What's the difference between retrogress and simpler?

Retrogress


Definition:

  • (n.) Retrogression.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After violence had run its bloody course, the country’s rulers conceded it had been a catastrophe that had brought nothing but “grave disorder, damage and retrogression”.
  • (2) Thus it is clear that DAB induced hepatoma exhibits retrogressive change in hepatic differentiation in its isozyme profile.
  • (3) Theophyllin and puromycine, inhibitors of the enzyme phosphodiesterase and AMPc are all able to inhibit the retrogression of mullerian ducts in the female chick embryo, grafted with an embryonic testis.
  • (4) Beatrix Campbell, in a letter to the London Review of Books this January, mentions Thatcher's "retrogressive modernisation", as described by Hall.
  • (5) Treated with TCM of Ziyin Xiehuo, (nourish vital essence reducing intense internal heat) and remitted, the levels of serum FSH, LH, E2 descend significantly, the volume of uterus and ovary reduce markedly, secondary sexual characteristics retrogress evidently, while the features of intense internal heat due to deficiency of vital essence mitigate obviously.
  • (6) Cavenagh said although the arrest was lawful under NT legislation, the paperless arrest scheme was “retrogressive” and unjustifiable preventive detention.
  • (7) Rabbits given a single high dose of digitoxin and some of the antiarrhythmic drugs and those given a small dose of digitoxin for only four days, presented a retrogressive increase of digitoxin level in serum 5-6 days later.
  • (8) Possibly even retrogressive changes are occurring, except in those rare sub-populations in which special social and cultural practices tend to favor selective perpetuation of characteristics which are usually viewed as beneficial.
  • (9) Detailed morphological studies have shown that posttraumatic osteomyelitis often begins with a necrosis of the outer tangential lamella of the tubular bone partly promoted by partial periosteal retrogression, possibly followed by a necrosis of the fracture ends caused by a disturbance of the medullary blood circulation.
  • (10) Rationality belongs to the individual,” Laclau writes, characterising the anti-populist thesis, and when the individual takes part in a crowd or a mass movement they are subject to the most criminal or beastly elements of that group and undergo a “biological retrogression” to a less enlightened state of being.
  • (11) "Retrogression is what you talk about in human rights when you go backwards, and that is what we are seeing now.
  • (12) Different tendencies can be observed in the different types of sports: skiing accidents have, after a long period of retrogression until 1973, shown a noticeable augmentation again.
  • (13) In chronic infections and parasitoses they evoke a retrogression of the fatty tissue (cachexia).
  • (14) From the results the tendency of a retrogression of the holiday effect is to be read off in the course of years.
  • (15) Since neuroretinopathy consequentially worsens both the subjective (visual acuity, sensitivity to the contrast) and objective (electric activity) sight functions, the appropriate attempt is to be made in achieving rapidly retrogression of pathologic retinal changes by modification of dialysis process.
  • (16) The high grade destruction of muscle tissue leads to a not retrogressive stenosis, even after sanitation of biliary tract, which principally should be discised.
  • (17) In 7 cases a complete retrogression of the lodge to the size of the urethra could be proved radiologically.
  • (18) Concerning personality, the children showed elements of "dependence" "retrogression" and "maladaptation to school (kindergarten)".
  • (19) Treatment with neomercazole had shown, good correlation between time lag and the retrogressive changes.
  • (20) After administration of testosterone propionate to male chick embryos and chickens, their testis have an activity, on the retrogression of mullerian ducts, much more important than that observed in testis of normal subjects of the same age, activity measured by grafting testis fragments in undifferentiated female chick embryos.

Simpler


Definition:

  • (n.) One who collects simples, or medicinal plants; a herbalist; a simplist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The pattern of results in simpler tasks is more difficult to interpret.
  • (2) Speaking in the BBC's Radio Theatre, Hall will emphasise the need for a better, simpler BBC, as part of efforts to streamline management.
  • (3) Incomplete penetrance of the simpler pattern suggests that this genetic locus interacts in a probabilistic manner with epigenetic mechanisms involved in morphogenesis of the cerebellum.
  • (4) Our results show that although kriging is a statistically optimal method, it is not markedly better than simpler interpolation algorithms, though it is considerably more complex to use.
  • (5) The relatively heavy computing effort required is emphasized, and contrasted with the rather simpler calculations associated with traditional statistical methods.
  • (6) The flanking segments also show homology to a simpler 30 nucleotide sequence from which they likely originated.
  • (7) Peter Travers, film critic at Rolling Stone, offered a simpler explanation: "Why is The Lone Ranger such a huge flop at the box office?"
  • (8) With k-valued characters and, especially, with large trees, the types of configuration sets (events) used in the simpler examples are too rare (i.e., their predicted frequencies are too low) to be useful, and the construction of meaningful pairs of independent events becomes an important and nontrivial task in designing invariants suited to testing specific hypotheses.
  • (9) Instead it said that the changing of the settings – which previously required users to navigate through up to 150 different settings to control who could see their data, to a simpler four-tiered version plus a "customise" option – was "merely a red herring".
  • (10) But once installed the couple must decide how to live their daily lives: surrounded by butlers, dressers, cooks and cleaners, or more akin to the simpler life they have so far enjoyed.
  • (11) HSBC sold around 7,000 of a simpler type of interest rate product.
  • (12) The method of plasma exchange we used was simpler and cheaper than the conventional method.
  • (13) An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is proposed which is simpler and less expensive than RIA.
  • (14) Thoresen said: "We think the system needs to be fairer, and needs to be simpler and easier for people to understand.
  • (15) For H(+) ion blockage, a simpler model, in which H(+) enters the channel only from the bathing medium, is found to be sufficient.
  • (16) In many biomedical applications, such as electronic implantable devices, these simpler techniques have greater utility because of the reduced requirements on power, logic complexity and sampling speed.
  • (17) This method is a more direct, simpler and more accurate one for the assessment of rehabilitation effectiveness in clinics than the more widely used direct measurement of energy cost by indirect calorimetry.
  • (18) Making data collection simpler creates added public health value: on one occasion, 12 overdose reversals were reported in one location during a 24-hour period.
  • (19) Enzymatic syntheses of nucleosides can be simpler and quicker than syntheses carried out by chemical methods.
  • (20) Cutting up carcasses is the simpler of the two techniques but there are circumstances in which beetle digestion would be advantageous.