What's the difference between palp and palpitation?

Palp


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Palpus.
  • (v. t.) To have a distinct touch or feeling of; to feel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The GRC bound to immobilized histones could be eluted with PALP, but not with its related compounds, such as pyridoxamine, pyridoxamine 5'-phosphate, pyridoxal, and pyridoxine, suggesting a specific effect of PALP.
  • (2) The lobus glomeratus receives inputs from the maxillary palps and also from processess of deutocerebral neurons.
  • (3) Lon-directed degradation of SulA was energy dependent, as was the increase in degradation of SulA in delta lon pAlp+ cells.
  • (4) Paper electrophoretic analysis showed that in the mixture of TOB and PALP, the spot corresponding to TOB alone almost disappeared and the spot associated with TOB overlapped with that associated with PALP, although the spots of TOB alone and PALP alone were observed as single spots on the cathode and anode sides, respectively.
  • (5) The activated glucocorticoid-receptor complexes (GRC) from rat liver bind tightly to histone (from calf thymus)-agarose and cannot be eluted with 3 M KCl or 50% ethylene glycol, but can be eluted with 20 mM pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PALP).
  • (6) Physiologically, the palp-pit receptors respond uniformly; they are most excitable by stimulation with carbon dioxide while they exhibit relatively moderate responses to various odorants.
  • (7) Testing of MAb binding to bacteria showed that a part of the BLp I, PALp I, and PALp II sites was immunoaccessible in intact homologous bacteria, and that the Hm I and Hm II epitopes were inaccessible.
  • (8) It is suggested that there may be an instability of the PALP-albumin complex in this condition.
  • (9) A gonadotropic inhibition is observed by means of oothecal production in Periplaneta americana after unilateral amputation of the mandible, the maxillary palp and the labial palp, in females reared with males at emergence.
  • (10) Similar assays with males deprived of maxillary palps make it unlikely that the basiconic-like sensilla on these appendages are needed to perceive the attraction pheromones.
  • (11) If used together with a myoma drill, large holes can be punched into tumours, making them for the first time well palp-able and revolvable.
  • (12) When aspartate- and alanine transaminase (AST and ALT, respectively) activities were studied in homogenates of rat cerebellum, brain cortex and brain stem (using a modified procedure by Raitman and Frenkel), addition of 50 microM pyridoxal-5-phosphate (PALP) increased 2-3-fold the activity studied.
  • (13) Their action is evidently realized on the level of competition with PALP when these compounds attach to apotransaminases.
  • (14) Intrarenal TOB levels in rats receiving TOB and PALP were lower than those in rats given TOB alone.
  • (15) The effect of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PALP) and trifluoperazine (TFPZ), the calmodulin antagonist, on in vitro platelet adhesion to collagen and collagen-induced platelet activation was studied using platelet-rich-plasma (PRP) or washed platelets (WPL).
  • (16) Sparse fibers were also seen in the body wall, parapodia, and cephalic palps.
  • (17) The olfactory sensilla on the maxillary palp tip of Locusta migratoria (L.) resemble the surrounding contact chemoreceptors in general morphology.
  • (18) The presence of MAO in the epithelium of the buccal palps was also demonstrated.
  • (19) However, pALP appears to lack the internal signal sequence of the corresponding human protein.
  • (20) The formation of the decarboxylated product, muscimol, which primarily occurred in a synaptosomal fraction, was dependent on the presence of pyridoxal-5-phosphate (PALP) and was inhibited by (S)-glutamic acid, 3-mercaptopropionic acid (3MPA), aminooxyacetic acid (AOAA), and allyglycine, suggesting that ibotenic acid is a substrate for GAD.

Palpitation


Definition:

  • (n.) A rapid pulsation; a throbbing; esp., an abnormal, rapid beating of the heart as when excited by violent exertion, strong emotion, or by disease.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The vasodilator effect of both calcium antagonists was responsible for side effects, of which the most common were flushing, edema, headache, and palpitations.
  • (2) Pheochromocytoma may present without the typical features of paroxysmal or sustained hypertension, headache, increased sweating, and palpitations.
  • (3) In 61 patients altogether subjective side-effects could be recorded, such as vertigo (5%), palpitations (2.8%), fatigue (2%), insomina (1.9%), nausea (1.7%) and vomiting (0.8%).
  • (4) Since she was 25-year-old, she had had insomnia which accompanied by choked feelings, palpitations, clumsiness of hands and anxiety.
  • (5) The role of 24 hour Holter monitoring in the screening of patients complaining of palpitations is reviewed.
  • (6) A 46-year-old woman occasionally experienced palpitation of short duration and chest oppression since 1977.
  • (7) At the initial evaluation, exercise limitation was rare in group I; whereas, most of the patients in group II presented symptoms such as palpitation, chest pain or exertional dyspnea.
  • (8) Case 1: This 21-year-old man experienced palpitation accompanied by syncope.
  • (9) If the anemia is severe, palpitations, otic pulsations, and cardiac decompensation are common.
  • (10) There was no correlation between the two types of mitral valve prolapse and the body mass index, the fractional shortening of the left ventricle and symptoms (dyspnea, palpitations, precordial pain, dizziness).
  • (11) All the groups showed significant pre- to post-treatment reductions in sweating, palpitations, restlessness, dry mouth, muscular tension, nausea, loss of appetite and upset stomach and the extent of these reductions were not different for the different treatments.
  • (12) This report describes a 37-year-old woman with a 5-year history of paroxysmal attacks of hypertension, headache, and palpitation.
  • (13) Symptoms of congestive heart failure, fatigue and palpitation were common.
  • (14) Endoscopic examination of a 35-year-old patient complaining of tarry stool, palpitation and lumbago led to a diagnosis of gastric cancer of Borrmann type 4.
  • (15) He has now told the Daily Telegraph: “I was not unwell – I have not had heart palpitations - but I was getting increasingly terrible pain in my shoulder, my back and so I was suffering from neuralgic pain.
  • (16) Patients with MVP syndrome present with a symptom complex which results from various forms of neuroendocrine or autonomic dysfunction; the most common symptoms include chest pain, palpitations, cardiac arrhythmias, orthostatic phenomena, syncope, presyncope, fatigue, exercise intolerance, dyspnea and neuropsychiatric symptoms (Table 1).
  • (17) She was readmitted because of dizziness and palpitation in April, 1989.
  • (18) His condition was often accompanied by ectopic junctional tachycardia with isorhythmic AV dissociation, which made him complain of palpitation by elevating right intra-atrial pressure.
  • (19) Of 18 children, only six had any symptoms, consisting of chest discomfort, palpitation, or convulsion.
  • (20) Transesophageal atrial pacing was used to evaluate the cause of palpitations in 28 patients ages 3 to 18 years (mean 11).

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