What's the difference between cremation and crenation?
Cremation
Definition:
(n.) A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead.
Example Sentences:
(1) It posted photos on its website of what it said was Thargyal's charred body covered in ceremonial yellow silk scarves and hundreds of people marching up a hill to a cremation site where his remains were burned.
(2) The vertebrae with deformation of the arcus parts are only from the lower vertebral column; on account of the weight of this body region, this suggests that the corpse lay in the dorsal position at the place of cremation.
(3) Such differential mineralization points on physiological and pathological processes in bone and teeth, and is frequently conserved both in excavated skeletal remains and in cremations.
(4) Plumes of smoke rose above Kathmandu as friends, relatives and others gathered by the river to quickly cremate their loved ones’ remains.
(5) Mercury contamination by cremation, therefore comprised only 0.61 to 1.53% of the total mercury contamination produced by all waste incineration methods.
(6) But looking back it was a terrible thing to have happened.” Medical staff preserved the POWs’ corpses in formaldehyde for future use by students, but at the end of the war the remains were quickly cremated, as doctors attempted to hide evidence of their crimes.
(7) We scan the questions on our starters list: "Cremation or burial?
(8) Lee will be cremated after full state honours on Sunday.
(9) The operators themselves did not enter; instead, Jewish inmates from the Sonderkommando were sent in to drag out the bodies for cremation.
(10) Although there is no difference in the funeral director's charges for cremation or burial, the price of a standard-size grave has risen 42% to £612 since 2007.
(11) Among the most difficult cases for law enforcement and medicolegal investigators to investigate are those in which victims have been deliberately burned to cover up a crime, or those in which cremation has resulted from an accident or suicide.
(12) People flocked to a crematorium where a private cremation will be held for a final glimpse of the cortege.
(13) These findings are not necessarily applicable to the general population, as the cremation group is not truly representative, but the consistently lower prevalence of IHD suggests that there is over-reporting of this disease in unmonitored death certification.
(14) The absolute difference indicates, that cremation weight is not a useful criterion for identification.
(15) As his head was being shaved, he heard, for the first time, about old people and women being taken to Birkenau to be gassed and cremated.
(16) UK cremation costs have risen more than those for burials: the price of the average cremation is up by 4.2% to £3,294, while the average burial is up by 3.7% to £4,110.
(17) Many have now changed their specifications to upgrade old cremators with the 350kg model, the largest on the market.
(18) She is to be accorded the rare honour of a ceremonial funeral with full military honours at St Paul's Cathedral, central London, followed by a private cremation.
(19) The unit has met all United States and foreign atomic energy commission safety specifications including mechanical shock, industrial fire, accidental crush, cremation, impact, and corrosion.
(20) Friends had scrambled through wreckage to find him, but said they could not afford a car to get him back to his monastery for cremation.
Crenation
Definition:
(n.) A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.
(n.) The condition of being crenate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Numerous 70-mmicro diameter vesicles apparently pinch off from the Golgi systems, transport this material through the egg, and probably then fuse to form a crenate, membrane-limited yolk droplet.
(2) In vitro incubation of human blood cells with iodinated radiographic contrast media (RCM) produced marked effects which were dose-dependent: erythrocytes showed crenation which was reversible; neutrophil leukocytes released the lysosomal enzyme beta-glucuronidase; basophil leukocytes released histamine; and platelets released serotonin as well as beta-glucuronidase.
(3) Our results indicate: 1) linear RBC pressure-flow behavior over a driving pressure range of 2 to 10.5 cm H2O with zero velocity intercepts at delta P = 0, thus suggesting the Poiseuille-like nature of the flow; 2) resistance to flow or "apparent viscosities" for normal RBC which are between 3.1 to 3.9 cPoise and are independent of driving pressure and pore geometry; 3) increased flow resistance (i.e., increased transit times) for old versus young RBC and for RBC made less deformable by DNP-induced crenation or by heat treatment at 48 degrees C; 4) increased mean transit time and poorer reproducibility when using EDTA rather than heparin as the anticoagulant agent.
(4) The incubation of old RBCs with PEP not only increased ATP and 2,3-DPG levels, but also facilitated the transformation of crenated erythrocytes to discocytes.
(5) Isolated human erythrocyte membranes crenate when suspended in isotonic medium, but can use MgATP to reduce their net positive curvature, yielding smooth discs and cup forms that eventually undergo endocytosis.
(6) At the same time the red cells became crenated and developed thorny spicules (echinocytes).
(7) Scanning electron microscopy of the platelets revealed a gradual morphologic change from biconcave flat discs to irregular, crenated forms.
(8) This crenated cell shape was reversed to a biconcave disc or cup-like form by a further treatment with lysophospholipase.
(9) On the other hand, the process was facilitated when red cells were exposed to crenators like the anionic drugs indomethacin and phenylbutazone or when DMPC was added to calcium-loaded red cells.
(10) The abnormal erythrocyte shape (crenation) was strikingly observed in all groups after four weeks of egg yolk feeding with good correlation to lipid levels (r = 0.9, p less than 0.001).
(11) Maintaining a higher level of albumin during EC by adding 50 g human albumin to the extracorporeal system prevented erythrocyte crenation.
(12) Uptake of phosphine by erythrocytes causes crenation, but conversion of oxyhaemoglobin to methaemoglobin and hemichrome could not be demonstrated.
(13) These results revealed that ioxaglate, an ionic contrast medium, was the best in vitro medium, to prevent aggregation of red cells and crenation deformity of erythrocytes.
(14) In contrast to the control and the regression rats, many of the hypertrophic vessels of all types in the hypoxic rats showed signs of constriction, ie, crenation of the wall, indentations of medial smooth muscle cell nuclei, and excrescences of smooth muscle cell cytoplasm, often protruding deeply into the endothelium.
(15) We demonstrate that the damage consists of lifting, crenation and detachment of endothelial cells, partially due to contracture and forceful redilation of the vessel wall.
(16) KB-2796 and FNZ at 10-100 microM dose-dependently prevented crenation of rabbit erythrocytes induced by the Ca2+ ionophore A23187.
(17) Electron microscopy of the endothelial layer of intimal explants showed dilatations in the intercellular junctions and cellular changes representing contraction--increased prominence of cytoplasmic filaments, nuclear crenation, and cytoplasmic protrusions--at 30 and 60 minutes.
(18) Raising this concentration reversibly decreased the degree of crenation.
(19) These amphiphiles immediately induced strongly crenated erythrocytes which during incubation shifted to less crenated erythrocytes or to stomatocytes.
(20) Osmiophilic granules with a homogeneous core, crenated membrane and narrow submembranous halo predominated in the columnar juxtacortical cells.