What's the difference between quant and quanta?

Quant


Definition:

  • (n.) A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) CK-BB was assayed using a radioimmunological system by saturation with Mallinchrodt double antibody 125I labelled (RIA Quant-CPK-BB).
  • (2) There was seen a reduction of the frequency of the miniature potentials of end plates (PEP), and a reduction of quant PEP composition.
  • (3) Validation is provided by comparison to target values for human quality control reference sera, and by comparing the values obtained by HPGC to the beta-quant method (LRC).
  • (4) Interrupted and continuous microsuturing techniques were compared 3 weeks after microarteriorrhaphy in the rat femoral artery using light microscopy, and internal luminal diameter determinations were measured with a Bio Quant II Digitizer.
  • (5) Important criteria for the development of a new turbidimetric immunoassay Tina-quant Albumin in urine to determine urinary albumin are presented.
  • (6) The number of biopsy fragments, the total tissue area, and the total lung area were measured in square millimeters by a computer-assisted digitizing system using specific (Bio-Quant) software (R and M Biometrics Inc).
  • (7) Even the name of its prototype, the Quant e-Sportlimousine, is delightfully oxymoronic.
  • (8) Ferrous sulfate and ferrous gluconate tablets ingested in therapeutic doses do not cause false-positive, true-positive, or false-negative stool Hemoccult tests and do not cause a significant increase in gastrointestinal blood loss compared to controls as assessed by the Hemo-Quant assay.
  • (9) The Boehringer Gluco-quant kit, originally designed for spectrophotometric measurement, was successfully coupled to the bacterial luciferase NAD(P)H-linked system.
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  • (11) Our results in brief: Tina-quant Albumin in urine is a reliable and useful test which is barely influenced by endogenous and exogenous interfering factors.
  • (12) Welders-assemblers of the Quant-type laser devices are exposed to bright light flashes of plasma and laser exceeding in certain measurements the maximal allowed level.
  • (13) A rapid survey of the elements in biological materials, covering most of the elements in the periodic table, is possible by using available software for semi-quantitative analysis (SEMI-QUANT) by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry.
  • (14) Results of the multicenter study with a new test Tina-quant Albumin in urine for the determination of the albumin concentration in urine were reported.
  • (15) Microelectrode study demonstrated that the fibers of the external surface were characterized, in comparison with those of the internal one, by lesser action potentials, prolonged trace negative potential, low quant composition of the end plate potentials, high amplitude and low frequency of the end plate miniature potentials.
  • (16) A Zeiss ICM 405 epi-illuminated fluorescent microscope with photographic interface to a Bio-Quant computerized microdensitometer measured IF signal intensity for GFAP.
  • (17) This latex immunoassay procedure uses commercially available ready-for-use reagents [Tina-Quant (a) Ferritin, Boehringer Mannheim] that have a long shelf life.

Quanta


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Quantum

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Media made hyperosmotic with sucrose increase the frequency of spontaneously released quanta of transmitter, or miniature excitatory postsynaptic potentials (MEPSPs).
  • (2) Using a model based on airborne transmission, it is estimated that the index patient was producing 144 units of infection (quanta) per minute while in the office.
  • (3) In contrast to the photosensitivity of ribosome-bound 16S rRNA toward chain breakage, free 16S rRNA seems to be resistant toward photoinduced chain breakage at doses of incident 253.7-nm radiation up to at least 10(21) quanta.
  • (4) Under normal conditions the amount of maximal facilitation was different for separate EEG quanta and varied from 1.4 to 2.4.
  • (5) The threshold for light detection is estimated to be the same for both species when specified in quanta incident on the retina.4.
  • (6) Nifedipine was also found to activate protein kinase C, which in turn induces an increase in the nifedipine-resistant presynaptic Ca2+ influx and in the number of released ACh quanta.
  • (7) Incubation of rat muscle in the presence of 0.1 mM-monoethylcholine (MECh) and 40 mM-K+ for 60-90 min produced a maximal reduction in the time constant of decay of synaptic currents and potentials, indicating that acetylcholine (ACh) had been replaced by AMECh in the released quanta.
  • (8) These results were confirmed by analysis of inhibitory quanta in embryonic and adult Mauthner cells involving a small and large number of channels, respectively.
  • (9) Our measurement procedures were tested using computer-generated 'e.p.c.s' containing randomly occurring 'quanta'.
  • (10) The data are interpreted that for a given epithelial area there is a periodic build-up of spermatogonia which then produce several successive quanta of spermatocytes and when the spermatogonia are depleted the process repeats.
  • (11) The co-localization makes it likely that such changes lead to a different relative composition of the secretory quanta of chromaffin granules.
  • (12) The effect of 4-aminopyridine and tetraethylammonium on the time course of neurotransmitter release was examined at the neuromuscular junction using a computer-aided method which directly measured the time of occurrence of individual quanta.
  • (13) Let the light-quanta be absorbed in the retina according to a Poisson process.
  • (14) Furthermore, modulation of transmission proudced by variation in the presynaptic resting potential and during presynaptic inhibition results from changes in the mean number of quanta released by each impulse.
  • (15) When such thresholds and the intensities of the background lights are expressed in terms of the number of quanta absorbed per unit time, it is found that three factors can be correlated with the thresholds measured in various states of light- and dark-adaptation: (i) the intensity of a steady background, (ii) the rate of regeneration of rhodopsin, and (iii) the amount of metarhodopsin II present in the rods.3.
  • (16) The paper is concerned with the results of a comparative study of radiation injury of chromosomes of human lymphocytes at the G0 stage resulting from the influence of 60Co gamma quanta and high activity 252Cf radiation sources and depending on a dose and dose rate; with the potentialities of modifying a cytogenetic effect of irradiation by postradiation hyperthermia of cells.
  • (17) This suggests that large quanta are formed by adding additional ACh to preformed quanta shortly before they are available for release.
  • (18) A mechanism by which NH stretching quanta are coherently transported along a chain of hydrogen bonded peptide groups is demonstrated by classical simulation of a section of the alpha-helical peptide poly(L-alanine).
  • (19) Intracellular recordings from single muscle fibres showed that the duration of synaptic currents was longer than in most other vertebrates so far studied and that the number of transmitter 'quanta' released by a single nerve impulse, about 20, was lower, probably reflecting the small size of the presynaptic terminals.
  • (20) Statistical analysis suggests that the changes in the average numbers of quanta released (m) could be attributed to the change in the immediately available store (n).

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