What's the difference between shriveled and shrunken?
Shriveled
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Shrivel
Example Sentences:
(1) Labour’s vertiginous decline in Scotland has shrivelled what used to be the primary unionist party north of the border.
(2) The time when all the cells became shriveled divided by the cell count expressed in terms of 100,000 cells was used to compare cellular susceptibilities to free radical injury and the relative effectiveness of the antioxidants.
(3) Particles prepared from a low molecular weight (MW 43,000) homopolymer had a shrivelled appearance, but were not porous.
(4) These last elements consisted of prosecretory granules attached to flattened, empty-looking saccules showing buds at their surface; detached, more-or-less fenestrated, flattened saccules; and shrivelled residual trans-tubular networks.
(5) Notwithstanding the fiery rhetoric of the odd union leader , the movement's mainstream is painfully aware of its shrivelled size, and it lacks the cocksure confidence of those distant days when it thought it could count on full employment.
(6) In the recent past a miss so glaring might have left him cowed, his display shrivelling thereafter.
(7) Osborne's faith healing has shrivelled growth, and next year looks worse.
(8) The shrivelling of liberal and green Toryism creates space for the Lib Dems to be clearly differentiated from their frenemies in the coalition.
(9) Nothing suggested by his “big society” actually happened: on the contrary, charities took the full force of cuts to contracts and grants, and public society shrivelled measurably on his watch.
(10) The curator of the collection, Rajeev Sethi, told The New York Times: "The concept of art in public space is a very serious issue because art cannot shrivel up and shrink into investment portfolios or disappear into godowns [warehouses] or galleries.
(11) Some analysts say that his wealth has shrivelled from $28bn in early 2008 to $3.5bn.
(12) These results suggest that, at least acutely in a canine model, IMA graft flow is maintained above in situ levels even when grafted to a completely patent coronary artery and that acute competitive flow probably does not cause mammary artery shriveling.
(13) But it was never just external forces that caused the IPO market to shrivel: investors were also burnt by a series of offers that left them nursing losses.
(14) Constr-uction, once a booming industry, has shrivelled.
(15) In recent weeks the pro-Russian rebels have suffered a series of heavy defeats, losing large chunks of territory, with their empire shrivelled to the two major eastern cities of Donetsk and Luhansk.
(16) The players' revolt which split tennis asunder, shrivelled 1973's Wimbledon championships to a half-baked botch and kick-started a dramatic overturn in the century-long balance of power between the administrators and administered of any major worldwide sport, was triggered because a temperamental and reasonably good Yugoslavian player, Nikki Pilic, decided to play a well-paid doubles tournament in Montreal instead of (for a pittance) a Davis Cup tie for his country against New Zealand.
(17) In the buccopharynx, the major changes following treatment with cadmium were shrinkage of the stratified epithelial cells with shriveling of the microridges and loss of lateral contacts between neighboring epithelial cells.
(18) The question that hangs over the conference season as a whole is the purpose of these shrivelling, staged-managed affairs.
(19) He went fast, lest other patients' eyes lingered on the shrivelled figure.
(20) There were brambles along the hedgerow with shrivelled stalks, and berryless hawthorns.
Shrunken
Definition:
() of Shrink
() p. p. & a. from Shrink.
Example Sentences:
(1) We considered and discussed the case histories in comparison with the clinical symptoms and the consequent therapy of 47 urological patients with unilaterally shrunken kidney.
(2) They agreed to only elect three members of the group’s shrunken board, with the rest appointed from the world of business.
(3) At autopsy, the liver was found to be small, shrunken, and scarred; histological sections demonstrated postnecrotic cirrhosis.
(4) (iii) Shrunken gels give sharper photographic images and provide better interlane protein band comparisons.
(5) At first, the pelvis is totally exposed to a homogenous irradiation, so the shrunken tumor can more easily be arrived by curietherapy.
(6) This will be the ninth episode, in which Jenna Coleman's Clara must lug the Doctor and his Tardis around in her handbag after they get shrunken down to miniature size.
(7) The Silastic ball was severely deformed and shrunken.
(8) Similar amounts of Nac were gained in 3 h by ouabain-treated cells exposed to the K ionophore valinomycin or by cells osmotically shrunken.
(9) The remaining spongiosa, depleted and shrunken, is misleading in its appearance, resembling a basalis layer.
(10) Physiological changes in dehydration consist of rigidity of the connective tissue (vascular system and lungs) and intracellular fluid loss to the extracellular spaces, resulting in dry mucous membranes, shrunken muscle cells in the lips and the tongue, soft eyes, and adverse effects to the central nervous system.
(11) It is suggested that in the nucleus basalis in Alzheimer's disease, large neurons are not completely lost; many are shrunken and thus excluded from the previous studies of large cells counted in Nissl-stained material.
(12) The service itself, running at more than two hours, was an almost flawless spectacle, yet curiously shrunken.
(13) The influences of Li or protons, however, are so strong as to preempt the volume effects, so that the pathway can be activated even in swollen cells and deactivated in shrunken ones.
(14) Free spherules and shrunken degenerative forms were present as well.
(15) The apical blebs were still present, but they were shrunken and their content appeared condensed.
(16) Its long-term effectiveness confirms the view, not widely held, that one primary cause of involutional entropion is a shrunken and atrophic tarsal plate.
(17) Rohon-Beard cells could be labeled, more or less shrunken, until stage 55.
(18) Affected axoplasm was often vacuolated and shrunken, with loss of microtubules and microfilaments and separation of the axoplasmic membrane from the myelin sheath.
(19) The most common criteria for distinguishing non-bursting atretic follicles were the extremely shrunken, irregularly shaped oocytes and the separation of the granulosa from the theca.
(20) These shrunken stored rabbit cells could also be reinflated using nystatin, so that their mean cell volume, mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration, average cell densities and filterabilities were restored to normal values.