What's the difference between pellet and pill?

Pellet


Definition:

  • (n.) A little ball; as, a pellet of wax / paper.
  • (n.) A bullet; a ball for firearms.
  • (v./.) To form into small balls.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A spindle cell sarcoma appeared 20 months after implantation of a pellet of 3-methylcholanthrene in the denervated foreleg of an adult frog, Rana pipiens.
  • (2) During periods of wet steam it was impossible to maintain consistent sterility of the mouse pellets even using a cycle of 126 degrees C for 60 minutes.
  • (3) The lambs of the second group were given 1200-1500 g of concentrate pellets and 300 g chopped wheat straw, and those of the third group were given 800 and 1050 g each of concentrate pellets, and 540 g and 720 g of pellets of whole maize plant containing 40 per cent.
  • (4) The wide variation in potency explains the variation found in absolute bioavailability, and the increase in release rate when the pellets are crushed explains the differences seen in peak plasma times, since the pellets will be chewed to varying degrees by the horse.
  • (5) Three or 14 months later, three pellets containing 75 mg base M were SC implanted into male rats treated neonatally with MSG or equimolar NaCl solution.
  • (6) The perchloric acid extracts of the cell pellets were examined by 13C NMR.
  • (7) a 45-mg pellet every 45 s) induces considerable locomotion, rearing and other motor activities in food-deprived rats.
  • (8) The use of the pellet binder "Lingnosol FG" in broiler diets at three levels plus a control group revealed differences in the consistency, quantity and color of the caecal contents between the treated and untreated groups.
  • (9) To investigate the physical state of water in hydrating biological macro-molecules, the dielectric properties of water in hen egg lysozyme pellets with various moisture contents were studied using the thermally stimulated depolarisation currents technique.
  • (10) The actual existence of the specific mitochondrial glyoxalase II was verified by showing that all of the activity of the crude mitochondrial pellet was still present in purified mitochondria prepared in a Ficoll gradient.
  • (11) The acetone pellet was solubilized using deoxycholate (DOC) and Thy-1.1 was purified by use of a Lens culinaris lectin affinity column and an AcA-34 gel filtration column.
  • (12) A second crystalline material was observed within cells in the 15,000 X g pellet from spinal fluid.
  • (13) Subcutaneously implanted pellets containing the thyroid hormone thyroxine or the thyrotoxic agent propylthiouracil were used to induce hyper- or hypothyroidism in rats.
  • (14) These data suggest that the positive relationship between pelleted feeds and incidence of ascites observed at high altitudes also exists at lower elevations.
  • (15) Enzymes that pelleted more in myogen preparations than as individual purified enzymes in the presence of poly(ethylene glycol) and the absence of F-actin were tested for specific enzyme-enzyme associations, several of which were observed.
  • (16) The method is based on sonification of bacterial suspension in the presence of lysozyme and EDTA and subsequent extraction of the pellet with boiling water.
  • (17) Chartainvilliers) given either chopped (CL) or ground (1.96 mm screen) and pelleted (PL), was measured in a comparative slaughter experiment.
  • (18) This group consisted of 101 cases of whom 38 underwent semen treatment with Centrifugation on a Discontinuous Percoll Gradient (CDPG) and 63 with Pellet Swim-up (PS); the control group was made up of 31 normospermic patients where the semen was treated by PS.
  • (19) The best combination of tracers for this purpose was demonstrated to be: HRP-pellet implantation in the rostral cortex, iron-dextran injections into the striatum and [3H]WGA injections into the rostral RT.
  • (20) By simultaneously pushing the foot bar and pulling the hand bar, the monkey lifts a weight and triggers a microswitch which releases a banana-flavored food pellet into a well close to the animal's mouth.

Pill


Definition:

  • (n.) The peel or skin.
  • (v. i.) To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of hair; to make bald.
  • (v. t.) To peel; to make by removing the skin.
  • (v. t. & i.) To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to plunder.
  • (n.) A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.
  • (n.) Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sequential birth control pills are less common than monophasic pills, partly because the "first generation" sequential pills, which used estrogen only during the 1st part of the cycle, were more dangerous than the monophasic pills.
  • (2) Despite this, the public is more suspicious than ever of the danger of pills.
  • (3) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
  • (4) One view of these results stems from the belief that contraception is a necessary evil and the pill is the closest to a 'natural' sex act.
  • (5) This study compared one particular interview question to a pill-count measure by studying 98 patients who visited their family physician, received medication instructions, and were interviewed in their homes ten days later.
  • (6) 40 women aged 18-36 used the Postinor brand, levonorgestrel-containing, pill from the Gedeon-Richter firm for 240 menstrual cycles.
  • (7) This makes The Red Pill a continuous, multi-voiced, up-to-the-minute male complaint nestled at the heart of the so-called manosphere – a network of websites preoccupied with both the men’s rights movement and how to pick up women.
  • (8) Patients may have difficulty in the transition from one packet of pills to the next, and missed pills that extend the hormone-free interval may contribute to the failure rate.
  • (9) Among women using the pill for 8 years, the relative risk was 2.6 (p0.0001).
  • (10) The finding is at variance with others that ascribe haemostatic changes observed to increased oestrogen content in a given pill formulation and so merits confirmation in a larger study.
  • (11) A mother is facing prosecution for procuring abortion pills for her then underage daughter.
  • (12) The amino acid pool in leukocytes was found to be smaller in those patients taking the "pill".
  • (13) Only 2% of the subjects refused to take any pills, and, among pill takers, over 95% were reported to be taking most of their pills at the end of the study.
  • (14) 88% of the women in the recent study had used the pill at some point and 45% had used an IUD--methods that were not available to women in the 1940s.
  • (15) The pill group gave birth on an average of 5.79 days after the date forecast by Naegele's rule and .15 days before the date calculated from the ultrasound examination.
  • (16) Treatments for jock itch include anti-fungal ointments and lotions, or anti-fungal pills for severe cases.
  • (17) The estrogen potencies of 9 oral contraceptive pills, Enovid-E, Enovid-5, Ovulen, Demulen, Norinyl+80, Norinyl+50, Ovral, Norlestrin 1 mg. and Norlestrin 2.5 mg., were determined by bioassay.
  • (18) Motor behavior of substitutes was assessed following dry swallows and following several stimuli: intraluminar injection of 30 ml of water or 0.1N hydrochloric acid and swallowing pills.
  • (19) Presumably the competitive binding of iron by ascorbic acid in the vitamin pill allowed uninhibited absorption of the iron.
  • (20) Ten women were taking an oral contraceptive containing 50 mug oestrogen and progestogen ("combined pill"), one patient took a progestogen-only contraceptive and 14 served as controls.

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