What's the difference between sallow and sickly?

Sallow


Definition:

  • (n.) The willow; willow twigs.
  • (n.) A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, S. cinerea, etc.
  • (superl.) Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin.
  • (v. t.) To tinge with sallowness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fine wrinkling, coarse wrinkling, sallowness, looseness, and hyperpigmentation were significantly improved with tretinoin therapy.
  • (2) In her autobiography she writes, “Oh, the moment of complete triumph on the day that I kept my balance and came right into shore standing upright on my board!” Just as Fowles claimed to have found his inspiration for Sarah Woodruff in a dream of a strange, sallow-faced woman staring out to sea, so, too, I imagined a woman riding proudly on to Devon’s shores, standing upright on a board.
  • (3) 28.70% had typical facial looks of anaemia and sallow complexion.
  • (4) Clinical changes included decreases in surface roughness, irregular pigmentation, fine and coarse wrinkling, and sallowness.
  • (5) By counting the spores of protozoon Nosema apis Z. in Bürker's chamber the author was able to find, in 1495 caged bees sacrificed one week after the parasite invasion, from altogether 26 samples of various feeds statistically sifnificant differences of influencing the protozoon development only in sallow pollen.
  • (6) Clinically, patients experience decreased wrinkling, improved texture, and pinkening of sallow skin.
  • (7) Many disused railways have been turned into green footpaths, but this had been abandoned and enveloped in hawthorn, sallow and elder, with the occasional fly-tipped fridge thrown from a bridge.
  • (8) The forlorn expression and the sallow complexion, I'm sorry to say, are the model's own.
  • (9) Come, friendly caterpillars Inspired by the landscaping of Milton Keynes (which was conceived as a forest city), I’ve just planted 150 shoots of sallow in my garden.
  • (10) When compared with vehicle, treatment with isotretinoin resulted in statistically significant improvement in overall appearance, fine wrinkling, discrete pigmentation, sallowness, and texture.
  • (11) Young off-duty local waiters for the most part, sallow and saturnine or handsomely jowly, smoking furiously between sets in the high cold frozen sun before they diligently remount the high cold frozen metal stairs past a flutter of busy-bee BBC continuity wizards: loop-fed multilingual script editors with one eye and one ear on the monitor, one ear clamped to a headphone, chill mittened fingers rewinding pages, an impossible third ear half-tuned to shouted stage directions.
  • (12) Unlike the dapper Derrida, Žižek is a sight for sore eyes: pale to the point of sallow, bearded, overweight and effortlessly eccentric.
  • (13) Labour MPs looked sallow, in expectation of defeat.
  • (14) 75% of patients had increased specific IgE-titres against these pollens whereas maple, poplar, elm, sallow and ash allergens more often gave negative or only weak positive test results.
  • (15) Her face is sallow; there are shadows under her eyes.
  • (16) Examination of 1260 bees 14 days after the invasion demonstrated that, as compared with glycide food, the parasite development was enhanced by a feed consisting of 6, 9, and 12 per cent fresh rape pollen, 3 and 6 per cent of fresh and dried sallow pollen, 6 per cent freeze-dried pollen mixture, pollen deposited in honeycombs, 7.5, 10, and 12.5 per cent yeast dough, "Arnika" and 3 per cent Bacto peptone.
  • (17) Patulin was found in fruit with spontaneous brown rot (bananas, pineapples, grapes, peaches, apricots) as well as in moldy compots and in sallow-thorn juice.
  • (18) Chronic renal failure, regardless of its cause, often produces xerosis, pruritus, sallow hyperpigmentation, and nail changes.
  • (19) I was a shallow, sallow, thoroughly unwell shithead with delusions of grandeur, but it was all I knew how to be.
  • (20) Positive reactions, often of high intensity, were most often found with birch, alder, bog-myrtle, beech and hazel allergens whereas oak, aspen, linden, elm, sallow, maple and poplar allergens more often gave negative or only weak positive test results.

Sickly


Definition:

  • (superl.) Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body.
  • (superl.) Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate.
  • (superl.) Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.
  • (superl.) Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.
  • (adv.) In a sick manner or condition; ill.
  • (v. t.) To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
  • (2) The relationship between cold-insoluble complexes, or cryoglobulins, and renal disease was studied in rabbits with acute serum sickness produced with BSA.
  • (3) Decompression sickness and air embolism are medical emergencies.
  • (4) A total of 6 cases of sick sinus syndrome were presented, including 2 cases of sinoatrial (SA) block and 4 cases of bradycardia-tachycardia syndrome.
  • (5) Inner Ear Decompression Sickness (IEDCS)--manifested by tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and hearing loss--is usually associated with deep air or mixed gas dives, and accompanied by other CNS symptoms of decompression sickness (DCS).
  • (6) The regimen used at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, provides 2.0 to 2.5 gm protein per kilogram ideal body weight, plus adequate fluid and nutrient supplements.
  • (7) I am absolutely sick to the stomach that this iconic Australian news agency would attack the navy in the way that it has,” he said.
  • (8) This "first exposure" determines whether one views oneself as "sick" or changed.
  • (9) We suggest that sick districts can be affirmed on the basis of the total amount of fluoride intake, the prevalence rates of dental fluorosis, bad incomplete teeth, milk-teeth and the mean output of urinary fluoride between 8 and 15 years of age.
  • (10) Clarke varies the intensity of sessions but for most of the time it's go hard or go home: I've learned that neither more pain nor being sick are anything to be afraid of.
  • (11) Thus, carotid sinus massage and, to some extent, isoprenaline administration appear simple bedside tests which may be helpful in identifying the underlying mechanism of sick sinus syndrome.
  • (12) Rapid techniques were applied to study functional activity of peripheral blood phagocytes in acute sick patients and upon discharge.
  • (13) The questionnaires (Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales [AIMS], Functional Status Index [FSI], Health Assessment Questionnaire [HAQ], Index of Well Being [IWB], and Sickness Impact Profile [SIP]) were administered to 38 patients with end-stage arthritis at three points in time: two weeks before hip or knee arthroplasty, and at three-month and 12- to 15-month follow-up.
  • (14) The results from the first session indicated that the development of motion sickness was accompanied by increased EGG 4-9 cpm activity (gastric tachyarrhythmia), decreased mean successive differences of RRI, increased skin conductance levels, and increased self-motion perception.
  • (15) No sick or dead monkeys were found in all the forests checked around Entebbe area during the epizootic.
  • (16) Implantation of a single-chamber pacemaker was planned in an 83-year-old woman with sick-sinus syndrome causing dizziness, bradycardia and tachycardia.
  • (17) In a Europe (including Britain) where austerity has become the economic dogma of the elite in spite of massive evidence that it is choking growth and worsening the very sickness it claims to heal, there are plenty of rational, sensible arguments for taking to the streets.
  • (18) There are no more operational hospitals and not a single ambulance to rescue the ever-growing number of wounded and sick.
  • (19) The aim of this study was to compare the predictive power of a simple illness severity score (Clinical Sickness Score) to that of APACHE II in a District General Hospital intensive therapy unit.
  • (20) This is confirmed by a slight inhibition of SLE target cell proliferation and the activating effect of immunoregulatory cells on the proliferation of "sick" targets.