What's the difference between undulating and unsteady?

Undulating


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Undulate
  • (a.) Rising and falling like waves; resembling wave form or motion; undulatory; rolling; wavy; as, an undulating medium; undulating ground.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Three mechanisms play an important role: true elongation of the length of the nerve in the relaxed state against elastic forces; movement of the nerve trunk in the longitudinal direction; and increase and decrease of the tissue relaxation at the level of the nerve trunk (relaxed course) and the nerve fibers (change in the undulated course).
  • (2) In irregular undulation 89.1% of the time corresponded to Stage 2.
  • (3) These two forms could easily be differentiated by examination of the undulating membrane and kinetoplast.
  • (4) The findings were confirmed by a histopathological analysis showing the development of coagulative necrosis and myocytolysis as well as undulations of heart muscle cells as a sign of cardiogenic shock.
  • (5) Paroxysmal headache of the migraine type as well as permanent undulating headache (which we call cephalea) can lead to chronification, both often mixes within the chronification.
  • (6) After treatment with the contraction medium of Hoffmann-Berling, the filaments appear to be undulated.
  • (7) An undulating lightweight roof is supported by 211 narrow steel columns, sheltering a glass box holding the cafe and shop, and a chestnut timber-covered box holding the displays.
  • (8) The original concept of the blood pump is represented by an asymmetrical type of pump with an asymmetrical diaphragm and undulating motion of the diaphragm allowing optimal washing of the blood chamber.
  • (9) When blastomers cease cleaving, their surfaces undulate and form blebs.
  • (10) Foremost among these is a modification of the cell wall from an undulating structure to one which is smooth and has become enlarged.
  • (11) The distal fibular physis also begins as a transverse structure that becomes undulated and has extensive peripheral lappet formation.
  • (12) Undulations in the levels of all responses were noted; the "weaker" the antigen the larger the undulations.
  • (13) Tendon fibers lose their typical undulating appearance and become quite straight.
  • (14) On the rehabilitation ward of a tertiary care hospital, the patient developed undulating fever to 39.6C, rapidly worsening peripheral vascular disease, and pulmonary emboli.
  • (15) All human sera, from patients with tuberculosis as well as from control subjects, gave almost identical undulating patterns of reactivity with the decapeptides.
  • (16) For instance, platelets probably contract, possess a microfilament network, and behave like undulating membrane organelles.
  • (17) The incidence of the 60-69 year old males dropped in a range of 10%; that of the females with the same age had an undulating course with rising trend.
  • (18) The characteristic features of laparoscopic appearance--gentle undulation--were observed in 11 out of 13 (85%) patients with PBC.
  • (19) Tortuous undulating agranular endoplasmic reticulum (ER) was usually closely associated with microperoxisomes.
  • (20) Conversely, nerve shortening enhanced the undulation.

Unsteady


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the 6th day, he suffered from vertigo, nausea and vomiting associated with unsteady gait.
  • (2) For elderly patients with a variety of problems ranging from general unsteadiness to frank vertigo, the risk of falling can be devastating, and it is important to provide a thorough investigation of the total balance system.
  • (3) The clinical symptoms of acute toxication are similar for all studied phenols (restlessness, unsteadiness, clonic tremor, paresis and paralysis of extremities, and death).
  • (4) Records of horizontal components of unsteady fixation by amblyopic eyes were characterized by abnormally large saccades and a nasalward bias for slow drifts.
  • (5) 8.08am GMT David Smith (@SmithInAfrica) #Pistorius writing on an A4 notepad, occasionally touching his brow with an unsteady hand.
  • (6) One month later an unsteady gait and mild intention tremor in the hands were noted.
  • (7) But after an unsteady start Davie has since seized the industry agenda with his proposal for a joint BBC-commercial Radio Council, which he will chair in its first year, with a brief no less ambitious than to secure the medium's future in the digital age.
  • (8) The flow conditions were characterized by peak Reynolds numbers from approximately 200 to 1500 and values of the unsteadiness parameter from 3 to 10.
  • (9) One third of the patients had persistent unsteadiness 6 weeks following the injury.
  • (10) The unsteady aspects of the ejection process were subsequently introduced into the numerical simulation.
  • (11) A Womersley model of intraluminal distribution of blood velocities enabled to determine from unsteadiness parameter alpha of Womersley, arterial diameter and maximal minimal and pulse (maximal-minimal) values of centerline velocity, the maximal minimal and pulse shear rate and shear stress (product between shear rate and viscosity) close to the endothelium.
  • (12) 23, 1985 with unsteady gait and memory disturbance.
  • (13) The calculation was carried out under the condition of unsteady, starting airflow and the results were examined by the means of color graphics animation.
  • (14) 12 year-old right-handed boy felt unsteadiness of the body and headache for several days.
  • (15) The transmission of muscle oxygen uptake (VO2) patterns to the pulmonary site is a basically nonlinear process during unsteady state exercise.
  • (16) In the third band the transmission of information is possible in the inversion regime with unsteady polarity of the reflex movement.
  • (17) Seventeen of these patients were examined by electronystagmography with caloric stimuli at 44 degrees, 30 degrees, 17 degrees and 0 degrees C. Most were free of subjective symptoms only one-third had slight unsteadiness after sudden head movement.
  • (18) The incorporation of the proposed model into finite volume methods is also demonstrated, in the context of unsteady, one-dimensional, radial heat conduction in cylindrical coordinates.
  • (19) A multivariate regression procedure showed that dizziness, vertigo and unsteadiness, transient ischemic attacks, antidepressant drugs, and poor subjectively experienced health characterized the fallers.
  • (20) Amid the recession and unsteady wages, men like Kishino feel that the pressure on them to be breadwinning economic warriors for a wife and family is unrealistic.

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