What's the difference between conceal and conchal?
Conceal
Definition:
(v. t.) To hide or withdraw from observation; to cover; to cover or keep from sight; to prevent the discovery of; to withhold knowledge of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Therefore, a mortality analysis of overall survival time alone may conceal important differences between the forces of mortality (hazard functions) associated with distinct states of active disease, for example pre-remission state and first relapse.
(2) The recorded APs were further subdivided into those exhibiting consistent antegrade conduction during sinus rhythm (overt APs: 50 left APs, eight right APs), those exhibiting intermittent antegrade conduction (intermittent APs: six left APs, two right APs), and those exhibiting only retrograde conduction (concealed APs: 33 left APs, two right APs).
(3) In patients under anti-epileptic therapy it is readily possible for the clinical picture to be concealed, and this may then result in irreversible damage due to the disturbance of metabolism remaining uninfluenced.
(4) If they included a warning in the package ‘tamper resistance’ feature that works by non-Apple-authorised repair services may be mistaken for tampering attempts, and lead to the phone being disabled’, then it would be purely a feature ... By concealing the feature prior to sales, and only even revealing it after being repeatedly pressured over it, Apple turned what could have been a feature into a landmine.” Apple shares have fallen more than 20% in the past three months as investors begin to doubt whether it can maintain the stellar growth posted since the iPhone first went on sale eight years ago.
(5) It created a very ugly atmosphere in society – as I was growing up in politics, I disliked the hypocrisy where people had to conceal their own identity.
(6) Years ahead of its time, it saw each song presented theatrically, the musicians concealed in the wings (although Bowie said that they kept creeping on to the stage, literally unable to resist the spotlight) and with Bowie performing on a cherry-picker and on a giant hand, both of which kept breaking down.
(7) The regulator said it did not find the evidence provided a basis to conclude Rupert Murdoch had acted in a way that was inappropriate in relation to phone hacking, concealment or corruption by employees.
(8) The evidence obtained in these patients was consistent with a concealed Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
(9) It is concluded that the site of unidirectional block in this patient is at the origin of the concealed accessory pathway in the ventricular septal muscle.
(10) Kipling deliberately concealed something of himself, but did not seek to conceal the truth about the nature of imperial power; Wodehouse exposed himself, and thereby inadvertently exposed something of the double standards of the system of power in which he unthinkingly believed.
(11) It is concluded that the loss in total thigh volume during inactivation in a cast is due to waste of the muscle tissue, and further that this loss is partly concealed by an unchanged fat thigh volume.
(12) Slower ventricular rates during atrial fibrillation would suggest an increased propensity for concealed conduction in the enhanced AV node conduction group than in the group with an accessory pathway.
(13) The same plant was seriously damaged by an earthquake in 2007, but the owners tried to conceal a radiation leak.
(14) It has since emerged that Brinsley had already been arrested 19 times for offences including concealing a weapon, and disorderly conduct.
(15) Expressions that included muscular activity around the eyes in addition to the smiling lips occurred more often when people were actually enjoying themselves as compared with when enjoyment was feigned to conceal negative emotions.
(16) Drug-taking was, in effect, decriminalised by the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 , ever since when the authorities have deployed the rhetoric of toughness to conceal the truth that we are free to take drugs with impunity, knowing our crime will probably be ignored, or at worst not punished but "treated".
(17) The conduction disturbances were due to the association of concealed His bundle depolarizations (H') not propagated to atria or ventricles with first degree AV block in the His bundle.
(18) The measure would also lower the minimum age required to obtain a concealed weapons permit, from 21 to 19.
(19) Importantly, this abnormal state is concealed at rest and the choice of palliative shunting procedure appears to have little effect on normalizing pump performance.
(20) Such observations may conceal the fact that the amine N-oxide has undergone a sequence of deoxygenation and oxygenation reactions only to revert to the parental form and be excreted as such--a process that we propose to call metabolic retroversion.
Conchal
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to the concha, or external ear; as, the conchal cartilage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Upon occasion the upper laternal cartilages were replaced by composite conchal grafts with or without septal replacement.
(2) A simplified technique of harvesting of the ear cartilage graft is described which (1) uses a postauricular incision to minimize the visible scars, (2) removes the whole floor of the conchal fossa to avoid the irregularities, and (3) uses a tie-over dressing to eliminate the need for a head dressing.
(3) Frontal sinus ablation with autogenous fat graft in combination with ethmoid conchal curettage appears to be an effective treatment for chronic sinusitis in cats.
(4) A simple technique to reconstruct the umbilicus is reported in which a conchal cartilage composite graft, such as that used in tragus construction in the treatment of microtia, was employed with a very satisfactory result.
(5) An effective method of reconstruction of the auricular conchal cavity using a postauricular island flap containing the postauricular blood vessels is described.
(6) The lateral conchal resection com bined with mattress sutures is not complex and thus readily learned by residents.
(7) The other method ascribed a score based on a subjective evaluation of the degree of conchal degeneration according to previously published guidelines.
(8) The resultant defect between the lower end of the tarsus and the retractor is filled with a conchal cartilage graft.
(9) To quantitatively characterize the epithelial microvasculature in the transitional nasal mucosa of the dog, septal, dorsal conchal, and ventral conchal tissues were prepared for light microscopy.
(10) Often, the external canal and conchal skin are or have been involved in an inflammatory process and subsequent scarring that compromises or precludes its use in a reconstructive procedure.
(11) Perforating radiogenic defects of the auricle in the area of the cymba, conchal cavity and triangular fossa can be reconstructed in a one stage procedure by a pedicled composite flap of conchal cartilage and skin.
(12) Modifications of Tanzer's technique of total reconstruction of the auricle are described, emphasizing the construction of a deep conchal cavity and pseudomeatus, with ample projection of the auricle.
(13) A deep concha is treated by a cartilage strip expansion from the posterior conchal wall.
(14) We have employed medial conchal excision to correct deep conchas in 25 patients, all of whom were pleased with the postoperative result.
(15) Ear concha hypertrophy corrected by elliptical conchal excision often resulted in deformity due to lateral deviation of the anterior part of the concha.
(16) The author emphasizes that nasal implants made of pierced silicone material, or conchal cartilage, are extremely satisfactory in selected cases.
(17) The technique of otoplasty is outlined in detail with emphasis on creation of a desired antehelical fold with the use of modified Mustarde sutures as well as modifications of the lobule and the need for conchal set-back.
(18) For a simple elevation of the dorsum, an onlay graft of dermis was applied, but where further elevation was required, further dermis and conchal cartilage was added for suture and attachment to the dermis.
(19) If a tip graft is required, one achieves a more natural tip by a posterior conchal graft, utilizing its natural curve, rather than by a building-block support.
(20) In the process of repairing deep defects, the overlapping region of the lateral crus of the alar cartilage and the lateral cartilage may be stabilized by a conchal cartilage graft.