What's the difference between schilling and shilling?
Schilling
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several small German and Dutch coins, worth from about one and a half cents to about five cents.
Example Sentences:
(1) Evidence for malabsorption existed in 24 patients--impaired xylose absorption (n = 19) and abnormal Schilling test (n = 21).
(2) ALPh-A diminishes at a slower rate with increasing age than the left shift according to Schilling 4.
(3) There was no correlation between the (14)C-GCA test, the Schilling test, and the extent and severity of the radiological signs in the unoperated patients.
(4) It didn't affect its biological activity either in vitro in presence of solubilised receptor, or in vivo in the Schilling test.
(5) Possibly such malabsorption may also be present in many of those vegans developing overt vitamin-B12 deficiency in whom Schilling test findings have been normal.
(6) A repeat Schilling test after 4 months of therapy showed a normal VB12 absorption in the presence of IF.
(7) Although the dual isotope test gave reproducible results and was consistent with the standard Schilling test some anomalies were detected; nine patients had reduced aqueous absorption with normal protein bound absorption.
(8) With the advent of binding assays for vitamin B12 in blood, the Schilling test, which involves administration of radioactive B12 to a patient and subsequent urine collection for 24 to 48 h, fell into disuse in many laboratories.
(9) The advantages, particularly for developing countries, over the more commonly used Schilling test are discussed.
(10) Despite Schillings' letter, he knows this is about to change.
(11) These percentages were correlated with the Schilling test and with the ability of intestinal juice to degrade haptocorrin.
(12) In patients with uremia the SST was significantly more reliable than the Schilling test.
(13) Of the patients with a severely abnormal Schilling test, a pathogen was identified in 11 (79%) (including all five with cryptosporidia, and two of the patients with only moderate diarrhoea and weight loss).
(14) Indeed, because of the serious complications of vitamin B12 deficiency and the observations that deficiencies of this vitamin may occur even when the absorption of crystalline vitamin B12 is normal in the fasting state (the conventional Schilling test), some authors, such as Rygvold, have suggested that prophylactic vitamin B12 be administered to all patients with partial gastric resection.
(15) It is suggested that the augmented Schilling test may be useful in the diagnosis of the occasional patient with features of pernicious anaemia who fails to respond to conventional doses of intrinsic factor in the Schilling test.
(16) Results of the Schilling test, but not of the stool-fat estimations, are proportional to the length of ileal resection, up to 60 cm.
(17) The correlation coefficients were statistically significant for increased MPO activity with band count, toxic granulation, and the Schilling Index; however, the orders of magnitude were too low to suggest the use of MPO as a clinical parameter.
(18) The excessive granulocytic or macrophage colony growth may be an in vitro indication for an in vivo proliferation of either granulocytic or monocytic leukemic cell lines, and therefore may represent the Naegeli or Schilling variants of AMML respectively.
(19) The original Schilling formula, based on findings in a European population at the beginning of this century are still used as reference in our country.
(20) Hydroxocobalamin and cyanocobalamin have been compared as the 'flushing dose' in the Schilling test.
Shilling
Definition:
(n.) A silver coin, and money of account, of Great Britain and its dependencies, equal to twelve pence, or the twentieth part of a pound, equivalent to about twenty-four cents of the United States currency.
(n.) In the United States, a denomination of money, differing in value in different States. It is not now legally recognized.
(n.) The Spanish real, of the value of one eight of a dollar, or 12/ cets; -- formerly so called in New York and some other States. See Note under 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) The World Bank has revised down growth estimates, and the Kenyan shilling sank to a record low against the dollar in October, pushing food and fuel prices higher.
(2) A friend heard the butcher boast five shillings that he would be let off again by the tribunal, for the sixth time.
(3) A well-meaning litany of no-nos: don't be racist, don't be sexist, don't be homophobic, don't shill the World Cup to countries with human-rights issues .
(4) They charge fees of 3,000 Ugandan shillings – about US$2 – a term.
(5) A note on the text The first edition of Dracula appeared in bookshops on 26 May 1897, price six shillings, in a print run (from the publishers Archibald Constable and Co) of some 3,000 copies bound in plain yellow cloth with the one-word title in simple red lettering.
(6) One gloomy August afternoon Stevenson took Lloyd's shilling box of water-colours and made a map of an island.
(7) I'd go across the street with him and give him a 10-shilling note to get home because he never had any money, and that was it.'
(8) "Today I bought a goat, slaughtered, at 25,000 shillings (around £7)," she says, pausing in her shuttle between customers and pot.
(9) "The fossil fuel industry and its shills are willing to exploit any crisis and go to any lengths in their effort to extract more dirty fuels and dismantle critical climate policies.
(10) With significant donor support from Britain and others, the government has allocated more than 2tn shillings (£856,000) for education in 2010-11, about double its spending on health.
(11) They have only to make their papers good enough in order to win, as well as to merit, success, and the resources of a newspaper are not wholly measured in pounds, shillings, and pence.
(12) But the health centre hasn't the 200,000 shillings (£56) to pay for it.
(13) So why is my overriding desire for the next 12 months to see Morrissey and Marr (and the lawnmower parts ) to put creative differences and court cases behind them, take the shilling for a criminally vulgar reunion concert, and risk tainting my memories?
(14) "Some local staff working for NGOs and UN agencies ask for 3,000 shillings [around £20] to give you a food card.
(15) You then send between 100 shillings (74p) and 35,000 shillings (£259) via text message to the desired recipient - even someone on a different mobile network - who cashes it at an agent by entering a secret code and showing ID.
(16) Osteoarchaeologist Katie Tucker looked again at the bones in the museum when tests showed the team of local historians and residents, and experts from the university, that the bones from St Bartholomew, sold to a 19th-century vicar for 10 shillings as those of Alfred and his family, were centuries too late.
(17) The Uganda Red Cross will need to raise 2.5bn shillings (£640,000) for a three-month operation.
(18) And by doing so I've learned that Thiago Silva is not going to Barcelona because he has signed a new deal that will deliver a few extra PSG shillings into his pockets and keep him at the Parc des Princes until 2018.
(19) A young Treasury minister was once sent out to public meetings to explain currency metrication from the old 20 shillings and 12 pennies.
(20) In 1914 the Treasury printed and issued 10 shilling and £1 notes.