What's the difference between veinal and venial?

Veinal


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to veins; venous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Quantitative comparisons of symptom development and progeny accumulation revealed that: (i) the TL domain of TASVd contains a determinant required for appearance of severe veinal necrosis in tomato, (ii) the severe epinasty and stunting characteristic of TASVd requires the presence of its TL and P domains, and (iii) the variable (V) and terminal right (TR) domains comprising the right side of the native structure also play an important role in viroid pathogenicity.
  • (2) However, in the solanaceous host Datura stramonium, which was systemically infectible by the wild-type virus, mutants induced necrotic local lesions at 21 degrees C and above, and a veinal necrosis at lower temperatures.
  • (3) The coat protein (CP) cistron of the tobacco veinal necrosis strain of potato virus Y (PVYN), supplemented with translational start signals, was cloned into an Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ti transformation vector.
  • (4) The sequence of the 3'-terminal 1611 nucleotides of the genome of the tobacco veinal necrosis strain of potato virus Y (PVYN) was determined.

Venial


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being forgiven; not heinous; excusable; pardonable; as, a venial fault or transgression.
  • (a.) Allowed; permitted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Based upon our previous experience on the treatment of meningococcal infections with satisfactory evolution when the fourth day of therapy was finalized and taking into account published experiences with four or less days of therapy, we realized a study on the efficacy of a four days therapy when venial meningococcal infections but of seven days when the serious ones.
  • (2) It is argued that obvious statistical blunders (mortal sins) have not disappeared entirely from the aging literature, but that the most frequent error now is that of choosing a less powerful analytic solution when a more powerful (and equally applicable) one is at hand (a venial sin).

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