What's the difference between radial and radius?

Radial


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a radius or ray; consisting of, or like, radii or rays; radiated; as, (Bot.) radial projections; (Zool.) radial vessels or canals; (Anat.) the radial artery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cellular radial expansion was apparently unaffected by exposure to electric fields.
  • (2) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
  • (3) The shape of the nucleus changes from ovoid to a distinctive, radially splayed lobulated structure.
  • (4) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
  • (5) The authors describe a new technique for evaluating traumatic conditions to the elbow: the radial head-capitellum view.
  • (6) Yet in 4 patients in whom no aortic late systolic pressure wave was apparent (group II), nitroprusside did not alter the difference between aortic and radial systolic pressures.
  • (7) If no other indication to operate occurs, we accept a conservative treatment of the humeral fracture with radial palsy.
  • (8) The assay systems include : viral infectivity, complement fixing activity, particle counts, radial diffusion titre and single radial haemolysis titre.
  • (9) The influence of stretch and radial compression on the width of mechanically skinned fibers from the semitendinosus muscle of the frog (R. pipiens) was examined in relaxing solutions with high-power light microscopy.
  • (10) Peak pressures measured with the RP probe decreased to congruent with50 mm Hg and radial pressure asymmetry vanished.
  • (11) We report the case of a man with atypical pain and X-rays modifications of the radial tubercle.
  • (12) The Fel d I RIA was compared with a radial immunodiffusion technique for the determination of allergen levels in several cat extracts and a good quantitative correlation was found.
  • (13) The results indicate that behavior in transition states maintained by reinforcement contingencies in the radial maze is similar to that maintained by extended chained schedules, despite the fact that some of the stimuli controlling behavior in the maze are absent at the moment behavior is emitted.
  • (14) In a third experiment, animals were trained 16 days in the same maze configuration and at day 17 they were exposed to the mirror image of the radial maze.
  • (15) IgE levels in nude mice were estimated by the one-step single radial radiodiffusion method antisera prepared by immunization of guinea pigs with an IgE-rich fraction obtained from sera of normal mice infected with Nippostrongylus brasiliensis and immunized with DNP-ovalbumin in alum gel.
  • (16) To investigate the topography of the clear zone, we performed four- and eight-incision radial keratotomy in eight cadaver eyes.
  • (17) The mean values of radial and ulnar components for each pair of homologous fingers separately are also compared.
  • (18) The patient had associated congenital abnormalities of urethral stricture, hypoplastic thumb, and absent radial pulse.
  • (19) In 20 out of 32 infants (63%), complete occlusion of the radial artery occurred.
  • (20) The kininogen level in human serum was estimated by single radial immunodiffusion.

Radius


Definition:

  • (n.) A right line drawn or extending from the center of a circle to the periphery; the semidiameter of a circle or sphere.
  • (n.) The preaxial bone of the forearm, or brachium, corresponding to the tibia of the hind limb. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.
  • (n.) A ray, or outer floret, of the capitulum of such plants as the sunflower and the daisy. See Ray, 2.
  • (n.) The barbs of a perfect feather.
  • (n.) Radiating organs, or color-markings, of the radiates.
  • (n.) The movable limb of a sextant or other angular instrument.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
  • (2) The radius is estimated to be around 1.7 nm, which shows a moderate degree of hydration.
  • (3) Eight cases of calcification following anterior dislocation of the head of the radius are described.
  • (4) Conservatively treated compressed fractures of the distal radius dorsal metaphysis healed despite primarily good reduction and consequent treatment with a decrease in dorsal length.
  • (5) Modifications in quaternary structure induced by variation of these physicochemical parameters were followed by means of X-ray and quasi-elastic light-scattering and quantified in terms of weight average molecular weight (M), radius of gyration (Rg) and hydrodynamic radius (Rh).
  • (6) From the different shapes of the scattering curves of the native phosphofructokinase at pH 7.5 in the presence of 15 mM ATP and of the cross-linked tetramer or octamer, it can be inferred that the shapes of the protomers are different: in the presence of ATP the protomers are elongated, having an axial ratio of 1.8 to 2.0; the cross-linked state reveals a spherical protomer of radius 33.0 A, similar to that of the native enzyme at pH 7.5 in the presence of fructose 6-phosphate or fructose 1,6-bisphosphate.
  • (7) The radius of curvature was shorter in the former than in the latter.
  • (8) Fluid flow increased approximately 50% for each gauge catheter when the height was raised from 0.91 to 1.75 m. Flow rates increased linearly with increasing catheter radius.
  • (9) The effect of increasing acetylcholine concentration can best be explained by postulating an increase in the effective channel radius of the water secretion pathway from 0.40 nm to 0.45 nm together with a small increase in the fraction of the total water flow passing through larger non-selective pores.
  • (10) Recently recovered hominid postcrania from Member 1, Swartkrans Formation include the proximal and distal ends of a right radius attributed to a single individual of Paranthropus robustus.
  • (11) The binding protein has a Stokes radius of 2.49 nm when saturated with cobalamin and 2.61 nm when unsaturated.
  • (12) The brace extended from the proximal radius and ulna to the level of the radial styloid and allowed a full range of movement at the radiocarpal joint.
  • (13) During a period of almost ten years with 280 cases, experience has been gathered in connection with the immobilisation of radius fractures, in the vicinity of the wrist, by means of the fixateur externe.
  • (14) A report is given on a small-for-date male infant showing the following symptoms: bilateral aplasia of humerus, radius, and ulna, shortened femora, bilateral cleft lip and cleft palate, stigmata of dysmorphism, and notably; simple helix formation of the ear, simian crease, clinodactylia, bilateral clubfoot deformity, hypospadia, thrombocytopenia, micrognathia, and contractures in the knee joints.
  • (15) The radius of the spheres depends upon the suspending medium and the hematocrit.
  • (16) The modulus of elasticity was derived by combining the velocity of ultrasound measurements and photon absorption (Norland-Cameron method) in human cortical bone (proximal radius) in vivo.
  • (17) The particle exhibits a Stokes radius of 43 A, which, together with the calculated particle volume, indicates an axial ratio close to 1.
  • (18) A single pore radius of 40 A and a pore density of 600 cm-2 were satisfactory.
  • (19) We have compared BUA in 24 female subjects with the separate measurement of trabecular and cortical bone in the distal radius using quantitative computed tomography (QCT).
  • (20) The proximal radius grew 3.5 cm, and the ulna grew 3.4 cm.