What's the difference between raw and styptic?

Raw


Definition:

  • (superl.) Not altered from its natural state; not prepared by the action of heat; as, raw sienna; specifically, not cooked; not changed by heat to a state suitable for eating; not done; as, raw meat.
  • (superl.) Hence: Unprepared for use or enjoyment; immature; unripe; unseasoned; inexperienced; unpracticed; untried; as, raw soldiers; a raw recruit.
  • (superl.) Not worked in due form; in the natural state; untouched by art; unwrought.
  • (superl.) Not distilled; as, raw water
  • (superl.) Not spun or twisted; as, raw silk or cotton
  • (superl.) Not mixed or diluted; as, raw spirits
  • (superl.) Not tried; not melted and strained; as, raw tallow
  • (superl.) Not tanned; as, raw hides
  • (superl.) Not trimmed, covered, or folded under; as, the raw edge of a piece of metal or of cloth.
  • (superl.) Not covered; bare.
  • (superl.) Bald.
  • (superl.) Deprived of skin; galled; as, a raw sore.
  • (superl.) Sore, as if by being galled.
  • (superl.) Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind.
  • (n.) A raw, sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot; as, to touch one on the raw.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Multiple stored energy levels were randomly tested and the percent successful defibrillation was plotted against the stored energy, and the raw data were fit by logistic regression.
  • (2) We previously established that the binding constant (Ka) of this receptor site for the chemically synthesized model AGE, 2-(2-furoyl)-4(5)-(2-furanyl)-1H- imidazole-butyric acid (FFI-BA), on cells of the mouse macrophagelike cell line RAW 264.7 is identical to that for AGE proteins.
  • (3) We studied the effect of a 2-hour exposure to 0.6 ppm of ozone on bronchial reactivity in 8 healthy, nonsmoking subjects by measuring the increase in airway resistance (Raw) produced by inhalation of histamine diphosphate aerosol (1.6 per cent, 10 breaths).
  • (4) It was also established that the Y. enterocolitica strains isolated from raw cow milk did not refer to the European serotypes 0:3 and 0:9 that were pathogenic for humans.
  • (5) On raw music scores a sex-linked, time-of-day-induced priming effect was due to the prior presentation of CVs--that is, cognitive priming.
  • (6) The norms are reported as "Scaled Score Equivalents of Raw Scores" for each age group and as "IQ Equivalents of Sums of Scaled Scores."
  • (7) Admirable, but will destroying ivory get that message through to poachers, ivory traffickers and the workshops in east Asia and elsewhere that buy smuggled raw ivory?
  • (8) Samples of raw cereals imported in Italy and of other foodstuffs that can be treated with bromine-containing fumigants were analysed for the total bromide content.
  • (9) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
  • (10) The report paints a picture characterised too often by international indifference, even over the collection and distribution of the raw data on migrant deaths.
  • (11) Raw Target RSM was force fed to 12 hens which were killed after varying time intervals (15 min., 30 min., 60 min.)
  • (12) Raw milk consumption, since it is not common, does not seem to have a major role in human infection.
  • (13) One hundred and thirty-two penial-preputial swabbings, 140 raw and 42 processed semen samples were cultured for mycoplasmas.
  • (14) The raw data are obtained by capillary gas chromatography using a nitrogen-phosphorus detector.
  • (15) We therefore surveyed patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) regarding early adult consumption of fruits and vegetables usually eaten raw, with seeds that are swallowed or scraped with the teeth.
  • (16) The raw air curve is determined by sequentially counting radionuclide activity in respiratory gases sampled at the mouth.
  • (17) The restriction enzyme patterns of the nine clinical isolates from the 1983 Massachusetts outbreak were identical to each other but differed from those of raw milk isolates recovered from sources supplying the pasteurizer.
  • (18) Nitrogen retention in lambs fed raw, dehulled lupins was equal (P greater than .10) to that of lambs fed SBM.
  • (19) It is postulated that rural children were being infected by campylobacters at an early age by drinking contaminated raw milk which was not normally available to city residents.
  • (20) The third step was the correction of raw FFR amplitudes by an algorithm that takes into account several noise values.

Styptic


Definition:

  • (a.) Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.
  • (n.) A styptic medicine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One method relied primarily on hemostatic sutures, and the other involved the use of a styptic solution (Monsel's solution) and vaginal pack, thus avoiding the use of sutures altogether.
  • (2) The possibility of transmission of virus particles from patient to patient by multi-use silver nitrate sticks and styptic pencils and by cotton wool swabs that have been dipped repeatedly into Dewar flasks of liquid nitrogen was studied.

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