What's the difference between palpable and visible?

Palpable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, a palpable form.
  • (a.) Easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious; readily perceived and detected; gross; as, palpable imposture; palpable absurdity; palpable errors.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
  • (2) The diagnosis of an arterial injury may be readily apparent, but the excellent upper-extremity collateral circulation may create palpable distal pulses despite a significant proximal arterial injury.
  • (3) Patients were grouped as +RSC if they developed a sustained spontaneous palpable pulse or blood pressure and as -RSC if they did not develop a pulse or blood pressure.
  • (4) The lesion presented as a discrete, palpable mass that led to orchiectomy.
  • (5) The criteria selected by a classification tree method were similar: palpable purpura, age less than or equal to 20 years at disease onset, biopsy showing granulocytes around arterioles or venules, and gastrointestinal bleeding.
  • (6) A palpable, purpuric, nonpruritic eruption occurred in a 64-year-old man nine days after he received intravenous streptokinase therapy, which was successful in treating acute myocardial infarction.
  • (7) Abdominal pain was the most common presenting symptom and a pelvic mass was palpable in all patients.
  • (8) The tumor was palpable on physical examination, but not apparent on plain radiographs.
  • (9) Dietary quercetin inhibited both the incidence and the number of palpable rat mammary tumors; rats fed on 2% quercetin had 25% less incidence of mammary cancer, while the average number of mammary tumors per rat was reduced by 39% at 20 wk post-DMBA administration compared to animals on a control diet.
  • (10) For some patients with T3 or V+ tumors and palpably normal retroperitoneal nodes, an extended nodal dissection may resect microscopically involved nodes and result in an improved survival rate.
  • (11) Histologically confirmed results were obtained from 496 palpable findings.
  • (12) A nodal mass may be palpable and computed tomography (CT) is frequently requested in order to differentiate recurrent tumour from the longer term effects of surgery and radiotherapy.
  • (13) When palpable tumors developed in all animals, therapy was initiated.
  • (14) After complete, high quality x-ray mammography, a palpable mass or nonpalpable mammographic abnormality may remain indeterminate in etiology, and ultrasound may be useful as an adjunctive diagnostic modality.
  • (15) Activity of the cytosol enzyme esterifying cholesterol at pH 6.5 was also enhanced during the active growth of Zajdela hepatoma and during the period of chemical carcinogenesis characterized by the appearance of first palpable subcutaneous tumors.
  • (16) But what was, perhaps, even more fun than a win in the offing was that the desperation of opponents of same-sex marriage leading up to today’s argument in Obergefell v Hodges was palpable.
  • (17) The hybrid with the strongest NK effect (ACBF1) was the least resistant to YAC growth (27% palpable tumors), and the hybrid with the weakest NK effect (ALF1) was the most resistant to YAC growth (7.2% palpable tumors).
  • (18) The two patients were women, one a 45-year-old who consulted for pain, epigastric discomfort and melenas, and the other a 76-year-old who consulted for paraneoplastic syndrome and a palpable mass in the right lower quadrant.
  • (19) A review of the literature has shown that this is the largest such tumor so far described, and the first time a mass was palpable on abdominal examination.
  • (20) Caring for persons with AIDS calls upon a range of physical, psychological, social, and spiritual interventions that, in the absence of a cure, can make a palpable difference for patients.

Visible


Definition:

  • (a.) Perceivable by the eye; capable of being seen; perceptible; in view; as, a visible star; the least spot is visible on white paper.
  • (a.) Noticeable; apparent; open; conspicuous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
  • (2) Photoreactions induced in that proper sensitizer molecules absorb UV-light or visible light.
  • (3) But do you know the thing that really bites?” he pointed to his home, which was not visible behind an overgrown hedge.
  • (4) The epididymis appeared distended but without any visible sperms.
  • (5) Stage E12 is characterized by the modifications of the CL fraction, particularly the beta-group; at this stage the first dendrites become visible.
  • (6) To determine the severity of regurgitation by dynamic MRI, several parameters were analyzed, including the number of slices with visible signal loss, the time course of the signal loss, and its maximal area and maximal volume.
  • (7) Visible light activates a large guanosine cyclic 3',5'-phosphate (cGMP)- and phosphodiesterase (PDE)-dependent infrared light-scattering change in suspensions of photoreceptor disk membranes.
  • (8) However, cytophotometric DNA analysis disclosed that significant increases in proliferative activity of mucosa had occurred 4 weeks before the appearance of histopathological dysplasia, and 8 weeks prior to development of grossly visible tumors.
  • (9) Patients in group A had smoother increases in oxygen uptake and core temperatures, greater cardiovascular stability as reflected by the rate-pressure product, and no visible shivering.
  • (10) The dried-specimen-teasing method appears useful, because of the ease of preparation of the specimens, its reproducibility, and the degree of visibility and preservation of cell surface structures and intraclonal relationships.
  • (11) 3) In Group D, B1 was visible in 19 out of 25 patients and in 18 patients out of these 19 patients, cancer invasion toward B1 was histopathologically confirmed.
  • (12) Use of sunglasses that block all ultraviolet radiation and severely attenuate high-energy visible radiation will slow the pace of ocular deterioration and delay the onset of age-related disease, thereby reducing its prevalence.
  • (13) Conventional follow-up of patients with colonic neoplasia will at best only identify symptomatic lesions and those visible with a sigmoidoscope, and will therefore fail to identify new malignant lesions in time for effective treatment.
  • (14) A planet with conditions that could support life orbits a twin neighbour of the sun visible to the naked eye, scientists have revealed.
  • (15) RR spectra of fatty acyl-CoA and its complexes are consistent with the previous hypothesis that visible spectral shifts observed during formation of acetoacetyl-CoA and crotonyl-CoA complexes of fatty acyl-CoA dehydrogenase result from charge-transfer interactions in which the ground state is essentially nonbonding as opposed to interactions in which complete electron transfer occurs to form FAD semiquinone.
  • (16) Both patients had high levels of circulating capsular polysaccharide, and one patient had visible diplococci on a smear of the peripheral blood.
  • (17) Unconjugated bilirubin visibly accumulated in the interstitium of the renal papillary tip.
  • (18) Treatment with DEAE-cellulose under the conditions described does not induce any visible degradation of mitochondria and mitochondrial DNA.
  • (19) Electron microscope examinations of the developing triadic junction in fibers from leg muscles of fetal and postnatal rats reveal a range of complexity from no structural connections across the space between apposed membranes of T and SR to all of the junctional structures visible in adult rat muscle fibers.
  • (20) In addition to the proteinase, 3 or 4 peptides (16-22.0 kDa) were visible in SDS-PAGE gels of gland cell proteins; on boiling, these peptides aggregated to 31 kDa.