What's the difference between rivulet and vasty?

Rivulet


Definition:

  • (n.) A small stream or brook; a streamlet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We are in the garden, the sun is beating and a rivulet of sweat is running down Tyson's nose.
  • (2) The floor is splattered with globules and rivulets of dried paint; you could almost be standing on an enormous Jackson Pollock.
  • (3) The Burnieshed has been re-braided: forced into narrow rivulets it rushes and tumbles, waiting in pools it fizzes and foams.
  • (4) As long-time Willistonians and newcomers alike are quick to point out, however, the amount of oil sitting below the surface of North Dakota is enormous compared to the rivulets of gold once found in the Klondike.
  • (5) Heavy rain was running down Pardew's back in rivulets by the time Yoan Gouffran missed a stoppage-time sitter to ensure the manager's 100th league game in charge of Newcastle would end in frustration.
  • (6) These rich, blowsy flowers from which paint dribbles in rivulets are a metaphor not just for transience but embody too the sensuality of life.
  • (7) This is a truly spectacular spot to swim, so plunge in and cool down under the fast-flowing rivulets of the small waterfall, which flows over a cave covered with moss.
  • (8) Satyarthi forces him to take water from a plastic bottle and he gulps at it hungrily, head tilted back, rivulets running down his face.
  • (9) We have now got to that scene in the Brexit movie where rivulets of sweat begin to drip down the faces of the crew.
  • (10) The fashion aficionado had always had a dream of opening a luxury hotel and with its spectacular villages and rivulets, streams and beaches, Pelion appealed as an all-year-round tourist destination.
  • (11) At the same mo-ment he is "cheered by the music of a thousand tinkling rills and rivulets whose veins are filled with the blood of winter which they are bearing off"; at other times he eavesdrops on "the faint wiry peep" of the baby woodcock being led by their mother through the swamp.
  • (12) Professor Shakeel Romshoo, a geologist at Kashmir university in Srinagar, said new rivulets had cut deep channels in the mountain gorges of the region and floodwaters had inundated low-lying areas.

Vasty


Definition:

  • (a.) Vast; immense.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recordings were also made during stimulation of nerves to the gracilis muscle and to the vasti muscle group.
  • (2) Four children investigated for neuromuscular disorder by routine ultrasound imaging showed selective involvement within the quadriceps femoris muscle, with involvement of the vasti and sparing of the rectus femoris.
  • (3) The integrated electromyographic signals associated with the peak torque for all of the vastus muscles, along with the vastus medialis obliquus:vastus lateralis and vastus medialis longus:vastus lateralis activity ratios showed no significant differences between groups nor between the three angles, suggesting that all vasti measured were consistently active throughout the studied range of motion.
  • (4) The limited monosynaptic input produced by stimulation of the nerves to the gracilis and vasti muscles showed that their Ia axons do not distinguish between the two semimembranosus cell groups.
  • (5) Vasti motoneurons were excited, and PB-ST motoneurons were inhibited by knee extensions when the posterior articular nerve (PAN) was intact; these effects were lost or substantially reduced when the PAN was cut.
  • (6) The recording technique must be capable of differentiating rectus femoris action from that of the underlying vasti, which surface electrodes are not able to do.
  • (7) In that position the vasti muscles together with the semimembranosus formed a force couple for stabilizing the knee joint.
  • (8) The results of this study indicate that although with increases of speed and upward tilt the absolute values of integrated EMG increased more for the calf than for the vastus muscles, the relative increases of EMG were consistently greater for the vasti, which reached their peak intensity of activity at moments during the walking stride, when their knee extending action stretched the gastrocnemius heads across the back of the knee joint, and thereby assisted the calf muscles lift the heel, and plantar flex the ankle joint--the most essential actions for producing the push-off and thrust in the normal walking stride.
  • (9) His SF has been called "space opera", and its grand reach across the vasty deep is one reason.
  • (10) Positive feedback was observed in both knee extensor (vasti) and knee flexor (posterior biceps-semitendinosus (PB-ST)) motoneuron populations.
  • (11) The pattern of membrane potential variations was more complex in motoneurons of rectus femoris and posterior biceps-semitendinosus muscles, but phases of chloride dependent inhibition were nevertheless identified, mainly during the sartorius nerve activation in the case of rectus femoris, and during the vasti and anterior biceps-semimembranosus nerve activations in the case of posterior biceps-semitendinosus.
  • (12) The operative procedure recommended is either release of the affected vasti at their insertion to the patella or Z-lengthening of the common tendon of the quadriceps.
  • (13) vasti medialis and lateralis both have a synergistic function with regard to the extension of the knee and an antagonistic function in stabilizing the rotation of the femur against the tibia.
  • (14) In the mixed type, an additional division of the scarred portion of the vasti is needed.
  • (15) vasti is very important in preventing knee injuries, especially ligamentous ruptures.
  • (16) In motoneurons innervating sartorius (medialis and lateralis), vasti (intermedius, medialis and lateralis) and anterior biceps-semimembranous, one depolarization occurred in each locomotor cycle, alternating with a phase of repolarization that was synchronous with the activation of the antagonistic muscle nerve.
  • (17) Vasti and gluteus maximus muscles are the major energy producers of the lower extremity.

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