What's the difference between parodic and parotic?

Parodic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Parodical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But as many coaches have learned before, managing that alchemy within MLS and its rolling state of exception, involves an almost parodic version of standard managerial practices.
  • (2) May 15, 2014 Morrissey's newfound social networking voice comes as he gears up to release his latest album, World Peace is None of Your Business , featuring almost self-parodic titles such as Earth Is the Loneliest Planet and Staircase at the University.
  • (3) In his memoir, he recalls the extravagant nicknames of some of the locas and transvestites whom he frequented: like their cross-dressed bodies, their names were a sort of parodic translation of their caricatured identity.
  • (4) She was one of the most mature users of Twitter and her Twitter feed was so Tayloresque as to be nigh-on parodic, mixing passionate defences of Jackson with shout-outs to reality TV android Kim Kardashian and the occasional – and necessary – denials that she had re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-remarried ("Jason is my dearest friend!"
  • (5) Farage is easily most animated when discussing his Common Sense Tour of last year, an auto-parodic-sounding meet-and-greet odyssey around the country, but one of which he speaks so fondly that you can't begrudge him it.
  • (6) If his aim was to illustrate our self-parodic self-absorption, then he may consider it realised.
  • (7) When printing the pictures, and reporting on the story, tabloids including the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror made sure to include just how much the couple's house is worth, with the Mail taking its obsession with real estate to a self-parodic extent by adding how much Lawson and Saatchi had recently spent on renovations , beneath a photo of Saatchi's hand around Lawson's neck, her eyes full of tears and fear.
  • (8) The great American satirist PJ O’Rourke was standing next to me, so I congratulated him on stumbling upon an auto-parodic British scene.
  • (9) The foreign secretary has since insisted the column was intended merely as a tool for his own thought process, calling it “semi-parodic” in tone.
  • (10) After months – or, rather, years – of studied inaction, the various purveyors of trans fats and piss-beer and sundry obesity-epidemic drivers who serve as Fifa’s self-parodic partners have suggested that the Fifa president may care to step down and spend more time helping police with their inquiries.
  • (11) By the time reviews of The Dark Frontier were coming out, Ambler was already deep into his next book, a straight - or at least non-parodic - thriller with the working title Background to Danger.
  • (12) The whole thing would be laughably parodic if it weren’t so depressing.
  • (13) Englishness became a parody of itself (and it was pretty parodical to start with); little more than a series of bowler-hatted funny walks.I couldn’t stand stout John Bull with his union jack waistcoat and pointing finger.
  • (14) Last week she launched her skincare range MDNA Skin in Japan with a borderline self-parodic promotional video below, which harks back to the monochrome raunch of her early 90s Sex period as she intones: "Having good skin is important to me.
  • (15) Franzen has been forced to take down several fake Twitter accounts, “because I’ve had this problem with people impersonating me, not in a parodic way.
  • (16) But it is tempting to imagine that Maggie might have seen in him a kindred spirit, an iconoclast and mischief maker who enjoys playing up to a parodic version of himself.
  • (17) Maybe politics really is becoming so parodic that it is beyond satire and the only conclusion is: if you can't beat them, join them.
  • (18) For a novel about leisure – Ballard's only full-length work explicitly about this lifelong preoccupation – the subtly parodic chunky-thriller rhythms and unhurried mystery-story plotting are a perfect fit: it's a holiday book satirising the ritual of the holiday book.
  • (19) I then thought I better see if I can make the alternative case for myself so I then wrote a sort of semi-parodic article in the opposite sense, which has mysteriously found its way into the paper this morning because I think I might have sent it to a friend.
  • (20) Heartache and yearning also have their place, and Yang appears unafraid of the nostalgic, the parodic, the theatrical and the enigmatic.

Parotic


Definition:

  • (a.) On the side of the auditory capsule; near the external ear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Especially the erectile tissue of the submandibular and parotic glands and recidiving sudden deafness are discussed.
  • (2) Sperm chromatin heterogeneity has been evaluated in infertile males affected by different testicular diseases: 37 subjects had undergone orchidopexy in childhood (ex-cryptorchid), 50 were affected by idiopathic varicocele, 18 had a history of bilateral post-parotitis orchitis and 23 were "idiopathic infertiles".
  • (3) Relevant to the clinical manifestation, a high frequency of recurrence of parotitis, purpura and lymphadenopathy was also noted.
  • (4) Several years post epidemic parotitis 765 children were examined to check possible hearing impairment.
  • (5) We report a case of chronic non-specific parotitis with an inflammatory pseudotumour causing a peripheral paralysis of the ipsilateral facial nerve.
  • (6) We describe two cases of acute suppurative parotitis in which cultures yielded anaerobic bacteria.
  • (7) Obstructive sialadentitis, epidemic parotitis (mumps) and salivary gland tumors, should all be included in the differential diagnosis for sialolithiasis.
  • (8) In order to bring to the minimum the risk of supervention of the living parotitis vaccine on the asymptomatic infectious process it is necessary to conduct the vaccination at the period between the end and the beginning of the stable seasonal rise, which in Leningrad falls on the period between the second decades of August and October.
  • (9) Chronic parotitis is a disorder characterized by recurrent painful swelling of the gland with purulent sialorrhea.
  • (10) By means of a uniform case definition (parotitis lasting two days or more) and only cases and vaccination status ascertained from parental questionnaires, estimated vaccine efficacy increased to 70%.
  • (11) This paper presents the results from a study of 23 patients with chronic obstructive parotitis (COP) in whom the sialographic changes were related to the clinical and histopathologic features.
  • (12) Clinical, sialographic, and sequential quantitative scintigraphic characteristics of 92 cases of chronic obstructive parotitis (in 117 diseased parotid glands) are reported, and the treatment investigated.
  • (13) The characteristic of this case is that the total deafness of right ear is associated with right parotitis and right orchitis.
  • (14) The following individual signs had a positive predictive value at least equal to the complete WHO case definition: chronic diarrhea (47%), respiratory distress secondary to lower respiratory tract infection (50%), oral candidiasis (53%), parotitis (67%), generalized lymphadenopathy (88%), and herpes zoster infection (100%).
  • (15) In patients with unilateral acute purulent parotitis treated with penicillin and doxycycline the antibiotic concentration was determined in plasma and saliva from both the healthy and the affected parotid gland.
  • (16) Paralysis of the facial nerve in association with suppurative parotitis is rare, with only ten previously reported cases.
  • (17) Acute bilateral suppurative parotitis developed in two patients with documented cirrhosis of the liver while they were in the hospital.
  • (18) The importance of early detection of parotitis as a cause of fever is emphasized.
  • (19) In the present study 26 patients suffering from acute exacerbated chronic recurrent parotitis were subjected to treatment with the kallikrein inhibitor aprotinin (Trasylol, Bayer AG).
  • (20) It is generally assumed that the microorganisms responsible for acute suppurative parotitis are facultative anaerobes, primarily Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus viridans.

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