What's the difference between asbestic and asbestos?
Asbestic
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling asbestus; inconsumable; asbestine.
Example Sentences:
(1) A total of 22 subjects were studied, 17 of whom also underwent bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and determination of the cellular composition of the recovery liquid in order to establish the presence of asbestous alveolitis.
(2) The method is based on the observation at the microscope in reflected fluorescence of fibers of asbestos previously treated with a fluorochrome colouring agent; it can be applied for the individual counting of fibers on the filters used for checking the environmental air and has already been applied with good results in asbestic cement factories.
(3) Risks of IAP are real or potential: acute risk is obvious for CO, aero-allergens, formaldehyde, NOx,...); irritations are produced by ETS, formaldehyde, solvants,...; long term or potential risks are of concern for asbest, radon,... A complex and bad known pathology is described in a lot of modern buildings as the "Sick Building Syndrom".
(4) It can be regarded as ascertained that after asbest exposition a systemic contamination of the organism occurs.
(5) The results obtained indicate that mutagenic effect of dust particles of asbest and zeolite is mediated by oxygen radicals.
(6) As to the cancerogenesis of asbest-induced malignomas the existing theories appear at present still insufficient; analogies to Virchow's irritation theory are possible in the serosa tumours.
(7) Apart from the inhalative intake further possibilities of the asbest fibre incorporation and the elimination are referred to.
(8) The cell chemiluminescence method was used to demonstrate the ability of asbest and zeolite dusts from 8 deposits of the USSR to induce generation of free oxygen radicals in the phagocytosing cells suspension.
(9) It is reported on the rare case of a 46-year-old female patient with a bilateral mesothelioma of the pleura without contact to asbest.
Asbestos
Definition:
(n.) A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety of serpentine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three subcohorts were defined: 3212 men whose only exposure to asbestos was to amosite; 3430 exposed to crocidolite; and 675 to both amphiboles.
(2) Trichophytosis (T. equinum) is characterized as typical numerous small and round patches, covered by small, bran-like, asbestos-coloured scales.
(3) Using recently published data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results project, coupled with the previously published estimates, projected asbestos related malignant mesothelioma mortality in the United States for the period 1985-2009 was estimated to be 21,500.
(4) Crocidolite asbestos fibers are rapidly ingested in large amounts by Tetrahymena.
(5) The benign localized mesothelioma is usually considered in the differential diagnosis of pleural tumors, but it is not related to asbestos exposure.
(6) This study examined different markers of lung immunologic and inflammatory responses to previous asbestos exposure.
(7) The role of alveolar macrophage (AM)-derived secretory products in fibroblast stimulation after the instillation of long and short asbestos to rat lungs is now investigated.
(8) Attention to the hazards of asbestos has aroused concern among many healthy persons who have been exposed at some time to one of the world's most versatile materials.
(9) The high sites' density with basic character, evidenced by use of various probe molecules, is very similar for the two asbestos types (chrysotile and crocidolite) and on the same order as the density encountered in some catalysts.
(10) Categorization of the pattern of physiologic abnormalities in patients with asbestos-associated disease may be important for clinical, compensation, and epidemiologic reasons.
(11) These results have been compared with asbestos samples obtained from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).
(12) Results indicated that the percentage of S cells was similar in asbestos-treated and untreated cultures.
(13) The various neoplasms attributed to asbestos in the next decades posed an additional question: What influence did the fibrous shape of the particles have on carcinogenic potential?
(14) In 1964 it was first reported that asbestos workers had a higher risk of gastrointestinal cancer.
(15) There is no doubt that the presence of asbestos in the coal mine is one of the pathogenic factors of pneumoconiosis.
(16) We examined whether exposure of macrophages to crocidolite asbestos induced lipid peroxidation as measured by the thiobarbituric acid assay.
(17) The findings suggest widespread exposure to asbestos dust; occupational histories appeared to indicate the source of exposure in some but not all patients.
(18) The present standard method for evaluating asbestos fiber concentrations in workroom air excludes fibers less than 5 micron long even though it has been shown that small fiber concentrations dominate in a dust cloud.
(19) Among patients with mesothelioma a history of asbestos exposure was obtained in 44%, a history of no exposure in 22% and no specific mention of asbestos in 34%.
(20) Previous suggestions for converting TEM measurements to PCM equivalents lack generality because they fail to take into account the size distribution of the asbestos particles and the expectation that fiber-size distributions in current nonoccupational environments could differ from the workplaces of the past on which the risk equations are based.