What's the difference between sequel and sequela?

Sequel


Definition:

  • (n.) That which follows; a succeeding part; continuation; as, the sequel of a man's advantures or history.
  • (n.) Consequence; event; effect; result; as, let the sun cease, fail, or swerve, and the sequel would be ruin.
  • (n.) Conclusion; inference.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Once a liver abscess as a sequel to amebic dysentery was diagnosed and once a megaloplastic anemia with symptoms of a funicular myelopathy following a vitamin B12 deficiency syndrome.
  • (2) "We are planning a sequel [to Alpha Papa], yes, that will be great," Normal told the Guardian.
  • (3) Disturbance of the arterial circulation in the ipsilateral upper limb following mastectomy is a rare sequel attributed to adjuvant radiotherapy.
  • (4) A film sequel to 2013’s Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa is also on the cards.
  • (5) Three female actors, including former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko , are rumoured to be in the running for the lead female role in the upcoming sequel to superhero reboot Man of Steel, reports Variety .
  • (6) He admitted the increased profile afforded him by appearances in movies such as Captain America , its forthcoming sequel The Winter Soldier and 2012's $1.5bn superhero ensemble piece The Avengers had helped him get a foot on the ladder as a film-maker.
  • (7) Following his exposure of racism in Invisible Man, a sequel, Juneteenth, was left uncompleted at his death in 1994.
  • (8) This is a sequel to the paper, where a model which describes ranged series of codon frequencies was proposed.
  • (9) Hyperlipacidaemias play a role as etiological partial factor in the pathogenesis of various acute and chronic functional disturbances and are essentially the sequel of a disturbed metabolism of the free fatty acids of the fatty tissue.
  • (10) Total mortality is 27% and among survivals there are few sequels.
  • (11) In 1995, a year after his novel Forrest Gump had been sanitised for the screen, Winston Groom published Gump and Co , a sequel, which began with: "Let me say this: Everybody makes mistakes ...
  • (12) This report describes a patient with a migratory abscess as a sequel to the surgical removal of a mandibular third molar tooth.
  • (13) His bestselling book is The Annotated Alice, a timeless compendium of footnotes to the two Alice books, and a decade ago he wrote a sequel to The Wizard Of Oz in which Dorothy and friends go to Manhattan.
  • (14) The Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator's bosses at Marvel are also bringing sequels to Thor and Captain America to the big screen over the next year, a fact which would also appear to clash with Whedon's clarion call for originality.
  • (15) The findings are discussed in the light of recent reports of cerebral dysfunction occurring as a sequel of VEE virus infection in children.
  • (16) - The relative mildness of post-operative sequels, regarding the extra serous form of this way.
  • (17) The Snowman and the Snowdog Game Channel 4 commissioned this endless-runner game in the style of Temple Run for its Snowman sequel.
  • (18) Follow-up through age 2 years in one large study suggests that static encephalopathy may be a sequel.
  • (19) As well as Episode VII and its two sequels, Disney also plans a series of standalone "origins movies" for characters from the original triptych of films which debuted between 1977 and 1983.
  • (20) A sequel to Beetlejuice has been in the pipeline for decades, but plans for a followup which would have transferred the action to Hawaii (thankfully) never came to fruition.

Sequela


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, follows.
  • (n.) An adherent, or a band or sect of adherents.
  • (n.) That which follows as the logical result of reasoning; inference; conclusion; suggestion.
  • (n.) A morbid phenomenon left as the result of a disease; a disease resulting from another.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A review is presented concerning the development of new neuroimaging techniques in the last decade which have improved the diagnostic exploration of patients with spinal cord injuries, including studies of possible sequelae.
  • (2) A 68 year-old man with a history of right thalamic hemorrhage demonstrated radiologically in the pulvinar and posterior portion of the dorsomedian nucleus developed a clinical picture of severe physical sequelae associated with major affective, behavioral and psychic disorders.
  • (3) Sequelae of chemo- and radiotherapy were only depicted by magnetic resonance imaging.
  • (4) The prognosis of meningococcal arthritis is excellent and joint sequelae are rare.
  • (5) Earlier recognition of foul-smelling mucoid discharge on the IUD tail, or abnormal bleeding, or both, as a sign of early pelvic infection, followed by removal of the IUD and institution of appropriate antibiotic therapy, might prevent the more serious sequelae of pelvic inflammation.
  • (6) Since alterations in insulin responsiveness, especially insulin resistance, have been related to the metabolic sequelae of shock, the present study evaluated insulin responsiveness in traumatic shock.
  • (7) Obstetrician-gynecologists must place lymphocytic adenohypophysitis in the differential diagnosis of pituitary enlargement associated with pregnancy, since treatment is available and the sequelae may be life-threatening.
  • (8) Sequelae include infertility, pelvic pain, ectopic pregnancy, and perinatal infection.
  • (9) For sequelae in the brain, nervous plexuses, heart, eye, surgical treatment can be useful, even if frequently with palliative results.
  • (10) Medical record review provided information on indications for method of delivery, delivery complications and injuries, neonatal complications, and neurologic sequelae up to 4 years of age.
  • (11) A search was made for predisposing factors and sequelae of diet-induced obesity (DIO) or resistance to DIO (DR).
  • (12) The goals of burn care are to preserve life, to preserve function, to limit physical and psychological sequelae and to provide social reintegration.
  • (13) About 7% of all Saudi Arabians, and 42% of those older than 40 years, have a cataract or its sequelae.
  • (14) Periodical examinations, repeated admissions and treatment of the malignant disease sequelae, make the relationship between the patient and the doctor a lifelong one.
  • (15) The use of homografts appears to be a promising method of repairing the sequelae of chronic otitis.
  • (16) Pentaglobin has been postulated to have anti-endotoxin properties and one of the aims of the study was to measure endotoxin levels in these patients together with the clinical sequelae of infection.
  • (17) The present study, together with previous reports, indicate that lisuride may interfere with ischemia-induced cerebrovascular disturbances and, in such a way, improve some pathological sequelae of cerebrovascular disease.
  • (18) Due to the better understanding of the therapeutic sequelae, particularly following radiotherapy, this modality is avoided whenever possible in young children.
  • (19) Three had idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, 2 had pulmonary emphysema, 1 had bronchiolitis and the other had a sequelae of pulmonary tuberculosis.
  • (20) Studies on the safety of prostaglandins for labor induction, for both child and mother, have generally concluded that if uterine hyperstimulation is avoided, there will be no serious sequelae.

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