What's the difference between carbuncle and caruncle?
Carbuncle
Definition:
(n.) A beautiful gem of a deep red color (with a mixture of scarlet) called by the Greeks anthrax; found in the East Indies. When held up to the sun, it loses its deep tinge, and becomes of the color of burning coal. The name belongs for the most part to ruby sapphire, though it has been also given to red spinel and garnet.
(n.) A very painful acute local inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck, characterized by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a central core, and is frequently fatal. It is also called anthrax.
(n.) A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone. It has eight scepters or staves radiating from a common center. Called also escarbuncle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Report on a 9-year-old boy with right-sided renal carbuncle.
(2) The analysis of 11 consecutive renal carbuncles showed that one should consider the diagnosis of renal carbuncle in young patients with flank pain, fever, and absence of significant leucocyturia.
(3) A complete clinical and radiological evaluation led to exploration for suspected ruptured renal carbuncle with perinephric abscess.
(4) B. anthracis was found in the carbuncle of the stomach wall, mesenterial lymphnodes, blood, liver and kidney.
(5) The symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of the renal carbuncle are described.
(6) A renal carbuncle (cortical abscess) is an important and treatable consideration in the differential diagnosis of renal mass lesions.
(7) Under observation were 12 patients, in whom following paranephral novocain blockade subcapsular and paranephral hematomas, purulent paranephritis, abscesses and carbuncles of the kidneys developed.
(8) Our study confirms that renal carbuncle is always caused by staphylococcus aureus and that treatment is based on appropriate antibiotherapy.
(9) An infant presented with a carbuncle over the angle of her jaw which grew a scotochromogenic mycobacterium, subsequently identified as Mycobacterium szulgai.
(10) The most common cause is primary renal disease, with perforating ureteric stones, abscess-forming pyelonephritis, renal carbuncle and pyonephrosis as the most important factors.
(11) However, one of the Everton lads has a carbuncle on his neck the size of a duck's egg.
(12) The usefulness of ultrasonography for the diagnosis of renal carbuncle and for its distinction from other suppurative renal lesions is emphasized.
(13) Nephrectomy was required in 2 girls, each of whom had multiple extensive gram-negative carbuncles.
(14) Folliculitis formed the largest clinical group followed by infectious eczematoid dermatitis, secondary infection, furuncles, impetigo, ecthyma and carbuncle in descending order of frequency.
(15) Angiographic studies (fivepatients), performed to rule out vascular occlusion, tumour or carbuncle, showed attenuated and somewhat stretched intrarenal vessels associated with the diffuse or focal cortical swelling.
(16) Back then, HRH hijacked the 150th anniversary of the RIBA at Hampton Court Palace to denounce modern architecture and the monstrous carbuncles it had spawned on the face of our once much-loved and elegant historic buildings and cities.
(17) At the Royal Institute of British Architects' 150th anniversary he lambasted the design as "a monstrous carbuncle".
(18) He has done this over the years with architecture and planning – successfully, with his own project at Poundbury in Dorset and with his condemnation of the "monstrous carbuncle" that would, in his view, have disfigured London's Trafalgar Square.
(19) If a new paper comes in from the University of Georgia on agriculture in the 21st century he’ll read it, understand it and send someone a note about it.” In 1984 Charles launched a lifelong war on modern architecture by publicly criticising proposals for an extension to the National Gallery that he said was “like a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved friend”.
(20) Dressed in a sporty livery of black and white stripes, it was the deserved winner of the Carbuncle Cup for the worst building of the year, "for services to greenwash [those three wind turbines have never moved], urban impropriety and sheer breakfast-extracting ugliness".
Caruncle
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Caruncula
Example Sentences:
(1) By means of hybridization of nucleic acid, we detected DNA specific for papilloma virus, type 6a, in a caruncle papilloma of a 45-year-old female patient suffering from genital warts.
(2) We describe two patients with different adnexal locations of localized extramedullary plasmacytomas, one under the conjunctiva of the caruncle and the other under the tarsal conjunctiva.
(3) The caruncle and 16 control sheep, each with indwelling vascular catheters, were studied between 121 and 130 days of pregnancy.
(4) Weights of the fetus, fetal membranes, cotyledons, caruncles, and uterus were recorded as were weights of the fetal liver, heart, kidneys, spleen, lungs, stomach complex, intestines, and semitendinosus muscle.
(5) It was concluded that collagenase caused collagenolysis and loosening of cotyledon from caruncle, but collagenolysis and cotyledon-caruncle separation were not facilitated by the presence of hyaluronidase.
(6) Total uterine blood flow measured with isotope-labeled microspheres rose more than tenfold following 30 microgram per kilogram of either estrogen, as did blood flow to the myometrium, endometrium, and uterine caruncles (p less than 0.05).
(7) prescapular) lymph nodes and uterine caruncles, cotyledons or foetal tissues.
(8) in whom the external genitalia and urethra were closely examined, a urethral caruncle was noted in 1 pt.
(9) In subsequent pregnancies, half the caruncle fetuses were growth retarded or small (weight more than 2 SD below mean weight for control fetuses) with the remainder, normal-sized (weight within 2 SD of mean weight for control fetuses).
(10) The investigation was performed in fetal cotyledons, which are attached to uterine caruncles to form units, called placentons.
(11) C. jejuni colonies were identified in caruncles and placenta by light microscopy and immunoperoxidase techniques.
(12) All the birds fed zearalenone frequently showed strutting behavior, displayed an increased size and coloration of caruncles and dewlaps, and had swollen vent tissue.
(13) Tumor resection was performed under the preoperative diagnosis of caruncles, but, histopathological examination revealed adenocarcinoma.
(14) The pigmentation on or round the cornea is independent of iris colour in Caucasians, but is related to melanosis of the bulbar conjunctiva, the caruncle and the plica semilunaris.
(15) The results indicate that fetal growth retardation due to restriction of placental growth after removal of endometrial caruncles is associated with chronic hypoxaemia, polycythaemia and hypoglycaemia.
(16) Intrauterine growth retardation was induced by removal of endometrial caruncles in the ewe prior to conception thereby reducing the size of the placenta in a subsequent pregnancy.
(17) Oxygen tension (P02) and content in the common umbilical vein and in the descending aorta were significantly lower in small caruncle fetuses compared to controls but only P02 was lower in normal-sized caruncle fetuses.
(18) Ocular adnexal oncocytomas have been reported to arise in the caruncle, lacrimal gland, and lacrimal sac.
(19) 1, maternal (caruncle) and fetal (cotyledon) portions of the placenta as well as uterine endometrium were obtained from cows at mid-gestation and evaluated for angiogenic activity by placing tissue samples on chick chorioallantoic membranes (CAM).
(20) A 50-year-old, black woman presented with a 1-cm, polypoid lesion on the posterior edge of the urethral meatus that had the gross appearance of a urethral caruncle.