What's the difference between quiescence and stagnate?

Quiescence


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Quiescency

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The latter group received progesterone to permit blastocysts and the dissected fragments to enter into quiescence, prior to injection of oestradiol to induce implantation.
  • (2) Two of the antisense-fos clones grew in a density-dependent manner, exhibiting both a flat morphology and a quiescence in low serum medium unlike the sense-fos controls.
  • (3) No significant difference between patients with IgA nephropathy in clinical quiescence and the control subjects was demonstrated.
  • (4) These analyses unmasked unique attributes of spontaneous LH secretory events, which were represented as delimited momentary augmentations in endogenous LH secretory rates interspersed among intervals of relative secretory quiescence.
  • (5) When compared with internal monitoring, the external monitor detected 90.8% of uterine contractions with a specificity for uterine quiescence of 98.1%.
  • (6) The data support the hypothesis that malignant cells can exist in a state of relative quiescence for extended periods.
  • (7) The arrested cells showed reduced levels of actin synthesis and the turning-off process in the synthesis of actin was found to be relatively slow as the cells entered into quiescence.
  • (8) The Syrian hamster is being used as an experimental aging model to investigate the intrinsic developmental program of dermal fibroblasts in vivo (proliferation, extracellular matrix (ECM) production, quiescence, and reactivation during wound repair) in order to determine whether the in vivo differentiation program and mature function of these cells is related to their in vitro proliferation and senescence pattern.
  • (9) After an initial quiescence period (growth arrest), target cells were exposed to plasma derived serum (PDS) from 4 experimental groups: young stimulated rats; young sham-operated controls; aged stimulated rats and aged sham-operated controls, at PDS concentrations of 2.5% and 5.0% and counted at days 2 and 5.
  • (10) Methionine-enkephalin (Met-Enk) and dynorphin were injected intra-arterially into the distal stomach and small intestine of the anesthetized dog during quiescence and phasic activity initiated by field stimulation or intra-arterially administered motilin.
  • (11) Migrating motor complexes and a low percentage of time of quiescence were noted on both recordings.
  • (12) Thus mesotocin is unlikely to act as a systemic luteostatic agent during seasonal quiescence.
  • (13) Interventions such as quiescence, manganese and acidosis reduce myocardial contractility and increase the size of the extracellular space.
  • (14) These observations suggest that exogenous melatonin administered at 2000 h or 0400 h may be temporally adding to endogenous circulating melatonin, inducing gonadal quiescence.
  • (15) Lymphocytes obtained from baboons rejecting a heart allograft expressed NDA 4, whereas transplant recipients in quiescence showed no detectable NDA 4.
  • (16) In comparison to the fetuses of low risk multiparae studied earlier, the fetuses in the present study showed a somewhat lower proportion of quiescence (coincidence 1F) and higher percentage of activity (coincidence 2F); however, most of these differences were not statistically significant.
  • (17) During exposure to 10 mM K+, atrial potentials in all of the electrograms and atrial contractions ceased, indicating electrical quiescence of the contractile myocardium; however, the unique pattern of discharge of the SAB, PAVB, AVN, and DAVB persisted at the SA nodal rate.
  • (18) Also, growth rates and cell density at quiescence appear to be regulated by distinct mechanisms.
  • (19) Glutathione depletion to this extent (i.e., 0.13 mM vs. 2.24 mM in control) did not modify the aerobic radiation response for cells in the physiological states of proliferation, quiescence, or stimulated quiescent cells.
  • (20) The levels of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase activity in exponentially growing cells were approximately 2-fold higher than in cells that had been serum deprived for 24 h and were entering quiescence.

Stagnate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood stagnates in the veins of an animal; hence, to become impure or foul by want of motion; as, air stagnates in a close room.
  • (v. t.) To cease to be brisk or active; to become dull or inactive; as, commerce stagnates; business stagnates.
  • (a.) Stagnant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This movement generates forward and backward shearing force in the stagnation region as the separated flow migrates back and forth.
  • (2) After sterilisation of mentally diseased patients had been legally enforced and finances were restricted, family care stagnated, promoting instead a type of family care that was independent of psychiatric hospitals and was carried out on a "district" basis.
  • (3) "We believe BAE's earnings could stagnate until the middle of this decade," said Goldman, which was also worried that performance fees on a joint fighter programme in America had been withheld by the Pentagon, and the company still had a yawning pension deficit.
  • (4) The implementation of equity policies in health have however been challenged by several trends and features of the health care system, these becoming more pronounced in the economic stagnation period after 1983.
  • (5) The well defined conditions of stagnation point flow using platelet-rich-plasma (PRP) as fluid permit quantitative treatment of the formation of platelet microthrombi on the stagnation plate.
  • (6) A belated acknowledgement of the damage inflicted by decades of stagnated earnings and inequality have meant pay levels have rightly climbed to prominence, in part spurred by Vermont senator Bernie Sanders who put fair pay at the heart of his campaign attempts to secure the Democratic nomination for president.
  • (7) Imagine how much greater we would be if the dreams and talents of 40 million human beings were unleashed.” Stagnating social mobility is expected to be the central message of Obama's state of the union address later this month and defining issue of the 2014 mid-term elections.
  • (8) Inflammatory parameters of disease progression and stagnation are well documentable.
  • (9) With the minimum volume doubling time being the same in all cases, the growth rate of the tumours varied according to longer or shorter phases of stagnation or delay.
  • (10) As in other forms of intestinal obstruction, there is stagnation of enteral content and edema of the bowel wall, theoretically facilitating translocation of bacteria.
  • (11) The survey was conducted at the end of a year in which Chinese growth had slowed and the eurozone stagnated, raising expectations that Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank will try to bolster the eurozone by starting QE on Thursday .
  • (12) "Britain has lost tens of millions of pounds over the last few days due to road stagnation," he said.
  • (13) We are a community and a market of 600 million people with some of the world's fastest growing economies, while much of Europe is in economic stagnation.
  • (14) Xeroradiography is stagnating after promising beginnings.
  • (15) Stagnation and functional obstruction in the proximal duodenum is the main factor influencing the morbidity rate among these patients.
  • (16) In design planning the stagnation areas should be avoided as well as major turbulences.
  • (17) Sixteen control samples taken from the connecting plumbing system at distant locations, after periods of stagnation which result in DU bacterial contamination, were negative.
  • (18) A review of the development of psychiatric pharmacotherapy often leads to the conclusion that the major discoveries were made in the years between 1952 and 1960; Since the psychiatric pharmacotherapy is said to stagnate.
  • (19) But again, many in the industry are concerned the recovery could be snuffed out, with the National Federation of Builders pointing to threats to the housbuilding as mortgage lending stagnates.
  • (20) Rising suburban poverty The report found that the number of jobs in suburbs has stagnated over the past decade, more people are claiming jobseeker’s allowance and pension credit, and that poverty has subsequently become more concentrated in many suburban areas.

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