What's the difference between minimal and rudimentary?

Minimal


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
  • (2) In the absence of atrial dilatation there was minimal stimulus for ANF secretion.
  • (3) Minimal levels were evident 16 weeks after irradiation; Hct then increased, but remained below preirradiation values.
  • (4) One hundred and ninety-nine children aged 7-14 and 177 adolescents in remission and minimal manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined before and after fangotherapy with allowance for activity of the process, age-related reactivity.
  • (5) Using serial section electron microscopic reconstructions as a reference, we have chosen as our standard procedure a method that maximizes both the preservation of the cytoskeleton and the proportion of cells staining, while minimizing the degree of nonspecific staining.
  • (6) The minimal change in gel fiber size caused by slow A release implies that fibrin fiber size is primarily a function of ionic environment and not of the sequence of peptide release.
  • (7) Methods to minimize bias in the design and implementation of consultation-liaison research are suggested.
  • (8) The plasma levels of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) were measured both during relapse and remission in 8 patients with idiopathic, minimal-lesion nephrotic syndrome.
  • (9) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
  • (10) In the last 2 years at our department we have developed a new technique in which the resorption has up to now been minimal.
  • (11) In this paper the domain of validity of the unlabelled and labelled minimal models of glucose disappearance is studied.
  • (12) Minimal breast cancer should include lobular carcinoma in situ (lobular neoplasia) and ductal carcinoma in situ regardless of nodal status, and (tentatively) invasive carcinoma smaller than 1 cm in total diameter, if axillary lymph nodes are not involved.
  • (13) In minimal-glucose-aminoacids at 37 C after an initial growth, cellular lysis occurred.
  • (14) Essential characteristics of the composite bone cement included a homogeneous and uniform fiber distribution, and a minimal increase in apparent viscosity of the polymerizing cement.
  • (15) At 10(-7) M, Iso produced approximately maximal responses at all ages in the ECH but elicited only minimal responses at all ages in the ERH, approximately ten times this concentration being required to produce maximal responses in the ERH.
  • (16) Each axon had a characteristic head position which was maximally excitatory to it, and a diametrically opposed head position which was minimally excitatory.3.
  • (17) The patient had experienced repeated spontaneous fractures for 1.5 years such as serial rib fractures, fractures of the sternum and most recently fracture of the neck of the femur after a minimal trauma.
  • (18) Repeated transient ischemic attacks in the same territory with minimal lesions on arteriography and non-homogeneous plaque on duplex scan; 2.
  • (19) Defects in the posterior one-half of the trachea, up to 5 rings long, were repaired, with minimal stenosis.
  • (20) A plasmid carrying this mutation, along with wild-type genes encoding the c and b subunits, was unusual in that it failed to complement a chromosomal c-subunit mutation on succinate minimal medium.

Rudimentary


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to rudiments; consisting in first principles; elementary; initial; as, rudimental essays.
  • (a.) Very imperfectly developed; in an early stage of development; embryonic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The coronary arterial anatomy in 26 univentricular hearts, its relation to the morphologic characteristics of the ventricles and rudimentary chambers, and its surgical implications were analyzed.
  • (2) Mechanisms are suggested whereby rudimentary appetitive programs already encoded along facing dendrite membrane pairs within the specialized intrafascicular milieu, may trigger and control nipple search and suckling in the still blind and only primitively mobile neonate.
  • (3) Arterial complications are usually associated with cervical ribs or rudimentary first ribs, but 12 per cent have occurred in patients with no osseous abnormality.
  • (4) The following differential signs were underlined: initial symptoms, such as rudimentary cenesthopathia, stable insomnia, etc., preceding the formation of delusions; appearance of episodic exacerbations in the form of short-time acute paranoiac states; a combination of paranoiac delusion with stable phasic affective disorders; unusual possession of delusional patients expressed in bizarre delusional behaviour, etc.
  • (5) The occupational health services available to health service staff are often rudimentary.
  • (6) We report 5 newborns with a contracted lesser pelvis, imperforate anus (severely stenotic and ectopic anus in 1 case), absent or rudimentary urinary tract, and defective or absent external genitalia, vagina, and uterus but normal gonads.
  • (7) British people’s privacy is being put in danger because organisations are failing to get rudimentary security right, the information commissioner’s office warned on Monday.
  • (8) The structure of the rudimentary prostates of Ellobius lutescens is maintained intact after 6 days of organotypic culture in the absence of male hormones.
  • (9) In the 1930s, Piraeus was a rudimentary harbour; it was bombed by German planes in the second world war.
  • (10) Although he only had a rudimentary education, it is from him that I acquired my passion for language and learning.
  • (11) For differential diagnosis rudimentary supernumerary digit, cutaneous horn and granuloma pyogenicum are to be considered.
  • (12) Since gonadogenesis in day-12 rat embryos is rudimentary, with gonadal differentiation of sex not yet apparent, the increased weight suggests that sex-linked genes exist which influence body growth prior to gonadal endocrine activity.
  • (13) Although all were quadriparetic due to postoperative mechanical deformation of the cervical region, they were able to use the affected limbs to make postural adjustments and for standing and rudimentary ambulation.
  • (14) All gonads were constituted by rudimentary ovarian stroma with different states of hyalinization.
  • (15) The oculoauricular reflex is a physiological and bilateral phenomenon, often rudimentary in man.
  • (16) This rudimentary accessory ray caused a splay foot deformity that made it difficult for the patient to walk comfortably in shoes.
  • (17) The two rudimentary pouches lying posteriorly were not outlined by delimiting arteries.
  • (18) eye contact) from unambiguous to ambiguous message conditions, suggesting awareness of the differences in these message types at a rudimentary level.
  • (19) The degeneration of ovarian follicles and the formation of cell cords (rudimentary seminiferous tubules) were seen in the cortex.
  • (20) The term "rudimentary meningocele" seems appropriate for these lesions.