What's the difference between coral and coralliform?
Coral
Definition:
(n.) The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa.
(n.) The ovaries of a cooked lobster; -- so called from their color.
(n.) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the main users is coastal planning organizations and conservation organizations that are working on coral reefs.
(2) What are the major threats that face the world's coral reefs and what more needs to be done to protect them?
(3) But the study’s co-author Mark Hay, a professor from the Georgia Institute of Technology, said the discovery here was that greater carbon concentrations led to “some algae producing more potent chemicals that suppress or kill corals more rapidly”, in some cases in just weeks.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Table corals provide an excellent hiding place for smaller fish.
(5) But the Guardian can now reveal Australia will also need to report on how it is dealing with the current bleaching, where almost a quarter of the coral on the reef has been killed.
(6) Guillermo Diaz-Pulido, a Griffith University associate professor, said the research was “a major step forward in understanding how seaweeds can harm corals and has important implications for comprehending the consequences of increased carbon dioxide emissions on the health of the Great Barrier Reef”.
(7) A new allele of white-coral (wco2) was isolated from Canton S after mutagenesis.
(8) The Infinity towel comes in colours more vibrant than one might expect from an eco-friendly product, including coral, green, blue and violet.
(9) Warming water will make it hard for many of the reef’s corals to survive, while the acidification of the oceans will hinder the ability of remaining corals to form their skeletons.
(10) Tyr190 may react with the coral toxin by nucleophilic addition at one of the carbons associated with an epoxide, and may form part of the alkylammonium-binding subsite of the acetylcholine recognition site.
(11) A recent study suggests that coral disease is doubled when dredging occurs near reefs, although supporters of the dredging have repeatedly insisted it can be done safely and that the Abbot Point sediment will be dumped around 40km from the nearest reef.
(12) This process hinders the ability of corals to produce the skeletal building blocks of reefs.
(13) We’re currently due to fly back on Friday afternoon and were not too concerned about it just yet.” Mohammed Sami, general manager of the Coral Sea Sensatori, one of Sharm el-Sheikh’s largest resorts, said the move had created uncertainty for holidaymakers.
(14) Incidentally, it’s the algae that give the coral its colour; and so when it’s ejected, the coral takes on a ghostly white hue, giving rise to the term “bleaching”.
(15) So are you optimistic then about the future survival of the world's coral reefs in the long term?
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef worse than for decades The photos were taken from around Lizard Island by Lyle Vale from Coral Watch at the University of Queensland .
(17) So we looked at the economic contribution of tourists to that area and compared it with the cost of interventions to improve water quality and coral reef health in that area.
(18) Freed of the need to wave their tentacles around to hunt for food, the coral can devote more energy to secreting the mineral calcium carbonate, from which they form a stony exoskeleton.
(19) It was the fourth mass bleaching to hit the reef in recorded history – all since 1998 – and coral scientists are alarmed the increasing regularity of these events gives stressed coral precious little chance to recover.
(20) In areas near the loaders, enough has accumulated to have a toxic effect on the corals that grow there.
Coralliform
Definition:
(a.) resembling coral in form.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lesions treated included 168 caliceal, 111 pyelic, 23 ureteral and 21 coralliform calculi.
(2) In open operations of coralliform or multiple small nephrolithiasis frequently the problem of peroperative localization of residual concrements arises.
(3) Analysis of 56 cases of coralliform urolithiasis has shown, among other things, the normally poor symptomology.
(4) Very good results were obtained--complete cure in 51 patients (96.2 per cent), which encourage the authors to recommend the three methods for routine application in the treatment of coralliform renal calculosis.
(5) off members of one family, three women and three men, distributed in two generations, were affected by a coralliform cataract.
(6) The main indications for this technique are described: arteriosclerosis and injury to the artery, aneurysm, various forms of ureteral injury, bilateral or unilateral renal tumour, coralliform intraparenchymal lithiasis, together, with the techniques for extracorporeal perfusion of the kidney and the mechanisms of the more commonly adopted conservation solutions.
(7) Psoas abscess of pyogenic origin developed secondary to renal infection in a patient with coralliform lithiasis, a favorable outcome being obtained after nephrectomy and drainage of abscess.
(8) Described in the North Sea ("Dogger Bank itch") and in the eastern Channel, it begins with the hands which have touched Bryozoa, these being microscopic "moss-like animals", unrelated to algae, which form coralliform, encrusting and filamentous colonies attached to the sea-floor.
(9) A study is made of 15 patients with monotopic coralliform stones, suffering from simultaneous, contralateral, renoureteral lithiasis.
(10) There are certain special features in these patients which we consider to be sufficient to distinguish them as a separate group amond cases of lithiasis in general and coralliform stones in particular.
(11) Experience is recorded with the combined treatment of 53 patients with coralliform renal calculosis.
(12) 2) CTC of fungiform papilla showed coralliform structure whose branches were ramified a few times.