What's the difference between solitary and wintergreen?

Solitary


Definition:

  • (a.) Living or being by one's self; having no companion present; being without associates; single; alone; lonely.
  • (a.) Performed, passed, or endured alone; as, a solitary journey; a solitary life.
  • (a.) ot much visited or frequented remote from society; retired; lonely; as, a solitary residence or place.
  • (a.) Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted; silent; still; hence, gloomy; dismal; as, the solitary desert.
  • (a.) Single; individual; sole; as, a solitary instance of vengeance; a solitary example.
  • (a.) Not associated with others of the same kind.
  • (n.) One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret; a hermit; a recluse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The masses were solitary and located in the retroperitoneum (five cases), mediastinum (one case), and axilla (one case).
  • (2) No HRP-labeled axons were found in the facial and solitary nuclei and the cerebellum.
  • (3) No substance P binding sites were present in the central region of the parvocellular subdivision or the solitary tract.
  • (4) In solitary ulcers the ratio male: female was 1.1:1, while it was 2.2:1 in the cases in which a duodenal ulcer had been demonstrated, earlier or simultaneously with the gastric ulcer.
  • (5) Three of these patients, who had a solitary stone could successfully be treated by ESWL as monotherapy.
  • (6) He was held there for another eight months in conditions that aroused widespread condemnation , including being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and being made to strip naked at night.
  • (7) Twenty-six of 41 patients with solitary liver cysts, some of them with ventriculation, received surgical treatment.
  • (8) Solitary diverticula were seen in three patients and in the fourth case there were three diverticula.
  • (9) The radiological differential diagnosis includes neuroblastoma, leukaemic infiltration, lymphoma, histiocytosis X, solitary and multifocal osteosarcoma and other deposits.
  • (10) Thus the solitary experience seems to be more influenced by disturbed individual dynamics, but in other cases social factors seem to be crucial.
  • (11) The prison suicide rate, at 120 deaths per 100,000 people, is about 10 times higher than the rate in the general population.” The report calls for a recently revised incentives and earned privileges regime to be scrapped and for an undertaking that prisoners with mental health problems or at known risk of suicide should never be placed in solitary.
  • (12) During the autopsy of a 24 year old woman, who died of cardiorespiratory insufficiency a large solitary tumour was found extending into the right ventricle of the heart and obstructing the pulmonary valve subtotally.
  • (13) Eighteen patients received implants for recurrent malignant astrocytoma (Group II) and 3 for recurrent solitary cerebral metastasis from adenocarcinoma of the lung (Group III).
  • (14) For whites, in addition to health and solitary activities, interaction with family and sex were also found to be significant.
  • (15) The adaptive value of sound signal characteristics for transmission in the underground tunnel ecotope was tested using tunnels of the solitary territorial subterranean mole rats.
  • (16) These results suggest distinct operating mechanisms of fast and slow rhythms in the solitary complex in vitro.
  • (17) With one probable exception all of the tumours were solitary.
  • (18) Government officials drew the public’s ire after charging Manning with three counts of misconduct following the suicide attempt, including two which carried possible penalties of indefinite solitary confinement.
  • (19) Solitary abnormalities on bone scan or chest film serve as an excellent examples of this dilemma.
  • (20) Membrane potential trajectories of 68 bulbar respiratory neurones from the peri-solitary and peri-ambigual areas of the brain-stem were recorded in anaesthetized cats to explore the synaptic influences of post-inspiratory neurones upon the medullary inspiratory network.

Wintergreen


Definition:

  • (n.) A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fluorescent antibody (FA) was prepared for a methanogenic bacterium isolated from Wintergreen Lake pelagic sediment.
  • (2) FA direct counts of the specific methanogen in Wintergreen Lake sediments were made on four different sampling dates and compared with five-tube most-probable-number estimates of the total methanogenic population that was present in the same samples.
  • (3) The ability of female mice to return to oestrus following exposure to males perfumed either with oil of wintergreen or with the commercial perfume, "Kanta" was evaluated.
  • (4) Strict anaerobic culture techniques were used to quantitatively and qualitatively evaluate the anaerobic heterotrophic bacteria present at the sediment-water interface of hyperutrophic Wintergreen Lake (Augusta, Mich.).
  • (5) These results are considered strong presumptive evidence that clostridia are actively metabolizing in the sediments of Wintergreen Lake.
  • (6) Methyl salicylate (oil of wintergreen) in the form of candy flavoring was ingested by a 21-month-old male infant who subsequently developed vomiting, lethargy, and hyperpnea.
  • (7) wintergreen, was presented, but not followed by any event.
  • (8) wintergreen) on other days which was never followed by food.
  • (9) The FA did not cross-react with 9 other methanogens, including M. formicicum strains, or 24 heterotrophs, 18 of which had been isolated from Wintergreen Lake sediment.