What's the difference between quad and quin?

Quad


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Quade
  • (n.) A quadrat.
  • (n.) A quadrangle; hence, a prison.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
  • (2) "In the wake of Julio Baptista's quad-trick, which player has scored the most goals against Liverpool in one game at Anfield?"
  • (3) ECC:CON PT for QUAD were higher (p less than 0.05) in females than in males.
  • (4) The echocardiographic images were digitized and randomly assigned in a quad-screen format for nonbiased interpretation.
  • (5) Long-term controls suggest the use of Quad-Helix and III Class elastic traction as soon as possible, in order to correct premaxillary and maxillary hypoplasia eventually complicated by a posterior cross-bite.
  • (6) It was concluded that the MMS Enteric Quad Panels provide an efficient, relatively inexpensive, and reasonably accurate method for identification of the Enterobacteriaceae.
  • (7) The purpose of this investigation was to characterize the in vitro force delivery of the quad-helix appliance.
  • (8) Osborne confirmed on Sunday that the main points of the budget were agreed by the "quad" group of ministers – the chancellor, the prime minister, Nick Clegg and Danny Alexander – last Monday.
  • (9) Differences in posture were not associated with differences in abscissal intercepts in either Quad or Con.
  • (10) The G3 will also have metal body and use Qualcomm’s quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor, which other flagship phones from Samsung, Sony and HTC have used to produce fast smartphones with at least one full day's battery life.
  • (11) The assembly of fibronectin into disulfide cross-linked extracellular matrices requires the interaction of mesenchymal cells with two distinct sites on fibronectin, the Arg-Gly-Asp cell adhesive site and an amino-terminal site contained within the first five type I homologous repeats (Quade, B. J., and McDonald, J.
  • (12) EF Synergy Quad plates, standard microdilution panels prepared in house, Pasco MIC Gram-Positive panels (Difco Laboratories, Detroit, Mich.), MicroScan MIC Type 5 dry panels (Baxter Healthcare Corp., MicroScan Div., West Sacramento, Calif.), and Vitek GPS-TA cards (Vitek Systems Inc., Hazelwood, Mo.).
  • (13) The sand was criss-crossed by police on horses and quad bikes.
  • (14) RVA in the QUAD group was significantly higher than in the PARA or AB group (P less than 0.003).
  • (15) Reducing the scanning time and the X-ray tube anode current to 80-100 mA is the main way of reducing the radiation dose without noticeably lowering the tomogram image quality in examination of the eye area using the USA QUAD-1 X-ray computer tomograph of the fourth generation.
  • (16) Variations in QUAD, FDHL, and MTIB PSP pattern and amplitude were correlated with variations in the PSP pattern evoked by stimulation of the sural nerve: excitatory oligosynaptic group I PSPs generally appeared in motoneurons receiving excitatory cutaneous (sural nerve) input, whereas inhibitory PSPs generally appeared in motoneurons receiving some inhibitory cutaneous input and were largest in motoneurons receiving predominantly inhibition from the sural nerve.
  • (17) 4,500 containers or TEUs, as the Ministry of Defence calls them (the acronym stands for Twenty Foot Equivalent Units), will be packed with small arms, ammo, quad bikes, and other less valuable kit, and put on trucks.
  • (18) These studies show significant alterations in the sensitivity of osmotically stimulated vasopressin release related to differences in posture in Quad, characterized by enhanced sensitivity in erect posture due to nonosmotic stimuli not evident in Con.
  • (19) In the experiments described in the preceding paper electrical stimulation of the quadriceps (QUAD), medial tibial (MTIB), and flexor digitorum and hallucis longus (FDHL) muscle nerves was used to evoke oligosynaptic group I postsynaptic potentials (PSPs) in medial gastrocnemius (MG) motoneurons.
  • (20) Changes in plasma arginine vasopressin concentration (PAVP) during hypertonic NaCl infusions were also greater in erect than in supine Quad (P less than 0.005), despite identical changes in plasma osmolality (Posm).

