What's the difference between seven and sevenfold?
Seven
Definition:
(a.) One more than six; six and one added; as, seven days make one week.
(n.) The number greater by one than six; seven units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing seven units, as 7, or vii.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, it had early diagnostic (seven days) as well as prognostic value, as revealed by response to therapy and decrease in COA titer.
(2) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(3) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
(4) These organic compounds were found to be stable on the sorbent tubes for at least seven days.
(5) The patients should have received treatment for at least seven days and they should not be "ill".
(6) Furthermore, all of the sera from seven other patients with shock reactions following the topical application of chlorhexidine preparation also showed high RAST counts.
(7) During the study period four family outbreaks and seven recurrences of infection were observed.
(8) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(9) Seven males have been observed carrying both inherited tritan and red-green defects.
(10) Only seven films (or 0.7 percent of the entire cohort) showed nodular or rounded opacities of the type typically seen in uncomplicated silicosis.
(11) Further purification of ZAB by filtration through Sephadex G-100 gave a preparation (ZAB2) which contained the common antigen as shown by the cross-reactivity of anti-ZAB2 rat serum with seven stains of N. gonorrhoeae.
(12) In seven girls with early adrenarche, plasma concentrations of DHEA were in the upper range of normal values, whereas T levels were within the normal range.
(13) Mitotic figures and leukotriene B4 levels in lesions decreased 86% and 64%, respectively, after seven days of cyclosporine therapy.
(14) Seven patients had not been recognized as hypogammaglobulinemic before the onset of infection.
(15) Seven patients were treated with combination chemotherapy, consisting of CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone) or MOPP (chloromethine, vincristine, procarbazine, prednisone), in some cases followed by non-cross-resistant second line chemotherapy, if no complete response was attained.
(16) Urine tests in six patients with other kidney diseases and with uraemia and in seven healthy persons did not show this substance.
(17) The number of peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) producing IgM (spontaneous and pokeweed mitogen (PWM) stimulated) at the end of a seven day culture period was similar in PBC patients and control subjects while the amount of IgM synthesized (spontaneous and PWM stimulated) during this period was significantly greater in the patient group, implying that the amount of IgM produced per B cell was increased in PBC.
(18) Examinations, begun at day 150 of gestation in 33 monkeys and between days 32 and 58 in four other animals, were repeated at intervals of one to seven days.
(19) Ventricular septal defect types were perimembranous (six), malalignment (seven), supracristal (three), midmuscular (one), and inlet (one).
(20) And, as elsewhere in this epidemic, those on the frontline paid the highest price: four of the seven fatalities were health workers, including Adadevoh.
Sevenfold
Definition:
(a.) Repeated seven times; having seven thicknesses; increased to seven times the size or amount.
(adv.) Seven times as much or as often.
Example Sentences:
(1) This correlated very well with the EPO concentration in the circulation; EPO levels in the circulation were the same as those of controls at 3 h but increased to six- to sevenfold that of controls by 6 h after cobalt injection.
(2) We have identified a 50-nucleotide enhancer from the human erythropoietin gene 3'-flanking sequence which can mediate a sevenfold transcriptional induction in response to hypoxia when cloned 3' to a simian virus 40 promoter-chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter gene and transiently expressed in Hep3B cells.
(3) The c-fos, Egr-1, and junB genes were highly induced, being fivefold to sevenfold higher in experimental than in control tissue.
(4) This was demonstrated by the following observations with the use of sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) of whole platelets and the isolated plasma membrane fraction: (1) the specific activity of isolated membrane protein was sevenfold that of whole platelet protein, (2) no proteins of intact platelets were labeled which were not represented in the isolated plasma membrane, (3) DD125ISA-labeled proteins were altered by trypsin treatment of intact, labeled platelets, and (4) the pattern of labeling produced by reaction of isolated membranes with DD125ISA differed from that produced by the labeling of intact platelets.
(5) In contrast, hydroxyurea treatment was associated with a 1.5-fold to sevenfold increase in F cells and a 2.3- to 27-fold increase in the percentage of Hb F. In the three patients whose response reached a plateau, hydroxyurea treatment was associated with lessened hemolysis, decreased serum bilirubin and lactate dehydrogenase levels, and prolonged 51chromium-labeled RBC survival.
(6) At the same time, the oxidase activities of CP in the blood of different patients varied more than sevenfold.
(7) This sevenfold difference in slopes, which represent the O2 cost of a single contraction without fatigue, corresponds to the difference in developed tension between twitch and tetanic contractions.
(8) In vitro tests demonstrated approximately sevenfold greater filter length shortening (a measure of filter splaying) for the titanium GF in response to a given applied load.
(9) Pretreatment of PNA- thymocytes with neuraminidase enhanced thymocyte binding to macrophages up to sevenfold, whereas a marked reduction of rosette formation was seen following (1) incubation of thymocytes with tunicamycin; (2) incubation of macrophages with 20 mM D-galactose, GLCNaC, or GalNaC; (3) treatment of macrophages or thymocytes with trypsin; (4) treatment of macrophages with anti-1-Ab mAb and its F(ab')2 fragment; (5) treatment of thymocytes with anti-Lyt-2.2 mAb; and (6) addition of EDTA and EGTA to the interacted two cell populations.
(10) The data show that CD2-specific messages are present in low quantities in resting PBMC and are rapidly increased by five- to sevenfold within 24 h of addition of optimal amounts of PHA.
(11) The addition of myo-inositol (5 x 10(-4) M) to synthetic culture media increased the class A nucleation activity of both Ice+ E. coli strains and P. syringae up to sevenfold but had no stimulating effect on ice nucleation at lower temperatures (class B and class C nucleation activities).
(12) H9 cells chronically infected with two of the three HIV-1 strains studied showed approximately a sevenfold increase in attachment to fibronectin, while the same cells infected with the human retrovirus HIV-2 did not.
(13) During the maturation stages of sporulation (stages III to VI), forespore NADH oxidase activity underwent inactivation concomitant with a sevenfold decrease in the content of menaquinone and without major changes in the content of cytochromes and segment transfer activities.
(14) Tissue content of the ODC product putrescine showed a marked increase in cerebral cortex ipsilateral to the lesion, increasing sevenfold at 24 h, the maximal concentration reached.
(15) This may be related to a three- and sevenfold increase, respectively, in CD16+ CD8- and CD56+ CD2- cell frequencies over the same period.
(16) It was fivefold less active as an inhibitor of L1210 thymidylate synthase (TS) than its N10-ethyl congener and sevenfold less active as an inhibitor of the growth of L1210 cells in culture.
(17) Even when there were major changes in the individual components of, such as a fivefold drop in L-phosphoserine and a sevenfold fall in alpha-ketoglutarate following 5 min of anoxia, remained relatively unchanged (2.7 X 10(-4).
(18) While population has risen fourfold in the last century, water use has gone up sevenfold.
(19) He said the latest bout of Israeli military action in Gaza was "the harshest blow Hamas has taken since its foundation", but warned that if Hamas rocket fire continued, Israel would hit back "sevenfold".
(20) Eight of 12 subjects required more antigen to provoke a bronchoprovocation response after dosing with ICI 204,219 than that required with placebo (range, threefold to 30-fold), three demonstrated no difference (less than twofold), and one subject required less antigen after ICI 204,219 (sevenfold less).