What's the difference between prickly and splenetic?

Prickly


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results have implications in utilizing codeine phosphate as a positive skin prick test control for allergy testing.
  • (2) The diagnosis of occupational allergy was based on history, skin prick tests and RAST to the pollen.
  • (3) Prick tests performed on 16 different condom brands showed that 4 brands caused positive reactions in 52-67% of patients.
  • (4) One hundred and forty-four had non-allergic and 69 allergic asthma verified retrospectively by positive skin prick test in 1988.
  • (5) The results of this investigation are clearly in contrast to earlier earlier reports, in that there was a very good correlation between prick test, RAST and case history.
  • (6) The prick tests, using both commercial allergens and specific extracts prepared from the most common types of coffee and their corresponding sacks, confirmed a sensitization in 21 workers (9.6%).
  • (7) There were statistically significant exposure-response relations between exposure and symptoms from eyes and upper airways, dry cough, positive skin prick test, and specific IgE and IgG antibodies.
  • (8) The effect of 4.4 mg azelastine administered orally on airway responsiveness, skin prick testing, daily peak expiratory flow rates and symptoms of asthma was compared with placebo in a 7 week double-blind, parallel group study of 24 patients with extrinsic asthma.
  • (9) Subjective pain ratings of mucosal pin-prick decreased a surprisingly small degree after application of both solutions.
  • (10) Having said that, though, the man is clearly a bit of a prick and one with a serial addiction to publicity."
  • (11) In allergologic out-patient departments of Dubrovnik, Split, Sibenik, Zadar, Pula and Rijeka, 300 patients with pollinosis have been tested by the application of the prick method of group allergens of grass, tree and weed pollen, particularly of Parietariae (pellitory) pollen.
  • (12) In comparison with conventional allergen preparations immunologically characterized allergens were tested by skin-prick-tests for reactions.
  • (13) Exclusion of asthmatics and taking into account smoking and skin prick test positivity yielded mostly similar results.
  • (14) The results of the Phadezym-RAST and IgE-Quick correlated very well (r = 0.96) and both in-vitro methods corresponded to the Skin-Prick-Test (greater than 90%).
  • (15) Throughout history there have been periods of wild exuberance followed by the pricking of bubbles.
  • (16) By skin prick testing comparable results were obtained with both extracts.
  • (17) In both groups of patients, there was a low incidence of the causes of post-cordotomy pain recurrence contralateral to the lesion, i.e., deafferentation pain, fading of analgesia, and pain above the levels up to which deep pin-prick analgesia had been obtained.
  • (18) In making a computerized cephalometric analysis, first the film should be traced, and the landmarks pricked and manually digitalized into an X-Y coordinate system.
  • (19) Sections of eggs, fixed 20 to 60 s following fertilization or pricking, show that the tubular cisternae have disappeared and the clusters of cisternae have opened to give rise to longer cisternae arranged in chains.
  • (20) Bronchial responsiveness to histamine and skin prick test reactions to airborne allergens were measured in a random population sample of 891 adults and 1293 schoolchildren.

Splenetic


Definition:

  • (a.) Affected with spleen; malicious; spiteful; peevish; fretful.
  • (n.) A person affected with spleen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But he was far from comic as the splenetic Marquis of Queensberry, hounding Oscar Wilde to prison over his son's liaison with the homosexual playwright, in The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960).
  • (2) He’s a glorious, motormouth comic when he’s on form, and his standup shows can be brilliantly splenetic.
  • (3) Experimental pancreatitis was induced by cooling the splenetic part of rat pancreas with chlorethyl, and the cells of duodenal area of the pancreas were studied at different stages of pancreatitis using cytomorphometry, cytomorphology and autoradiography.
  • (4) The EU intervention drew a splenetic response from Kovács – a former PhD graduate from CEU – who described it as “camouflage” for pushing an agenda favouring “illegal” migration.
  • (5) Your early morning bulletin, where a beautiful woman reads the furious barrage of splenetic tweets that Trump inevitably wrote and sent while sitting on his golden toilet between the hours of 2am and 5am the previous night.
  • (6) Aside from the confused versions of feminism – and the contortions do seem to be down to the splenetic mood – there are elements that are really indefensible from the husband's point of view, unless his return were to be added as an appendix.
  • (7) If you've read The Rum Diary, you'll notice that certain characters and events have been amalgamated, erased or enlarged, often cleverly and wisely, but that Robinson's gentler tone is slightly at odds with Thompson's marvellously splenetic and bilious prose.
  • (8) Some of its content – the splenetically sweary Rage Quit strand, for example – may not be seen as child-friendly by some parents.
  • (9) Peter Capaldi reprises his TV role as Malcolm Tucker, a splenetic, combative director of communications who may be loosely based on Alastair Campbell.
  • (10) Because of the splenetic activity and the higher sex ratios, the Hellstrom hypothesis is refuted.