What's the difference between placement and position?

Placement


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of placing, or the state of being placed.
  • (n.) Position; place.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Malondialdehyde was undetectable in cerebrospinal fluid after subarachnoid placement of agarose alone, although it was present in similar amounts in all groups that received subarachnoid placement of OxyHb.
  • (2) Attachment of the graft to the wound is similar with and without the addition of human basic fibroblast growth factor, a potent angiogenic agent, to the skin replacement before graft placement on wounds.
  • (3) Degraded visual acuity had a significant effect on cadence, foot placement, and foot clearance, but visual surround conditions did not.
  • (4) Possible mechanisms for this change in nucleosome placement along the DNA are discussed.
  • (5) Children and adopters are encouraged to meet with foster carers after placement to show the child they are well.
  • (6) The other 7 cysts required the subsequent placement of a cystoperitoneal shunt.
  • (7) US guidance facilitated placement of a 22-gauge needle by means of a subxyphoid or transthoracic approach.
  • (8) Eight patients with infected nonunions had initial debridement procedures; three of these patients then had placement of external fixators and bone grafting.
  • (9) The statistical method proved to be very strong in screening patients who should not be considered for community placement and in four of the five facilities was also strong in identifying appropriate outpatients.
  • (10) Liability of retransplanted syngeneic skin grafts to rejection could be almost entirely abolished by their exposure to 300 rads irradiation before placement on the intermediate host.
  • (11) In 1971 the Chedoke-McMaster center initiated an assessment and placement program for emotionally disturbed preadolescents in the Hamilton, Ontario, area.
  • (12) Changes in mean portal venous and aortic blood glucose and lactate concentrations after an intragastric infusion of d-glucose to chronically catheterized rats (after regaining preoperative weight) were compared to those of acutely catheterized rats (1 h after catheter placement).
  • (13) The technique described involves placement of an intraluminal shunt and resection of the involved caval wall with reconstruction using autologous pericardium.
  • (14) During placement of the Fletcher suit one of the ureters is catheterized by a special stent which appears on the X-rays control used for dosimetry.
  • (15) The tests used were the Griffiths' Developmental and Stanford-Binet Scales, and the school placement at five years was studied.
  • (16) The inappropriate placement of a patient's central venous catheter in the pleural space by the serendipitous injection of Tc-99m labeled red blood cells through the catheter during a GI bleeding study was discovered.
  • (17) The only inconsistency in the mariner gene phylogeny is in the placement of the Zaprionus mariner sequence, which clusters with mariner from Drosophila teissieri and Drosophila yakuba in the melanogaster species subgroup.
  • (18) Placement of impervious knitted Dacron velour aortic grafts in baboons reproduced platelet consumption that progressively normalized over six weeks postoperatively.
  • (19) Complications from tissue expansion of the scalp are similar to those encountered with the placement of expanders elsewhere in the body.
  • (20) Procurement has already brought down prices in foster care significantly in recent years, so differences between the costs of placement options may now be marginal.

Position


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To indicate the position of; to place.
  • (n.) The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.
  • (n.) The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position of man in creation; the fleet changed its position.
  • (n.) Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a false position.
  • (n.) Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position.
  • (n.) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The bank tellers who saw their positions filled by male superiors took special pleasure in going to the bank and keeping them busy.
  • (2) In each sheep there was a significant negative correlation between the glucose and corticosteroid concentrations in both maternal and fetal plasma, and there were positive correlations between the maternal and fetal plasma concentrations of glucose, and between the glucose and fructose concentrations of fetal plasma.
  • (3) None of the strains was found to be positive for cytotoxic enterotoxin in the GM1-ELISA.
  • (4) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
  • (5) In 49 cases undergoing systemic lymphadenectomy 32 were found to have glandular involvement, of which both aortic and pelvic nodes were positive in 17 cases (53.1%), aortic nodes positive but pelvic negative in six (18.8%), and pelvic nodes positive but aortic negative in nine (28.1%).
  • (6) The Na+ ionophore, gramicidin, had a small but significant inhibitory effect on Na(+)-dependent KG uptake, demonstrating that KG uptake was not the result of an intravesicular positive Na+ diffusion potential.
  • (7) Fecal occult blood was positive in 4 patients and fecal leukocytes were positive in one patient.
  • (8) We have determined the genomic structure of the fosB gene and shown that it consists of 4 exons and 3 introns at positions also found in the c-fos gene.
  • (9) An unsaturated fatty acid auxotroph of Escherichia coli was grown with a series of cis-octadecenoate isomers in which the location of the double bond varied from positions 3 to 17.
  • (10) It is concluded that amlodipine reduces myocardial ischemic injury by mechanism(s) that may involve a reduction in myocardial oxygen demand as well as by positively influencing transmembrane Ca2+ fluxes during ischemia and reperfusion.
  • (11) Stimulation is also observed with mixtures of APC expressing DPw3 and APC expressing A1, and likewise, DPw3+ APC become stimulatory when preincubated with supernatants from A1-positive cells.
  • (12) Nine of 14 patients studied for documented clinical relapse had positive repeat studies.
  • (13) Ca2+ transport was positively correlated with MR cell density.
  • (14) At pH 7.0, reduction is complete after 6 to 10 h. These results together with an earlier study concerning the positions of the two most readily reduced bonds (Cornell J.S., and Pierce, J.G.
  • (15) A quadripolar catheter was positioned either at the site of earliest ventricular activation during induced monomorphic ventricular tachycardia or at circumscribed areas of the left ventricle.
  • (16) Fifteen sera ICA-IgG and ICA-protein A positive with high titres remained positive thereafter.
  • (17) These data indicate that RNA faithfully transfers "suppressive" as well as "positive" types of immune responses that have been reported previously for lymphocytes obtained directly from tumour-bearing and tumour-immune animals.
  • (18) Induction of labor, based upon only (1) a finding of meconium in the amniocentesis group or (2) a positive test in the OCT group, was nearly three times more frequent in the amniocentesis group.
  • (19) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
  • (20) When subjects centered themselves actively, or additionally, contracted trunk flexor or extensor muscles to predetermined levels of activity, no increase in trunk positioning accuracy was found.