What's the difference between crust and terrane?

Crust


Definition:

  • (n.) The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow.
  • (n.) The hard exterior or surface of bread, in distinction from the soft part or crumb; or a piece of bread grown dry or hard.
  • (n.) The cover or case of a pie, in distinction from the soft contents.
  • (n.) The dough, or mass of doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; -- also called dumpling.
  • (n.) The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally supposed to inclose a molten interior.
  • (n.) The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
  • (n.) A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus, occurring upon the surface of the body.
  • (n.) An incrustation on the interior of wine bottles, the result of the ripening of the wine; a deposit of tartar, etc. See Beeswing.
  • (n.) To cover with a crust; to cover or line with an incrustation; to incrust.
  • (v. i.) To gather or contract into a hard crust; to become incrusted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In certain cases the ulcerous crust is removed with chloramine.
  • (2) A rapid evolution of epithelialization was found in case of treated animals as distinguished from control sample, where the infected crust was far from being healed.
  • (3) Future ice loss and bending of the crust due to rising sea levels have the potential ultimately to raise levels of both earthquake and volcanic activity.
  • (4) A search for an intact blister is always warranted when erosions, oozing, or crusts are noted.
  • (5) In general, healthy panelists evaluated the cakes as sweeter, crust bitterness as greater, and overall eating quality as higher than the panel members with carbohydrate metabolic disorders.
  • (6) The tanks fell from 2,000ft on to the salt crust of the open desert and burst open as they struck the ground.
  • (7) A negative correlation between the number of mites and the presence and extensiveness of crusts was observed.
  • (8) The presence of subcorneal pustules in a solitary, indolent, crusted plaque, or in erythema annulare-like lesions with a trailing scale, is evidence of atypical psoriasis.
  • (9) Requirements for intranasal douching with saline have varied; however, we have had no problems with bothersome crusting following b.i.d.
  • (10) Disadvantages are a longer healing period and temporary crust formation as in conchotomy, the high technical effort and cost of the laser.
  • (11) Crusting was found around the lashes, and the lids developed loss of lashes and hair.
  • (12) Within three weeks after treatment was initiated, all animals were free of crusts.
  • (13) After the crust falls, carrying away some tattoo pigment on its deeper surface, a pale-pink scar forms, then gradually fades in several months.
  • (14) We report a case of nonvesicular hydroa vacciniforme in which only extensive crusting associated with hypertrophic scarring on sun-exposed skin was present.
  • (15) The absorption of mercury was investigated after three phase crusting by Grob on a second-degree scald burn of 10 to 15% of the body surface in rats.
  • (16) For oxalate stones a separation of the outer layer (crust) from the inner layer (core) marked the point of maximum load.
  • (17) The vesicles progress to pustules, then to crusts that eventually are lost.
  • (18) A case of localized CrS appearing as a yellowish and crusted plaque on the second right toe is reported in a woman with AIDS.
  • (19) All the patients were elderly women who developed chronic, extensive, pustular, crusted and occasionally eroded lesions of the scalp which produced scarring alopecia.
  • (20) For all their apparent beauty and fragility, just think of coral reefs as big lumps of rock with a living crust.

Terrane


Definition:

  • (n.) A group of rocks having a common age or origin; -- nearly equivalent to formation, but used somewhat less comprehensively.

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