What's the difference between perennial and thistle?

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.

Thistle


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of several prickly composite plants, especially those of the genera Cnicus, Craduus, and Onopordon. The name is often also applied to other prickly plants.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was the best of the opening three as Stefan Johansen, who became a champion for the second time in sixth months after winning the Norwegian top flight with Stromsgodset, exchanged passes with Griffiths before continuing his driving run and drilling the ball into the Thistle goal.
  • (2) It is concluded that, of the compounds identified, solstitialin A 13-acetate and cynaropicrin have toxic potential in cell cultures, containing cells from the substantia nigra of the rat, the specificity of action to cells of the substantia nigra remains to be shown, and that a toxic action in the midbrain may contribute to the nigro-pallidal encephalomalacia, caused by the ingestion of the yellow star thistle by horses.
  • (3) "It may be that thistle-cutting or spraying is unnecessary this summer because the caterpillars will defoliate them for you."
  • (4) That’s the hardest part of our job – to know that we can’t put them where they belong.” For context, Thistle notes that there used to be 640 beds in New Hampshire for treatment.
  • (5) Dairy farmer Dave Lawrence took the Guardian to the spot where the beavers are usually seen, close to an island in the river thick with nettles, willow and thistles.
  • (6) The reverse of the new coin shows the English rose, Welsh leek, Scottish thistle and Northern Irish shamrock emerging from one stem within a royal coronet – a design created by 15-year-old schoolboy David Pearce, who won a competition to create the image.
  • (7) We look forward to it, the gaffer will look forward to it, he will have a game plan and will try to get into the next round.” It was Thistle’s first defeat in seven games but their defender Danny Seaborne said they had been undone by a striker enjoying a great run of form.
  • (8) Thistle-tube-shaped pulps in the permanent teeth were observed in five patients.
  • (9) The first example is liquorice root, its active principle carbenoxolone, and the drugs Biogastrone and Caved-S for the treatment of gastic, peptic and duodenal ulcers; the second example is the fruits of the milk thistle, its active principles silymarin and silybinin as well as the drug Legalon for the treatment of liver diseases.
  • (10) One night in the Crown and Thistle pub in Northiam, Ajao flew into a row with a local, Piers Mott.
  • (11) Which is all well and good, but you’re intrigued to know what’s going on at Celtic Park, where Celtic are entertaining Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
  • (12) In 15 patients (13 women and two men) with cholesterol stones in the gall-bladder a special (Thistle) catheter was introduced into the gall-bladder under local anaesthesia by percutaneous transhepatic puncture.
  • (13) MB • Aberdeen move to within a point of Celtic after comeback at Partick Thistle • Steven Pye: when Aberdeen ruled Scottish football Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mathias Pogba moved from Crawley Town to Partick Thistle last summer but has found goals hard to come by north of the border.
  • (14) The floral-emblem £1 coins, which began last year with a rose for England and a daffodil for Wales, will continue with the addition of coins featuring a thistle for Scotland and a flax plant for Northern Ireland.
  • (15) At Glasgow's Thistle Hotel on Friday night a 22-piece Gaelic choir sang Highland Cathedral.
  • (16) Weeds elicit two levels of allergenicity, a high level by the Ragweeds and other members of the Asteraceae, and a much lower level by members of the families Amaranthaceae (Pigweed, Western Water Hemp), Chenopodiaceae (Lamb's Quarters, Kochia, and Russian Thistle), and Plantaginaceae (Plantain) in the St. Louis, Missouri area.
  • (17) Aberdeen moved to within one point of Premiership leaders Celtic after battling from behind to beat Partick Thistle 2-1 at Firhill.
  • (18) In sensitized individuals, Russian thistle floral bracts pierced the skin and stimulated an urticarial reaction.
  • (19) THE MOST ANCIENT AND MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE THISTLE The Rt Hon David Alexander Cospatrick Douglas-Home, the Earl of Home CVO, CBE.
  • (20) He remained 'Sir' Alec because he had been created a Knight of the Thistle in 1962.