What's the difference between shrunken and withered?

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.

Withered


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Wither
  • (a.) Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It ended with a withering putdown: “I’m leaving Downing Street 10 times more sceptical than I was before ,” Juncker told his host.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest José Mourinho launched a withering attack on the lack of atmosphere generated by Chelsea’s home supporters after their 2-1 victory against QPR , saying it felt like his side were playing at an “empty stadium”.
  • (3) Though intraspinal narcotic analgesia is associated with a number of side effects, with proper knowledge these adverse reactions are wither preventable or can be greatly reduced.
  • (4) An obese man with a withered leg limps down Tollcross Road, eating pizza from a cardboard box.
  • (5) They may be in power, but institutional support is withering away.
  • (6) We’d been working in Atlantic City, four in the afternoon to four in the morning, six sets, opening for everybody that came through – the Emotions, Bill Withers, the Pointer Sisters – and they were all really encouraging: “You girls are really good, you should stick with it.” That kind of solidified our desire to continue, but our record company, Atlantic, didn’t quite know what to do with us.
  • (7) But if the coalition does keep together for four more years, then that's four more years of Lib Dem withering and four more years to gather a treasure chest to reward Tory voters.
  • (8) "Great Yuletide fun on ITV now: hilarious reparations as Dannii Minogue performs a selection of the biblical world's most hideous acts of penance in front of a panel of witheringly critical bisexual judges."
  • (9) Anyone who stands in his way, from the prime minister to the Labour leader Ed Miliband and grandees in his own party such as the former leader Lord Steel of Aikwood, can expect a withering rebuke from Clegg.
  • (10) There is a brief compensatory detour into the wonders Blair worked in Northern Ireland, but the essential verdict remains withering.
  • (11) Her original concept was that he might shed the kingly mantle, be just a poor player strutting, but he couldn’t get out fast enough from his prosthetic withered arm.
  • (12) Faced with the audience, some of the candidates flourished; others withered.
  • (13) Covers followed including versions of Bill Withers's Who Is He (And What Is He To You?)
  • (14) Katya Gorchinskaya, deputy editor of the Kyiv Post, said that after years of corruption and budget starvation, Ukraine's army resembled a "withered muscle".
  • (15) Less noticed, because less obviously political, are current intellectual rumblings, of which French economist Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century , a withering indictment of growing inequality, is the latest manifestation.
  • (16) Capital was more rewarded than labour, regions withered and exports and manufacturing suffered.
  • (17) Through the searing summer heat, the Mexican immigrant to California’s Central Valley and his family endured a daily routine of collecting water in his pickup truck from an emergency communal tank, washing from buckets and struggling to keep their withering orchard alive while they waited for snow to return to the mountains and begin the cycle of replenishing the aquifer that provides water to almost all the homes in the region.
  • (18) Press lobbying On the press lobbying for self-regulation, Leveson is withering, saying he does not find "the self-interested lobbying of the press to be an appropriate matter for press regulation".
  • (19) The major component of vitellogenin labeled wither in vivo or in culture has a molecular weight of approximately 180,000 as shown by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
  • (20) A review of chloroquine and sulfa-antifol combination treated falciparum malaria patients revealed a high incidence of chloroquine-resistance, wither R1 or R2, in patients infected in Southeast Asia or Oceania.

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