What's the difference between pliability and pliable?
Pliability
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being pliable; flexibility; as, pliability of disposition.
Example Sentences:
(1) The advantages are enumerated and are related to allograft pliability.
(2) Analysis of variance was based on changes in size, color, and pliability of decubitus.
(3) Both dyed and undyed sutures were consistently better than surgical gut with respect to pliability, strength, ease of passage, ease of tying, fraying, knot security, and overall handling.
(4) The pliability and deformability of this collagen is related to its weakly negative birefringence due to large side chains and presence of different and greater amounts of interstitial proteoglycans and other molecules.
(5) This reduced tissue pliability and was usually associated with either valvular stenosis or regurgitation.
(6) It seems reasonable to presume that the high incidence of thrombus formation on the aortic valves is primarily due to the decreased pliability and stiffness of the cusps.
(7) As biological valve, porcine aortic valve or bovine pericardial valve treated with glutaraldehyde-tanning for maintenance of cusp durability and pliability are exclusively used at the present time.
(8) A specially designed tonometer, the cicatrometer, assesses scar firmness and pliability.
(9) Further on segmental pliability decreases and the left ventricle becomes dilated by heterometric regulation.
(10) While there is no doubt that the principle of informed consent is continuing to be violated in some situations, the "meekness" and "pliability" of women throughout the developing world that Warwick refers to can be challenged as a generalization.
(11) But pliability on the Trump question has been the rule, not the exception.
(12) These studies demonstrate localization of fluid anteriorly around the tip of the liver and emphasize the importance of such factors as density relationships and the "pliability" of the anterior abdominal wall in the distribution of ascitic fluid.
(13) The conclusion is that temperature changes could significantly affect water content in vivo and pliability of skin at RH below 60%.
(14) In valves without commissural fusion, its mechanism appears to be an increase in the pliability of the leaflets which does not require macroscopic fracture of calcific deposits.
(15) Upper gastrointestinal series may show stenosing submucosal masses in the esophagus or gastric antrum with diminished peristalsis and pliability mimicking malignancies.
(16) The relationship of the percentual deviation from the normal indexed values of cusp pliability excluding the influence of the anatomic or maximal orifice area, on the one hand, and the computer-tomographic approximation of calcium incrustation in mitral leaflets on the other are defined with a tight linear correlation.
(17) Pigmentation, vascularity, pliability, and scar height are assessed independently, with increasing score being assigned to the greater pathologic condition.
(18) Moreover, the reduced pliability of the right coronary cusp of the porcine valve, due to the muscular shelf at its base, with consequent limitation of the effective prosthetic orifice and relative stenosis of the device correlates well with both the opening snap and the sytolic ejection murmur.
(19) Mitral medium-term explants (mean duration, 325 days) had fairly well preserved pliability and a mean calcium X-ray score of 2.5.
(20) However, the resected valve had pliability with least degenerative change macroscopically.
Pliable
Definition:
(v.) Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant.
(v.) Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be persuaded; -- sometimes in a bad sense; as, a pliable youth.
Example Sentences:
(1) For removal of catheter fragments from vessels of small diameter, such as the subclavian vein, or vessels in which the catheter has to take an acute bend to enter, such as the right or left pulmonary artery, a smaller, more pliable Bean-Smith-Mahorner biliary stone helical basket was adapted by extending the length of wire to 100 cm.
(2) In this theory the isoprenoid chain of the retinal is considered a structurally pliable molecular entity that can generate charge redistributions and can be subsequently achieve intermediate conformations or various isomeric states to minimize the energy of the new protein structure generated by light.
(3) The plug is made of a soft, pliable plastic material with open cells, containing a carbon filter which allows flatus to pass odour-free.
(4) A patient's epiglottis became trapped between the pliable grates in the mask portion of the laryngeal mask and partially obstructed his airway.
(5) In regard to valvular anatomy, 67 had calcified valves, 58 had pliable valves and only mild subvalvular disease, and 75 had flexible valves but extensive subvalvular disease.
(6) Add as much of the sparkling water as you need to make a smooth, pliable mixture.
(7) As he checks the woman’s heart with a stethoscope, he explains exactly what is about to happen to her – the nurses will hook her up to an EKG machine, among other procedures – and gets the woman to lie down, still muttering at the original nurse but pliable.
(8) The splitting of several calcareous nodules on a valve made it more pliable.
(9) Explanted valves showed no tissue thickening or shrinkage, problems seen with earlier valves made with untreated autogenous tissue, and the leaflets remained pliable, free of the degenerative changes usually seen in the sheep model.
(10) A pliable, easy to place, double pigtail, internal ureteral stent made of elastomeric polyurethane is described.
(11) The operation resulted into a normally looking penis through the creation of a wide neourethra starting with a meatus at the apex of the glans and covered by a pliable elastic hair-less skin.
(12) In contrast to the pectoralis major myocutaneous flap, the pectoralis major muscle flap is light and pliable.
(13) Cabinet members speedily agreed to hefty cuts in 2010 and proved so pliable that the "star chamber", which hears appeals from ministers against the Treasury, never met once.
(14) It remains pliable until light is applied, allowing adjustments in shape for a well-fitted implant without time constraints.
(15) The Wallstent (Medinvent SA, Lausanne, Switzerland), a pliable, tubular stainless steel mesh, is the metallic stent of choice for treatment of malignant strictures and can be implanted in a single session resulting in a shortened hospital stay for patients undergoing palliation of irresectable biliary tumours.
(16) Optimal results may be expected in patients in normal sinus rhythm, with pliable mitral leaflets, and with no severe subvalvular disease identified by echocardiography, who undergo dilation with large effective balloon dilating areas.
(17) Clonidine has been incorporated into a small, pliable adhesive cutaneous delivery device designed to provide therapeutically effective doses of drug at a constant rate for at least 7 days.
(18) The hypopharyngeal mucosa is a thin, pliable lining, which often needs replacement after tumor excision, stenosis and fistulae.
(19) The data suggest that LICS act as pliable fluid reservoirs that empty and collapse on stimulation of Cl secretion.
(20) The many difficulties associated with bladder stimulation include simultaneous sphincter contraction, pain, electrode and insulation difficulties, and fibroplasia due to movement of electrodes placed in pliable tissues.