What's the difference between quint and squint?

Quint


Definition:

  • (n.) A set or sequence of five, as in piquet.
  • (n.) The interval of a fifth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mutant virus is then reconstituted by cotransfection with overlapping viral clones, together comprising the entire viral genome, as described previously (M. van Zijl, W. Quint, J. Briaire, T. de Rover, A. Gielkens, and A. Berns, J. Virol.
  • (2) A perchlorinated, cage-structured hydrocarbon, C(10)C(l2), also known as mirex or Dechlorane, has been identified in fish samples from the Bay of Quinte, Lake Ontario, Canada.
  • (3) Quint Fontana drinks to remember... and he’s thirsty!” Of course, this is all a character act – Fontana is the infectiously appealing creation of comedian Andy Davies, who has been honing the character via a monthly show at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club.
  • (4) A quintuple mutant, with all cysteines converted to alanines (Quint), was also constructed.
  • (5) Quint Fontana is also interested in the power of the female, but he approaches things from a rather different trajectory.
  • (6) Although the soft-tissue analysis can be made easier by the use of a Quint intensifying screen (Quint X-Ray Co, Inc, Los Angeles) which enhances the soft-tissue image, when the enhanced cephalometric radiograph was compared with a standard, nonenhanced radiograph, it was found to have the same level of diagnostic accuracy.
  • (7) The mutants C82A and C191A exhibit nearly the same CM in urea denaturation experiments as WT, while the other single mutants and Quint are less stable, with CM differences of up to 0.7 M urea.
  • (8) After quantitative comparison, it appears that hinge rotation is the primary physiologic movement of the mandible, and that the Hanau quint provides compensatory factors in facilitating hinge jaw movement.
  • (9) The thermal stabilities of Quint and of the wild-type enzyme (WT) were determined by differential scanning calorimetry.
  • (10) Pleasance Courtyard, 5.30pm, to 24 Aug Quint Fontana: I Remember Me Facebook Twitter Pinterest Quint Fontana Last year, Bridget Christie picked up the Edinburgh Comedy award with an impassioned, gag-festooned tribute to feminism.
  • (11) Quint is also less thermostable than WT, with a delta TM of 3.3-4.4 degrees C. Thus the five cysteine replacements yield small, but significant, changes in catalytic and denaturation parameters, but none of the cysteines was found to be essential.
  • (12) The 1st step in Quint's analysis was a determination of the ratio of new endometrial carcinoma cases to the total "major gynecologic operations" for the intervals 1960-1966 and 1966-1973.
  • (13) Thus, type-2 astrocytes express the two quint-essential astrocytic features: glial fibrillary acidic protein (previously reported by others) and glutamine synthetase.
  • (14) This work has been extended by undertaking a computer simulation of the movement of the mandible between centric occlusion and centric relation in an effort to establish a possible mathematical relationship between the variables in Hanau's "Quint."
  • (15) Dr. Boyd C. Quint recently presented important data regarding the relationship of estrogen therapy to the risk of endometrial carcinoma, but the data seem to have been inappropriately analyzed.
  • (16) Dr. Quint studied 291 postmenopausal women who received primary treatment for endometrial carcinoma at the Swedish Hospital Medical Center in Seattle, Washington between 1960 and 1973.
  • (17) Quint's data do support the hypothesis that estrogen therapy may be an etiologic factor among the more recent cases of endometrial carcinoma.

Squint


Definition:

  • (a.) Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2.
  • (n.) Fig.: Looking askance.
  • (v. i.) To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance.
  • (v. i.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; -- to be cross-eyed.
  • (v. i.) To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
  • (v. t.) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye.
  • (v. t.) To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.
  • (n.) The act or habit of squinting.
  • (n.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.
  • (n.) Same as Hagioscope.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Squint was the most common diagnosis with the prevalence being 18.4 per thousand for the children in social classes I to III and 15.9 for the total series.
  • (2) Indeed this procedure is the only one which can act in a fitted manner on muscular spasms responsible of more than 60% of convergent squints.
  • (3) In this group refractive error, nasolacrimal duct block, and primary squint were most common, while in the non-heritable group various types of conjunctivitis, trauma, foreign bodies, blepharitis and nutritional diseases were most prevalent.
  • (4) The presence of +2.00 or more D of spherical hypermetropia in both eyes, or +1.00 or more D sphere or cylinder of anisometropia was significantly associated (P=0.0779%) with that child being identified 2+ years later as having either squint or amblyopia or both.
  • (5) The present squint angle was the only major parameter relevant for the preservation of PS and MS.
  • (6) Both the AO and the Siamese cats exhibited a convergent squint.
  • (7) All the cases of squint and amblyopia referred to both hospital and school clinics in one district during one calendar year have been reviewed in order to clarify when, where, and how these cases first present to the ophthalmologist.
  • (8) Clinical signs in mice were squinting and distended testes in males, and in rats, rapid respiration (all doses), squinting, and hunching.
  • (9) The most frequent indications are: Increased objective squint angle during near fixation, incomitant binocular movements in the horizontal plane, unstabile objective angles, nystagmus compensation (block-) syndrome, variation of Kestenbaum's nystagmusoperation.
  • (10) The most important squints to diagnose are the concomitant squints of childhood as they can lead to amblyopia, which is irreversible after the age of ten years.
  • (11) In all patients was found a very marked impairment of visual acuity or even blindness of the affected eye with most frequently squint and nystagmus.
  • (12) On the basis of our investigation we could not prove the process of emmetropisation during the growth of the eyes of squinting children in this age group.
  • (13) Anterior segment circulation was assessed in 35 adults one day after squint surgery by clinical observation and low-dose fluorescein iris angiography.
  • (14) There was no influence upon the angle of squint and the correspondence.
  • (15) In divergent squint, the fovea competes with the much weaker nasal hemifield.
  • (16) The authors study 202 strabismus cases and evaluate the strabismic epidemiology of Tunisia: 58% of squint children have amblyopia.
  • (17) The shortened test shows the reduction in contrast sensitivity as well as the original LDT in squint amblyopia multiple sclerosis, optic neuritis and cerebral tumours.
  • (18) Besides the odontogenic keratocysts, the Case 1 patient had basal cell nevus, prominent frontal process, and ocular hypertelorism; the Case 2 patient had prominent frontal process; the Case 3 patient had prominent frontal process, ocular hypertelorism, and squint.
  • (19) Leukokoria and squint were the most frequent first signs of the tumor.
  • (20) The results of a prospective study of 66 cases of squint among black Zaïrian people are presented.

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