What's the difference between pendule and pendulum?

Pendule


Definition:

  • (n.) A pendulum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The intrauterine source can effect pendulous displacements in linear or non-linear patterns without preparatory dilatation.
  • (2) The 'pendulating' or 'inspiratory abdominal' respiration and the sinistro- or dextrocardia are often diagnostic.
  • (3) She presented to the antenatal clinic at 31 weeks' gestation in distress because of a large, pendulous abdomen and preterm labor.
  • (4) Breasts reconstructed in this manner have remained pendulous structures.
  • (5) Recovery of spermatozoal production was also observed following spontaneous cure of chorioptic mange lesions in a ram whose scrotum had become severely thickened and pendulous due to long-standing chrorioptic mange.
  • (6) The morbid adenoid with atelectatic eardrum was differentiated from the large posterior type of adenoid of the healthy eardrum, by the pendulous projection over the choana especially in swallowing.
  • (7) It is reported about an own observation of an endobronchial, pendulous, polypoid chondrolipoma (hamartoma) which is located near the tracheal bifurcation.
  • (8) Can a breast-shaped skin envelope that is pendulous be formed through the use of a shaped expander?
  • (9) The endothelium over intimal plaques was not as pendulous as endothelium surrounding plaques.
  • (10) A technique for repair of fossa navicularis and distal pendulous urethral strictures includes elevation of a ventral flap of penile skin, which is inverted and interposed into a distal urethrotomy.
  • (11) Our experience consists of 81 patients with 89 operations with 302 anastomoses of lymphatic vessels blocked by some disease or surgical resection of benign tumors or consequent to plastic surgery (abdomen pendulous, resection of lipomas of the inguinal region of the thigh, plastic surgery of the thigh), orthopedic operations on the knee or to the stripping of varicose veins.
  • (12) The left and right ventricular sacs are alternately pumped by the pendulous moving actuator, with the left sac attached to the actuator and a free right ventricle.
  • (13) Results appear to be excellent when the procedure is used for strictures of the pendulous urethra.
  • (14) "G osh," gasps Lucy Worsley, peering intently at Edward I's pendulous swags.
  • (15) Surgical removal of adipose tissue is a widely practised form of plastic surgery most often aimed at correcting cosmetic defects after extreme weight reduction such as a pendulous abdomen.
  • (16) In all the patients with P pulmonale chest x ray showed a low cardiothoracic ratio, a considerably depressed diaphragm, and a pendulous heart.
  • (17) We talk some more about Mad Men , about: "The swirl and sound and fury of it… For a show that is as dour and moody and pendulous as ours, we have fun."
  • (18) The urethra can be divided into both anatomic (prostatic, membranous, bulbar, and pendulous) and functional (anterior and posterior) segments.
  • (19) A 23-year-old male with clinically diagnosed Lowe syndrome had bilateral cataracts, glaucoma, pendulous nystagmus, severe mental and growth retardation, hypotonia, areflexia, joints hyperextensibility, proteinuria, aminoaciduria, and metabolic acidosis.
  • (20) One of the great advantages of autogenous reconstruction over implants is that the breast remains soft, supple, and warm, improving with time as the scars begin to fade and becoming more natural and pendulous.

Pendulum


Definition:

  • (n.) A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The pendulum swung even further with growing fossil, archaeological and genetic data in the 1990s.
  • (2) As the political pendulum has swung over the decades, these competing archetypes have spurred endless innovations from inflation-linked bonds to free TV licences.
  • (3) It is improbable that the platform-pendulum controversy is due to differences in the amount of PS deprivation or the other sleep parameters measured here.
  • (4) The dynamic shear moduli of human dentin and enamel were measured using a torsion pendulum over a temperature range from 23 to 150 degrees C. For dentin, the shear modulus slightly increased for temperatures near 50 to 100 degrees C, which was caused by a loss of free water.
  • (5) Abnormal records of the curves were obtained in 78% of cases in the typical pendulum test and in 96% of cases in the smooth following test in which the movements of a light spot were followed using a gonioscope.
  • (6) The pendulum of arguments and popular operations swings back and forth, anchored to the problem of tendon healing and adhesions.
  • (7) Phase-locking was evaluated in three experiments using an interlimb coordination paradigm in which a person oscillates hand-held pendulums.
  • (8) - Biaxial telecobalt pendulum irradiation followed postsurgically, the focal dose being 7,000 rd.
  • (9) But TUC chief Brendan Barber blamed bankers and previous Tory governments for the economic mess: "This recession is not bad luck or an inevitable swing of the pendulum.
  • (10) The possibilities of variation in skip pendulum irradiation are examined, a schedule facilitates the choice of field breadth and pendulum angle.
  • (11) A technique using pendulum-arc rotation is presented for electron-beam treatment of generalized superficial malignancies.
  • (12) The observable myogenic movements are pendulum movements, ;tone rings' and ;tone waves'; the last of these can be weakly propulsive.
  • (13) The animals were lightly anesthetized and subjected to occipital trauma with a pendulum impactor.
  • (14) The therapy of testis tumors is multimodal, using lymphadenectomy, radiation therapy and chemotherapy, but the pendulum has swung so that chemotherapy has assumed the vital role in management.
  • (15) The US is finally giving up its old approach of telling the continent what to do.” The political pendulum has already swung in the latter.
  • (16) It is the age-old story of counter-revolution: not the restoration of the monarchy kind, but the intellectual kind, as the pendulum of ideas in development thinking swings back from the structuralism of the 1970s left towards the new right of the 1980s.
  • (17) Skip pendulum irradiation should gain importance, too, for the bremsstrahlung from a linear accelerator.
  • (18) Andrew Hall, chief executive of the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance exam board, has said A-levels need to be reliable "but the pendulum has swung too far that way, so there's a danger that they are too predictable".
  • (19) Up to now, the studies have used tests that were too complex in their interpretation (pendulum test) and they have been limited to a global appreciation of eye-tacking.
  • (20) The determination of the dose to the patient during excentric pendulum irradiation of the thoracic wall is described.

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