What's the difference between shedder and shudder?

Shedder


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, sheds; as, a shedder of blood; a shedder of tears.
  • (n.) A crab in the act of casting its shell, or immediately afterwards while still soft; -- applied especially to the edible crabs, which are most prized while in this state.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The basic high pathogenicity of these agents and of RS virus is indicated by the high frequency of illness among virus shedders (80-90%) and among seroconverting infants (greater than or equal 68%).
  • (2) Since no persistent shedders of antigen have been found so far, in some cases a recent hepatitis A can be detected by identification of HA Ag in a stool sample obtained as soon as possible after the onset of the disease.
  • (3) Among 164 nonvaccinated (control) cows, 39 (24%) were shedding C burnetii in their milk; this figure corresponded to the prevalence (23%) of shedders in the general population of dairy cows in California.
  • (4) The shedders were favoured by the artificial selection because of their shorter oviposition interval and this appeared to be responsible for the higher levels of ALV shedding in the selection lines.
  • (5) Among the 111 M. paratuberculosis fecal shedders, RCM, HEY and the probe detected the organism in 89.2%, 73.8% and 55.0% of the fecal specimens, respectively.
  • (6) Cohorting or exclusion from the day-care center of children who are asymptomatic shedders is not practical, and the management of cryptosporidiosis in day-care centers remains a major challenge.
  • (7) The relative risk (odds ratio) of a hen becoming a gs-antigen shedder was calculated for progenies of the dams shedding gs-antigen and those of non-shedding dams separately and pooled over three generations.
  • (8) Isolates from animals infected with the heterogeneous McKrae were classified as shedders (isolated in the absence of disease) and recurrent (isolated from a recurrent lesion).
  • (9) Horses identified to be shedding salmonellae in feces were not limited to those with clinical signs of salmonellosis; however, spread of salmonellae from a shedder without clinical signs of disease to other hospitalized horses was not identified.
  • (10) Information is lacking on certain aspects of the epidemiology of swine influenza that, if obtained, might shed some light on the epidemiology of human influenza, particularly with respect to inter-epidemic reservoirs and shedders of the virus.
  • (11) Vaccination may support control by reducing the pressure resulting from infection, though rapid elimination of shedders of M. Johnei as well as free calf rearing will continue to be essential in the effective control of 'clinical para-tuberculosis.
  • (12) Dogs may remain carriers and fecal shedders and thus serve as sources of salmonellosis for man and other animals.
  • (13) When virus titers in each of 8 tissue samples from the 6 transmitting hens were determined, the highest virus titers were found in washing from the ampulla of the oviducts in most of the shedders, suggesting that embryo infection is closely correlated with ALV produced at the oviduct, but not with ALV transferred from the other parts of the body.
  • (14) In the ASS line (1984 only), the differences between shedders and non-shedders were in the same direction, but in magnitude greater for rate of lay and smaller for oviposition interval.
  • (15) It is considered that a shedder state of virus had occurred some time during the fourth month following experimental infection.
  • (16) We analyzed the distribution of the different Ad7 genome types among 314 isolates from patients and healthy shedders.
  • (17) A controlled exposure trial confirmed that fecal shedders can transmit infection to susceptible contacts which subsequently demonstrate transient diarrhea.
  • (18) The number of shedders was closely linked with increasing doses of the drug, which indicates that lower doses do not interrupt infection completely and allow development of immunity.
  • (19) Infected horses generally make good recoveries but stallions may become semen shedders of equine arteritis virus (EAV).
  • (20) Temporal enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays with the A antigen revealed that all shedder rams displayed a rise-and-surge response, while rams which recovered from experimental challenge showed a rise-and-fall profile.

Shudder


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake.
  • (n.) The act of shuddering, as with fear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.
  • (2) she shudders – she has declined all reality TV invitations, and the closest she has ever come to a wardrobe malfunction was a minor ding-dong over some exposed thigh once while presenting Crimewatch, about which she was mortified.
  • (3) We need only look at Holland, Belgium or Denmark, and shudder.
  • (4) And while some of the 12-member panel still shudder at the memory , four of them – Paul Ryan, Patty Murray, James Clyburn and Rob Portman – got the band back together, with 25 other lawmakers from both parties and both houses.
  • (5) All good things must come to an end and, sure enough, Chelsea’s 23-game unbeaten run was brought to a shuddering halt by Alan Pardew’s pace-suffused counterattacking specialists.
  • (6) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
  • (7) I shudder to think what will happen when that glue is no longer there, but we rally round and put our differences aside.
  • (8) Instead he buried them in paper, interring them in a tortuous numbering system he devised himself, or in the case of some detailed anatomical details of women's genitals, folding over the page to conceal them, undoubtedly with a shudder of revulsion.
  • (9) "It's bringing back the worst memories of the Sarkozy era," warned a Socialist teacher in La Rochelle, shuddering at Sarkozy's public breakup with Cecilia .
  • (10) I could feel her breath shuddering through her body.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump supporter sucker-punches black protester at rally We cannot know, and I shudder to think, how deeply these influences have conditioned public consciousness.
  • (12) "It wouldn't have mattered if banks hadn't been gross risk-takers, this way of doing business would still have come to a shuddering halt.
  • (13) The goalkeeper shudders at the memory of his appearance on RTL's Who Wants to be a Millionaire ?
  • (14) Four patients who were injected with 10 mg or more experienced fever, shudder and vague abdominal and articular pain.
  • (15) One side of the sports hall backs on to classrooms, which shudder when balls hit its walls; the other adjoins music rooms.
  • (16) You might shudder at such crassness, but if you're paying a premium for organic vegetables, you may be subconsciously signalling another desirable trait: conscientiousness.
  • (17) On the journey the man begins to convulse, his body shuddering and shaking uncontrollably.
  • (18) I don’t feel too jolly in most shops, so shudder to think how the poor staff feel.
  • (19) No significant difference existed among these three groups of patients with respect to the over-all incidence of carotid shudders or with respect to the incidence of coarse or fine shudders.
  • (20) Beteta's words will not trouble British tourists practising their golf swing or soaking up the sun on Andalucía's Mediterranean beaches, but they must have produced shudders in Brussels – and on the international bond markets that now view Spain as the biggest threat to the euro.

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