What's the difference between algidity and algology?
Algidity
Definition:
(n.) Chilliness; coldness
(n.) coldness and collapse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fluorescent cytochemical techniques, chiefly end-group methods, have been employed in the characterization of cells in calid and algid normal and LUCKE tumor-bearing kidneys of the leopard frog, Rana pipiens.
(2) Hypotension and shock ('algid malaria') are often attributable to secondary gram-negative septicaemia requiring appropriate antimicrobial therapy and haemodynamic resuscitation.
(3) Pathophysiological mechanisms of these algid forms of malaria remain enigmatic.
(4) Significant amounts of DNA are demonstrable in the cytoplasm of algid tumors.
(5) Viral inclusions in nuclei of algid tumor cells contain demonstrable DNA, protein sulfhydryls and disulfides, arginine and lysine-rich basic proteins, also both C-terminal and side chain carboxyl groups.
Algology
Definition:
(n.) The study or science of algae or seaweeds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cephalalgia (1st century AD), nostalgia (1678), neuralgia (18th century), causalgia (1872) were terms followed in the 1950's by Bonica's 'algology... a disease state of its own', addressed by ever-growing numbers of pain clinics, strongly foreshadowed by Leriche's douleur maladie in the 1930's.
(2) The author demonstrates the role of algologic studies (projective Stewart's test scale), scales of verbal and visual analogs) in objective evaluation of the clinical status of patients who underwent spinal surgery for lumbar pains.
(3) Twenty-seven chronic pain patients with a variety of clinical problems unresponsive to conventional algological therapy were scheduled for neurosurgical procedures.
(4) Based on examinations of patients suffering from pains in the heart area, the authors demonstrate possibilities of an algological study in the clinical assessment of the intensity of pain experience.
(5) This method is founded on solid algological knowledge.
(6) Differences have been revealed in the algologic status of patients who suffered restricted interventions and complex decompression stabilizing operations with posterior spondylodesis.
(7) A multidisciplinary algology team was formed to facilitate the diagnosis and treatment of complex head and neck pain disorders.