What's the difference between coral and lithogenous?
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.
Lithogenous
Definition:
(a.) Stone-producing; -- said of polyps which form coral.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was concluded that in our trial the cholesterol-lowering diet was not lithogenic.
(2) If the content of biliary cholesterol is a reflection of the serum concentration of this lipid, as has been suggested in recent studies, human bile may be more lithogenic during pregnancy.
(3) The lithogenic index was higher than in a group of colelithiasic non hemolytic patients.
(4) experiment the effect of the additions to the lithogenic diet (Rodents Chow + 25,000 UI% of retinol acetate) of 18% of crude safflower oil, or 15% Polifat, or 15% hydrogenated Polifat (approx.
(5) Long-term antibiotic suppression, more frequent followup with abdominal roentgenograms, and shorter periods of internal stenting are suggested for patients with a lithogenic history.
(6) Cholesterol gallstones were induced in mice by means of a lithogenous diet.
(7) The calculated lithogenic index of bile decreased significantly as well.
(8) Associated with the increase in lithogenic index with fasting was a decrease in the micelle solubilized cholesterol and an increase in nonmicelle solubilized cholesterol.
(9) Thy hypothesis that rubidium is an important lithogenic element is formulated.
(10) The safflower oil group had the smallest mean bile acid pool and the highest mean lithogenic index of the cholesterol-fed groups.
(11) Major risk factors associated with cholesterol gallstone formation are American Indian ancestry, female sex, obesity, and ingestion of lithogenic drugs, such as estrogen-containing preparations and clofibrate.
(12) Liver total cholesterol level and the ratio of free to ester forms were not different between vitamin E-supplemented and nonsupplemented rabbits, whereas a 4-5 fold increase in hepatic cholesterol-7 alpha-hydroxylase activity, elevation of bile salt concentration and improvement in bile lithogenic index were observed in the vitamin E-supplemented groups.
(13) There was no statistically significant difference between the two groups as to age, Broca index, lithogenic index and biochemical values.
(14) After the end of treatment the bile becomes lithogenic again, and a relapse is possible; after 5 years this relapse occurs in about 50% of the patients.
(15) To specify lithogenic properties of bile in cholelithiasis as well as the effect of cholecystectomy on biochemical composition of bile, 168 patients with cholelithiasis have been examined.
(16) This was of certain diagnostic and, perhaps, lithogenic importance.
(17) Some mentions were made on black stones which were found in the aged golden hamsters fed with lithogenic diets.
(18) The lithogenic character of human gallbladder bile was investigated by a mathematical model on the basis of a clinical data set.
(19) The effects of variable calcium content on daily and fasting urinary calcium and other lithogenic solutes excretion, on the bone turnover index (fasting hydroxyproline urinary excretion) and on the calciotropic hormones were studied in 312 stone former patients with an outpatient protocol and 15 stone former patients in an inpatient study.
(20) The pancreas-stone-protected may play a crucial role in the lithogenic process.