What's the difference between coarsen and hoarsen?
Coarsen
Definition:
(v. t.) To make coarse or vulgar; as, to coarsen one's character.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lesions observed in the small bowel included fixity of bowel loops, thickening of the wall, coarsening of the mucosal pattern and strictures.
(2) They hang pretty strangely, these garments of Britannia: if our decline is down to the loss of empire, how can we call that a coarsening?
(3) Deposits of slightly coarsened reaction product (RP) appeared and accumulated on the abluminal surface.
(4) Radiographic appearances consisted of minimal trabecular coarsening in the patella of nearly normal size and progressed to considerable cortical thickening and osteoblastic remodeling in a dramatically enlarged patella.
(5) Dilatation of the endoplasmic reticulum cavities, an increase in the number of ribosomes near bacteria, deformation of mitochondria and coarsening of cristae were revealed in phagocytosis of Past.
(6) The main side-effects were fluid retention (in eight) and hypertrichosis (in ten), accompanied in some by a peculiar coarsening of the facial features.
(7) Whipple's disease is characterized morphologically by macrophages in the small intestine which store PAS-postive material, as well as coarsening and atrophy of the intestinal villi, with pseudocystic cavitations.
(8) "When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal.
(9) Acromegaly is characterized by coarsening of facial features, acanthosis nigricans, hypertrichosis and oily skin.
(10) At P 5, coarsened RP was diffusely observed on the luminal and abluminal surfaces.
(11) Gastroduodenoscopy then demonstrated duodenal polyps and massive coarsening of the gastric folds due to infiltration.
(12) The earliest radiological changes were found after six months, at the end of the second scintigraphic peak; they consisted of coarsening and blurring of the trabeculae, nonhomogeneous spotty mineralisation and endosteal scalloping.
(13) "What troubles me about Grand Theft Auto V," sighs Delingpole, "is not just the message it sends out to youngsters (drugs are cool; crime pays; violence is fun), but what it says about the coarsening, the decadence and the hopelessness of our modern culture."
(14) The tabloid newspapers, their "scurillity", are so "consonant with British decline … the general coarsening of British nature".
(15) Of course, cheap comparisons coarsen our collective conversation.
(16) Two investigators were asked to evaluate independently the echogenicity, coarsening and inhomogeneity of the hepatic echo pattern in a semi-quantitative manner; they had no knowledge of the diagnosis and used the same apparatus.
(17) Osteomalacia presents radiographically as deossification, coarsening of the trabecular pattern, and pseudofractures.
(18) Sucralfate should also be evaluated in those difficult clinical conditions known to be resistant to any therapeutic attempt with currently available drugs, such as erosive varioliform gastritis and hypertrophic gastropathy with heavy inflammation of the mucosa and giant coarsening of the gastric rugae.
(19) Gradually he relaxed - and slightly coarsened - into the role his new admirers seemed to want, into a globetrotting, tax-exiled celebrity who told uproarious tales in funny foreign voices, into the Hercule Poirot film series, which allowed him painfully little range or scope.
(20) Widening of the diameter of the bone and loss of cortical medullary distinction with a mottled coarsening of the trabecular pattern are the most characteristic features.
Hoarsen
Definition:
(v. t.) To make hoarse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, for all persons studied, gastrointestinal symptoms and recent hoarsening of the voice were significantly related to the number of FB in the sputa.
(2) Secondary effects were hirsutism and hoarsening of the voice.