What's the difference between catacomb and loculi?
Catacomb
Definition:
(n.) A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) Xavier Niel, one of France’s wealthiest people and a known “cataphile” (those who illegally explore Paris’s catacombs and underground quarries), is said to have built a flight of steps that goes directly from his house down to Paris’s undergrounds.
(2) If postnatal wards are filled with hope for the future, psych wards are catacombs, filled with the death of hope.
(3) You are here in the Kingdom of Death,” warns the macabre inscription at the entrance to Les Catacombes de Paris – the underground boneyard filled with the remains of 6 million Parisians, which attracts half a million living and breathing visitors each year.
(4) Part of the inspiration for the piece had come, he explained, when he was trying to visit the catacombs of the Capuchin monks in Palermo.
(5) He drew a parallel with the church of the persecuted early Christians who preserved their orthodoxy in the catacombs.
(6) It is part of a religious complex containing another ancient church (S Agnese, early 7th century and also with beautiful mosaics) and catacombs.
(7) Further, the quiet, understated scenes between John Clare and Vanessa in the catacombs of the cholera ward allow themes to blossom that few other shows would dare cultivate: God, salvation, theodicy, our responsibility to one another, those truly universal hopes of being accepted and being loved.
(8) Next to the catacombs, a former toll house known as the Barrière d’Enfer (“Gate of Hell”) hosts the Inspection Générale des Carrières (IGC), an office created in 1777 by King Louis XVI to oversee the mapping and maintenance of the 32 sq km of abandoned quarries below the surface of the French capital – an underground space 10 times the size of New York’s Central Park.
Loculi
Definition:
(pl. ) of Loculus
Example Sentences:
(1) Multilocular renal cyst is a distinct renal tumor whose gross external appearance and absence of normal renal tissue within the septa of loculi distinguish it clearly from other renal cystic lesions.
(2) After removal of the endocysts, appropriate suturing of bronchial fistulas and of residual loculi of the ectocysts in the lungs carried out to prevent infection.
(3) It was most similar to R. spinicephalum Campbell 1970 but differed by having fewer proglottids (15 to 26 vs. 36 to 49), smaller peduncle (110 to 146 vs. 330 to 470) and pedicels (100 to 180 vs. 170 to 370), fewer transverse septa (6 to 8 vs. 16 to 17), fewer total loculi per bothridium (22 to 30 vs. 32 to 34) and larger ovarian lobes (148 to 310 vs. 88 to 176).
(4) Histologically, the mass was composed of multiple, fragmented loculi with a crystalline, light red center surrounded by dense, amorphous, mineralized material.
(5) CAT provides not only information of the nature of the lesion but also the number of loculi and the presence of multiple lesions; it is the investigation of choice for follow-up of patients with cerebral abscess treated either by operation or conservatively.
(6) Treatment is by marsupialisation into the peritoneum or external drainage with breakdown of all loculi.
(7) Initial thoracoscopy using a laparoscope under general anaesthesia enabled adequate debridement and breakdown of loculi within the empyema cavity under direct vision.
(8) Interlocular septa may contain either (1) fibrous tissue alone or (2) embryonic tissue separating adjacent loculi.
(9) It consist of several loculi lined with coronet cells and is bathed with blood from surrounding sinusoids.
(10) It differs from R. scorzai in number of bothridial loculi, testes per proglottid, and proglottids per strobila; by having quadrate rather than canoe-shaped bothridia; and by parasitizing Potamotrygon magdalenae rather than P. hystrix.
(11) The new species is distinct by virtue of possessing 94-152 loculi per bothridium--no other known species has more than 78.
(12) This species differs from the 7 other known species of Calliobothrium in its possession of 2 rather than 3 posthook loculi.
(13) The generic diagnosis of Calliobothrium is emended to include this species with 2 rather than 3 posthook loculi.
(14) Loculi contained a light red crystalline substance, surrounded by amorphous basophilic mineralized material.
(15) The standard management of puerperal abscess by incision, breaking down loculi, and dependent drainage may still be used, but the author has shown that an alternative approach--curettage and primary obliteration of the cavity under antibiotic cover--can give equally good results with reduced morbidity.
(16) All of these species have bothridia with medial longitudinal septa, a constriction at mid-bothridium, and, primitively, at least 42 loculi per bothridium and 17-22 testes per proglottid.
(17) Loculi were separated by variably-dense bands of a connective tissue stroma.
(18) One ventriculitis showed polycystic loculi with abnormal septa in the advanced stage.
(19) Both new species can be distinguished from all others by the number and arrangement of bothridial loculi, position of the genital pore, and testes number and distribution.
(20) Initial thoracoscopy under general anesthesia enabled full debridement and division of loculi within the empyema cavity under direct vision.