What's the difference between precipitious and precipitous?
Precipitious
Definition:
(a.) Precipitous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Studies in healthy individuals demonstrate that serum chromium concentrations fall precipitiously following the intravenous administration of a 30-gm.
(2) Daily peripheral serum concentrations of progesterone were maintained or slightly elevated despite removal of the corpus luteum (CL), while serum estradiol concentrations fell precipitiously (P less than 0.05).
(3) The infant mortality rate in Sri Lanka has fallen precipitiously since World War II, to 44 per 1000 births, a rate that is similar to a number of Western Countries.
(4) Initially, cardiac output and arterial pressure drop precipitiously, despite a transient rise in systemic and pulmonary vascular resistance.
(5) The danger involved in highly active locomotor play performed on steeply sloped areas is presumably outweighed by the physical training benefit for an adult life spent moving in precipitious areas.
(6) Probable causes for this precipitious decline of mortality are discussed.
(7) In one patient, nitroglycerin led to a precipitious fall in arterial pressure andrecurrence of chest pain.
(8) In all 12 volunteers, serum NET levels rose rapidly after oral intake, reaching peak levels within .5-4 hours (median, 1.5) and fell precipitiously thereafter.
(9) A male neonate, the product of a precipitious, instrumented, footling breech delivery, exhibited seizures at the age of 18 hours.
(10) Immediately after the termination of exercise the blood pressure fell precipitiously to a highly significant degree.
(11) The documentary shows a death-defying helicopter journey through the Alps with Armstrong's legs hanging out of the door to give a clear shot of the precipitious valleys and mountains.
(12) Conversely, the abundance of a number of individual NHCP decreased precipitiously in PHC chromatin; and, additionally, two high-molecular-weight NHCP present in normal chromatins were not detectable in background and PHC chromatin.
(13) There are new challenges in investigations and therapy to be considered, some of which are being somewhat precipitiously put into practice.
(14) The viewpoint is emphasized that MRS is a critical care instrument where precipitious changes of oxidative metabolism lead to the well-known stroke, heart failure, liver failure, kidney failure, etc.
Precipitous
Definition:
(a.) Steep, like a precipice; as, a precipitous cliff or mountain.
(1) The nuclear origin of the Ha antigen was confirmed by the speckled nuclear immunofluorescence staining pattern given by purified antibody to Ha obtained from a specific immune precipitate.
(2) The Fc fragment of this protein reacted with and was solubilized by the staphylococcal A protein which also precipitated the intact immunoglobulin.
(3) It could be demonstrated by radioimmune precipitation of virus labeled with[35S]methionine that all three polypeptides are specific for hog cholera virions.
(4) Nine of the in vivo synthesized early polypeptides can be precipitated specifically from infected cell extracts by antisera with specificity against early adenovirus proteins.
(5) Its pathogenesis, still incompletely elucidated, involves the precipitation of immune complexes in the walls of the all vessels.
(6) The usefulness of the proposed method is obvious in cases where the composition of a precipitate on LM scale is to be compared with the LM appearance of the surrounding tissue.
(7) After precipitation of plasma proteins by addition of methanol the samples are injected directly into the liquid chromatographic system.
(8) Thus Sephadex chromatography of the solution obtained by dissolving the antigen-antibody precipitate in these media repeatedly gave two peaks corresponding to anti-ovalbumin and ovalbumin.
(9) When AMT administration was discontinued 40 hrs before precipitation of withdrawal the withdrawal pattern occurred with unchanged intensity.
(10) Using a simple precipitation technique we observed that the serum concentrations of low density lipoproteins in healthy Africans were less than half the serum concentrations in healthy Europeans.
(11) There was no correlation between anti-TNP-precipitating antibody titer after sensitization and the ability to respond to challenge by hapten-heterologous carrier.
(12) Precipitating antibodies were found in both lines; they first appeared 7 days after inoculation in P-line birds and 14 days after inoculation in N-line birds, but thereafter there was no difference between the two genetic lines.
(13) The new technique, Surface Immune Precipitation (SIP), entails the application of an antigen sample droplet directly onto the surface of a gel containing antibody, the gel being supported by a reflecting substrate.
(14) In this study we have compared purified C4A and C4B with regard to their ability to prevent immune complex precipitation and to enhance the binding of both preformed and nascent immune complexes to the receptor CR1 on red cells.
(15) A lesser inhibitory effect (a decrease in the rate of precipitation) was observed when gallbladder bile was diluted but was lost after 10-fold dilution.
(16) The first step is the preparation of a globulin-enriched fraction by precipitation with ammonium sulfate at 50% saturation, or of an immune-complex-enriched fraction by precipitation with 5% polyethylene glycol 6000.
(17) DNase I microspheres were then introduced into the extracorporeal circuit which resulted in an acceleration of degradation of acid precipitable 125I-nDNA.
(18) The dramatic nationwide increase of primary and secondary syphilis in women has precipitated a dramatic rise in congenital syphilis.
(19) The translation of mRNA for S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase was studied using a polyamine-depleted reticulocyte lysate supplemented with mRNA from rat prostate and the antiserum to precipitate the proteins corresponding to S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase.
(20) Only heart rate correlated closely with the precipitation of angina.