What's the difference between perennial and persistent?

Perennial


Definition:

  • (a.) ing or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains.
  • (a.) Continuing without cessation or intermission; perpetual; unceasing; never failing.
  • (a.) Continuing more than two years; as, a perennial steam, or root, or plant.
  • (n.) A perennial plant; a plant which lives or continues more than two years, whether it retains its leaves in winter or not.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.
  • (2) consider the X-ray findings verified in 3 groups of subjects: with Hayfiber, with perennial rhinitis and the last one being a control group.
  • (3) Eleven children with severe perennial asthma and a poor clinical response to disodium cromoglycate were studied in a 4-month, double blind trial involving 1 month's treatment with placebo, disodium cromoglycate, betamethasone 17 valerate, and both drugs combined according to a predetermined random design.
  • (4) Cruden Farm, Victoria The 54-hectare Murdoch family estate in Langwarrin south of Melbourne, Australia, features magnificent gardens complete with ponds, lemon-scented gum trees and two walled gardens and perennial borders.
  • (5) In this study, the authors evaluate the inhalant substances of the house, emphasizing the importance of Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus to cause perennial allergic rhinitis.
  • (6) A panel of human CD4+ T cell clones specific for the house dust mite was isolated from an atopic individual with perennial rhinitis.
  • (7) Patients who had both perennial symptoms and summer seasonal exacerbations had a higher incidence of a positive family history of atopy and developed symptoms earlier in life than those patients who had summer seasonal or perennial symptoms only.
  • (8) Patients with perennial rhinitis had a more vigorous response than the controls.
  • (9) The immediate changes in regional ventilation and pulmonary blood flow were studied in seventeen adults with perennial asthma and in two control persons, who were challenged by histamine inhalation (histamine induced asthma (HIA)).
  • (10) Twenty-eight patients with allergic perennial rhinitis treated for 2 years with parenteral semidepot immunotherapy were divided into two groups of 14 patients: group A receiving conventional aerosol nebulization (TNE), and group B, which received TNAI using a type F aerosol electrocompressor.
  • (11) We have something to say and something to offer on perennial political dilemmas.
  • (12) Specificity was 87% for pollens and 90% for perennial antigens.
  • (13) Overnight, Russia has moved from perennial rival to trusted friend, while Nato’s future is in peril.
  • (14) More males than females had summer seasonal symptoms whereas more females than males had perennial symptoms.
  • (15) The old-fashioned dining room, unpretentious atmosphere, and the three-course menus under €30 make it a perennial favourite.
  • (16) But Howitt says that while it is a problem that so much farmland has shifted from more adjustable crops to perennials like almonds, he has a simpler solution: better management of groundwater.
  • (17) They are the identification of factors causing severe disease as opposed to heavy infection; the effects of seasonal as opposed to perennial transmission; and the importance of transplacental transmission of microfilariae or soluble antigens.
  • (18) Together with his late wife Janet, he wrote 37 titles including perennial favourites The Jolly Postman and Burglar Bill, and by himself he is the author of many more, including The Pencil, and Woof!
  • (19) It seems that perennial rhinitis probably arises from abundance of domestic antigens more than for the other allergic manifestations, as the nose is the first filter to receive foreign particles.
  • (20) However, PAC differed from SAC in several respects: a history of exacerbation on exposure to house dust (PAC 42 per cent; SAC none) and an association with perennial rhinitis (PAC 75 per cent; SAC 12 per cent) were more common in PAC.

Persistent


Definition:

  • (a.) Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose.
  • (a.) Remaining beyond the period when parts of the same kind sometimes fall off or are absorbed; permanent; as, persistent teeth or gills; a persistent calyx; -- opposed to deciduous, and caducous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Without medication atypical ventricular tachycardia develops, in the author's opinion, most probably when bradycardia has persisted for a prolonged period.
  • (2) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
  • (3) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
  • (4) The remaining case had a calibre persistent submucosal artery within the caecum that was found incidentally in a resection specimen.
  • (5) The difference in HDL and HDL2 cholesterol concentrations between the MI+ and MI- groups or between the MI+ and CHD- groups persisted after adjustment by analysis of covariance for the effect of physical activity, alcohol intake, obesity, duration of diabetes, and glycemic control.
  • (6) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
  • (7) An experimental Anaplasma marginale infection was induced in a splenectomized mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) which persisted subclinically at least 376 days as detected by subinoculation into susceptible cattle.
  • (8) TR was classified as follows: severe (massive systolic opacification and persistence of the microbubbles in the IVC for at least 20 seconds); moderate (moderate systolic opacification lasting less than 20 seconds); mild (slight systolic opacification lasting less than 10 seconds); insignificant TR (sporadic appearance of the contrast medium into the IVC).
  • (9) They had learned through hard experience what Frederick Douglass once taught -- that freedom is not given, it must be won, through struggle and discipline, persistence and faith.
  • (10) Short incubations with heparin (5 min) caused a release of the enzyme into the media, while longer incubations caused a 2-8-fold increase in net lipoprotein lipase secretion which was maximal after 2-16 h depending on cell type, and persisted for 24 h. The effect of heparin was dose-dependent and specific (it was not duplicated by other glycosaminoglycans).
  • (11) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.
  • (12) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
  • (13) Channel activation persists through the process of platelet isolation and washing and is manifested in higher measured values of [Ca2+]cyt and [Ca2+]dt in the "resting state."
  • (14) Gastro-intestinal surgery is only indicated if haemorrhage persists after a period of observation.
  • (15) Psychiatric morbidity is further increased when adjuvant chemotherapy is used and when treatment results in persistent arm pain and swelling.
  • (16) A newborn presenting with persistent umbilical stump bleeding should be screened for factor XIII deficiency when routine coagulation tests prove normal.
  • (17) This competence persists over the eight measurement points.
  • (18) To investigate the possibility that an abnormality of gastric emptying exists in duodenal ulcer and to determine if such an abnormality persists after ulcer healing, scintigraphic gastric emptying measurements were undertaken in 16 duodenal ulcer patients before, during, and after therapy with cimetidine; in 12 patients with pernicious anemia, and in 12 control subjects.
  • (19) Thus it appears that a portion of the adaptation to prolonged and intense endurance training that is responsible for the higher lactate threshold in the trained state persists for a long time (greater than 85 days) after training is stopped.
  • (20) persisted and was more abnormal in 23% of the cases including specific tracings in 37%.