What's the difference between pervasion and suffusion?

Pervasion


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of pervading, passing, or spreading through the whole extent of a thing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dictated by underlying physicochemical constraints, deceived at times by the lulling tones of the siren entropy, and constantly vulnerable to the vagaries of other more pervasive forms of biological networking and information transfer encoded in the genes of virus and invading microorganisms, protein biorecognition in higher life forms, and particularly in mammals, represents the finely tuned molecular avenues for the genome to transfer its information to the next generation.
  • (2) The media are more pervasive, seeping everywhere into the vacuum left by the shrinking of the old powers.
  • (3) Results indicated a fairly pervasive tendency for the female subjects to upgrade successful males in relation to unsuccessful males but to downgrade successful females in relation to unsuccessful females.
  • (4) Nevertheless, persistent psychiatric sequelae (especially psychoneurosis but also schizophrenia) are the more notable and pervasive for both Pacific World War II POW's and Korean War POW's as seen not only in elevated hospital admission rates but also in VA disability awards and in symptoms reported on the cornell Medical Index Health Questionnaire.
  • (5) Since 1940, under conditions of restricted immigration and high and sustained growth in aggregate demand, shifts in the relative number of younger versus older adults have had a pervasive impact on American life.
  • (6) Poverty's influence on child health is pervasive and creates a variety of clinical challenges.
  • (7) Television as a powerful and pervasive influence on youth, containing many undesirable health messages, is discussed.
  • (8) The remaining question was whether or not this necessarily signified pervasive tissue hypoxia.
  • (9) Of the several general strategies adopted by bacteria for defence against antibiotics, one of the most pervasive is that of enzymic inactivation.
  • (10) After six months of sessions, when the infant manifested full-blown weaning patterns, the mother reported symptoms indicating a major depressive episode, such as pervasive dejection and rejection, listlessness, and anxiety attacks.
  • (11) These transfers often occur in the early hours of the morning and with no warning (for “operational reasons”) and are big contributors to the pervasive fear and anxiety.
  • (12) The results indicate that (a) alcoholics suffer pervasive physical health difficulties, (b) a family history of alcoholism is predictive of health problems in both alcoholics and controls, (c) the effects of alcohol abuse and family history of alcoholism on health appear to be independent and additive, and (d) women may be more "illness prone" than men and exhibit an increased vulnerability to the adverse effects of alcoholism.
  • (13) Accustomed to a world in which violence is pervasive, life is cheap and the public authorities – police and judiciary – cannot be relied upon to keep the peace or administer justice, many of Brazil's young men go armed and ready to use their weapons.
  • (14) But Peter Wanless, chief executive of the NSPCC, warned that although the prosecutions of figures such as Savile were important, there was a danger they could detract from a pervasive problem.
  • (15) "The consequences of the financial crisis, sparked by the failure of Lehman Brothers exactly a year ago today, will be pervasive and long-lasting.
  • (16) The differences in the dental students of the two nations are more pervasive and may be explained in part by the ways the two countries have organized and financed dental education and dental care.
  • (17) One of the most pervasive findings in the literature on the aged is the general slowing of cognitive-motor responses with advancing age.
  • (18) Nalia Kabeer and Jessica Woodroffe argued on the Poverty Matters blog that gender is not only "one of the many inequalities that exists but the most pervasive".
  • (19) Work of the past 20 years shows that flash synchrony is widespread geographically and taxonomically, appears in an astonishing range of spectacular display types, utilizes several neural flash-control mechanisms and is pervasively but enigmatically involved in courtship.
  • (20) Disorders of pervasive social anxiety and inhibition are divided into 2 categories, generalized social phobia (GSP) and avoidant personality disorder (APD).

Suffusion


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of suffusing, or state of being suffused; an overspreading.
  • (n.) That with which a thing is suffused.
  • (n.) A blending of one color into another; the spreading of one color over another, as on the feathers of birds.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Alkalosis of the Hepes suffusate shortened the AP; but equivalent alkalosis of the K-R suffusate prolonged the AP as did a reduction of [CaCl2] in Hepes suffusate from 3.0 to 1.5 mM at pH 7.43.
  • (2) A similar strain difference was not observed with topical suffusion.
  • (3) Fetal cardiovascular (CVS) changes, forelimb movements (FM) and rates of habituation to repeated stimulation, with suffusions of cold saline over the skin, were measured in 12 chronically catheterized fetal sheep aged 130-145 days.
  • (4) All good things must come to an end and, sure enough, Chelsea’s 23-game unbeaten run was brought to a shuddering halt by Alan Pardew’s pace-suffused counterattacking specialists.
  • (5) Tc-99m albumin isotopic cisternography at the L5-S1 level was performed and clearly depicted a functional CSF leak through the dura at the L2-L3 level and CSF suffusion along several rachidian roots.
  • (6) Myocytes were suffused with increasing concentrations of halocarbon added as a 0.2% solution of dimethyl sulfoxide to M199 containing 1.8 mM Ca and 5% serum.
  • (7) Clinical disturbances bound to ischemic phenomenons by cerebral vasospasm were observed in only 3 patients--all of them older than 17--in who a CT scan had showed a conspicuous cisternal blood suffusion.
  • (8) In tubules perfused with 2 mM ethylene glycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid to eliminate luminal Ca, but suffused with 1.8 or 2.0 mM Ca, 8-BrcAMP increased [Ca2+]i (though less so than with Ca in the lumen), implying Ca entry across basolateral cell membranes.
  • (9) While his vision of a future Russia has often been vaguely shaped – as a nebulous "vast metaphysical Canada" – it has been suffused with a strong strand of sometimes xenophobic nationalism.
  • (10) Glutamine suffusion attenuated the flow impairment by dilation of previllus arterioles but to a lesser degree than that observed in glucose-treated animals.
  • (11) We must have a debate which will be suffused with a deep pride at our achievements in office.
  • (12) In contrast to La La Land’s romantic score, which suffused the ceremony, speaker after speaker took swipes at Trump’s crackdown on refugees and immigrants, making it one of the most politically tinged Oscars in memory.
  • (13) Other features include upper body edema and ruddiness or cyanosis, distended neck veins, proptosis, and conjunctival suffusion.
  • (14) He sat suffused with grey pallor, lips pursed, staring straight ahead as he listened to his defence counsel, William Coker QC, describe his genuine remorse.
  • (15) Autopsy visualized plurifocal haematic suffusions, typical for an asphyxial status.
  • (16) In normal vessels, reduced D and Vc, relative to peak values, were noted after 40 min suffusion with BK.
  • (17) Furthermore, the reactive hyperemia was not altered by suffusion of 50 microM hydroquinone or 0.2 mM NG-monomethyl-L-arginine, inhibitors of the dilation to acetylcholine mediated by the endothelium-derived relaxing factor.
  • (18) To quantify the integrated effects of local and central control mechanisms through tissue metabolites and the autonomic nervous system on the peripheral vascular beds, microcirculatory responses to the carotid sinus nerve stimulation at various levels of ambient oxygen tension (PO2) were measured in the rabbit tenuissimus muscle suffused with oxygenated Tyrode solution, using a microscope-TV system.
  • (19) During suffusion in situ with control PSS, VSM of both small veins and arteries in older (but not younger)SHR were less polarized than in WKY.
  • (20) Experimental materials are presented to the microvessels via intraarterial injection or suffusion through the chamber.

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