What's the difference between peg and teg?

Peg


Definition:

  • (n.) A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.
  • (n.) A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon.
  • (n.) One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
  • (n.) One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.
  • (n.) A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase "To take one down peg."
  • (v. t.) To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely.
  • (v. t.) To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points.
  • (v. i.) To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; -- usually with on, at, or away; as, to peg away at a task.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Plasma renin activities (PRA) and aldosterone concentrations increased in parallel over a wide range of plasma volume deficits produced in unanesthetized rats by extravascular administration of polyethylene glycol (PEG) solution.
  • (2) To determine whether long-term enteral feedings can improve nutritional status and lung function parameters in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), 11 patients (8 female, 3 male, age 7 to 23 years) received a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) since February 1988.
  • (3) Advisable in a first time for the feeding of patients with palliative treatment, we propose PEG for patients in position to have a long and difficult rehabilitation of swallowing.
  • (4) Metoprolol was introduced into the stomach with a homogenized meal containing a nonabsorbable marker, [14C]-PEG 4000, and another marker, PEG 4000, was perfused continuously into the duodenum just below the pylorus.
  • (5) Decreased consistency of the stools was seen after PEG in both groups (p < 0.001).
  • (6) Since PEG-1000 treatment of HPRT- Chinese hamster cells in the absence of human cells yielded no HPRT+ cells, it is concluded that the element responsible for the restoration of rodent HPRT was contributed by the human cells and not by the agent employed to promote fusion.
  • (7) The CD spectra of these aggregates showed psi-type anomalies and intensities 10-100 times greater than those obtained with the dispersed DNA solutions in the absence of PEG.
  • (8) We next tried to prepare virus-free PEG-PLP-Hb from HBV or HTLV-I positive blood.
  • (9) The yes camp should have made no bones about a call to the nation to shake things up, by bringing him down a peg or two.
  • (10) The fast process in the presence of PEG was identified as due to rapid interbilayer monomer diffusion between closely apposed vesicles, and, in the absence of PEG, as due to monomer diffusion through the aqueous phase.
  • (11) Since it was first described Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) has rapidly become the preferred method for gastrostomy tube placement.
  • (12) Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) has become a commonly performed procedure to provide nutritional support to chronically ill patients.
  • (13) CIC-PEG and TRAb levels were similar in newly diagnosed and relapsed patients, being higher than in controls (p less than 0.01) and in remission patients (p less than 0.01).
  • (14) At a second operation, 10 days later, these adhesions were graded and lysed, after which the animals received one of the following solutions intraperitoneally: 5 per cent PEG 4000 (n = 21), 25 per cent PEG 4000 (n = 23), 32 per cent dextran 70 (n = 22) or isotonic saline (n = 25), or were left as an untreated control group (n = 20).
  • (15) The main histological features of the tumour were enormous, but relatively regular, acanthosis of rete pegs revealing no similarity to the squamous-cell carcinoma, and an exclusively parakeratottic eleidine-containing central plug.
  • (16) One hundred thirty-six percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomies (PEGs) were placed in 126 patients with head and neck malignancies.
  • (17) Sera from patients (n = 24) with hemolytic transfusion reactions and no detectable antibody by routine technics were tested; two sera had specific antibodies by the PEG technic.
  • (18) The PEG derivatization of enzymes with this procedure is less inactivating than those previously reported.
  • (19) Both liposome-mediated delivery and PEG conjugation offer an additional benefit over native superoxide dismutase and catalase because they can increase cellular antioxidant activities in a manner that can provide protection from both intracellular and extracellular superoxide and hydrogen peroxide.
  • (20) Both from diagnostic and prognostic points of view, PEG is of less value is communicating hydrocephalus on account of the many false findings.

Teg


Definition:

  • (n.) A sheep in its second year; also, a doe in its second year.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clotting parameters: PTT, TT, PT, circulating platelets and TEG were normal.
  • (2) To test this possibility, we compared the usefulness of TEG, activated coagulation time (ACT), activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT), and anti-Xa activity in 28 hemodialysis patients using both conventional unfractionated heparin (UFH) and LMH on separate dialysis procedures.
  • (3) The changes in the thromboelastogram (TEG), the activity and disintegration of prothrombin and proconvertin were studied in experiments on rats with thyrotoxicosis induced by giving thyroidin per os.
  • (4) Whole blood samples from six male Sprague-Dawley rats were diluted in vitro 3:1, 1:1 and 1:3 with normal saline solution, stroma-free hemoglobin (SFH) (7 grams of hemoglobin per deciliter), PHS (14 grams of hemoglobin per deciliter) or 5 percent bovine albumin (ALB) and tested with a thrombelastograph (TEG) for effects of hemodilution on coagulation.
  • (5) During surgery, abnormal bleeding was seen at surgical field, when TEG revealed remarkable hyper-fibrinolysis.
  • (6) Capillary resistance, platelet count, platelet adhesiveness and aggregation and thrombelastogramm (TEG) were studied in 40 healthy newborn infants (term eutrophic, preterm eutrophic and hypotropic).
  • (7) A significant negative correlation (r = -0.415, n = 35, P(0.02) was found between BMI and the overall thermal effect of glucose (sigma TEG) calculated as a sum of the post-glucose energy expenditure measured every 15 min during 2 h minus the baseline value.
  • (8) TEG results may not identify patients who have an increased bleeding time as a result of aspirin ingestion.
  • (9) Measured TEG variables (r, k, r+k times and maximum amplitude) were unaltered after aspirin although there was a significant prolongation of the bleeding time in both groups.
  • (10) The effects of several TCM preparations on CHD patients were observed by thromboelastography (TEG), prothrombin time, etc.
  • (11) The TEG monitor must however be available in the immediate vicinity of the labour ward and must be ready for use around the clock.
  • (12) Neither the fasting nor the post glucose BG concentrations correlated with sigma TEG.
  • (13) In our study, 1701 TEG's traces carried out in the last five years have been reviewed in order to evaluate the incidence of such patterns in both healthy subjects and in patients affected by different diseases.
  • (14) Past and "never" OC users had similar TEG values, suggesting reversibility, and noncontraceptive estrogens had a minimal effect on the TEG.
  • (15) We conclude that viscoelastic determinants of clot strength may be abnormal after CPB and that SCT and TEG are, therefore, more useful than RCT for the detection and management of coagulation defects associated with CPB.
  • (16) We therefore correlated LA and TEG assessments in 46 women who were either apparently healthy controls or who had abnormal LA levels with such conditions as endometriosis and repeated pregnancy wastage.
  • (17) Forty-two patients prospectively felt to be at high risk for excessive post-CPB bleeding had blood obtained for RCT, TEG, and SCT analysis before systemic heparinization and 30 min after protamine administration.
  • (18) Blood samples for TEG were obtained via cut-down at (B) 15 min (C) 30 min, and (D) 60 min after cut-down.
  • (19) The applied experimental model comprises the following: scanning electron microscopy (SEM), thromboelastography (TEG), formula: [see text] examining clotting systems by determining calcium, cephalincalcium times as well as the amount of blood platelets, biochemical examination.
  • (20) However, the amygdala is concerned with vision in the following ways: It receives neutral visual information highly processed in the visual cortex, invests the information with emotional and motivational significance through interactions with the cortical and subcortical systems of emotion and motivation, and then it returns the information coded to the visual areas to be re-processed; to be consciously perceived in area TEO, and to be meaningfully cognized, recognized and memorized in areas TE and TEG.

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