What's the difference between concretion and enterolith?

Concretion


Definition:

  • (n.) The process of concreting; the process of uniting or of becoming united, as particles of matter into a mass; solidification.
  • (n.) A mass or nodule of solid matter formed by growing together, by congelation, condensation, coagulation, induration, etc.; a clot; a lump; a calculus.
  • (n.) A rounded mass or nodule produced by an aggregation of the material around a center; as, the calcareous concretions common in beds of clay.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Japan, particularly, there is a feeling that they were built less out of need than as another outlet for the aggressively proactive concrete industry.
  • (2) This study investigates the photoneutron field found in medical accelerator rooms with primary barriers constructed of metal slabs plus concrete.
  • (3) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
  • (4) The question of ethics inevitably arises, and should be considered before a concrete situation arises which leaves no time for reflection.
  • (5) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
  • (6) As a result of a psychopathological total systems analysis of the debut of exogenously aggravated and nonaggravated paranoid schizophrenia the authors have revealed a significant interrelationship allowing the characterization of both general regularities of the "background" effect and individual characteristics secondary to a concrete nature of exogenous impact.
  • (7) Fifty-seven percent had concrete evidence of serious psychiatric disorder.
  • (8) Fifa and I will take the Qatari authorities at their word and I look forward to the concrete actions which will be the real testament of will,” Infantino said.
  • (9) Three attributes of words are their imageability, concreteness, and familiarity.
  • (10) The paper finishes with concrete propositions of proceeding when the computer system is implemented and shows possibilities of scientific data evaluation of a microbiological data base.
  • (11) Now, with cuts biting every community and public service in the UK, the possibility for a full-blown confrontation between the government and an anti-austerity movement has become concrete.
  • (12) Those who remained in east Aleppo pointed out where families had been buried under mountains of concrete.
  • (13) What we need is international action now, and that’s precisely what we are doing today with real concrete action in the war against tax evasion.” He said the transparency rules on beneficial ownership showed that Britain and other governments were working to shine a spotlight on “those hiding spaces, those dark corners of the global financial system”.
  • (14) the present report deals with a mason without previous dermatitis, presenting bullae, ulcers and necrosis in lower limbs, short time after incidental contact at work, with premixed concrete.
  • (15) Raymond Hood – Terminal City (1929) 'Poem of towers' … Raymond Hood's 1929 drawings for the proposed Terminal City, in Chicago This never-built design for a massive new skyscraper quarter in Chicago is a vision of the modern city as a shadowed poem of towers; of glass and concrete dwarfing the people.
  • (16) described in Lösungen - an analysis of concrete treatment examples could yield suitable therapeutic techniques to broaden the interventional spectrum of psychotherapy, especially of behavioral oriented forms.
  • (17) In a bid to strengthen its claims, China has constructed concrete installations on some underwater formations, complete with basketballs and helipads.
  • (18) Its sword-shaped columns tower up almost 100 feet, and grey concrete walls careen around its nearly half-mile circumference.
  • (19) What remains to be developed is a "differential health psychology of the concrete individual", which might the way for prophylactic health promotion oriented towards the norm of individuality.
  • (20) The presence of similar concretion in the nervous system as well as the lung in other reported cases suggests that microlithiasis could be a systemic disease.

Enterolith


Definition:

  • (n.) An intestinal concretion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A single enterolith had caused obstruction and rupture of the small colon.
  • (2) The impacted enterolith was removed by enterotomy and the smaller one milked into the intestine.
  • (3) Many cases of enteroliths were reported in the nineteenth century but the number greatly decreased in the early twentieth century.
  • (4) Radiography of the enterolith did not reveal a metallic center, but division of the stone allowed identification of a canvas cloth, and chemical analysis determined the stone's composition to be ammonium magnesium phosphate.
  • (5) Two cases of perforating duodenal diverticulitis are reported, one with enterolith formation, and the other with sonographic evidence of retroperitoneal emphysema.
  • (6) The mean reported age of horses requiring abdominal surgery because of an obstructive enterolith is 10 years, with the youngest being 4 years.
  • (7) Enteroliths were formed by mineral deposition in concentric layers about a central nidus of ingested material and were spherical or tetrahedral in shape.
  • (8) We describe small bowel obstruction secondary to an enterolith formed in a duodenal diverticulum, probably as a result of habitual ingestion of large amounts of kaolin.
  • (9) Conditions causing stasis predispose formation of enteroliths, which may be either radiopaque or radiolucent.
  • (10) Enterotomy of the large colon allows retrieval of most enteroliths from its lumen.
  • (11) A case of intestinal obstruction due to impaction of an enterolith in the distal ileum is reported.
  • (12) The intake of nitrogen, magnesium and phosphorus (the primary components of enteroliths) from water and food is likely to be a factor.
  • (13) Enteroliths or intestinal autochthonous calculi are among the rare causes of intestinal occlusion.
  • (14) In this paper we present an asymptomatic patient with enteroliths as a result of prior hemicolectomy for cecal carcinoma.
  • (15) Further studies in which the effect of mineral intake and form of the mineral on enterolith formation are needed.
  • (16) Obstructions caused by "true" enteroliths were confined to horses more than four years old.
  • (17) Studies of enterolith formation in the past have all been retrospective.
  • (18) Enteroliths of varying sizes were removed from the region of the transverse colon in all four horses.
  • (19) Apple cider vinegar and a high grain diet may reduce the incidence of enteroliths in horses prone to this problem.
  • (20) An enterolith was found in a huge jejunal diverticulum at post-mortem examination in the second patient.

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