What's the difference between mouldable and pliable?
Mouldable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being molded or formed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The acrylic plastics polymerize at relatively low temperature, feature good mouldability, are readily sterilizable and result in no inflammatory lesions in the surrounding tissues.
(2) Amongst the various plates used, A0 3.5 plates (strong and mouldable) provided satisfactory fixation with the possibility of early physical rehabilitation (between 3 and 21 days).
(3) Three years of clinical experience have shown that, mouldable fibrin-bound HA has so far proved suitable as a bone substitute in preprosthetic as well as in plastic and reconstructive surgery.
(4) The wider use of thermoplastic structural components in modular artificial limbs would enable their general properties of low density, corrosion resistance and mouldability and more specific properties of certain thermoplastics such as shock absorption, fatigue and wear resistance to be used to the advantage of patients and manufacturers.
(5) The variety of materials used for replacement of the ossicles is proof enough that no single material can satisfy all criteria: availability, mouldability, stability and biocompatibility.
(6) Prosthesis should be clinically inert and inalterable with time, easy to sterilize, intraoperatively mouldable, and, from the aesthetic point of view, unrecognizable at touch.
(7) It seems attractive to assume that the presence of a separated annular pad, a cavum lenticuli filled with globular elements, the extreme flatness of the superficial central fibers and the studding of these central fibers with anchoring devices up to the embryonal nucleus are morphological expressions of the mouldability of the bird's eye lenses and consequently would explain their efficient accommodative mechanism including formation of a lenticonus.
(8) The trouble-free availability as well as the excellent mouldability enable the development of a principle of preparation of ossicular replacement prosthesis from homologous dentine.
(9) Histological studies in animals have shown that fibrin sealant can be employed as a resorbable, biological binding agent for fixation of initially mouldable hydroxylapatite (HA) implants.
(10) Just over a decade later, those lab explorations have led to Sugru , a mouldable, setting silicone rubber that has been compared with Blu-Tack and Sellotape in terms of its significance.
(11) The bolus material should have the same attenuation characteristics as tissue, should be easily mouldable and sufficiently solid for multiple applications.
Pliable
Definition:
(v.) Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant.
(v.) Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be persuaded; -- sometimes in a bad sense; as, a pliable youth.
Example Sentences:
(1) For removal of catheter fragments from vessels of small diameter, such as the subclavian vein, or vessels in which the catheter has to take an acute bend to enter, such as the right or left pulmonary artery, a smaller, more pliable Bean-Smith-Mahorner biliary stone helical basket was adapted by extending the length of wire to 100 cm.
(2) In this theory the isoprenoid chain of the retinal is considered a structurally pliable molecular entity that can generate charge redistributions and can be subsequently achieve intermediate conformations or various isomeric states to minimize the energy of the new protein structure generated by light.
(3) The plug is made of a soft, pliable plastic material with open cells, containing a carbon filter which allows flatus to pass odour-free.
(4) A patient's epiglottis became trapped between the pliable grates in the mask portion of the laryngeal mask and partially obstructed his airway.
(5) In regard to valvular anatomy, 67 had calcified valves, 58 had pliable valves and only mild subvalvular disease, and 75 had flexible valves but extensive subvalvular disease.
(6) Add as much of the sparkling water as you need to make a smooth, pliable mixture.
(7) As he checks the woman’s heart with a stethoscope, he explains exactly what is about to happen to her – the nurses will hook her up to an EKG machine, among other procedures – and gets the woman to lie down, still muttering at the original nurse but pliable.
(8) The splitting of several calcareous nodules on a valve made it more pliable.
(9) Explanted valves showed no tissue thickening or shrinkage, problems seen with earlier valves made with untreated autogenous tissue, and the leaflets remained pliable, free of the degenerative changes usually seen in the sheep model.
(10) A pliable, easy to place, double pigtail, internal ureteral stent made of elastomeric polyurethane is described.
(11) The operation resulted into a normally looking penis through the creation of a wide neourethra starting with a meatus at the apex of the glans and covered by a pliable elastic hair-less skin.
(12) In contrast to the pectoralis major myocutaneous flap, the pectoralis major muscle flap is light and pliable.
(13) Cabinet members speedily agreed to hefty cuts in 2010 and proved so pliable that the "star chamber", which hears appeals from ministers against the Treasury, never met once.
(14) It remains pliable until light is applied, allowing adjustments in shape for a well-fitted implant without time constraints.
(15) The Wallstent (Medinvent SA, Lausanne, Switzerland), a pliable, tubular stainless steel mesh, is the metallic stent of choice for treatment of malignant strictures and can be implanted in a single session resulting in a shortened hospital stay for patients undergoing palliation of irresectable biliary tumours.
(16) Optimal results may be expected in patients in normal sinus rhythm, with pliable mitral leaflets, and with no severe subvalvular disease identified by echocardiography, who undergo dilation with large effective balloon dilating areas.
(17) Clonidine has been incorporated into a small, pliable adhesive cutaneous delivery device designed to provide therapeutically effective doses of drug at a constant rate for at least 7 days.
(18) The hypopharyngeal mucosa is a thin, pliable lining, which often needs replacement after tumor excision, stenosis and fistulae.
(19) The data suggest that LICS act as pliable fluid reservoirs that empty and collapse on stimulation of Cl secretion.
(20) The many difficulties associated with bladder stimulation include simultaneous sphincter contraction, pain, electrode and insulation difficulties, and fibroplasia due to movement of electrodes placed in pliable tissues.