What's the difference between ord and promontory?

Ord


Definition:

  • (n.) An edge or point; also, a beginning.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The ORD titrations of ApAp(3') and CpCp(3'), which were made by measuring the ORD curves at closely spaced pH intervals, exhibit a maximum at approx.
  • (2) Sir Hugh Orde, Acpo's president, said on Friday the introduction of police commissioners would create "inevitable tension" with chief constables over local and national policing priorities.
  • (3) Ironically, Hogan-Howe in part owes the job to Orde, who managed to persuade the home secretary to oppose Downing Street's plan to bring in Bill Bratton, the former US police chief, to run the Met.
  • (4) The absolute configuration of a novel chiral neuroleptic agent SU 23397 (I) was determined by ORD comparison of (+)-5-methoxy dihydro coumarilic acid (VIII), a synthetic precursor of SU 23397 (I), with (+)-dihydro coumarilic acid, whose absolute configuration is known.
  • (5) Although the Acpo statement today was more measured, its president, Sir Hugh Orde, has warned in recent months that low turnouts would risk returning BNP candidates and even "lunatics" as police commissioners.
  • (6) Experimental differences in the curves of the optic rotation dispersion (ORD) of cystrans-heptaenic antibiotics were found.
  • (7) After a brief introduction of the ORD and CD methods, the advantages and drawbacks of the application of the two methods have been described, and compared, and the calibration of ORD and CD instruments have been given.
  • (8) ORD spectra of hybrid viruses, reconstituted from RNA of one virus and coat protein of another, proved to be identical to the ORD of the virus, whose protein was used in reconstitution.
  • (9) The ORD and CD spectra of the analogs are similar to those of the natural oligonucleotides.
  • (10) We have a problem already and, to my mind, if we allow access to countless millions without any means or ability of checking who they are, we’re adding to a problem that already exists within our countries.” But Orde, one of the most respected figures in policing, says the anti-EU campaigners have “misused the horrific events in Paris to try to support their failing cause.
  • (11) In ORD measurements, the rotatory behaviors of lysozyme and its derivative were identical at the 233 nm negative minimum and the 199 nm positive extremum.
  • (12) Gel chromatography and ORD measurements show no strong conformational change.
  • (13) $200m will be set aside for a water infrastructure fund and a further $20m on the feasibility of dams and infrastructure projects in northern Australia, including the third stage of the Ord river venture.
  • (14) In addition, one of them was found to have approximately 15% alpha-helical conformation by the Moffitt-Yang analysis of ORD data.
  • (15) Analysis of the ORD and CD spectra of various glycosaminoglycans, as well as those of oversulphated and desulphated preparations allowed the following conclusions concerning the secondary structure.
  • (16) Sir Hugh Orde, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, last week played down allegations of a cover-up.
  • (17) Although simple nearest-neighbour calculations based on the ORD data of IpIp(3') and 5'-IMP account for the observed ORD spectrum of polyinosinic acid at low salt concentration, there were large discrepancies between calculated and experimental results of the polyguanylic acid ORD even at low ionic strength.
  • (18) A model is developed which shows that studies of the effect of radiation on ORD properties may be useful in providing information on possible intermediate steps in protein denaturation.
  • (19) The study shows that the stereochemical configuration of lipids isolated from biological material can be assessed by ORD and CD.
  • (20) It is perhaps unsurprising, then, that Kevin Rudd has promised to “unlock” the Northern Territory, including by expanding stage three of the Ord River irrigation scheme.

Promontory


Definition:

  • (n.) A high point of land or rock projecting into the sea beyond the line of coast; a headland; a high cape.
  • (n.) A projecting part. Especially: (a) The projecting angle of the ventral side of the sacrum where it joins the last lumbar vertebra. (b) A prominence on the inner wall of the tympanum of the ear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Elizabeth McCaul, CEO of Promontory Europe and former New York Superintendent of Banks, had been asked to act as a special adviser, together with the firm's chief operating officer, Raffaele Cosimo.
  • (2) Electric middle-latency auditory evoked responses (EMLRs) to transtympanic promontory stimulation were obtained from 19 of 22 ears of profoundly hearing-impaired patients evaluated for cochlear implant candidacy.
  • (3) The standard procedure consisted of an abdominal sacropexy, with use of Marlex mesh to anchor the vaginal vault to the sacral promontory and retroperitonealization of the mesh.
  • (4) The electrodes can be implanted in bundles through the round window or into the modiolus; they can, however, also be introduced individually through several drill holes in the promontory for placement in the scala tympani and vestibuli.
  • (5) Your path begins to rise a little here, heading first east then south east around the rock promontories above.
  • (6) Although no promontory branch of the internal carotid artery appears, there is a well-developed "promontory canal" containing a nerve trunk.
  • (7) In 2 patients, the radiotherapeutic field extended downwards only as far as the sacral promontory.
  • (8) Preimplant screening included audiometric testing, electronystagmogram (ENG), promontory stimulation, computed tomography (CT) scanning, and psychological evaluation.
  • (9) The relative laser light attenuation by the human skin specimens corresponded to that of the human promontory bone.
  • (10) Sensations induced by electrical stimulation of the cochlea in humans through a promontory or a round window electrode were studied in sixteen subjects.
  • (11) Lysozyme was demonstrated by an immunocytochemical technique in the biopsied mucosa obtained from the promontory of the fifteen patients who had chronic middle ear effusions.
  • (12) Promontory testing (PT) and measurement of cochlear microphonics (CM) enabled us to distinguish between neural and sensory deafness.
  • (13) A single channel stimulation at the round window or promontory is used.
  • (14) Affected goats had folded pinnas, and the tympanic cavity was decreased due to multiple, polypoid projections of bone covered by middle ear mucosa which obstructed the view of the cochlear promontory.
  • (15) The Utah-design multichannel cochlear implant consists of six intracochlear monopolar electrodes, one promontory electrode, and an indifferent electrode.
  • (16) An ultrasound revealed a uterus incarcerated between the sacral promontory and the pubis.
  • (17) The operator's left hand tenses the abdominal skin while palpating the sacral promontory.
  • (18) ), and an alternative to promontory rectopexy: sacral fixation of the rectum, associated sigmoidectomy, Delorme's operation?
  • (19) We have taken two views and two slices: an AP view to study the contents of the uterus and the morphology of the upper strait; a profile view to measure the diameter between the promontory of the sacrum and posterior surface of the symphysis, and we have programmed the two following slices: a perpendicular slice at the level of the upper strait measuring directly the transverse median diameter; another slice at the level of the sciatic spines to measure directly the diameter between these spines.
  • (20) To investigate the feasibility of a cochlear implant in the labyrinthectomized ear, promontory electrical testing by transtympanic needle was performed in six patients who had undergone a unilateral transmastoid labyrinthectomy 6 weeks to 5 years previously.

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