What's the difference between perennial and trillium?
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.
Trillium
Definition:
(n.) A genus of liliaceous plants; the three-leaved nightshade; -- so called because all the parts of the plant are in threes.
Example Sentences:
(1) A report from the Commons public accounts committee accuses the corporation of giving "excessive returns" to the private property consortium Land Securities Trillium for three new buildings, a broadcast centre, media centre and an energy centre - using waste energy to heat the entire complex - under a 30-year private partnership deal.
(2) So what made Telereal Trillium take the step that could cost it an extra £5,000 a year per employee?
(3) Matthew Patsky, Trillium’s CEO, said: “This stance is Harvard’s loss – literally.
(4) The celebration was because a firm of private contractors, Telereal Trillium, suppliers of cleaners to the Department for Work and Pensions, had announced that it would pay the living wage to its 500 Whitehall employees from April 2014, an increase of more than £2 an hour.
(5) EtOH extracts of the rhizomes and aboveground portion of Trillium grandiflorum showed significant antifungal activity.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Divest Harvard has been calling on Harvard University to divest from fossil fuels for almost three years The activists have been heartened by an analysis from the investment firm Trillium Asset Management that says the university’s fossil fuel holdings have cost the endowment millions over the course of the divestment campaign.
(7) Despite marked morphological alterations in the cold-treated B chromosome of Trillium erectum, its DNA content was unchanged from that of the control.
(8) The strategy seems wise following a £7m overspend on Broadcasting House and the "excessive returns" that MPs on the public accounts committee said the BBC gave to the private property consortium Land Securities Trillium for building its White City complex.
(9) The $161bn New York State Common Retirement Fund, which manages the pensions of more than 1 million state workers, and Trillium Asset Management, a Boston-based investment management firm with $1.3bn under management, have lodged demands with both networks to publish the number of requests they receive for customer information every six months.