What's the difference between shan and span?

Shan


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results showed that the drug "Shan-Dou-Gen" used in different regions in China at present are the roots or rhizomes derived from 9 species: Sophora tonkinensis Gagnep.
  • (2) The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows.
  • (3) "Since the elections there have been three broken ceasefires, with the Kachin, Karen and Shan minorities, a massive increase in army attacks on ethnic groups, and a sharp rise in gang rapes involving women and children.
  • (4) The survey of a population including 40-59-old males, dwellers from the rural areas of the Tien Shan and Pamirs low- and highlands, has demonstrated that atherogenic dyslipoproteinemias are significantly more infrequently encountered among high-altitude dwellers than among low-altitude ones.
  • (5) Ion-pairing extraction and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) were employed for assaying moniliformin (a fungal toxin) content in the corn (Shaanxi) and rice (Yunnan) samples collected from families suffering from Ke-shan disease.
  • (6) Later, Shanly told the group in a posting: “Sorry for being expressive, apologise for any offence.” Shanly told the Times on Tuesday that he regretted the comments he made, adding: “I completely reject the accusation of bullying and I am sure those who know me from my many years of activity in the movement would know that such a label is absurd.” Momentum is open to people who are not Labour members, and some MPs who do not support Corbyn are alarmed by its rise because they fear it will enable people previously involved in far-left groups outside Labour to exercise influence in the party.
  • (7) In lowland (760 m above sea level) and highland (3200 m above sea level) of Tien Shan, the measurements of blood pressure and blood flow in the large vessels as well as the mass of heart ventricles of 75 rabbits have been made.
  • (8) It was found that at 760 m and 2800 m (Tien-Shan) a chemoreflex mechanism maintains 13 to 18% of the total volume of eupnoic ventilation regardless of the age of the subject studied.
  • (9) were found in the land mollusks Bradybaena duplocincta and Jaminia potaniniana asiatica collected on the slopes of Tien-Shan.
  • (10) It was shown that the high-altitude conditions of the Pamirs and Tien Shan (2800-3600 m above the sea-level) modified the clinicofunctional signs and a course of the cor pulmonale (CP) in chronic bronchitis.
  • (11) Tai Shan's arrival brought 500,000 new visitors to the zoo in 2005, the director, Dennis Kelly, said.
  • (12) An epidemiologic study of 40- to 59-year-old males was carried out in order to assess the effect of ethnic characteristics and migration from high-altitude (2,000-3,500 m above sea-level) Tien Shan areas to Frunze (760 m above sea-level) and vice versa on the prevalence of coronary heart disease (CHD) and coronary risk factors.
  • (13) As the drug "Shan-Dou-Gen" derived from different species has different actions and dosages, it is necessary to give different names to different species and use them correctly.
  • (14) Hemoacupuncture also was applied to Shan-gen, bilateral ear tip, and bulb points.
  • (15) He ventures out at night to spend time with his boy, telling Constance: "I shan't be back till late.
  • (16) Owing to security reasons, the Union Election Commission has cancelled voting in several hundred villages across the states of Kachin, Karen, Mon and Shan, and the Bago region.
  • (17) As many as 132 patients with bronchial asthma were examined for the clinical, functional and laboratory parameters before and during alpine climatotherapy at a height of 3200 m above the sea level (the Tyuya-Ashu pass, the northern Tien Shan).
  • (18) To demonstrate the progress made in the family medicine clinic at the Chung Shan Medical College Hospital and to evaluate the appropriateness of this kind of family practice setting, our patient population of 616 was investigated.
  • (19) An outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease (LD) in a college in Tang Shan in the winter of 1987 was reported.
  • (20) The epidemic levels of CVD in Ning-Xia and Shan-Xi were the highest, Its epidemic levels in the urban areas were higher than those in the rural areas.

