What's the difference between thrice and two?

Thrice


Definition:

  • (adv.) Three times.
  • (adv.) In a threefold manner or degree; repeatedly; very.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a short-term cross-over study the effect of daily sc human growth hormone was compared with that of thrice weekly im treatment.
  • (2) In the second study 8 subjects received placebo or terbutaline 750 micrograms thrice daily for 14 days.
  • (3) After the acute bleeding period, all Group P and Group S ewes were commingled and exposed to a ram continuously for 42 d. Samples of serum were collected thrice weekly and analyzed for progesterone to monitor ovulatory response to ram introduction through the 42-d period.
  • (4) During a period of three years each scintigraphy was classified thrice as a consensus between two experienced observers at six occasions placed on three separate days.
  • (5) The patient used Premarin vaginal cream (1 gm thrice weekly) for 7 months before the cancer was diagnosed.
  • (6) A cross-over study carried out over a 24 week period during 1975-76 was designed to test the relative merits of Extracorporeal versus Travenol coils for thrice weekly short periods of haemodialysis for patients with end-stage renal failure.
  • (7) When applied topically to the skin twice at a 48-h interval or thrice at 24-h intervals, 17 nmol of 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) and 0.2 mumol of A23187 or ionomycin induce the same 3-fold increases of hydroperoxide (HPx) production in mouse epidermis.
  • (8) Thirty-two women with recurrent urinary tract infections were treated after eradication of existing infections with a mixture of 40 mg of trimethoprim and 200 mg of sulfamethoxazole thrice weekly at bedtime for six months.
  • (9) In the latter the incidence of the operative wound suppuration was observed thrice as frequently.
  • (10) injections twice or thrice weekly of human growth hormone (hGH; Crescormon Kabi Vitrum), participated in a prospective study.
  • (11) 42 patients were randomly assigned to receive either intranasal buserelin, preceded by a short period of subcutaneous injections (500 micrograms thrice daily for 10 days) or subcutaneous goserelin.
  • (12) Mupirocin or placebo were applied in both anterior nares thrice daily for 2 weeks and subsequently three times weekly for a total of 9 months.
  • (13) Haemodynamic studies at rest and during exercise together with radionuclide ventriculography, pulmonary function and clinical well-being assessment were evaluated in ten patients with COPD and secondary pulmonary hypertension (mean PAP 25 mm Hg), before and after 6 months therapy with pirbuterol 20 mg thrice daily.
  • (14) The exercise consisted of thrice weekly sessions at 70% VO2max for 20 minutes plus warmup and cool down.
  • (15) Diabetes mellitus incidence in non-tumor cases was thrice (13.73%) that in cancer patients older than 54 years (4.15%).
  • (16) After a thrice weekly exposure to oxygen radicals for 4 and 5 weeks, there was a significant number of transformants compared to controls.
  • (17) It was concluded that 50 mg or 100 mg twice-daily therapy was equally as effective as the 50 mg thrice daily regimen previously recommended and that the tolerability of ketoprofen was not adversely affected by this concentration of the daily requirement.
  • (18) A girl aged 2 years and 10 months repeatedly suffered viral (thrice) and bacterial (colitis, salmonellosis, pneumonia 6 times) infections.
  • (19) Thus, low-dose INF-alpha 2b given thrice weekly might be as effective as daily treatment with higher dosages.
  • (20) However, these various Ca2+ ionophore treatments mimic entirely the stimulatory effects of TPA on epidermal DNA synthesis at 16 h and produce from 30 to 70% of the DNA responses to TPA at 32 h. Interestingly, the Ca2+ ionophore and TPA treatments applied thrice at 24-h intervals still produce above maximal or submaximal DNA responses, in spite of their very weak ODC-inducing activities or refractoriness against ODC induction.

Two


Definition:

  • (n.) One and one; twice one.
  • (n.) The sum of one and one; the number next greater than one, and next less than three; two units or objects.
  • (n.) A symbol representing two units, as 2, II., or ii.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
  • (2) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
  • (3) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
  • (4) Two of the largest markets are Germany and South Korea, often held up as shining examples of export-led economies.
  • (5) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
  • (6) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
  • (7) Clonal abnormalities involving chromosomes 3 and 21 were noted in two patients.
  • (8) After two weeks all animals were killed and autopsies of the animals were performed.
  • (9) No differences between the two substances were observed with respect to side effects and general tolerability.
  • (10) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
  • (11) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
  • (12) Between 22 HLA-identical siblings and 16 two-haplotype different siblings, a significant difference in concordance of reactions for the B-cell groups was noted.
  • (13) Cyclic AMP stimulated phosphorylation by [gamma-32P]ATP of two proteins of apparent Mr = 20,000 and 7,000 that were concentrated in sarcoplasmic reticulum, but the stimulation was markedly dependent on the presence of added soluble cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase.
  • (14) The constitution of chromosomes in the two plasmacytomas remained remarkably stable in their homogeneous modal population.
  • (15) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
  • (16) At pH 7.0, reduction is complete after 6 to 10 h. These results together with an earlier study concerning the positions of the two most readily reduced bonds (Cornell J.S., and Pierce, J.G.
  • (17) Gel filtration of the 40,000 rpm supernatant fraction of a homogenate of rat cerebral cortex on a Sepharose 6B column yielded two fractions: fraction II with the "Ca(2+) plus Mg(2+)-dependent" phosphodiesterase activity and fraction III containing its modulator.
  • (18) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
  • (19) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
  • (20) The findings suggest that these two syndromes are associated with dysfunction at two different sites within the frontal lobes.