What's the difference between regrow and shed?

Regrow


Definition:

  • (v. i. & t.) To grow again.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Finally, using a newly developed paradigm for examining the composition of regenerating axons by axonal transport, we determined that significant amounts of the 57 kDa neuronal IF protein were conveyed into the regrowing axonal sprouts of DRG neurons.
  • (2) These findings indicate that injured retinal ganglion cells in the adult rat are not only able to regrow lengthy axons, but may also form synapses in the SC.
  • (3) In 2013, the Western Australian native vegetation regulations were relaxed to allow up to five hectares of clearing at a time, without a permit, and the re-clearing of regrowing forests up to 20 years old.
  • (4) Likewise, a neoplasm may regrow locally or metastasize if a surgical border infiltrated with neoplastic cells is falsely assumed to be an artifactual trimming border.
  • (5) In crushed sciatic nerves, where axons were allowed to regrow into the distal stumps, the number of Schwann cells expressing immunohistochemically detectable quantities of galactocerebroside in the stump declined over the first 3 weeks, but by 9 weeks after crush the total percentage of galactocerebroside-positive cells in the nerve had risen to control levels.
  • (6) Advancing age affects the ability of motor neurons to regrow axons after the facial nerve is crushed.
  • (7) In order to determine whether this failure to regenerate axons is intrinsic to the neurons or is mediated by the environment, we asked whether ganglion cells possess an ability to regrow their injured axons in the absence of their natural environment, namely in vitro.
  • (8) She said companies need to be more transparent about the source of wood used in their products and decrease reliance on mature forests that might take hundreds of years to regrow, thereby undermining any potential emission mitigation.
  • (9) The estrogen-binding capacity of the regrowing tumors after endocrine ablation surgery was estimated in the rat and human breast cancer.
  • (10) On the contrary, patients with regrowing hair showed a significant increase of circulating OKT 8+ cells compared with controls (p less than 0.002).
  • (11) A deterioration of the ability to regrow is accompanied by increasing fat body polyploidy.
  • (12) Within a period of weeks, the injured sciatic nerve is able to regrow and successfully reinnervate the appropriate targets.
  • (13) In the present review, we examine several aspects of the outcome of the interaction between the microenvironment and regrowing neurones using the cockroach giant interneurones (GINs) as a model system.
  • (14) While heat-treated tumors always started to regrow within 2 days of treatment, regrowth if it occurred was delayed to 4-5 days after PDT and 6-7 days following combined treatments.
  • (15) Interestingly, an episodical alopecia totalis and subsequent regrow exhibiting different hair color was observable.
  • (16) At 14 days postirradiation, tumors were regrowing at a reduced rate relative to controls.
  • (17) The year before, in 1997, the first regenerative cell-therapy had been given the go ahead, where stem cells were used to regrow cartilage in the knee.
  • (18) First, get rid of the beard entirely, wait six months to a year for the tail end of this hipsterness "peak beard" nonsense to pass, then regrow it, safely beyond the boundaries of fashionability or otherwise.
  • (19) Nevertheless, although both individually measured alpha 0 and beta, Gompertzian parameters varied from one animal to another, in both free-growing and post-treatment regrowing tumours a strong linear correlation between alpha 0 and beta was found.
  • (20) Retention of estrogen receptor in regrowing tumors long after endocrine ablation in rat and human breast cancer is reported.

Shed


Definition:

  • (n.) A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wood shed.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Shed
  • (v. t.) To separate; to divide.
  • (v. t.) To part with; to throw off or give forth from one's self; to emit; to diffuse; to cause to emanate or flow; to pour forth or out; to spill; as, the sun sheds light; she shed tears; the clouds shed rain.
  • (v. t.) To let fall; to throw off, as a natural covering of hair, feathers, shell; to cast; as, fowls shed their feathers; serpents shed their skins; trees shed leaves.
  • (v. t.) To cause to flow off without penetrating; as, a tight roof, or covering of oiled cloth, sheeds water.
  • (v. t.) To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
  • (v. t.) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
  • (v. i.) To fall in drops; to pour.
  • (v. i.) To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope.
  • (n.) A parting; a separation; a division.
  • (n.) The act of shedding or spilling; -- used only in composition, as in bloodshed.
  • (n.) That which parts, divides, or sheds; -- used in composition, as in watershed.
  • (n.) The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
  • (2) The role of surgery in triggering the reactivation of latent HSV-1, and the differences in rates of viral shedding between American and Japanese are discussed.
  • (3) The viruses shed by the volunteers were indistinguishable from those with which they were inoculated.
  • (4) The cercariae shed from the snails were again exposed to several species of fresh water snails in order to observe metacercarial formation in the snails and their infectivity to final hosts.
  • (5) The mean loss of hemoglobin and total protein per 100 ml of shed blood was similar in IMA-, and SVG-patients with or without aprotinin, although aprotinin diminished the total amounts in both groups with 50% (p < 0.01).
  • (6) Perhaps it’s the lot of people like my colleagues here in the centre and me to wrestle with our consciences, shed tears, lose sleep and try to make the best of a very bad, heart-breaking job and leave the rest of the world to party, get pissed and celebrate Christmas.
  • (7) The results are discussed in light of recent findings that elevated levels of gangliosides are found in in the sera of tumor-bearing animals, and it is suggested that gangliosides shed by tumor cells could be involved in the generalized immunosuppression observed in such animals.
  • (8) The result that shed walls can be solubilized by boiling in SDS-dithiothreitol indicates that disulfide linkages are critical for wall integrity.
  • (9) The minutes – which will be redacted – are expected to shed light on the thinking at the highest level of the Bank during the crisis, when Mervyn (now Lord) King was governor.
  • (10) The results of a retrospective study shed new light on the risks of specific cardiac defects in diabetic pregnancies.
  • (11) Our studies show that loss of Tf receptor from rat reticulocytes during maturation in vitro involves shedding of cellular Tf receptor in vesicles and release of soluble receptor from these vesicles.
  • (12) Instead of shedding jobs, many employers seem to be favouring pay restraint and reduced working hours as a means of controlling costs."
  • (13) The results suggest, that transformed epithelial cells can modulate the appearance of syndecan on the cell-surface by at least two ways: (a) by altering its glycosylation or (b) by increasing its shedding from the cell surface.
  • (14) In the light of the considerable number of prisoners and ex-prisoners in the original Kinsey sample, it is possible that the Institute for Sex Research might have in its files material that would shed light on this problem.
  • (15) Earlier results from PCR detection of adenoviruses in stool from children suffering from diarrhea gave indications that adenovirus particles are commonly shed in stools without being identified as the cause of illness [Allard et al.
  • (16) Current research may shed more light on this latter component and also provide the data for future psychoanalytic theorizing about character and personality.
  • (17) In naive cows, strain 433.31 induced less exudation of plasma into the milk, shedding of bacteria, macroscopic alteration, and a lower somatic cell count (SCC) than did the reference strain.
  • (18) We also observed the number of survived rats and plasma ir-ANP levels stimulated by volume loading of the shed blood or fluid.
  • (19) The loss of outer segment material through shedding was assessed by monitoring the phagosome content of the pigment epithelium.
  • (20) Tearfilm virus shedding secondary to electrical induction in high-dose and low-dose cyclophosphamide animals was higher than that of control, non-immunosuppressed animals.

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