What's the difference between subtract and writhe?

Subtract


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To withdraw, or take away, as a part from the whole; to deduct; as, subtract 5 from 9, and the remainder is 4.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thus, 10 degrees should be subtracted from the ultrasound values in order to obtain the real AV angles.
  • (2) The signals were processed digitally using three different algorithms: 1) simple linear regression (LR); 2) linear regression with drift correction achieved by adding to, or subtracting from the plethysmographic signal a term proportional to time (LRC); 3) Fourier analysis (FFT).
  • (3) During bilateral displacements, the activity induced by the respective contralateral leg is linearly summed or subtracted, depending on whether the legs are displaced in the same or in opposite directions.
  • (4) All MR images were compared with findings of chest X-ray, CT and IVDSA (intravenous digital subtraction angiography) as appropriate.
  • (5) Binaural difference waves (BDWs), obtained by subtracting the sum of two monaural BAEPs from a binaural BAEP, were obtained in 16- to 20-day-old jaundiced Gunn rats before and after injection of sulfadimethoxine, which produces bilirubin neurotoxicity by promoting net transfer of bilirubin out of the circulation into brain tissue.
  • (6) Aggressive responding was maintained by contingent presentation of periods free of point subtractions, i.e., provocations.
  • (7) The diagnosis of this rare anomaly was facilitated by the use of digital subtraction aortography and allowed selective angiography of the artery with an appropriately shaped catheter.
  • (8) Intraarterial digital subtraction angiography (DSA) was performed to evaluate graft patency in 45 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting with the use of internal mammary artery (IMA).
  • (9) We studied how much blue, green, or red light had to be added to or subtracted from white to obtain veridical hue perception (blue, green, red, or their complementary colours) at various locations in the temporal visual field.
  • (10) For each patient, the BSM and the QRS integral map before, during, and after the inflation was compared by subtraction of recordings "during-minus-before" inflation and "before-minus-after" inflation.
  • (11) Aneurysm of the hepatic artery, causing obstruction of the common bile duct, was definitely diagnosed preoperatively by subtraction angiography, combined with percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography.
  • (12) One problem required addition; the other subtraction.
  • (13) Eight complementary DNA (cDNA) clones highly expressed in fetal rat stomach but not in normal adult rat stomach were isolated after screening 2 x 10(4) independent recombinants from a subtracted cDNA library.
  • (14) In nine cases, MR angiographic findings were verified with digital subtraction angiography or conventional angiography.
  • (15) The various definitions of "efficiency" and "economy" are considered at the whole body and the isolated muscle level, and a discussion of baseline subtraction is presented.
  • (16) The voltage-dependent Na+, K+ and Ca2+ currents (INa, IK and ICa) were separated by the use of ion subtraction and pharmacological treatments.
  • (17) They could be improved by subtraction of the vascular images obtained after injection of 99m-technetium serum albumin.
  • (18) Single digital subtraction angiography showed bilateral occlusion, predominantly on the left side of the supraclinoid portion of the interna carotid arteries with formation of collateral circulation in the diencephalic territory.
  • (19) In this pilot study, a blood pool subtraction technique, which makes it possible to visualize MI 6 h postinjection, is validated.
  • (20) To determine the optimal time for recording left ventricular angiograms during atrial pacing stress tests, digital subtraction left ventriculograms were obtained using 12 ml of contrast material in 40 patients at rest and at peak pacing.

Writhe


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring.
  • (v. t.) To wrest; to distort; to pervert.
  • (v. t.) To extort; to wring; to wrest.
  • (v. i.) To twist or contort the body; to be distorted; as, to writhe with agony. Also used figuratively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) flexion, stretch, rolling, startle, jumping (stepping), and writhing.
  • (2) Writhing response was more influenced after systemic administration of drugs while hot plate latencies was not.
  • (3) For the final three visible minutes, Lockett writhed, groaned, attempted to lift himself off the gurney and tried to speak, despite a doctor having declared him unconscious.
  • (4) Both tonazocine and zenazocine were antinociceptive in writhing tests and in the i.a.
  • (5) administered DPDYN were determined in two nociceptive tests, involving thermal cutaneous (tail-flick) and chemical visceral (AcOH-induced writhing) stimuli, in which mu and kappa receptors are known to be activated differentially.
  • (6) administered Asn-Ala-Gly-Ala (NAGA), a partial sequence of beta-lipotropin, was investigated using the tail-pressure, hot-plate and phenylbenzoquinone (PBQ)-induced writhing tests in mice.
  • (7) injection of histidyl-proline diketopiperazine [cyclo (His-Pro)], an active metabolite of thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) in mice produced an antinociceptive effect in a dose-dependent manner as measured in four antinociceptive tests; tail-pressure, tail-flick, hot-plate and acetic acid writhing.
  • (8) The results obtained were as follows: (1) In the analgesic effects, RIII and R97 inhibited markedly the acetic acid-induced writhing in mice, but in reducing pain induced by heat, R111 and R97 showed negative results.
  • (9) BW A4C and BW A797C had little or no effect on carrageenin-induced hyperalgesia in rats or phenyl-benzoquinone-induced writhing in mice.
  • (10) injection and was still observable 4 hr after injection, demonstrating a time course similar to that of the antinociceptive effect of CRF in the writhing test.
  • (11) On the contrary, latencies in hot plate test were more affected than the writhing response after intracerebroventricular administration.
  • (12) This compound, when administered orally, was equipotent to morphine in protecting against mouse writhing.
  • (13) ICI 174864 (10 micrograms icv) attenuated acetic acid induced writhing in mice.
  • (14) A 6-year old girl, the 3rd case, developed episodes of opisthotonous, upward rolling of the eyeballs, protrusions of the tongue, intermittent writhing movements of the upper limbs, and drowsiness following the ingestion of 6 tablets of chloroquine sulfate for suspected diagnosis of malaria.
  • (15) Decrement of spontaneous movement, inhibition of writhing, prolongation of hexobarbital-induced hypnosis, muscle relaxation, inhibition of acetic acid-induced capillary permeability, hypothermia, antipyretic effect in mice; excitation of respiration in rabbits; nerve blocking action in the isolated sciatic nerve of frogs; cardiotonic effect in the isolated atria of guinea pigs; contraction of the isolated ileum of rabbits and guinea pigs; contraction of the aorta of guinea pigs; and relaxation of the isolated trachea of guinea pigs were common properties observed after separate application of CB and DT.
  • (16) SST antagonist and cysteamine produced a significant analgesia in the writhing test but had no effect in the hot plate and tail pinch test.
  • (17) Similar results were obtained by acetic acid writhing tests.
  • (18) In the kaolin-induced writhing response in mice, which is shown to be mainly dependent on the action of bradykinin, T-614 reduced not only the writhing frequency but also the peritoneal levels of bradykinin in a dose-dependent manner.
  • (19) When injected i.p., PGI2, carbacyclin and iloprost (agonists at the PGI2 receptor) induced writhing.
  • (20) When analgesic action was tested by the writhing and Haffner's methods in mice, the compound revealed a more potent activity than did mepirizole and aminopyrine.