What's the difference between status and stratus?

Status


Definition:

  • (n.) State; condition; position of affairs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
  • (2) However, the relationships between sociometric status and social perception varied as a function of task.
  • (3) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
  • (4) The effects of in vivo administration of native prostaglandin E2 (PGE) on the cycling status of the granulocyte-monocyte progenitor cell (CFU-GM) were examined in a mouse model.
  • (5) In patients with less favourable disease status the 2-year overall and DFS were 73% and 50% respectively.
  • (6) Previous studies have not always controlled for socioeconomic status (SES) of mothers or other potential confounders such as gestational age or birthweight of infants.
  • (7) The present status of percutaneous coronary angioplasty is presented, with a brief outline of current technique, the technical and clinical indications for the method, and the results being obtained.
  • (8) S&P – the only one of the three major agencies not to have stripped the UK of its coveted AAA status – said it had been surprised at the pick-up in activity during 2013 – a year that began with fears of a triple-dip recession.
  • (9) Serum pepsinogen 1, serum gastrin, ABO blood groups, secretor status of ABH blood group substances and behavioral factors were studied in 15 patients with duodenal ulcer and 61 their relatives affected and unaffected to duodenal ulcer.
  • (10) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
  • (11) These results indicate that the hormonal status should be taken into consideration in studies dealing with platelet MAO activity in depressed women.
  • (12) The methodology, in algorithm form, should assist health planners in developing objectives and actions related to the occurrence of selected health status indicators and should be amenable to health care interventions.
  • (13) Significant changes have occurred within the profession of pharmacy in the past few decades which have led to loss of function, social power and status.
  • (14) This "paradox of redistribution" was certainly observable in Britain, where Welfare retained its status as one of the 20th century's most exalted creations, even while those claiming benefits were treated with ever greater contempt.
  • (15) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
  • (16) For example, 75% of them were asked about their family life, marital status and children in interviews.
  • (17) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
  • (18) Work conditions and the health status in workers of Bashkirian oil enterprises are characterized.
  • (19) All of the surviving patients showed improvement in cardiac function and their clinical status.
  • (20) Blood acid-base status, serum electrolytes, and urine pH were examined in 64 infants and children with phenylketonuria (PKU) treated with three different low phenylalanine protein hydrolyzates (Aponti, Cymogran, AlbumaidXP) and two synthetic amino acid mixtures (Aminogran, PAM).

Stratus


Definition:

  • (n.) A form of clouds in which they are arranged in a horizontal band or layer. See Cloud.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Correlations with an immunoradiometric assay (Embria), using 522 samples, gave: Stratus = 0.999 (Embria) -3.3; r = 0.969, and Magic Lite = 1.225 (Embria) -3.03; r = 0.971.
  • (2) We studied the influence of endogenous albumin and thyroxin-binding globulin concentration on five automated, nonisotopic methods of measuring FT4 [Enzymun on ES300 (one-step), Stratus I and II (essentially two-step), Delfia (two-step), and IMx (two-step)] in a mixed patient population.
  • (3) The green patches are of scattered low clouds (stratocumulus, stratus, fog).
  • (4) However, intra- and interassay precision was substantially better with the Stratus hCG assay, and this may allow earlier confirmation of pregnancy.
  • (5) The Stratus automatic analyser can replace radioisotopic methods, thus eliminating radioactive hazards.
  • (6) We evaluated four new nonisotopic immunoassays of free thyroxin (FT4)--Amerlite FT4 (Amersham International), Magic Lite FT4 (Ciba Corning Diagnostics), Stratus FT4 (Dade--Baxter Travenol), and FT4 Enzelsa (Compagnie ORIS Industrie)--by comparison with two FT4 radioimmunoassays: Amerlex and Sclavo.
  • (7) Automated digoxin immunoassays with the Abbott TDx, Dade Stratus, and Du Pont aca were evaluated against an RIA similar to the Centers for Disease Control Candidate Reference Method.
  • (8) The advantageous features of the Stratus mass assay were as follows.
  • (9) Stratus TSH results were outside the reference range for 20% of clinically euthyroid patients (n = 126), and 2.4% had undetectable levels.
  • (10) Recently developed fluorescent enzyme immunoassays (FEIs) for follitropin (FSH) and lutropin (LH) designed for the Stratus analyzer were compared with a typical dual FSH-LH radioimmunoassay (RIA) procedure.
  • (11) First, we evaluated the financial impact of a rapid, monoclonal antibody-based CK-MB mass assay (Stratus, Dade Division, Baxter Laboratories, Miami, Fla) for the direct measurement of CK-MB in serum samples from 65 patients admitted to the coronary care unit with the possible diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction.
  • (12) Blood specimens from each patient were assayed for apparent SDCs in triplicate using a fluorescence polarization immunoassay (FPIA, TDx Digoxin II, Abbott) and a digoxin radioimmunoassay (RIA, GammaCoat I125, Clinical Assays) and in duplicate using a fluorometric enzyme immunoassay (Dade Stratus, American Dade).
  • (13) We determined that a membrane-associated, high-molecular-mass form of alkaline phosphatase was a cause of these falsely increased values and instituted an approach to identify falsely increased Stratus CK-MB values.
  • (14) In a previous evaluation of a "sensitive" radial partition fluorescent immunoassay on the Stratus system, thyrotropin (TSH) values exhibited a positive bias in icteric samples when compared with results of a nonsensitive radioimmunoassay.
  • (15) (acoustic) Crimson And Clover (acoustic) Sweet Thing (aborted) Funknroll (acoustic) Q & A (2) Stratus incl.
  • (16) On average, the higher ALP values were associated with larger discrepancies between Stratus and RIA TSH values, although several samples with increased ALP did not have falsely increased Stratus TSH values.
  • (17) The reliability and precision of three digoxin immunoassays--Baxter Dade Stratus (BDS), Syva affinity column enzyme-mediated immunoassay (EMIT), and the reference assay Abbott TDx fluorescence polarization immunoassay following ultrafiltration (FPIA-UF)--were compared in eight digoxin toxic patients treated with digoxin fab antibodies.
  • (18) Dibenzepine has a thymeretic rapid and intensive action and a slow thymoanaleptic effect on the same personality stratus of Clorimipramine.
  • (19) The method was compared with immunoradiometric (Bioclone Australia), chemiluminescent (Amerlite; Amersham), and immunoenzymometric assays (Stratus; Dade).
  • (20) Samples were measured using the Abbott TDx assay with and without ultrafiltration of the sample and the Dade-Stratus radial partition assay.