What's the difference between botryoidal and fiorite?
Botryoidal
Definition:
(a.) Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences.
Example Sentences:
(1) Five cases of RMSs (including embryonal, botryoid, and alveolar types), various other soft tissue tumors, and 10-week gestation fetal muscle tissue were studied to demonstrate IGF-II transcripts by means of Northern blot hybridization and in situ mRNA hybridization using radio-labeled probes.
(2) In four of the six patients, the referring diagnosis was sarcoma botryoides.
(3) The patient had a polypoid lesion protruding from the vagina which was initially thought to be a sarcoma botryoides.
(4) The botryoid odontogenic cyst is a morphologic variant of developmental cysts of odontogenic epithelial residue, i.e., lateral periodontal cysts and gingival cysts.
(5) By the appearance of these globules, coronet cells are roughly divided into two types: botryoidal coronet cells and flower-like.
(6) Sarcoma botryoides (embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma) originating from the common bile duct is reported in a 4-year-old girl.
(7) Results of treating 14 patients with sarcoma botryoides of the female genital tract are reviewed.
(8) In a review of a national series of malignant tumors in middle-aged and elderly individuals (over 40 years of age), in all 107 cases primarily diagnosed and reported to the Swedish Cancer Registry as rhabdomyosarcomas during the period 1972-1981, 4 cases were accepted as botryoid, embryonal or alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, using light-microscopic criteria for the diagnosis.
(9) A müllerian adenosarcoma with heterologous elements having the gross appearance of a sarcoma botryoides occurred in the uterine cervix of a 14-year-old girl.
(10) This report describes six patients with endodermal sinus tumor of the vagina and cervix, a polypoid friable tumor whose clinical presentation in girls younger than age 3 years simulates the presentation of sarcoma botryoides.
(11) A case of sarcoma botryoides has been reported in a 10-month-old Nigerian female infant.
(12) Within one year after resection of the teratoma she developed peritoneal botryoid rhabdomyosarcoma, which probably originated from initially unrecognized rhabdomyoblasts in the teratoma.
(13) Light and electron microscopic studies of botryoid rhabdomyosarcoma of the larynx in an adult are presented.
(14) Different stages of cellular development were identified in the botryoid sarcomas, with the most immature cells of the cambium layer devoid of external basement membrane around the tumor cells, although the stroma contained finely dispersed basement membrane material and some cells contained intracytoplasmic laminin or type IV collagen, indicative of the synthesis of these proteins.
(15) On cystography, there was a polycyclic vesical filling defect resembling a parachute, which is specific of the botryoid variety and always leads to the right diagnosis.
(16) Only two of the ten botryoid odontogenic cysts were radiographically multilocular.
(17) Immunohistochemical methods were used to demonstrate the distribution of basement membrane laminin and type IV collagen in eight tumors derived from striated muscle (three botryoid, two alveolar, and two adult-type rhabdomyosarcomas; one benign vaginal rhabdomyoma).
(18) The botryoid odontogenic cyst (BOC) is a rare cyst of odontogenic origin originally described in 1973 by Weathers and Waldron as a variant of the lateral periodontal cyst.
(19) An electron-microscopic and immunohistochemical analysis was performed on the 4 cases along with 7 cases of botryoid, embryonal and alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma in patients of over 40 years of age obtained from our own files.
(20) A large obstructing choledochal tumour was found at the level of cystic duct insertion and at surgery, a botryoid sarcoma was removed.
Fiorite
Definition:
(n.) A variety of opal occuring in the cavities of volcanic tufa, in smooth and shining globular and botryoidal masses, having a pearly luster; -- so called from Fiora, in Ischia.