What's the difference between congeal and congelation?

Congeal


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To change from a fluid to a solid state by cold; to freeze.
  • (v. t.) To affect as if by freezing; to check the flow of, or cause to run cold; to chill.
  • (v. i.) To grow hard, stiff, or thick, from cold or other causes; to become solid; to freeze; to cease to flow; to run cold; to be chilled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The same modifications were observed with spray-congealed lipid micropellets.
  • (2) Furthermore, it was observed that, the type and the amount of PEG used would affect greatly the drop point, congealing range and consistency of the prepared bases.
  • (3) The sweeping shape is reminiscent of melted roller coaster ride, or as one Twitter user put it: "It looks like congealed intestines".
  • (4) There are pristine steel and glass cabinets full of neatly arranged pills, and evil-looking black paintings made of thousands of flies congealed in paint.
  • (5) Repetition of the RAC on 100 sera (after complement inactivation at 56 degrees C for 30 min; after permanence at 4 degrees C for 7 days; after congealment at -18 degrees C) has always given the same results obtained on fresh sera.
  • (6) We studied the efficacy of methylprednisolone, which is claimed to cause rapid congealing of membranes, and to protect the cells against the free radicals present in the environment, in preventing the brain edema that occurs in hypoxic ischemic brain injury.
  • (7) The product bed temperature was selected to give the optimum congealing rate, and the latter three variables were varied in a statistically designed experiment.
  • (8) Congealed Tipex to odour of gym – Russia cheese fakers fail taste test Read more Food is not the only sector to suffer.
  • (9) The charm and wonder have congealed over the years, with fans increasingly more interested in character-naming conventions , running gags and the shapes and colours of lightsabers than in the grandness of the mythos.
  • (10) This study aims at determining the amounts of cholesterol, triglycerides, phospholipids, and nonesterified fatty acids in man's seminal liquid and determining their possible variations linked with the ways of taking and congealing samples.
  • (11) Breakfast in bed, with juice congealing on the sill: pages and pages began to pour out again.
  • (12) After application of a glass bead and mixing, the blood did not congeal even after eight hours.
  • (13) We have recorded greater volumes of fat in the past but we don't believe there's ever been a single congealed lump of lard matching this one", said Simon Evans, a Thames Water spokesman.
  • (14) The drug-containing microparticles were formed after cooling and congealing of the wax phase.
  • (15) Congealed Tipex to odour of gym – Russia cheese fakers fail taste test Read more “He knew about the rules but did not respect them, hoping that customs officers would not check his vehicle.” Last August, Russia banned the import of dairy products, meat and produce from the EU and other western countries to retaliate against sanctions imposed on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis.
  • (16) It is in the soil in the form of congealed tar which stunts trees.
  • (17) Stripping humanity from the study of nations and congealing it with jargon that serves western power designs, they mark "failed", "rogue" or "evil" states for "humanitarian intervention".
  • (18) That four-man midfield did Argentina few favours going forward here with Javier Mascherano and Fernando Gago providing little drive or dynamism in those central areas, even as the game congealed in the last hour into a neck-cricking affair of slow-burn, one-way Argentinian pressure.
  • (19) In other words, the poor might eventually end up getting all those nice services that the rich already have, but only with their data – their congealed social life – covering the costs of it.
  • (20) Instead of the intimacies and connections urged by conventional “green” literature, writing like this speaks of a darker ecological impulse, in which salvation and self-knowledge can no longer be found in a mountain peak or stooping falcon, and categories such as the picturesque or even the beautiful congeal into kitsch.

Congelation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of passing, or causing to pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing.
  • (n.) The state of being congealed.
  • (n.) That which is congealed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cryosurgery is a controlled refrigeration technique used to destroy some tumoral tissues that are more sensitive to congelation than healthy tissues.
  • (2) An important feature of the installation includes the possibility of recording the temperature directly of the tissue undergoing congelation and not that in the freezing chamber.
  • (3) We performed 11 epikeratophakias with a congelated lenticule (H. Kaufmann and M. Mac Donald technique) for aphakic post-traumatic eyes.
  • (4) The comparison of the results showed a similar behaviour between cells with and without congelation, except for few cell alterations in the form of granula which occurred during a short period, probably due to the congelation process.
  • (5) The sensibility of frozen cells was assessed by comparison of cell reactions before and after 1, 3 and 6 months of congelation, for two dental products called Aquacem and Pulpdent, the cytotoxicity and biocompatibility of which were further confirmed.
  • (6) We feel that the latter, as in the cases of comparably vascular meningiomas, had its origin in congelation and secondary organization of plasma proteins that have exuded through leaky walls of newly formed blood vessels.
  • (7) The make-up of an installation for programmed congelation of the bone marrow and nuclei-containing blood cells with liquid nitrogen acting the part of a refrigerant is described.
  • (8) The correlation between the depth of necrosis and that of freezing, the rate of the tissue congelation, the period of cryogenic action, the temperature of the cryoinstrument and its structural shape, all these factors are analytically interrelated and this enables it to establish optimal performance characteristics in congelation of different tissues.
  • (9) The presence of DDT and gamma-HCH residues did not change the melting and congelation points of lard.
  • (10) For local congelation of pathologically altered sections of the tissue the design of an earlier devised cryosprayer has been improved.
  • (11) The behaviour of cells with and without congelation was microscopically evaluated, the growth and morphology of cells were assessed after 7, 14, 21 and 28 days.
  • (12) A tumor in the right hepatic lobe was found but a surgeon did not resect the lesion because a congelation biopsy failed to demonstrate tumoral cells.

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