What's the difference between consolidation and solidification?

Consolidation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination.
  • (n.) To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation.
  • (n.) The combination of several actions into one.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Macroscopic lesions included mild congestion of the gastric mucosa and focal consolidation of the lung.
  • (2) At consolidation, the distraction area was composed of lamellar trabecular and partly woven bone.
  • (3) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
  • (4) The information suggests a certain consolidation of earlier efforts.
  • (5) The scale of fees that potentially are there in the Italian banking market – from restructurings and consolidation – are substantial,” said Peter Hahn, professor of banking at the London Institute of Banking & Finance.
  • (6) Therapy included intensive induction and consolidation followed by a cyclic, sequential maintenance program.
  • (7) This intra-oral model might be useful for studies of the organic material incorporated into enamel during the process of consolidation.
  • (8) In a single-institution study, 23 consecutive children with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) have been treated with a protocol including doxorubicin, cytarabine and 6-thioguanine as induction therapy, followed by four courses of high-dose cytarabine as consolidation.
  • (9) So far 34 patients in complete remission have been given one or two courses of the intensified consolidation therapy with high-dose cytosine-arabinoside and daunorubicin.
  • (10) These results suggest that noradrenaline (NA) is required for memory consolidation processes for about 2 h after training.
  • (11) Chest X-ray revealed cavity and consolidation in the right upper lobe.
  • (12) These include fibrosis with or without consolidation (n = 12), ground-glass opacities (n = 7), widespread bilateral consolidation (n = 2), and bronchial wall thickening with areas of decreased attenuation (n = 2).
  • (13) They were thought to be caused by the rotor practice interfering with just-learned ladder skill consolidation, so that the gain in skill was not processed into long-term memory.
  • (14) In the former, consolidation of the lung was noticed and useful in the diagnosis, but in the latter, no distinct change was observed in plain chest roentogenogram.
  • (15) The filling of the defect and fracture consolidation took place in 87 (91.7%) patients.
  • (16) A different, more straightforwardly anti-cuts message could perhaps consolidate a left-vote in a PR system, but is unlikely to work for a party seeking to lead.
  • (17) Postremission therapy consolidation has been judged to be necessary while the clinical roles of maintenance and intensification remain to be clarified and appear to still require an investigational approach.
  • (18) LTP in these two structures could underlie their role in memory consolidation and could explain the late involvement of the entorhinal cortex in post-training memory processing.
  • (19) The functions of medical physicists and their roles in consolidation of the relations between medicine and natural sciences and engineering are discussed.
  • (20) Hemorrhage, congestion, consolidation, edema and fibrin exudation were prominent in the hilar region of the lungs.

Solidification


Definition:

  • (n.) Act of solidifying, or state of being solidified.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) New and deeper understanding of the structure of non-crystalline solids, structural imperfections, sintering physics, and other physical phenomena related to the melting and solidification processes has brought ceramics from the near-total art form process of the mid-century to the status of a highly sophisticated science it enjoyed in the 1980's.
  • (2) Greater cracking susceptibility was interpreted by considering that these eutectics solidified at solidification temperatures far lower than the nominal solidus.
  • (3) We conclude that solidification could occur in all feeds containing casein and that alternative feeds should be considered in patients with increased gastric acidity.
  • (4) Cecomegaly in germfree rats disappeared within the first two days, while solidification of the intestinal content occurred within four months.
  • (5) The technique of directional solidification coupled with low-temperature scanning electron microscopy was applied to analyze the freezing of liver slices from the freeze-tolerant frog Rana sylvatica.
  • (6) Devitrification (ice formation during warming) is one of the primary obstacles to successful organ vitrification (solidification without ice formation).
  • (7) Bone damage is independent of associated soft-tissue injuries and not linked to frostbite of the extremity or to solidification of tissues.
  • (8) The rapid evaporation of solvents from the droplets, which in turn causes a rapid solidification, influenced the crystalline structures of spray-dried glycerides.
  • (9) Lip closure by adhesion reduces the tension of the primary lip closure and allows gentle molding until solidification of the arch occurs.
  • (10) When a centrifugal casting machine was used, the flow was almost irregular and a stack of solidification layers was observed in only a few segments.
  • (11) The solidification shrinkage in non-noble alloys is greater than that of gold alloys.
  • (12) The fluidity was evaluated by casting them into the cylindrical coil shaped mould cavity and examining their ability to flow into the mould cavity before solidification took place.
  • (13) When a pressure casting machine was used, most of the mesh rods were composed of many solidification layers, which implied that the flow was laminar and almost steady.
  • (14) Solidification of the melt was observed to occur either at 162 or 182 degrees C with the formation of Form I or Form II crystals, respectively.
  • (15) The solidification front technique is employed to determine the surface tension of fixed erythrocytes of dog, horse, human, chicken, and turkey.
  • (16) In the long run, however, the two in concert lead to the ultimate solidification of the glomerular tuft with loss of capillary surface.
  • (17) After setting, the wax was burned out, and the rings were cooled to room temperature and cast in a Bi-Sn alloy that did not shrink upon solidification.
  • (18) The Cr depletion probably resulted from coring during solidification.
  • (19) Impurities in the surface region of the castings were found to be due to contact with the investment during solidification.
  • (20) Heating HA above its melting temperature, however, caused undesired compositional and structural changes, and upon solidification very limited adherence between the modified ceramic and substrate material occurred under the conditions of this study.

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