77 patients in whom follow-up was possible, 76 had results falling in the very good or good categories according to the Merle d'Aubigné scheme.
(17) In 44 dachshunds of both sexes, reared and held under identical conditions in order to investigate the effects of the merle gene, ophthalmologic examinations were performed.
(18) Of the 30 hips available for functional assessment using the Merle d'Aubigné scale, 16 were excellent, 10 good, 2 fair, 1 poor and 1 bad.
(19) Most of them improved one step higher in the evaluation scheme according to Merle d'Aubigne.
(20) The syndrome may have arisen in conjunction with instability of the merle locus.
Mewling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mewl
Example Sentences:
(1) With these new manfants suddenly taking the reins of power, being a pathetic mewling mess has become socially acceptable.
(2) We’re all in a relay race with the ghosts of the past and the mewling newborns, there’s no time to dawdle.” Looking round today, does she see any remnants of that spirit of punk and rebellion that first made her pick up a magazine and a scalpel in the 70s?
(3) You could also detect its beginnings in some of the supposed social comment associated with Britpop - not least the snide songs about forlorn proletarian lives that were briefly the calling card of Blur's Damon Albarn, who affected a mewling "Essex" accent, but was in fact raised in one of that county's more upscale corners.
(4) And we will hear the mewling of your followers, and we will rejoice in the lamentations of your German women.
(5) It can take several weeks before they will crawl or mewl, and up to 45 days before their eyes start to open.
(6) I mean, it's bad enough when Facebook friends have children and instantly change their profile picture to a baby photo, as though having regressed to mewling and puking infancy themselves.
(7) Everything is in place for this mewling infant of the internet to turn into a real force, if it chooses.