What's the difference between chagreen and shagreen?
Chagreen
Definition:
(n.) See Shagreen.
Example Sentences:
Shagreen
Definition:
(v. t.) To chagrin.
(n.) A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used for covering small cases and boxes.
(n.) The skin of various small sharks and other fishes when having small, rough, bony scales. The dogfishes of the genus Scyllium furnish a large part of that used in the arts.
(a.) Alt. of Shagreened
Example Sentences:
(1) Posterior crocodile shagreen is also age related and in one case was found to be unilateral.
(2) Analysis of the collagens present indicated that in addition to histologic similarities, the gene products of these extracellular matrices were similar to those reported for angiofibromas and Shagreen patches in tuberous sclerosis.
(3) The clincopathological features and pathogenesis of secondary mosaic degeneration of the cornea (anterior crocodile shagreen of Vogt) are described.
(4) One of the twins exhibited facial red-brown papules (adenoma sebaceum), a dorsal shagreen patch, intracerebral calcifications, angiomyolipoma in the right kidney, and hypopigmented macules; the other had only a few hypopigmented macules.
(5) She's like fine, bring me a large crocodile leather tote with shagreen hardware, I'm like, Madam, permit me to congratulate you on your choice, that will be exactly £18,000.00 :)
(6) Endogenous changes include ghost vessels, larger striate corneal nerves, fasciculi of fine parallel lines in keratoconus, criss-cross irregularly running lines in resolved keratitis, and a shagreen or cellophane-like appearance suggesting thickening of Descemet's membrane.
(7) The ophthalmoscopic features of a wrinkled shagreen, tortuous vessels pulled toward a nidus, and intraretinal hemorrhages were seen.
(8) The present case is regarded as an entity, distinct from dermatofibrosis lenticularis disseminata and from shagreen patch.
(9) Shagreen patterns seen in both human and animal eyes may reflect the lens epithelium and basement-membrane-like layer.
(10) One biopsy specimen was from a solitary nevus, another from a Shagreen patch.
(11) Sub- and periungual fibromas, shagreen patches usually found in the lumbosacral region and hypopigmented skin lesions are less often seen.
(12) One hundred and ninety-nine peripheral mosaic patterns, ten posterior crocodile shagreens and two cloudy dystrophies were found.