What's the difference between plateau and plateaux?
Plateau
Definition:
(n.) A flat surface; especially, a broad, level, elevated area of land; a table-land.
(n.) An ornamental dish for the table; a tray or salver.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is followed by rapid neurobehavioral deterioration in late infancy or early childhood, a developmental arrest, plateauing, and then either a course of retarded development or continued deterioration.
(2) The enzyme activity can be raised to a plateau by Se supplements, but there is no evidence that supplementation leads to better health.
(3) The pump function of the heart (oxygen debt dynamics), the anaerobic threshold (complex of gas analytical indices), and the efficacy of blood flow in lesser circulation (O2 consumption plateau) were appraised.
(4) The height of this plateau depended on the CS concentration.
(5) Testosterone was low until 68 weeks after which concentrations rose slowly to 80 weeks and increased rapidly to a plateau at 92 weeks.
(6) An examination of the history of cytotoxic cancer drugs development suggests that this activity is now on a plateau.
(7) The kidneys with obstructive hydronephrosis demonstrated a plateau of signal enhancement without decrease (-0.7% within 40 minutes).
(8) For ACH reactions the area of inflammation continued to increase at dilutions where blood flux had reached a plateau.
(9) The effects of nine intra- and extracellular proteinases and six proteinase inhibitors on the repair of potentially lethal damage (PLDR) induced by gamma-rays in plateau-phase V79 cells were examined.
(10) At reoxygenation the contraction force increased with a first peak overshooting 50% of the initial aerobic value after 5-10 min, to decline during the following 10-15 min to a plateau slightly below the initial aerobic value.
(11) It is suggested that the measurement of functional residual capacity, closing volume, and the slope of the alveolar plateau (phase III in the single breath nitrogen washout technique) might give more valuable information.
(12) Trout fishing is excellent in both, and after they fall over the edge of the Piedmont Plateau to the Atlantic Coastal Plain, the lower stretches of both waterways boil into class-2 and -3 whitewater for kayakers and canoeists.
(13) The PFV technique failed in five infants in whom no acceptable plateau of airway pressure during occlusion and no Trs could be obtained from a single breath.
(14) Pretreatment with wortmannin, a specific inhibitor of myosin light chain kinase, suppressed only the plateau phase and had no effect on the initial rapid increase in [Ca2+]i.
(15) After TD onset, ratings decreased for 4 years, then plateaued and rose during the 7th year.
(16) Free and total plasma carnitine levels reached a plateau corresponding to an average rise of 25% for both fractions, 9-10 days after the beginning of the L-carn diet.
(17) We conclude that there appears to be no benefit from exceeding a concentration of 5% crude coal tar in yellow soft paraffin in the treatment of patients with psoriasis and that the plateau in the dose-response curve for the action of crude coal tar in psoriasis begins at a point between 1 and 5%.
(18) At constant heart rate, nifedipine considerably depressed contractions, shortened the action potential duration and reduced the height of plateau.
(19) The prevalence increased rapidly with age and reached a plateau at 70-80% in adults.
(20) Further, from the plateau values of the ratios, it follows that the substrates dissociate very infrequently from the ternary complex and that at a low substrate concentration 72% of the reaction follows the pathway in which ATP adds first to the enzyme.
Plateaux
Definition:
(pl. ) of Plateau
Example Sentences:
(1) The origin of this current, and its possible role during the plateaux of action potentials are discussed.
(2) If the identities of the enzymes that are rate limiting at the different plateaux are known, the method may allow the determination, in one experiment, of the activities of up to six different enzymes in the intact bacteria.
(3) The BCF values by oral intake of goldfish reached plateaux after 28 days for Bu3SnCl but did not for Ph3SnCl.
(4) In 1988, the Malaria Research Unit of the Madagascar Pasteur Institute settled an out-patients clinic in Manarintsoa, a village of the Highland Plateaux where epidemic malaria appeared recently.
(5) The tegument forms a rectangular pattern of plateaux and valleys around each spine on the posterior body of mature flukes but this pattern is not present on the anterior body.
(6) Sites of superficial fraying and splitting of the hyaline articular cartilage are a normal finding on adult human tibial plateaux.
(7) When the iontophoretic currents needed to produce comparable plateaux of firing were compared, neurones in the pyramidal cell layer of the CA3 region were approximately 5 times more sensitive than cells in the CA1 region.
(8) In Ba2+, spike durations increased as the holding membrane potential was made more positive, resulting in plateaux lasting up to 100 s. These plateaux were characterized by a sustained but slowly decaying absolute potential near 0 mV from which there appeared frequent spontaneous hyperpolarizing transients.
(9) However, Ca2+ spikes during plateaux were an order of magnitude faster when promoted by Cs+ or 4-AP rather than TEA, and apamin did not promote Ca2+ spikes at all.
(10) The plateaux of force preceding these quick maneuvers were also similar.
(11) On the analysis of the interaction between FABP and [3H]palmitic acid over a wide range of concentrations of the fatty acid, at least three saturation plateaux were observed.
(12) The king of them all is Mount Mulanje, a 3,000m-high granite outcrop of forested slopes and tawny plateaux across 230 square miles of southern Malawi.
(13) The recent reappearance of Plasmodium falciparum in the central highland plateaux of Madagascar has led to an important increase in both morbidity and mortality in the population.
(14) Since a few years, malaria has reappeared in the Central Highland Plateaux of Madagascar.
(15) The plateaux were characterized by a sustained depolarization at a potential near -20 mV and they were concomitant with an increase of the membrane conductance.
(16) These neutralization plateaux occurred at different pHs, which were a function (r2 = 0.98) of the ureolytic rate as measured by the log of the initial pH-change rate in the urea-only reaction.
(17) Medial tibial plateaux excised during 46 unicompartmental arthroplasties for osteoarthritis were collected and photographed.
(18) Continuous intra-ventricular pressure monitoring has shown what promises to be characteristic elevated pressure plateaux imposed on normal baseline cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressures in so-called NPH but is a more difficult clinical procedure, necessarily associated with potential complications.
(19) Ca2+ plateaux but not Ca2+ spikes were blocked by nifedipine.
(20) The alpha-2-antiplasmins were lower (NS) in Group II as were the fibrinogen levels (p less than 0.01 at the 12th and 24th hour) whilst the plasminogen levels and surface of fibrin plateaux were higher (p less than 0.01 at the 6th hour and p less than 0.05 at the 12th hour, respectively).