Quin


Definition:

  • (n.) A European scallop (Pecten opercularis), used as food.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Further evaluation of the range of activity of several of these compounds, both in terms of the dose inducing a half-maximal response and the LHRH-releasing effect at that particular dose, indicated that AMPA greater than HCA greater than QUIN greater than PYR, suggesting that non-NMDA receptors are primarily involved in EAA-induced LHRH release at the level of the AN-ME.
  • (2) Unilateral infusions of quinolinic acid (QUIN) into the rat striatum led to an increase in cholecystokinin octapeptide sulfate-like immunoreactivity (CCK8S-LI) in the striatum and substantia nigra 4 days later.
  • (3) Intraplatelet free calcium (Ca2i+) was measured in 25 patients, using the fluorescent indicator Quin-2.
  • (4) By examining in parallel the digitonin-induced release of exogenous fluorescent or luminescent indicators, a granule location was demonstrated for the pH indicator 9-aminoacridine, while the calcium probes aequorin and Quin 2 were released coincident with release of the cytosolic enzyme lactate dehydrogenase.
  • (5) Fluorescent indicator Quin-2 was used for the determination of free calcium (Ca2+in) in synaptosomes incubated in the normal medium and media where sodium is replaced by potassium or choline.
  • (6) The same neuronal populations were also selectively killed by N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) but the toxic potency of NMDA was 40-fold higher than that of QUIN.
  • (7) Phorbol 12-myristate, 13-acetate, the calcium ionophore A23187 in the presence or absence of EGTA, and the fluorescent calcium chelator quin-2 also cause an increase in cytoskeletal actin.
  • (8) Amylase secretion, but not the Quin 2 fluorescence response, was attenuated at higher secretagogue concentrations.
  • (9) Ca2+ transport by DECYL-2E (I, R = n-decyl) - monitored by measurements of the fluorescence of an intracellular dye, quin-2 - occurred at a rate comparable to that produced by electroneutral Ca2+ ionophores ionomycin and Br-A23187.
  • (10) [13C6]QUIN was detected in the incubation medium of both unstimulated and stimulated cultures.
  • (11) Adrenaline and collagen had no effect in promoting intracellular Ca2+ increase as measured with Quin-2 and little effect when measured with Fura-2.
  • (12) Under these conditions, phospholipase A2 activity, as detected by the release of [14C]arachidonate and of its metabolites, or by the hydrolysis of [14C]phosphatidylcholine, was severely impaired in quin 2-loaded platelets upon removal of external Ca2+.
  • (13) We have used intracellular Quin 2, and extracellular Ca2+ without the use of EGTA or ionophores to manipulate the levels of intracellular Ca2+.
  • (14) Since the cytosolic calcium concentration may mediate the effects of extracellular calcium on PTH release, we have employed the calcium-sensitive intracellular dye QUIN-2 to examine the relationship between extracellular calcium, cytosolic calcium, and PTH secretion in adult, neonatal, and cultured bovine as well as pathological human parathyroid cells.
  • (15) We conclude that sustained moderate increases in CSF QUIN occur in viremic simian retrovirus type-D macaques.
  • (16) Br-A23187 is shown to saturate Ca2+ sites in quin-2-loaded rat thymic lymphocytes in a manner essentially identical to ionomycin.
  • (17) Gill Quine, senior solicitor, says: "Our campaigning as a team has helped to keep morale up, but in the next few days we lose three valuable staff members whose qualifications, experience and commitment will be a great loss to the residents of Rochdale.
  • (18) It was observed that the D-2 receptor agonist quinpirole (QUIN) produced biphasic effects on cell firing rate.
  • (19) Using simultaneous analyses of cell function and Quin 2 fluorescence, we find that at least two aspects of cellular responsiveness (degranulation and O2- production) depend upon the level of available Ca2+.
  • (20) A comparison between the fluorescent indicator quin 2 and the bioluminescent indicator aequorin was performed in the same smooth muscle cell type.

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