What's the difference between portable and postable?
Portable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine.
(a.) Possible to be endured; supportable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pono – a portable music player with its own digital store selling high-resolution downloads – has raised $6.1m on Kickstarter , in a campaign that ends later today (15 April).
(2) There is good evidence in favor of the use of oxygen savers in patients with portable oxygen, but not for their use in conjunction with fixed oxygen installations in the home.
(3) A new portable model of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) instrumented clinical knee testing apparatus and the KT-1000 knee arthrometer were used to measure anterior laxity in normal and anterior cruciate absent knees.
(4) An investigation was made of the accuracy of a portable hematocrit measurement device (Stat-Crit) on the infusate of an autologous blood transfusion system.
(5) Fifty-nine chronic peritoneal catheters made of polyethylene covered with silastic were used to treat 43 IDDM patients peritoneally for 3-34 mo (mean 14 mo) with portable peristaltic pumps and U40 acidic insulin.
(6) Complete data were gathered on 124 pregnancies using a portable real-time ultrasound machine.
(7) With the use of tritiated ara-C and this portable system, pharmacologic studies were performed in 8 patients.
(8) We implemented a parallel version of the backward error propagation neural network training algorithm in the widely portable parallel programming language C-Linda.
(9) Five acceptable forced expiratory maneuvers were obtained with a portable spirometer from each person in a population of 1,670 selected from a stratified random sample of a community.
(10) A portable stereocamera linked to a computer has been developed capable of taking photographs in the clinical situation.
(11) A portable device equipped with a transmitted infrared photoelectric plethysmograph (TIPP) and compression cuff was designed for indirect estimation of elastic properties of the arteries.
(12) The 133Xe wash-out technique, portable CdTe(Cl) detectors and a portable data storage unit were used.
(13) A new portable device (measuring 14 X 11 X 5 cm, weighing 600 g) has been developed for recording ambulatory intra-arterial blood pressure (BP) and R-R intervals on the electrocardiogram at 10 sec intervals throughout a 24 hour period and a computer system for analysis of the 8,640 digital recordings of systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and heart rate (HR).
(14) To further these ambitions, there will be key announcements: a fresh approach to information and advice for families, new rights for carers, a minimum level of care, "portable" needs assessments so people may move without having to be reviewed, extra funding for supported housing and trials of free care at home for people with terminal illness.
(15) The Pain-Track system includes portable data loggers carried by the patients, a personal computer with a software package for storage and analysis of the data and a terminal unit to connect the loggers and computer.
(16) The stability of fentanyl citrate and bupivacaine hydrochloride in an admixture with 0.9% sodium chloride injection in portable pump reservoirs with or without overwraps was investigated.
(17) Subsequent treatments are given using skin tattoos and laser alignment for target placement within the isocenter of the linear accelerator, and a modified portable halo-ring device is used for skull immobilization.
(18) In that time Beats launched a new range of headphones and portable speakers, designed and manufactured in house, and then in January 2014 the company launched Beats Music – a music streaming subscription service built upon the company’s acquisition of a similar service called MOG in 2012.
(19) 170 patients were treated with continuous infusion of epirubicin, mitoxantrone, carboplatin or 5-fluorouracil through an implanted venous access port with a portable infusion pump.
(20) These elevated levels were observed before the PaO2, the portable chest roentgenograms and the other test results changed following surgery.
Postable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being carried by, or as by, post.
Example Sentences:
(1) The vertical directional dominance which was observed preoperatively was similarly observed in the postablative status; the upward slow-phase nystagmus was easier to provoke than the downward nystagmus by application of an identical stimulus.
(2) Untreated rats followed for 6 weeks postablation exhibited progressive proteinuria and sclerosis involving 12% of glomeruli, contrasted with 33% in rats given r-HuEpo.
(3) In 69% of patients, postablation atrial stimulation cannot achieve a long atrial-His interval, which previously was critical for tachycardia induction or maintenance.
(4) Postablation electrophysiological assessment showed no preexcitation in any patient.
(5) Postablation T wave abnormalities occurred in 22 (76%) of the 29 patients who had overt pre-excitation but in none of the 16 patients with a concealed accessory AV connection.
(6) Nineteen of these patients had Holter monitors for three successive postablation days to observe trends.
(7) A 4-month postablation specimen shows keratocyte activation with increased protein synthesis (presumed collagen and ground substance).
(8) Early activation during ventricular tachycardia was always derived at or near the ablation site, and the QRS configuration during pre- and postablation pacing at this site was identical to the tachycardia configuration.
(9) Pigeons from one loft failed to associate with a foreign postablation recovery loft when released within sight of it.
(10) The trapezius osteomyocutaneous island flap has evolved in postablative head and neck reconstruction as a versatile and hardy local flap which can provide intraoral lining, well-vascularized bone, and muscle bulk for the reconstruction of a complex defect.
(11) The present study was undertaken in 45 patients to assess prospectively any proarrhythmia related to DC shock ablation, using matched pre- and postablation Holter monitors and programmed electrical stimulation (PES).
(12) The results show that dorsomedial forebrain ablations result in pigeons which no longer succeed in associating with their home loft; recovery from failed home loft association behavior is possible with postablation exposure to the home loft, and a pigeon's previous association with a loft was a precondition if postablation association was to be affected.
(13) In a series of experiments which involved only short distance experimental releases (800 m or less and within view of the home loft), it was demonstrated that dorsomedial forebrain ablated pigeons generally failed to reassociate with their home loft if the postablation experimental release took place soon postablation or if during the time between ablation and experimental release they were kept away from their home loft.
(14) In the present study we evaluated the comparative incidence of postablation ventricular arrhythmias following high voltage-direct current electrical ablation (DCA), radiofrequency-ablation (RFA), and laser-photoablation (LPA).
(15) Groups II and III experienced retardation of growth in comparison to groups I, IV and V. The food-restricted groups II and III, but not groups IV and V, had less proteinuria than group I 20 weeks postablation.
(16) However, only postablation exposure to a pigeon's own loft was sufficient to permit continued home loft association.
(17) By 12 weeks postablation, group 1 showed severe parenchymal damage, characteristic of end-stage renal pathology.
(18) Great care should be taken in these seriously ill patients to guard against postablation ventricular arrhythmias.
(19) During postablation healing of bone marrow these factors may also function as systemic promoters to osteogenic cells.
(20) The postablation ambulatory recording revealed virtual eradication of ventricular ectopy in both cases.