What's the difference between pliability and rigidity?
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.
Rigidity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness.
(n.) Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.
(n.) Severity; rigor.
Example Sentences:
(1) By the 1860s, French designs were using larger front wheels and steel frames, which although lighter were more rigid, leading to its nickname of “boneshaker”.
(2) Diphenoxylate-induced hypoxia was the major problem and was associated with slow or fast respirations, hypotonia or rigidity, cardiac arrest, and in 3 cases cerebral edema and death.
(3) Pitlike surface structures seen in negatively stained whole cells and thin sections were correlated with periodically spaced perforations of the rigid sacculus.
(4) Rigidly fixing the pubic symphysis stiffened the model and resulted in principal stress patterns that did not reflect trabecular density or orientations as well as those of the deformable pubic symphysis model.
(5) The fracture can be treated arthroscopically by rigid internal fixation, while at the same time treating possible associated lesions.
(6) This study examined the extent to which normal learners identified as cognitively rigid could use alternate strategies when instructed to do so.
(7) In some patients stimulation can reduce rigidity and coactivation of muscles immediately or slowly over days or months.
(8) Major alleviation of the rigidity and bradykinesia with chronic oral l-dopa therapy was not accompanied by any change in the silent period.
(9) At clinically achievable concentrations, the combination of nafcillin plus gentamicin produced enhanced killing against 13 of 14 strains of enterococci and was synergistic (by very rigid criteria) against 10 of 14 strains.
(10) Low-temperature NMR studies indicate that 5 is more rigid than tamoxifen; interconversion between enantiomeric conformers is slow on the NMR time scale at -75 degrees C.
(11) Global 'abnormality', hunching (rigid arching of back), hindlimb abduction, forepaw myoclonus, stereotyped lateral head movements, backing, and immobility occurred significantly only in drug-treated rats.
(12) A study was made of twelve cases with uveitis, glaucoma and hyphema (UGH) caused by rigid intraocular posterior chamber implants.
(13) Eight alpha-helices behave as relatively rigid bodies and corner regions are more flexible, showing larger fluctuations.
(14) This modification allows for precision of movement, ease of repositioning, and adaptation of rigid skeletal stabilization of mobilized osseous segments in the chin.
(15) The pedicle screw systems were always the most rigid.
(16) Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) levels and subunit isozyme patterns in cornea were monitored in 36 albino rabbits wearing thick, rigid, gas-permeable contact lenses for periods of 24 h, 2 and 7 days, and 1 and 3 months.
(17) The prevalence of sleep apnea, apnea index, duration of the longest episode of apnea, and penile rigidity were tabulated.
(18) During the last 21 months, 12 additional children have been managed with a more stringent protocol combining neck immobilization in a rigid cervical brace for 3 months and restriction of both contact and noncontact sports, together with a major emphasis on patient compliance.
(19) In the second placebo controlled experiment 150 mg im testosterone enanthate administration was associated with enhanced rigidity of NPT but with no effect on frequency or circumference change of NPT and no effect on frequency of REM.
(20) The whole isolator system included two rigid supply isolators, too.