What's the difference between carious and curious?
Carious
Definition:
(a.) Affected with caries; decaying; as, a carious tooth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sound (n = 28) and carious (n = 123) approximal surfaces of extracted premolars and molars were radiographed.
(2) When the practitioner has developed proficiency in restoring class II carious lesions with tunnel restorations, less treatment time is required than with traditional class II preparations.
(3) Ten freshly extracted teeth which had carious pulpal exposures and periapical lesions contiguous with the root apex were placed inside an anaerobic chamber and the apical 5 mm of the root canals cultured.
(4) Due to the influence of this diet deep carious lesions develop more slowly.
(5) A week of kanamycin gel treatment before and after the placement of dental restorations, compared to a placebo gel treatment, significantly reduced the levels of cultivable bacteria, S mutans and S sanguis, in the plaque samples collected immediately after the completion of the gel treatments, and was associated with a 46% reduction in new carious surfaces in the 14- to 37-month period following the gel treatment.
(6) They help the practitioner to make an early diagnosis of carious lesions and development of eruption problems, and they enable him or her to confirm and evaluate a pathology diagnosed clinically.
(7) This clinical study compares the diagnostic yield of Kodak Ektaspeed with the diagnostic yield of Kodak Ultraspeed using a split-mouth experimental design and proximal surface carious lesions as the test objects.
(8) In all conditions, the females had more carious lesions than the males.
(9) We propose the use of a methacrylate replication technique as the method of choice for studying pore distribution in carious enamel and present preliminary results using this technique.
(10) The initiation of carious lesions could be found in a few cases even when S. mutans comprised about 1% or less of the total streptococcal count of the specimen from the tooth surfaces.
(11) The relationship between this type of Retzius lines and the carious process is discussed, and it is suggested that the discontinuity defect may retard the carious lesion due to a protective effect of its supposed organic content.
(12) Exposure of carious lesions to 3 days in an oral environment without fluoride supplement reduced the size of the body of the lesions by an average of 5% (p less than 0.05).
(13) The indirect technique may be feasible for the restoration of carious teeth as well as the presented case.
(14) It was shown that the result of oral rehabilitation is substantially influenced by the increase in the number of subjects with primarily healthy dentitions and by the reduction in the number of carious teeth.
(15) The major interpretational advances were made rapidly using secondary electron imaging of anorganic normal, exposed, carious and instrumented root surfaces.
(16) The patient's age at initial restorative intervention did not appear to influence the need for subsequent endodontic treatment in restored teeth, indicating that early diagnosis and treatment of the carious lesion was critical for long-term pulpal health.
(17) Subjects with a single RPD did not have a statistically significantly increased probability of having carious teeth.
(18) The aim of the study was to compare the radiographic diagnosis of approximal carious lesions with visual observations of the approximal surfaces and within drilled Class II cavities (made into the pulp).
(19) The Chileans had an average of 10.0 carious surfaces, D(s), and the Poles 11.3.
(20) Relative glycogen synthetic abilities of resting cells of fresh clinical isolates of Actinomyces viscosus and Actinomyces naeslundii originating from dental plaque samples over root surface caries lesions and non-carious sites were studied under anaerobic conditions at a constant pH of 7.0, with U-(14C)-glucose used as the carbon source.
Curious
Definition:
(a.) Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.
(a.) Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
(a.) Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.
(a.) Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.
Example Sentences:
(1) The curious thing, it seems to me, is that she was never criticised for it.
(2) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
(3) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(4) The curiously double nature of the virgin in this tale, her purity versus her duplicity, seems unquestionably related to the infantile split mother, as elucidated by Klein--a connection explored in an earlier paper.
(5) It was curious in that it was the only thing I was doing that was not directly related to theatre or film.
(6) Curiously, actual modelling conducted by the Housing Industry Association suggests that limiting negative gearing could actually cause house prices to go up.
(7) So it may seem curious that Tina Modotti became one of Mexican Folkways’s official photographers.
(8) Another expanding market in the UK is frozen yogurt and that, curiously, we do seem happy to eat year-round.
(9) Curiously, although the cells of foci in early phases of development did not exhibit dye-transfer capacity, dye-coupling was observed in mass cultures of most transformed cell lines cloned from foci.
(10) Inside the building, the gallery spaces are curiously straightforward.
(11) In ten of these patients clinical evaluation established a diagnosis, for example: drug allergy, food allergy, a curious form of hospital addiction syndrome, an underlying malignancy, systemic mast cell disease or a complement abnormality.
(12) A curious mixture, born in South Africa and living on the Isle of Man, he draws on the oddities of both as a source for gags.
(13) "I find it quite curious that it's Mark Thompson who is leading the charge about News Corp's plurality when the BBC always put their hands up and say we're impartial.
(14) Along with a team of collaborators with curiously close ties throughout a big election and its aftermath.
(15) The tenth case of this curious entity in a diverticulum of urethra in women is presented here.
(16) 7.49pm BST "Living in the States during a World Cup is always fascinating, but this year is even more curious," says Oliver Pattenden.
(17) But it's a curious priority, especially when the mayor himself cycles in everyday clothes and has expressed the hope that other Londoners will, too, as happens in the Netherlands and Denmark.
(18) • Match report: Argentina 2-1 Bosnia-Herzegovina • Match report: Argentina 1-0 Iran • Match report: Argentina 3-2 Nigeria • Match report: Argentina 1-0 Belgium • Match report: Argentina 0-0 Holland (Argentina win 4-2 on pens) 3) Holland ▲1 There was not to be a final masterstroke from Louis van Gaal, whose Holland side deserved its spot in the last four but had a curious tournament.
(19) It seems however, to be due to an immunologic process as shown by the relationship between this curious disease and Goodpasture's syndrome.
(20) All of which makes it curious to find the film's stars abruptly reunited in the airy limbo of a Paris hotel, just south of the Arc de Triomphe.