What's the difference between withe and writhe?

Withe


Definition:

  • (n.) A flexible, slender twig or branch used as a band; a willow or osier twig; a withy.
  • (n.) A band consisting of a twig twisted.
  • (n.) An iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured; a wythe.
  • (n.) A partition between flues in a chimney.
  • (v. t.) To bind or fasten with withes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The ridges interlink with definitive rows of particles associated withe PF fracture face of the innter leaflet of the plasma membrane.
  • (2) T-cell antigens were detectable in all specimens positive for rosette formation withe untreated erythrocytes, in four of the six specimens positive for rosette formation with AET-treated erythrocytes, and in four specimens that showed no rosette formation under any of the experimental conditions used.
  • (3) In stationary CEF cells arrested in the G1 phase of the cell replication cycle by serum deprivation and infected withe CELO virs, no cytopathic effect could be observed, and only very low amounts of virus were produced.
  • (4) Partners include Adidas, Nike, Withings, Intel, Asus, RunKeeper, LG, Basis, Runtastic and Polar.
  • (5) The Barber Suggestibility Scale, as a measure of hypnotic susceptibility, was administered to 130 British undergraduate students by 13 student experimenters in a 2 x 2 factorial design withe sex of the subject and the sex of the experimenter as the two variables.
  • (6) Medical treatment is potentially more important than surgical treatment for the large majority of patients presenting withe breast cancer.
  • (7) Although these bacteria rarely occur in clinical specimens, the clinical microbiologist should be familiar withe their outstanding characteristics.
  • (8) Apple announced partners for its HomeKit – the developer platform underlying the Home app – including Texas Instruments, Philips, Haier, Netamo, Withings, Honeywell, Marvel, Osram and Broadcom.
  • (9) Withing’s new Aura promises to wake you up with “scientifically validated” coloured light when you’re ready in the morning.
  • (10) These results suggest that an extensor spasticity withe flexor weakness, which is common in capsular hemiplegia, may be due to an imbalance of reflex activities via Ia muscle afferents, and that a part of flexor weakness can be restored by "disinhibition' by reduction of Ia inflow from extensor muscles.
  • (11) One of the major metabolites is 4-hydroxy-tamoxifen which we have identified by cocrystallisation withe non radioactive compound and which is known to display a high affinity for the estrogen receptor.
  • (12) Interaction of copper(II) with guanosine, 2'-deoxyguanosine, 1-methylguanosine, 7-methylguanosine and GMP was studied withe use of spectroscopic and magneto-chemical methods.
  • (13) Although a total response rate of 96 percent was achieved after six months, the results showed that cigarette smoker response rates were considerably lower than the other smoker categories withing 30 days and within 60 days of the original mailing date.
  • (14) 52 patients with benign monoclonal gammopathy were HLA typed and compared withe 48 patients with malignant monoclonal gammopathy.
  • (15) By the use of complexes of HSA-anti-HSA in ten times antigen excess, the time for localization of HSA withing germinal centres was accelerated as compared with soluble HSA, so that newly formed centres containing antigen-bearing dendritic ells were seen at 48 hours instead of 72 hours after use of soluble HSA.
  • (16) In Chinese hamster cells immediately after medium changing in stationary cultures there is an augmentation of PSH content in parallel withe the increase in RNA synthesis rate.
  • (17) All tumors activated sulfate to adenosine-3'-phospho-5'-phosphosulfate and the concentrations were significantly correlated withe the recorded levels of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate.
  • (18) Neither the total dose of radiation nor the dose per week correlated withe the severity of reaction or death.
  • (19) In contrast, progression was very rapid in two of 300 other patients with the disease, leading to fatal thyrotoxic crisis withing three months in one.
  • (20) This effect was greater withe native than with partially reduced SC.

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.