What's the difference between response and taxis?

Response


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of responding.
  • (n.) An answer or reply.
  • (n.) Reply to an objection in formal disputation.
  • (n.) The answer of the people or congregation to the priest or clergyman, in the litany and other parts of divine service.
  • (n.) A kind of anthem sung after the lessons of matins and some other parts of the office.
  • (n.) A repetition of the given subject in a fugue by another part on the fifth above or fourth below.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Intestinal dilatation seemed in all cases a response to elevated CO2 only.
  • (2) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
  • (3) Furthermore, it had early diagnostic (seven days) as well as prognostic value, as revealed by response to therapy and decrease in COA titer.
  • (4) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
  • (5) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
  • (6) These channels may, at least in some cases, be responsible for the generation of pacemaker depolarizations, thereby regulating firing behaviour.
  • (7) Oxyhaemoglobin (4 microns at 0.35 ml.min-1) infused into the tracheal circulation almost abolished the responses to bradykinin and methacholine.
  • (8) Three categories of UV response have been identified.
  • (9) LHRH therapy leads to higher plasma LH levels and a lower FSH in response to an intravenous LHRH test.
  • (10) Bronchial challenge caused an immediate asthmatic response.
  • (11) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
  • (12) The telencephalic proliferative response has been studied in adult newts after lesion on the central nervous system.
  • (13) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
  • (14) In addition, this pretreatment protocol did not modify the recipient immune response against B-lymphocyte alloantigens which developed in unsuccessful transplants.
  • (15) In dogs, cibenzoline given i.v., had no effects on the slow response systems, probably because of sympathetic nervous system intervention since the class 4 effects of cibenzoline appeared after beta-adrenoceptor blockade.
  • (16) As a consequence, similar response curves were obtained for urine specimens containing morphine or barbiturates.
  • (17) At the early phase of the sensitization a T-cell response was seen in vitro, characterized by an increased spleen but no peripheral blood lymphocyte reactivity to T-cell mitogens at the same time as increased reactivity to the sensitizing antigen was detected.
  • (18) The ability of azelastine to influence antigen-induced contractile responses (Schultz-Dale phenomenon) in isolated tracheal segments of the guinea-pig was investigated and compared with selected antiallergic drugs and inhibitors of arachidonic acid metabolism.
  • (19) With aging, the blood vessel wall becomes hyperreactive--presumably because of an augmented vasoconstrictor and a reduced vasodilator responsiveness.
  • (20) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.

Taxis


Definition:

  • (n.) Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In January, Paris taxi drivers attacked an Uber car transporting two passengers from Charles de Gaulle airport.
  • (2) The two main taxi associations said 100% of their members had parked their cars for the day in an effort to raise awareness over what they called unfair competition.
  • (3) Prosecutors in San Francisco and Los Angeles alleged that it was false for Uber to say it was the leader in screening drivers when its background checks were inferior to the process taxi drivers undergo, since Uber does not include fingerprint checks.
  • (4) Lorry drivers showed excess deaths from stomach cancer (SMR 141, p less than 0.05), lung cancer (SMR 159, p less than 0.05), bronchitis, emphysema, and asthma (SMR 143, p less than 0.05), a pattern not evident among taxi drivers.
  • (5) Ester already has a second child with her husband, who makes a living using his bicycle to provide a taxi service.
  • (6) Mutants in malF and malK are defective in maltose transport at low concentrations as well as high concentrations, as previously shown, but are essentially normal in maltose taxis.
  • (7) His business mentor was Andre Rousselet, a close friend of François Mitterrand, who appointed him to run the well-known French taxi firm Taxi G7 where he made his fortune.
  • (8) Taxis will still accept customers hailing them from the street.
  • (9) The head of the New South Wales taxi council has lashed out at Labor leader Luke Foley’s support for Uber, likening the system to “WorkChoices on steroids”.
  • (10) SpaceX is among four firms vying to build space taxis to fly astronauts, tourists and non-Nasa researchers.
  • (11) Gilbride, now a taxi driver in Stirling, has refused to comment.
  • (12) A taxi driver in the Dominican Republic, when shown a picture of Brown, said: "I picked him up from a Thomson flight three months ago.
  • (13) They had been drinking and he persuaded her back to the hotel and said he’d get her a taxi home.
  • (14) One investor who spoke up in defence of bonuses – the former City fund manager and Conservative party donor Patrick Evershed – was jeered by one of those present, who shouted "call him a taxi".
  • (15) Amsterdam Uber drivers have been blocked in by taxi drivers and one reported having his tyres slashed.
  • (16) Yadav’s victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she had dozed off in a taxi while returning home from dinner.
  • (17) Many are first- or second-generation immigrants from places such as Afghanistan, Poland, Somalia and Nigeria eager to sign up to drive for the US tech company, whose phone-based minicab-hailing app has transformed the taxi industry in 58 countries.
  • (18) A business trip to New York in November 2006, in which Bennett spent £315.16 staying at the W Hotel in Manhattan, saw her claim £2.49 for a taxi to check in to the hotel following a board meeting and £2.49 for one because she was "carrying bags and confidential paperwork".
  • (19) Almost all taxi and private hire drivers have been self-employed for decades before our app existed and with Uber they have more control.
  • (20) The voices of the other characters – Thomas's mother as well as a cast of recognisable grotesques: a taxi driver, a bully, the local drunk – add to the atmosphere of dissolving reality and, at times, to the sense that they may exist only in Magill's head.

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