What's the difference between portion and rarefy?

Portion


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
  • (n.) A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole.
  • (n.) A part assigned; allotment; share; fate.
  • (n.) The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate; an inheritance.
  • (n.) A wife's fortune; a dowry.
  • (v. t.) To separate or divide into portions or shares; to parcel; to distribute.
  • (v. t.) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
  • (2) The low affinity of several N1-alkylpyrroleethylamines suggests that the benzene portion of the alpha-methyltryptamines is necessary for significant affinity.
  • (3) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
  • (4) The present results provide no evidence for a clear morphological substrate for electrotonic transmission in the somatic efferent portion of the primate oculomotor nucleus.
  • (5) The cis isomer was retained longer in liver, particularly in mitochondria, but had low retention in that portion of the endoplasmic reticulum isolated as the rough membrane fraction.
  • (6) The supravesical portion showed a cystic appearance with a capsule in the space of Retzius.
  • (7) In addition, lightly immunostained cells were distinguished in the caudal portion of the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus, area of tuber cinereum, retrochiasmatic area, and rostral portion of the paraventricular thalamic nucleus after colchicine treatment.
  • (8) A few free-floating cells could be observed in the lumen of this intermediate portion, most of which were macrophages.
  • (9) A 68 year-old man with a history of right thalamic hemorrhage demonstrated radiologically in the pulvinar and posterior portion of the dorsomedian nucleus developed a clinical picture of severe physical sequelae associated with major affective, behavioral and psychic disorders.
  • (10) It may, however, be useful to compare local wall dynamics in the more isometrically-contracting basal segment with those in the middle portion which brings about most of the emptying of the ventricle.
  • (11) Thus, the estrogen-sensitive phase was confined to the early portion of FPH stimulation.
  • (12) Thus it appears that a portion of the adaptation to prolonged and intense endurance training that is responsible for the higher lactate threshold in the trained state persists for a long time (greater than 85 days) after training is stopped.
  • (13) The horizontal portion of the intracavernous ICA as well as the whole aspect of the aneurysm could be exposed as a result of the extended opening of the cavernous roof anterior to the posterior clinoid process.
  • (14) Three animals received unilateral lesions which included both the inferior parietal lobule and a portion of adjacent dorsal prestriate cortex (IPL-PS).
  • (15) Heparitinase I (EC 4.2.2.8), an enzyme with specificity restricted to the heparan sulfate portion of the polysaccharide, releases fragments with the electrophoretic mobility and the structure of heparin.
  • (16) These animals spent a much greater portion of their SWS in the lighter SWS I, as compared to the control group which showed a predominance of the deeper SWS II.
  • (17) The vector is relatively small (6 kilobase pairs) and contains a portion of the L. seymouri alpha-tubulin gene positioned in-frame with a truncated neomycin phosphotransferase gene that confers resistance to the aminoglycoside G418.
  • (18) Studies using serum from mice that had been immunized with synthetic peptides from the HIV envelope region suggested that this response is directed, at least in part, at several determinants of the transmembrane portion of the HIV envelope glycoprotein.
  • (19) We propose a model in which BvgB and the N-terminal portion of BvgC are localized in the periplasm.
  • (20) We report the case of a premature infant, small for gestational age, who experienced rostral herniation of a portion of frontal lobe through the anterior fontanel as the result of a hemorrhagic cerebellar infarction followed by a large parieto-occipital intracerebral hemorrhage.

Rarefy


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense; to expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to; -- opposed to condense.
  • (v. i.) To become less dense; to become thin and porous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 6410t cells were shown to bind specifically this factor and react to it by proliferation in the conditions of rarefied inoculation.
  • (2) An initial reaction of mononuclear cells, activated fibroblasts, and some giant cells of foreign body type in the surrounding connective tissue is followed by the development of a fibrous capsule rarefied by cells around the implant in the time up to 3 months.
  • (3) As half an hour of vox-poppery proves, this is also a place where the supposedly rarefied issue of electoral reform may actually come up on the proverbial doorstep.
  • (4) Fluorescein angiography demonstrated slight hyperfluorescence through rarefied retinal pigment epithelium but no leakage occurred from perifoveal retinal capillaries.
  • (5) Bone-destructive inflammatory processes (rarefying osteitis) were the most frequently encountered lesions, occurring in both the maxilla and the mandible.
  • (6) Their genuine disregard for the clichés of being in a band means conversation is relaxed, while their rarefied wealth of music, film and TV geekery makes for good gags.
  • (7) Nerves injected with demyelinating serum contained oligodendrocytes with pyknotic nuclei and edematous, rarefied cytoplasm.
  • (8) "Due to uncertainties in predicting the rarefied atmosphere at these very high altitudes, the accuracy of re-entry prediction is of the order of 10% of the remaining lifetime, so even on the last orbit revolution (90 minutes), there is a nine-minute prediction uncertainty.
  • (9) He didn’t inhabit rarefied social circles or drive a Bentley.
  • (10) Electron-microscopic examination revealed capillary engorgement with erythrocytes that appeared adherent to each other and contained entrapped areas of rarefied material.
  • (11) As evidenced from experiments on rats, a combined application of apressin with obsidan and diprazine, and also of adenozine with nicotine-amidadenine-dinucleotide (NAD), as well as of adeozine with nicotine amide potentiates the protective effect of these substances in hypobaric hypoxia, increases the resistance of the animals to cerebral ischemia, brings down the excess lactate level and raises the redoz potential of the system lactic-acid-pyruvic acid in the brain of rats exposed to the effects of rarefied atmosphere.
  • (12) Fibrillar and flocculent deposits were seen in the widened and rarefied subendothelial space in a small artery and two glomeruli, one of which also contained electron-dense deposits.
  • (13) I don't mean literature is obscure or rarefied or precious – that's no test of a book – rather it is operating on a different level to our everyday exchanges of information and conversation.
  • (14) The authors found that the median portion of chiasma is a weak point of microcirculation, as demonstrated by rarefied and transverse capillaries.
  • (15) In 90 days of Hk reduction of the capillaries is recorded, rarefied pericapillary network prevails, twistedness of the capillaries is clearly manifested, their complex branching decreases.
  • (16) The white matter showed a rarefied texture with widely dispersed nerve fiber tracts, volume expansion, and occasional cyst formation.
  • (17) Histopathologic findings included rarefied white matter with pyknotic nuclei and eosinophilic cytoplasm.
  • (18) However, looking at the neat rows of symbols made me reflect on how rarefied this sort of data can seem when summarised for a national website.
  • (19) No compensatory rarefying of acid discharge from the stomach, that was observed in reference subjects if transport of contents was accelerated, was detectable in the patients with ulcerative colitis.
  • (20) Microscopic sections of the skin revealed a thickened dermis with shortened and rarefied elastic fibers.