What's the difference between rad and wad?

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.

Wad


Definition:

  • (n.) Woad.
  • (n.) A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.
  • (n.) Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.
  • (n.) A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc.
  • (v. t.) To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.
  • (v. t.) To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak.
  • (n.) Alt. of Wadd

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is suggested that this early immune maturity may play a role in the hardiness of WAD goats and in their relative resistance to helminth and protozoan infection as compared with local sheep.
  • (2) Six of the WAD goats carried natural infections of H. contortus and T. colubriformis and eight other (tracer) goats acquired their infections from a grass paddock artificially contaminated with H. placei, C. pectinata and C. punctata, during May to October.
  • (3) The structure and morphology of the sternum from 33 West African dwarf (WAD) and sixteen Danish Landrace breed goats were studied radiographically.
  • (4) Well, he doesn’t have a mandate to break the law and he doesn’t have a mandate for handing out big wads of cash out on the ocean,” she said.
  • (5) The osmotic fragility of erythrocytes of West African Dwarf (WAD) goats and of WAD sheep was determined at different temperatures and pH.
  • (6) Look,” Kasich said as he celebrated his big win in his home state of Ohio, “this is all I got.” At this point, he held open his suit jacket to reveal no counterfeit watches, concealed weapons or wads of cash.
  • (7) Classic monoconic canal filling: Wadding paste + zinc oxyde paste-iodoform eugenol.
  • (8) Other members of Congress have been hit with wads of "evidence" and demands for meetings by supporters of the birther movement.
  • (9) When the penalty fine was eventually paid the man peeled a £20 note from a wad of notes that would have choked a donkey.
  • (10) I sit in the control room for one session, as the composer leafs through a vast wad of papers, and calmly speaks directions to the assembled musicians on the other side of a glass divide.
  • (11) He and his entourage would spend raucous weekends in luxury resorts, paying with wads of cash pulled carelessly from their pockets.
  • (12) There are also discussed the infectious complications of the nasal wads and great stress is laid upon avoiding errors in therapeutical measures.
  • (13) Labor’s immigration spokesman Richard Marles said Abbott’s refusal to deny the practice had left the door wide open to the idea the government was handing wads of taxpayer’s cash to smugglers.
  • (14) One hundred fifty patients suffering from severe protein-calorie malnutrition, admitted in 1 month to the Pediatric wards of Wad Medani Hospital, Sudan, were classified according to the Wellcome classification.
  • (15) Even as he handed out wads of petrodollars to impoverished developing countries, their leaders mocked him behind his back for being a buffoon and a clown.
  • (16) Water samples from four areas [Kass, Kosti, Wad Medani and Omdurman] two of which are known for endemic goitre did not appear to have any goitrogenic effect in our preliminary experiment using porcine thyroid follicle cell preparations.
  • (17) Another three WAD goats were artificially infected with mixed cultures of L3 of the latter three nematodes, while five goats were inoculated with 1500-2000 L3 of H. contortus harvested from cultures incubated at 25-30 degrees C for 8 days either in the dark or under normal laboratory conditions.
  • (18) They didn’t feel like they needed to blow their wad in the trailers.” There’s not an ounce of cynicism in his enthusiasm.
  • (19) Just need to make it count in the red zone and not blow their metaphorical wad on stupid plays."
  • (20) At the end of the period of exposure the substance remaining on the skin was recovered with the aid of cotton wads or Tesa adhesive tape and the spectrum of metabolites in the skin and the rinsing fluid determined by thin-layer chromatography.

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