What's the difference between stability and stasis?

Stability


Definition:

  • (a.) The state or quality of being stable, or firm; steadiness; firmness; strength to stand without being moved or overthrown; as, the stability of a structure; the stability of a throne or a constitution.
  • (a.) Steadiness or firmness of character, firmness of resolution or purpose; the quality opposite to fickleness, irresolution, or inconstancy; constancy; steadfastness; as, a man of little stability, or of unusual stability.
  • (a.) Fixedness; -- as opposed to fluidity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
  • (2) What's to become of Tibetan stability and cohesion then is anyone's guess.
  • (3) 5-Azacytidine (I) stability was increased approximately 10-fold over its stability in water or lactated Ringer injection by the addition of excess sodium bisulfite and the maintenance of pH approximately 2.5.
  • (4) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
  • (5) The direct monocyte source is not sufficient to insure the stability of this population.
  • (6) A cDNA library prepared from human placenta has been screened for sequences coding for factor XIIIa, the enzymatically active subunit of the factor XIII complex that stabilizes blood clots through crosslinking of fibrin molecules.
  • (7) The diastereoisomers appeared to differ in stability.
  • (8) Thermal stabilities (Tm's) of the hybrid between the 2'-O-methyl ribooligomer and the complementary ribooligomer and of the related hybrids are compared.
  • (9) The influence of calcium ions on the electrophoretic properties of phospholipid stabilized emulsions containing various quantities of the sodium salts of oleic acid (SO), phosphatidic acid (SPA), phosphatidylinositol (SPI), and phosphatidylserine (SPS) was examined.
  • (10) The method used in connection with the well known autoplastic reimplantation not only presents an alternative to the traditional apicoectomy but also provides additional stabilization of the tooth by lengthing the root with cocotostabile and biocompatible A1203 ceramic.
  • (11) Prompt diagnosis, in which timely diagnostic laparoscopy and ultrasound evaluation of the pelvis may be helpful, provides the opportunity for prompt laparotomy with untwisting of the torsion and stabilization of the adnexa by suture and cystectomy, if possible, extirpation if not.
  • (12) The cell fermentation culture with a stabilized pH value was better than the culture with the pH value changing spontaneously on saponin content, growth rate and biomass.
  • (13) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
  • (14) Stability of kinetic constants for a long period of time is demonstrated.
  • (15) Poly (8NH2G) does not interact with poly(C) in neutral solution because of the high stability of the hemiprotonated G-G self-structure.
  • (16) The elongation of helix III with the addition of helix II at the N-terminus somewhat stabilizes the ordered structure.
  • (17) Replacement of vinyl groups with bulkier substituents (hydroxyethyl or acetyl groups) decreases holoenzyme stability and catalytic activity.
  • (18) The stabilized mandible allowed suspension of the tongue.
  • (19) In a family with hereditary elliptocytosis and an abnormality in spectrin self-association, the membranes had decreased deformability and stability.
  • (20) In testing the contribution of the long, curved stem to the torsional stability of uncemented prostheses by comparing it with other stems, the long, curved stem was the most stable, followed by a shorter straight stem, and a short, proximally curved stem.

Stasis


Definition:

  • (n.) A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. It is one of the phenomena observed in the capillaries in inflammation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The main objective of these experiments was to develop and characterize a new experimental model of venous thrombosis, and determine whether a combination of vascular wall damage (crushing with hemostat clamps) and prolonged stasis produced more reproducible clots than prolonged stasis per se.
  • (2) This retrospective study of forty-six patients with stasis dermatitis found a 60.9 percent incidence of at least one significantly positive patch test reaction.
  • (3) Therefore, it appears that other processes, such as aggregation or stasis within tissues, may well be related to initiation of stone disease.
  • (4) Histological examination of the liver, spleen and kidneys showed congestion and stasis of blood in them, especially in glomerular vessels.
  • (5) Sixty-one patients had faecal stasis and 23 patients had diverticular disease.
  • (6) Escin was tested in the stasis edema, cotton-pellet-granuloma, and UV-erythema, i.e., in test models which seem specially suited to characterize the properties of this substance.
  • (7) In all burn wounds, there exists a zone of stasis which shows progressive microvascular deterioration.
  • (8) Intestinal stasis and mixing of urine and meconium may be predisposing factors for the calcification of meconium.
  • (9) The stasis of pancreatic juice in the ductal tree may result in such findings in the WHHL rabbit.
  • (10) The Fc-R+ and C3b-R+ mononuclear nonadherent cells were less represented in lymph in chronic stasis than in normals.
  • (11) In orthopaedic patients, DIC can develop following trauma (crush injuries), tissue necrosis, fat embolism, gram-negative or gram-positive sepsis, and venous stasis (bedrest).
  • (12) The pathological findings included intestinal stasis, intestinal blockage, acute intestinal rupture and intestinal rupture with peritonitis.
  • (13) The release of proinflammatory and vasoactive mediators such as leukotrienes (LT), thromboxanes, platelet activating factor (PAF), endothelins and others has been thought to be involved in the pathomechanism of mucosal injury, especially damage to the microvascular endothelium, increased vascular permeability, reduction in mucosal blood flow, vascular stasis, tissue ischemia and glandular cell necrosis.
  • (14) The plethysmographic measurement of the back flow apart from the phlebography of the arm is recommended for the diagnosis and control of the course of the stasis of the axillary vein.
  • (15) Chronic idiopathic gastric stasis can be responsible for unexplained dyspepsia.
  • (16) The diagnosis can be made by demonstrating abrupt cutoff of veins in the cavernous region, preferred retrograde flow of the anterior cavernous sinus, direct venous hemorrhage, and venous stasis.
  • (17) Sampling conditions (venous stasis, body position) contribute as does the handling of the blood sample before it reaches the laboratory, for example whether an anticoagulant is used and haemolysis, clearly meals have a major effect on serum triglycerides, but even when fasting there is probably also diurnal variation.
  • (18) There seems to be little evidence for permanent liver damage but very definite evidence for bile stasis and transient morphological changes.
  • (19) This reduction in flow is probably due to stasis in these superficial vessels, perhaps secondary to vascular damage.
  • (20) This haemoconcentrating effect of venous stasis seemed to be more pronounced in females than in males.