What's the difference between placid and placoid?

Placid


Definition:

  • (a.) Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Ss became extremely placid and tame or were profoundly depressed in their overall behavior most of the time.
  • (2) Infants in the third quartile were fussy at the commencement of the period and became gradually more placid from the fifth week of life.
  • (3) I vote for who I want.” embed The Guardian asked Placide, who was naturalized as an American citizen in 1990 and who works an evening shift for a nursing agency to put her two children through college, whether she thought Trump had made America great again.
  • (4) There are vast areas in which my peaceful indifference to what Amazon is and does can only be surpassed by Amazon’s presumably equally placid indifference to what I say and do.
  • (5) "A lot of teens in the early noughties were taking ketamine, which was a very placid, down drug that kept you in your own zone.
  • (6) As our car crawls through central London, from WPP's Mayfair head office to Millbank, where Sorrell is to sit on a panel, the dog sits placidly in the back, lolling its head in the sun.
  • (7) One personality was irritable and hostile, the other placid; in each case, a major seizure preceded the shift from the former to the latter.
  • (8) Even Angela Merkel of Germany, that placid sheet anchor of European stability, faces grassroots challenges from left and right.
  • (9) Read today's Rumour Mill here 9.23am BST Germany's Per Mertesacker is a pretty placid guy off the pitch, so when he gets shirty with a journalist you know he's had a long day.
  • (10) Do we just placidly accept their ideologically driven desire to drive back the frontiers of the state, to cut and privatise?
  • (11) And I don’t think I have ever achieved that almost pastoral Christmas nirvana, always promoted in tinselly TV ads, of just sitting placidly around after Christmas lunch and then smilingly responding as one’s child shows you a present without complaining or demanding anything.
  • (12) Were this just the froth of diehard Brexiteers at an otherwise placid time, we’d move on faster than you could say “ Bill Cash” .
  • (13) They need to get it done.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Marie Claire Placide, a dress shop owner and fashion designer, in Bangor, Pennsylvania.
  • (14) Aisikaier's life at the park is placid, if not slightly purgatorial.
  • (15) He wanted so much to convince his mates that he really had spied a miracle and to make sure that his normally placid mind had not fallen victim of some strange figment of the imagination, a confidence trick, a sudden mirage brought on by the unrelenting rays of the sun.'
  • (16) Danny Rynne, a scaffolder from Enfield, described Mahmoud as “lovely” and “placid”.
  • (17) After suffering a carbon monoxide intoxication, a thirty-nine-year-old patient presented a marked behavioral change, with a severe anterograde and retrograde amnesia, extreme placidity, bulimia, and hypersexuality.
  • (18) They noticed that 19 of the 20 patients were mentally slower; 11 were markedly aggressive and 8 had become placid and uncaring about family problems.
  • (19) By way of contrast to events earlier in the tour, where large crowds have turned out, the duke and duchess were greeted sedately by the islanders who brought out picnic chairs and sat placidly waiting on the grass verges at the side of the road leading from the airport to the tiny capital, Charlottetown.
  • (20) The great majority of the infants were very placid.

Placoid


Definition:

  • (a.) Platelike; having irregular, platelike, bony scales, often bearing spines; pertaining to the placoids.
  • (n.) Any fish having placoid scales, as the sharks.
  • (n.) One of the Placoides.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A relationship between acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy (APMPPE) and systemic infections has been suggested.
  • (2) Four cases of suspected cerebral vasculitis have been described in association with acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy, but none was confirmed histopathologically.
  • (3) A case is described of acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy (APMPPE) in which one eye shows the typical active disease process while the other shows evidence of extensive degenerative changes of the posterior pole with disturbance of the pigment epithelium.
  • (4) Acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy is now perfectly documented on clinical and angiographic findings.
  • (5) The placoid sensilla were shown by tranwo or three neurons is surrounded by two ensheathing cells.
  • (6) The specific role of HLA antigens in uveitis is unknown, but the finding of an increased prevalence of HLA-B7 and HLA-DR2 antigens in patients with acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy suggests an immunogenetic predisposition to acquiring this disease.
  • (7) We discuss the relationship between acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy, sarcoidosis and cerebral granulomatous angiitis.
  • (8) On the other hand, examples of breakdown of the outer BRB include situations of choroidal ischaemia, detachment of the pigment epithelium, choroidal neovascularization, photocoagulation, retinal detachment, Koyanagi's disease, central serous choroidopathy, multifocal inner choroiditis and acute placoid pigment epitheliopathy.
  • (9) Acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy has a good longterm prognosis for visual acuity, although most patients have residual symptoms and paracentral scotomas.
  • (10) The cause of both placoid pigment epitheliopathy and cerebral vasculitis remains obscure.
  • (11) Patients with placoid lesions could be divided into typical acute multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy (AMPPE), where the long-term visual prognosis was poor because of recurrent disease leading to extensive areas of atrophy, and acute diffuse placoid pigment epitheliopathy which seemed to be self-limiting.
  • (12) A young woman developed the characteristic clinical and fluorescein angiographic findings of acute posterior multifocal placoid retinal pigment epitheliopathy while being treated for acute thyroiditis.
  • (13) It seems of interest to discuss the long-term prognosis of acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy.
  • (14) An electron microscopical study was made of the coeloconic and placoid sensilla on the antennae of the aphids Aphis pomi, Macrosiphum euphorbiae, Nasonovia ribis-nigri, and Pemphigus bursarius.
  • (15) Both acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy (APMPPE) and geographic or serpiginous choroiditis are probably the result of a primarily inflammatory involvement of the choroid.
  • (16) The findings of cerebrospinal fluid cells and elevated protein levels in acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epithelialopathy probably represent a mild viral meningitis as part of a systemic viral infection that also involves the retinal pigment epithelium or choriocapillaris.
  • (17) Second, we were able to demonstrate the lobular structure of the choriocapillary layer and prove that the acute form of posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy is derived from a defect in this layer.
  • (18) Thirteen cases of acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy occurred in young adults or older children.
  • (19) Acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy (APMPPE) is a disorder of the fundus frequently characterized by sudden onset of bilateral, marked visual loss associated with yellowish-white, ill-defined placoid lesions of the retina.
  • (20) Placoid scale and tooth enameloid contained two anionic proteins identified as 58 kDa (pI 5.7) and 46 kDa (pI 5.5), which cross-reacted with either antimouse amelogenin or antihuman enamelin IgG antibodies.

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