What's the difference between pliability and suppleness?
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.
Suppleness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being supple; flexibility; pliableness; pliancy.
Example Sentences:
(1) (Acta Chir Scand [Suppl] 346:1-12, 1965) was determined.
(2) Children as young as 18 months start by sliding on tiny skis in soft supple boots, while over-threes have more formal lessons in the snow playground.
(3) Ultrastructural studies of Aeromonas hydrophila strain AH26 revealed two distinctive pilus types: "straight" pili appear as brittle, rod-like filaments, whereas "flexible" pili are supple and curvilinear.
(4) Priestman (Eur J Cancer Clin Oncol 25:529-533, 1989 [Suppl]) reported on a pilot and randomized study with ondansetron after single doses of 8 to 10 Gy to the upper abdomen.
(5) 11 (suppl 14) 331 (abstract)] [14] also indicates that sensitivity to 4-HC can be used to distinguish primitive progenitor cells from committed progenitor cells.
(6) Large-scale clinical trials have established that lowering blood pressure in patients with mild to moderate diastolic hypertension results in a decreased incidence of stroke and, to a lesser extent, a reduction in incidence of coronary heart disease [MacMahon SW, Cutler JA, Furberg CD, et al: Prog Cardiovasc Dis 1986; 29 (suppl 1): 99-118].
(7) We have used either superior or inferior flaps but over the last 25 years we have preferred the latter type of flap (Rosenthal) which produces better results because: 1) it is retracted laterally to a lesser degree, 2) it is more supple, 3) it is attached below and posteriorly to the soft palate (which permits the pharyngeal constrictor muscles, during contraction, to apply pressure against the lateral borders of the flap, and thus avoid any nasal regurgitation).
(8) "When you're inside an idea it's hard to think of it as ambitious, but yes it is a huge mountain we are climbing, it's a huge sea we are crossing," said Supple.
(9) Wide subperiosteal undermining in primary surgical correction of labio-maxillary clefts not only enhances the osteogenic activity of the periosteum but in addition, if the exposure is extended from the superior limit of the ascending maxillary process and the nasal bone to the inferior orbital rim above the infra-orbital foramen and the malar eminence, good suppleness of the overlying muscles can be achieved.
(10) The authors observed an abnormal frequency of laryngo-tracheal stenosis over a period of three months, corresponding to the use of a defective lot of supple catheters for single use and made of polyvinyl chloride.
(11) Muscarine has been iso lared in a yield of 0.013 percent from mycelia of Clitocybe rivulosa grown in the laboratory on a medium supple mented with beer wort.
(12) One may thus carry out by an extremely benign operation without any mortality, a surgical cure not only of supple stenoses, but also of certain tight fibrous stenoses, considered insuperable.
(13) The second stage of the reeducation concerns the tongue moving tonicity and suppleness.
(14) This flap provides thin, supple skin for reconstruction of moderately sized vaginal defects leaving a minimal donor defect.
(15) Preoperative requirements include a well-motivated patient with a supple digit and an established wide discrepancy between the active and passive ranges of digital motion.
(16) Microscopic normalization of the actinically damaged epidermis and papillary dermis was manifested clinically by the replacement of dermatoheliosis with supple, smooth-textured facial skin that remained clinically evident well beyond 8 years after dermabrasion.
(17) Speedy postpartum weight loss isn't just for celebs In Karnataka, southern India, older women in the community who care for new mothers urge them to become thinner than they were before pregnancy, "like the tip of a mantani leaf – thin, slender, fresh and supple," says Dr Saraswathy Ganapathy of the Belaku Trust , which works to improve the lives of women in the area.
(18) Suppl 2 decreased plasma triglycerides, further increased the RBC alpha-tocopherol, moderately increased the RBC double-bond index, but decreased the RBC total fatty acid-cholesterol ratio.
(19) He tests the suppleness of his editing muscles by running a clip of film, noting where the actor blinks, then re-playing and halting at exactly that frame (there's 24 of them a second).
(20) LBA was done using a supple balloon catheter (LBA-c) which was placed blind down the intubation tube, until a distal bronchus was blocked (under radiographic control).