What's the difference between calciform and falciform?
Calciform
Definition:
(a.) In the form of chalk or lime.
Example Sentences:
(1) By immunofluorescence Pg IV was often the only pepsinogen that was characterized in dedifferentiated cancerous cells; this was also true of the calciform cells of some metaplastic gastric mucosa.
Falciform
Definition:
(a.) Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have recently treated an 8-year-old boy who had leukocoria, microcornea, cataract, and falciform retinal fold in the right eye and multiple grouped patches of pigmentation in the left retina.
(2) A case is described of primary YST of the falciform ligament extending into the left lobe of the liver in a 14-month-old boy.
(3) The patient underwent a total pancreatectomy following a gastroduodenal arterial embolization to control duodenal bleeding, a resection of the ileum and falciform ligament at a second laparotomy and repeated hepatic arterial embolizations to control the growth of liver metastases.
(4) At surgery, she was found to have an infarction of the falciform ligament that was excised.
(5) It is considered to be homologous to the pecten oculi of the avian eye; to the falciform process of the teleost eye; to the supraretinal vessels of amphibians and to the intraretinal vessels of the mammalian eye.
(6) They are found with blunt dissection just to the right of the falciform ligament, encircled and ligated.
(7) Eight cases of hepatobiliary disease located adjacent to or within the perihepatic ligaments (peritoneal reflections surrounding the liver) with exophytic spread along these ligaments (three abscesses from cholecystitis, two bilomas, two hepatic abscesses, and one hematoma from a ruptured hepatocellular carcinoma, with 16 ligamentous lesions: five in the hepatoduodenal ligament, four in the ligamentum teres, three in the falciform ligament, two in the gastrohepatic ligament, one in the transverse mesocolon, and one in the duodenocolic ligament) were studied with sonography and computed tomography.
(8) Two conflictual zones are isolated: the first is linked to the clamp which is produced by the insertion of the sacro-epinous ligament on the ischial spine and the sacro-tuberal ligament; the second is linked to the falciform process of the sacrotuberal which threatens the nerve by its sharp upper edge.
(9) This is the first report of A. falciforme occurring as a disease agent in the United States.
(10) A case report of an internal hernia with the greater omentum trapped in the intact falciform ligament is presented.
(11) These two males may suffer from a form of Norrie's disease without mental deficiency, however, they may be examples of the severest form of "falciform retinal folds" (autosomal recessive) or they may represent the same end-result from a different inherited pathological process.
(12) Focal fatty infiltration of the liver adjacent to the falciform ligament constitutes a diagnostic pitfall on CT and sonography.
(13) Autologous microvessel endothelial cells were isolated from canine falciform ligament fat, were transplanted onto the luminal surface of the grafts using an intraoperative isolation and sodding technique, and both endothelial-cell-treated and non-cell-treated grafts were placed as bilateral carotid interposition grafts in a canine model.
(14) Several clinical entities, usually mistaken for or associated with PHPV, such as retinoblastoma, congenital cataract, retinal dysplasia, trisomy 13 syndrome, and falciform retinal folds are discussed briefly.
(15) The aim of this work was to study the portacaval shunts described by Sappey in the falciform ligament of the liver in the cirrhotic patient.
(16) falciforme hepatis; right lobectomy 1 cm right, left lobectomy 1 cm left to "cava-gallbladder-line".
(17) In a group of 36 cats with clinically apparent hepatobiliary disease and in which liver biopsy was done, liver hyperechoic, compared with falciform fat, was the best criterion for diagnosis of severe hepatic lipidosis with 91% sensitivity, 100% specificity, and 100% positive predictive value.
(18) The main differential diagnoses comprise retinoblastoma, retrolental fibroplasia, toxoplasmosis, falciform detachment, juvenile retinoschisis, sex-linked microphthalmia, sex-linked cataract and congenital retinal detachment.
(19) changes, the intrasinus pressure according to the phase of the clinical manifestation of intracranial hypertension, and the relation of the tumor to the superior sagittal sinus and the falciform process the authors gained important information on changes of the brain ventricles in patients with tumors of parasagittal location.
(20) Various economical and readily available organic and inorganic amendments were tested for their capacity to enhance the microbial process, including Citrus (orange) peel, Vitis (grape) pomace, feedlot manure, barley straw, chitin, pectin, ZnSO4, (NH4)2SO4, and an inoculum of Acremonium falciforme (an active Se methylating fungus).