Span


Definition:

  • () imp. & p. p. of Spin.
  • (v. t.) The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom.
  • (v. t.) Hence, a small space or a brief portion of time.
  • (v. t.) The spread or extent of an arch between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between its supports.
  • (v. t.) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
  • (v. t.) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
  • (v. t.) To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object; as, to span a space or distance; to span a cylinder.
  • (v. t.) To reach from one side of to the order; to stretch over as an arch.
  • (v. t.) To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.
  • (v. i.) To be matched, as horses.
  • (imp.) of Spin

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition, DDT blocked succinate dehydrogenase and the cytochrome b-c span of the electron transport chain, which also secondarily reduced ATP synthesis.
  • (2) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
  • (3) Three overlapping clones, spanning a total of 19 kb of the human SC gene, including 3 kb of the 5' flanking region, were characterized.
  • (4) We have evaluated the life-span of B lymphocytes by measuring the functional reactivity of normal B cells upon transfer into xid mice, which do not respond to anti-mu, fluoresceinated-Ficoll (FL-Ficoll) and 2,4,6-trinitrophenyl aminoethylcarbamylmethyl Ficoll (TNP-Ficoll).
  • (5) Median effect analysis was applied for the evaluation of in vitro effect by the growth inhibition, and the in vivo effect by comparison of the increase of life span (ILS) in a combined group with the sum of ILS's in 2 single agent groups.
  • (6) These data indicate that the development of HCC in HBV-negative alcoholics with cirrhosis occurs in relation to the development of macronodules and loss of liver weight, most likely along with the prolongation of the life span.
  • (7) We then used synthetic peptides spanning the active fragment to identify the primary sequence of the adhesive site as Leu-Arg-Glu (LRE): neurons attach to an immobilized LRE-containing peptide, and soluble LRE blocks attachment of neurons to the s-laminin fragment.
  • (8) After cessation of exposures, HEVal was lost faster than predicted by the normal erythrocyte life span alone.
  • (9) The antibiotic was effective against Gram-positive bacteria, fungi and yeasts, and prolonged the life span of mice bearing Ehrlich ascites carcinoma.
  • (10) The mean red cell life span increased from 13 days before treatment to 21.6 days after 3 mo of carbamylation.
  • (11) Analysis of mRNA life span by using actinomycin D demonstrates that PPET-1 mRNA has a short intracellular half-life of about 15 min and is superinduced by cycloheximide.
  • (12) Respiration-related neurons were classified with respect to the correlation of their activity with the activity of the phrenic nerve: phase-bound inspiratory (I) and expiratory (E) neurones and phase-spanning expiratory-inspiratory and inspiratory-expiratory neurones were discriminated.
  • (13) The cytoplasmic and membrane spanning domains of galactosyltransferase were found to be sufficient to retain all of the hybrid invariant chain in trans Golgi cisternae as judged by indirect immunofluorescence, treatment with brefeldin A and immuno-electron microscopy.
  • (14) Selection limits for scutellar bristles in lines M and M2 were equal to or greater than the most extreme reported in the literature.-The probit span of the canalised 4 bristle class decreased in each selection line as the mean scutellar bristle number increased, and increased again in the relaxed lines as the mean bristle number decreased.
  • (15) The predicted yeast enzyme contains at least four potential membrane-spanning regions and several shorter hydrophobic regions that align exactly with similar sequences in the rat liver protein.
  • (16) cDNA was prepared by reverse transcription of peripheral blood mRNA and amplified by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using primers corresponding to sequences 400 bp apart on the cDNA, spanning the last three exons (X, Y, Z) of the beta-Sp gene.
  • (17) The biologically active unit spans about 16 kilobase pairs (kbp) and is composed of seven exons and six introns.
  • (18) The present study extended this effort to a noninstitutionalized life-span sample of males and females in six age groups (fourteen to ninety-four).
  • (19) This altered region spans the normal site of autocatalytic proteolysis that occurs at the same time as (enzymatic) activation of prochymosin at acidic pH.
  • (20) Moreover, no increase in cAMP can be detected over an extended time span.