(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".
Ruby
Definition:
(n.) A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.
(n.) The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
(n.) That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
(n.) See Agate, n., 2.
(n.) Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
(a.) Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
(v. t.) To make red; to redden.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nine years of clinical experience of the application of the Q-switched ruby laser to the removal of tattoos is presented.
(2) 8.59pm BST Mary and Paul would have received death threats if Ruby had won, I think.
(3) Other lasers that are in clinical use, such as the red ruby and near-infrared Nd-YAG lasers, can provide selective treatment only when the epidermis is cooled concurrently.
(4) But Ruby Tweedie, another local resident, said: "There have been so many doubts about his guilt that it's only fair that the man, who has only a few months to live, should be shown mercy."
(5) These changes are detected by variations in the rate of decay of the excited singlet state of pyrene after pulsation with a 10-nsec ruby laser flash.
(6) No recombinants were detected among 410 offspring produced from a backcross mating segregating for Ldh-1 and ru-2 (ruby-eye-2).
(7) NWR may be celebrating its ruby anniversary but will an organisation born to alleviate the lot of the housewife survive to drink to its golden when, politically and personally, she is apparently dead and buried?
(8) Ruby Tandoh faced online abuse during her appearances on The Great British Bake Off – and now the 21-year-old philosophy student has been set up for a fresh mauling by the Daily Mail .
(9) The argon laser and the ruby laser have been used to open the pigment layer in three cases of surgically incomplete peripheral iridectomy.
(10) 8.16pm BST Ruby's look so attractive but it's Mary who says this, not Paul.
(11) Louise Brock was keen for her daughter Ruby, who has Down's syndrome, to go to a mainstream school.
(12) Ruby confirmed several points: arthrosis is inevitable after a variable delay (10 years for the most optimistic).
(13) A 19-year-old man sustained a bilateral coagulation of the macula caused accidentally by a ruby laser rangefinder mounted on a tank.
(14) Ruby Wax identifies with it In the BBC's 2003 Big Read, the crimson-haired comedian chose The Catcher in the Rye as her favourite book.
(15) Then the final thickness of the sections is exactly adjusted by screwing three rubies out of the holder's bottom.
(16) 8.57pm BST Ruby is in floods, Mel and Sue are administering hugs.
(17) Ruby-eye (ru) is an autosomal recessive in linkage group 2.
(18) The reason, according to former federal agents and experts on rightwing extremism, is a vivid institutional memory of the bloodshed that marked standoffs with radical rightwingers in Ruby Ridge , Idaho, in 1992 and at Waco , Texas, the following year.
(19) The intensity-dependent transmission of primary leaves of Triticum aestivum seedlings at lambda = 694 nm was measured with single pulses of a Q-switch ruby laser.
(20) Five genetically distinct mutants with increased bleeding times and abnormal dense granules were used: maroon (ru-2mr), light ear (le), ruby eye (ru), beige (bg1), and pale ear (ep).