What's the difference between rad and rag?

Rad


Definition:

  • () imp. & p. p. of Read, Rede.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The axons of A5, RPoOl and RaD neurons exhibit no lateral predominance in their spinal projections.
  • (2) This was treated with local radiation therapy consisting of 2700 rads administered in 15 fractions during a period of 28 days.
  • (3) Genetical analysis revealed that resistance to trimethoprim resulted from forward mutations at separate loci rather than back mutations of rad 6 or rad 18 alleles.
  • (4) Analysis was performed on all patients who received any amount of therapy (VSG) and on the Adequately Treated Group (ATG), who had received 5000 or more rads radiotherapy, two or more courses of chemotherapy, and had a minimum survival of 8 or more weeks (the interval that would have been required to have received either the radiotherapy or chemotherapy).
  • (5) Liability of retransplanted syngeneic skin grafts to rejection could be almost entirely abolished by their exposure to 300 rads irradiation before placement on the intermediate host.
  • (6) Fourteen patients entered the study and each received megavoltage therapy to give a mean dose of 4600 rad to the pituitary over 31 days.
  • (7) At the 200 rad level, the mouse with normal karyotype was compared with the T(1;13)70H translocation heterozygote and the Ts(1(13))7OH tertiary trisomic of normal appearance.
  • (8) Of these, the first 36 patients received single doses to the UHB, mid-body (MB), or LHB using doses of 600 rad to the UHB and 800 rad to MB and LHB.
  • (9) This treatment will be repeated until a total dose of 5000--6000 rad.
  • (10) The morphologic changes produced in the liver through irradiation at the rate of 1000 rad are characterized chiefly by a well expressed fatty dystrophia.
  • (11) The hypoxic fraction increased dramatically when these tumours invaded the subcutaneous tissues, or when tumours were implanted subcutaneously (TCD50 greater than 5,544 rad).
  • (12) In the membranes a phosphoprotein of 32 kDa belonging to the NADPH oxidase-cytochrome b-245 system (P. Bellavite et al., Free Rad.
  • (13) The radiation dose to the kidney (3.6 rad) and to the whole body (0.36 rad) was acceptable.
  • (14) The generation of cellular and supernatant IL 2R was: dependent on cellular activation, rapid, radioresistant (3000 rad), and inhibited by cycloheximide treatment.
  • (15) He was submitted to radiotherapy with linear acceleration (total dose of 4000 rads) and surgery, during which the tumor could not be completely removed due to its large size.
  • (16) Of mice treated with 500 rad, 44% were cured, as were 100% given 800 rad of treatment.
  • (17) External beam radiation was also given (6000 rads) to 16 patients for curative intent and (3000 rads) to 9 patients for palliative intent.
  • (18) In order to evaluate the usefulness of gamma-ray-irradiation to improve the tolerance to wear of the sockets, the worn surface of the 2.5 M rad gamma-ray-irradiated HDP sockets after total hip arthroplasty has been quantified by a newly-developed 3 dimensional (3-D) image analysis method in combination with scanning electron microscopy (SEM).
  • (19) 100 to 1600 rad doses did not produce adverse effects on these cells.
  • (20) Chromosome aberrations induced by 500 rads gamma ray irradiation (dicentrics, rings, and fragments) were observed at the ultrastructural level using the "whole mount" technique.

Rag


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
  • (n.) A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment.
  • (n.) Hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress.
  • (n.) A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
  • (n.) A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.
  • (n.) A ragged edge.
  • (n.) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
  • (v. i.) To become tattered.
  • (v. t.) To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
  • (v. t.) To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Over the past 20 years the rag-and-bone trade has had a makeover.
  • (2) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
  • (3) Confluent monolayers of capillary endothelial cells derived from Mongolian gerbil brain were irradiated with a single exposure of x-rays, and their radiosensitivity and sequential changes in morphology, staining intensity for factor VIII-related antigen (F VIII RAg), and capacity to produce prostacyclin (PGI2) were examined.
  • (4) Skeletal muscle mtDNA of three patients with mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, characterized clinically by myoclonic epilepsy and ragged-red fiber (MERRF) syndrome, has been sequenced to determine the underlying molecular defect(s).
  • (5) A distinctive pattern of subsarcolemmal mitochondrial aggregates, referred to as "ragged red fibers" in human mitochondrial myopathies, was observed in muscle biopsy samples from 1 dog.
  • (6) Endothelial cells of capillary vessels showed positive binding by UEA-1 lectin and the presence of factor VIII RAG.
  • (7) Four of the mutants had no effect on chylous ascites, but two mutants linked with ragged, and one unlinked, showed a complex situation involving enhancement, inhibition, epistacy and other interactions.
  • (8) There was a slight shortening in the thrombin time and a smaller increase in post-operative FVIII RAg and FVIII RCof levels in the HES group.
  • (9) There was no correlation between FVIII:RAg levels and radiation pneumonitis, radiation dose, volume of irradiated lung, tumor burden, or time-interval between exposure and sampling.
  • (10) In one of these, a probe designed specifically to detect deleted mtDNA identified abundant deleted mtDNA and its fusion transcript in RRF and lesser accumulations in non-ragged red cytochrome oxidase (COX) deficient fibres.
  • (11) Only in fragments of the biceps brachii muscle histological and histochemical investigations showed mitochondrial changes of the type of "ragged-red fibres".
  • (12) In situ hybridization to intact thymus and RNA blot analysis of isolated thymic subpopulations separated on the basis of T cell receptor (TCR) expression demonstrated that both TCR- and TCR+ cortical thymocytes express RAG-1 and RAG-2 messenger RNA's.
  • (13) Nuclear run-on assays showed that TPA completely repressed the transcription of RAG-1 within 30 min.
  • (14) A former Socialist party leader, he is a jovial, wise-cracking believer in consensus politics, who aides say never loses his rag and who so hates fights that he was once nicknamed "the marshmallow" within his own party, or "Flanby", after a wobbly caramel pudding.
  • (15) The Farage adviser said he looked back on many people within Ukip as “a bunch of rag-tag, unprofessional, embarrassing people who let Nigel down at every juncture.” He told the Guardian: “Someone needs to go in there with a big stick.
  • (16) Furthermore, we show that RAG can be expressed not only by CD3-TCR negative but also by CD3-TCRab or gd positive T-ALL cells.
  • (17) After fusion of HPRT- RAG cells with E. lutescens fibroblasts we demonstrated that the enzymes HPRT and G6PD are localized on the presumptive X chromosome.
  • (18) We analyzed the mitochondrial DNA of blood cells of 5 patients from a Chinese family with myoclonic epilepsy and ragged-red fiber disease.
  • (19) A small percentage of peripheral B cells also contained RAG-1 mRNA, raising the possibility that this protein may also be involved in immunoglobulin class switching.
  • (20) Exposure of isolated thymocytes to 12-O-tetra-decanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA)+ionomycin rapidly abolishes the expression of recombination-activating gene-1 (RAG-1) mRNA (3 h), down-regulates CD4 surface antigen expression (3 h), and enhances apoptosis (24 h).

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