What's the difference between aureola and aureole?

Aureola


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Aureole

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All of those containing estrogen induced hyperpigmentation of the aureolae, hormoestrol being the most potent.

Aureole


Definition:

  • (n.) A celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.
  • (n.) The circle of rays, or halo of light, with which painters surround the figure and represent the glory of Christ, saints, and others held in special reverence.
  • (n.) A halo, actual or figurative.
  • (n.) See Areola, 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The parameters of the lethal effect of aureolic acid derivatives, such as mithramycin, variamycin and olivomycin were studied on mice, rats and rabbits.
  • (2) Among the total number of the tumours sensitive to the drugs the number of the highly sensitive tumours amounted to 57.9 per cent for dactinomycin and 30.8--38.5 per cent for the antibiotics of the aureolic acid group.
  • (3) A front page editorial said: “Algeria left the World Cup with a new aureole on its head.
  • (4) Dactinomycin was superior to the antibiotics of the aureolic acid group in the rate and level of the cytotoxic effect on the tumour cells: 76 per cent of the above tumours were sensitive to dactinomycin, 56 per cent to mithramycin and 52 per cent to variamycin and olivomycin.
  • (5) But in Bach's Passions, argued Taruskin, every time Jesus is heard, an aureole of violins and violas gives Christ the musical equivalent of a halo.
  • (6) The active principle was determined to be a mixture of as many as 12 components which exhibited properties characteristic of the aureolic acid group of antibiotics.
  • (7) Anthracycline, aureolic acid and aminoquinone antitumour antibiotics damage deoxyribose in cell-free systems when reduced in air by the enzyme ferredoxin reductase.
  • (8) Definite differences in the efficiency of the antibiotics of the aureolic acid group with respect to different types of the brain tumours were observed.
  • (9) The effect of variamycin, an antibiotic of the group of aureolic acid on development of dedifferentiated astrocytoma of the brain was studied on rabbits.
  • (10) Structure determination using NMR spectroscopy of new aureolic acid analogues, demethylchromomycins A2 and A3 and demethylolivomycins A and B produced by Streptomyces aburaviensis PA-39856, is described.

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