What's the difference between mnemonic and pneumonic?

Mnemonic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Mnemonical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The selected students had normal intellectual capacity but often showed inadequate progress in school, attentive-mnemonic deficiencies, and psychopathological elements of a depressive nature.
  • (2) Although those receiving active pretraining plus mnemonics did not differ from one another at Time 3, they recalled more than those with no active pretraining.
  • (3) This more recent system has developed embedded wlithin the posteriorly located analytic and mnemonic cortical tissues and provides for communications between individuals within the species at symbolic, verbal levels.
  • (4) No consistent hemispheric specialization nor difference in direction of interhemispheric communication was observed despite the use of different types of material and the different mnemonic tasks.
  • (5) It is suggested that natural analogs of pyrimidine, whose precursor is orotic acid, are universal endogenous regulators of mnemonic and antianxiety functions.
  • (6) The young group showed significantly higher recall and recognition (both immediate and delayed) for the digit-symbol pairs and were more likely to report the use of mnemonic techniques in learning the pairs.
  • (7) Thus, theta-rhythm may play a modulating role in the induction of LTP, suggesting a possible mnemonic function for the rhythm during the behaviors in which it occurs.
  • (8) A combination of drugs dilating the heart vessels with drugs improving metabolism and the brain blood flow resulted in an improvement of mnemonic function.
  • (9) Women must be taught the serious adverse effects to watch for: a mnemonic "ACHES" is suggested.
  • (10) The effect of intravenous atropine (1 mg) or saline on mnemonic function was tested in patients with various forms of dementia and age-matched controls.
  • (11) These results indicate that animals showing a definitive sign of tolerance to OP administration (subsensitivity to a cholinergic agonist) were also functionally impaired on both the mnemonic and motoric demands of a working memory task.
  • (12) In essence, it is argued that the human amygdala is responsible for activating or reactivating those mnemonic events which are of an emotional significance for the subjects' life history and that this (re-)activation is performed by charging sensory information with appropriate emotional cues.
  • (13) Sixty-two normal elderly subjects averaging 71 years old were taught a common mnemonic device for recall of lists using a Computer-Aided Instruction (CAI) package.
  • (14) In summary, these results indicate that primate prefrontal cortex participates in visual information processing and may code several aspects of visual stimuli including behavioral significance and mnemonic representations.
  • (15) These results suggest that frequency-specific RF plasticity in the MGv may be a substrate of short-term mnemonic processes that could participate in long-term storage of information and modification of the representation of the CS at the auditory cortex.
  • (16) This finding identifies a neurochemical change associated with classical conditioning which is similar to the increase in transmitter release seen in hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP), and which is consistent with the hypothesis that an LTP-like mechanism is involved in mnemonic processes.
  • (17) Activation by vaginocervical stimulation of the "mnemonic" neurogenic system that controls the autonomous nocturnal prolactin surges did not interfere with the reflexive pup-induced release of prolactin in maternally behaving virgins.
  • (18) The deteriorating effect of amphetamine on mnemonic processes and its facilitatory effect on behaviors directed to get more than the usual amount of pleasant tactile stimulation might underlie the behavioral changes described in this study.
  • (19) The study of this effect in the case of poly(dA).oligo(dT) replication led us to propose a mnemonic model for Pol I, in which the 3' to 5' excision activity warms up when the enzyme is actively polymerizing, and cools down when it dissociates from the template.
  • (20) Although mnemonic interpretations of hippocampal function in people have been readily accepted for many years, similar interpretations of hippocampal function in animals have received a number of challenges.

Pneumonic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the lungs; pulmonic.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to pneumonia; as, pneumonic symptoms.
  • (n.) A medicine for affections of the lungs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A constellation of histologic lesions was identified in brain (diffuse meningoencephalitis with bilaterally symmetrical thalamic necrosis), liver (pericholangiohepatitis), lung (pneumonitis), and spleen (lymphoid hyperplasia); this tetrad is apparently unique to this model system.
  • (2) Calves showing signs of pneumonia had low levels of IgG1 (45-5 per cent had less than 8 mg per ml compared with "now-pneumonic" calves which had relatively high levels (only 9.5 per cent had less than 8 mg per ml).
  • (3) Two-thirds of the respiratory infections occurred in the first 3 postoperative months and were generally localized processes (focal pneumonitis, nodule(s), abscess, or empyema).
  • (4) The causes of death were interstitial pneumonitis (CMV-associated, 2 pats.
  • (5) The conventional explanation for the high fatality rate due to cytomegalovirus (CMV) pneumonitis among allogeneic transplant recipients is that immunosuppression renders the host unable to control replication of this opportunistic agent.
  • (6) He is still well; however, interstitial pneumonitis, mild thrombocytopenia, and polyclonal hypergammopathy have persisted for 4 years.
  • (7) The criterion of efficacy was the ability of the vaccines to reduce the extent of pneumonic lesions in vaccinated as against unvaccinated control lambs.
  • (8) After challenge with P. hemolytica, the levels of plasma arachidonic, oleic, and palmitic acids, together with PGE and 6-keto-PGF1 alpha, were elevated markedly, in association with clinical signs of bovine pneumonic pasteurellosis.
  • (9) In 110 cases with acute leukemia, the main causes of death were interstitial pneumonitis, relapse of leukemia, infection and GvHD.
  • (10) To assess the efficacy of the combination of the antiviral agent ganciclovir (9-1,3 dihydroxy-2-propoxymethylguanine) and high-dose intravenous immune globulin for treating cytomegalovirus interstitial pneumonitis after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.
  • (11) A marked peripheral predominance of the interstitial densities was seen in all seven cases of fibrosing alveolitis and in the patient with rheumatoid lung, in marked contrast with the two cases of hypersensitivity pneumonitis in whom a central distribution of the changes was seen.
  • (12) Patients receiving 20 Gy or more of mediastinal irradiation before coming to transplant had more idiopathic or cytomegalovirus (CMV) interstitial pneumonitis than those who received less than 20 Gy (30% v 9%, P = .027).
  • (13) To better characterize the cytotoxic lymphocytes present in the lung of patients with hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP), we studied cells recovered from bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) of 5 subjects with farmer's lung disease.
  • (14) The breathing of 40% oxygen for a sufficient time seems to be a threshold for dangerous lung effects, since one patient developed a diffuse pneumonitis and another a partly-diffuse partly-focal pneumonitis while exposed to this concentration.
  • (15) We showed previously that trehalose dimycolate (TDM) in oil administered intraperitoneally into susceptible mice produced interstitial and hemorrhagic pneumonitis by the seventh day after injection and that mature T cells are necessary for the production of these lesions.
  • (16) A good correlation was observed between the lung weights and severity of the atypical pneumonitis.
  • (17) Although each of the serotype strains appeared to be a potential bovine pathogen, subtle differences were observed which may explain the importance of Serotype 1 strains in bovine pneumonic pasteurellosis.
  • (18) The symptoms and signs observed in this patient are seen in less than 10% of patients with this disease: arthralgia, epistaxis, jaundice, skin rash, and pneumonitis.
  • (19) We report two cases of uncommon pathological reactions, one resembling a hypersensitivity pneumonitis and the other mimicking a giant cell interstitial pneumonia.
  • (20) Indications for therapy included severe dyspnea, hemoptysis, and postobstructive pneumonitis.

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