What's the difference between whither and writhing?

Whither


Definition:

  • (adv.) To what place; -- used interrogatively; as, whither goest thou?
  • (adv.) To what or which place; -- used relatively.
  • (adv.) To what point, degree, end, conclusion, or design; whereunto; whereto; -- used in a sense not physical.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (It belonged to Iain Watters , and he presented his ruined pudding to the judges from the murky depths of a fliptop bin, whither he had cast it in a fury; this event was even more scandalous than the custard theft of 2013 – don’t ask.)
  • (2) But whither North Carolina goes, so goes the rest of the nation.
  • (3) Even at a time when other aspects of foreign policy – such as over Iran – are breaking with blind whither-thou-goest Atlanticism, the ossified Orwellian terms of the nuclear discussion go unchallenged by government and opposition alike.
  • (4) Retrospective analysis of clinical cases observed for three years with respect to the appearance of the fundus and visual acuity was conducted to evaluate the effect of photocoagulation therapy on macular edema in relation to whither diabetic retinopathy was accompanied by, focal or cystoid, macular edema.
  • (5) There has been some uncertainty in relation to my title 'Whither the professions?'
  • (6) Whither Mr Whicher Paddy Considine’s return for the first of a brace of two-part stories in ITV’s The Suspicions of Mr Whicher could only draw 2.6 million viewers, a 13.7% share, between 9.05pm and 11pm.
  • (7) Effective pumping requires that the active transporter binds the pumped substrate, at high affinity, realized at the "whence side" (from which pumping takes place) and, at low affinity, at the "whither side" (to which pumping takes place).
  • (8) It was called “Whither B’Tselem?” “They thought about all the possible things B’Tselem could do once Israel doesn’t control the West Bank.
  • (9) They certainly shouldn’t be subjected to policies that will see them whither and die.
  • (10) However, the concreteness of the phone worker was not correlated with whither the scheduled appointment was kept by the caller.
  • (11) I am not by nature,” he wrote, “a ‘Whither America?’ man.” Only once did he try to encapsulate his own attitude to life, in a magazine called Living Philosophy.
  • (12) Yet if we strip the language down to what there is a "real need" for, whither poetry?

Writhing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Writhe

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.

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