What's the difference between slough and slow?

Slough


Definition:

  • (a.) Slow.
  • (n.) A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.
  • (n.) A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.
  • () imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.
  • (n.) The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.
  • (n.) The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.
  • (v. i.) To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly.
  • (v. t.) To cast off; to discard as refuse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mucosal sloughing with hemorrhage and infarction were observed at 3 hours.
  • (2) More suppliers have told the Guardian of extensive negotiations with Amazon staff in Slough, adding to the impression that the company carries out important trading activities in the UK and so could be liable for tax.
  • (3) In mammalian small intestine absorptive cells are known to migrate from the villus base to the villus tip from which they slough.
  • (4) The most marked effect of the ZnSO4 took the form of necrosis and sloughing of surface cells in both strains one-half day after ZnSO4 irrigation.
  • (5) Cameron’s call for the Malaysian political class to fight corruption came as he pitched the country’s financiers the chance to invest in £17bn worth of UK infrastructure projects ranging from a Leeds orbital road route, Slough town centre and prime residential properties along the Thames.
  • (6) The histopathologic features include peritubular sclerosis, small vessel sclerosis, premature germ cell sloughing, and variable degrees of hypospermatogenesis.
  • (7) Changes in sperm head morphology are caused by (1) a dramatic reshaping and consolidation of the acrosome in which excess plasma membrane overlying it is sloughed as a cluster of vesicles, (2) a reorientation of the nucleus almost parallel to the axis of the tail and (3) distal movement of the droplet from its initial envelopment of the nucleus to an eccentric position on the anterior segment of the midpiece.
  • (8) Acute hypothermia induced a sloughing of cells from the villi into the lumen of the gut, as indicated by an increased DNA in luminal washings.
  • (9) Toxic epidermal necrolysis results in skin sloughing that resembles a partial-thickness thermal injury.
  • (10) Scanning electron microscopy revealed that in diabetic BB rats there was consistent evidence of swollen cells, raised nuclei, and sloughing of nuclei in endothelial cells of the aorta.
  • (11) However, after sloughing of labelled cells in the intestinal lumen, Pu was reabsorbed by the distal epithelial cells.
  • (12) It places the implant deep to prevent skin slough and irregularities in skin surface contour.
  • (13) Newer communities have settled in towns and cities such as Milton Keynes, Slough, Northampton, Southampton, and in London, notably Ealing, Tower Hamlets and Newham.
  • (14) Sloughing vesiculobullous oral lesions are a frequent component.
  • (15) Within 1 day of injury, columnar epithelium sloughed intact from the trachea with a concomitant reduction of nearly 35% in the basal cell population.
  • (16) Early changes (0-2 hours) included focal tumor and endothelial cell vacuolation and swelling as well as sloughing of tumor cells into papillary spaces.
  • (17) Histologically, the 4.0 ppm animals demonstrated bronchiolar epithelial necrosis and sloughing, bronchiolar edema with macrophages, and focal pulmonary edema.
  • (18) Ciliated cells had a slightly vesiculated cytoplasm, and many were in the process of being sloughed from the epithelial surface.
  • (19) Preliminary histochemical studies show that terminin is also found in the superficial epithelial layer of the esophagus, where terminal differentiation is followed by apoptosis and sloughing off into the lumen.
  • (20) In both the mouse and the rat, some of the superficial cells sloughed between fetal day 18 or 19 and the day of birth.

Slow


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To go slower; -- often with up; as, the train slowed up before crossing the bridge.
  • (n.) A moth.
  • () imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.
  • (superl.) Moving a short space in a relatively long time; not swift; not quick in motion; not rapid; moderate; deliberate; as, a slow stream; a slow motion.
  • (superl.) Not happening in a short time; gradual; late.
  • (superl.) Not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish; as, slow of speech, and slow of tongue.
  • (superl.) Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation; tardy; inactive.
  • (superl.) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time; as, the clock or watch is slow.
  • (superl.) Not advancing or improving rapidly; as, the slow growth of arts and sciences.
  • (superl.) Heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome; dull.
  • (adv.) Slowly.
  • (v. t.) To render slow; to slacken the speed of; to retard; to delay; as, to slow a steamer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Comparison of the S100 alpha-binding protein profiles in fast- and slow-twitch fibers of various species revealed few, if any, species- or fiber type-specific S100 binding proteins.
  • (2) In dogs, cibenzoline given i.v., had no effects on the slow response systems, probably because of sympathetic nervous system intervention since the class 4 effects of cibenzoline appeared after beta-adrenoceptor blockade.
  • (3) It is suggested that the rapid phase is due to clearance of peptides in the circulation which results in a fall to lower blood concentrations which are sustained by slow release of peptide from binding sites which act as a depot.
  • (4) Diphenoxylate-induced hypoxia was the major problem and was associated with slow or fast respirations, hypotonia or rigidity, cardiac arrest, and in 3 cases cerebral edema and death.
  • (5) The minimal change in gel fiber size caused by slow A release implies that fibrin fiber size is primarily a function of ionic environment and not of the sequence of peptide release.
  • (6) In electrophysiological studies with neurons of Lymnaea stagnalis, THA inhibited the slow outward K+ current and consequently increased the duration of the action potentials.
  • (7) It did the job of triggering growth, but it also fueled real-estate speculation, similar to what was going on in the mid-2000s here.” Slowing economic growth may be another concern.
  • (8) Distant ischemia was distinguished from peri-infarctional ischemia by the presence of transient thallium defects in, or slow thallium washout from myocardium not supplied by the infarct-related coronary artery.
  • (9) In the absence of haemodialysis, the decline in plasma concentrations of lisinopril and enalaprilat was extremely slow and plasma concentrations were generally high.
  • (10) Thus serum ionized calcium in untreated essential hypertensive patients may predict the blood pressure response to the slow calcium channel blocker verapamil.
  • (11) Our results suggest that during simulated ischemia the rate-dependent component of the increase in Ri contributes to the rate-dependence of the conduction slowing.
  • (12) Recovery after EEDQ administration showed that both receptor production rate and degradation rate constants of anterior pituitary D2 and striatal D1 receptors were slowed after chronic estradiol treatment, whereas recovery rates for striatal D2 dopamine receptors were unaffected.
  • (13) Variations in light chain composition, particularly fast and slow myosin light chain 1, appeared to occur independently of the variations in heavy chain composition, suggesting that some myosin molecules consist of mixtures of slow- and fast-type subunits.
  • (14) The toxins preferentially attenuate a slow phase of KCl-evoked glutamate release which may be associated with synaptic vesicle mobilization.
  • (15) Normal rat soleus myosin has a major slow and a minor fast component due to two populations of muscle fibers.
  • (16) A calcium dependent potassium conductance was probably involved in the slow phase, because it was sensitive to inorganic calcium blockers.
  • (17) Although a variety of new teaching strategies and materials are available in education today, medical education has been slow to move away from the traditional lecture format.
  • (18) The slow alpha-lipoprotein was distributed in the range of densities between low density and high density lipoproteins and was rich in apoprotein E. This abnormal lipoprotein of PBC was observed in those in Stages II and III but not in those in Stage I.
  • (19) From the third day to the fourth week after this treatment, there was some recovery of the SF rate, and the SCR tended to reappear with a marked slowing down of its habituation.
  • (20) And that's exciting, you've got no time to slow it down.