What's the difference between crusta and emboss?

Crusta


Definition:

  • (n.) A crust or shell.
  • (n.) A gem engraved, or a plate embossed in low relief, for inlaying a vase or other object.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To evaluate a non-marketed research prototype of a solid-phase enzyme immunoassay for detection of herpes simplex virus in genital lesions, 154 clinical specimens were collected from 127 men and 27 women with symptoms suggestive of herpes simplex virus infection (erythema, vesicles, ulcers and crustae).
  • (2) No special skin response to the NT-1 ointment was observed other than an erythema of the grading 2-3 Draize points, while the control ointment, which was the base ointment without nitroglycerin, showed a higher grade of erythema equivalent to 4 Draize point with crusta formation.
  • (3) Formation of crusta on the solid tumor was markedly inhibited in the groups applied LY ointment and the combination of LY ointment and BLM ointment.
  • (4) These results suggest that potentiation of the antitumor effect of BLM ointment in combination with LY ointment is due to inhibition of crusta formation by LY resulting in an increased permeation of BLM into tumor tissue.

Emboss


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To arise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work.
  • (v. t.) To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal.
  • (v. t.) To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.
  • (v. t.) To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.
  • (v. i.) To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
  • (2) Customers at her plush boutique in central Cairo are offered a choice between chocolates coated with his face and others embossed with messages of adulation.
  • (3) In the passive task, subjects sat with their arms and hands immobilized while a rotating drum stimulator pressed the embossed letters onto the right index finger.
  • (4) A rare but distressing complication of frontal embossment was managed after osteoplastic flap surgery.
  • (5) This Registry, while accelerating and embossing confirmation of the suspected relationship, served an even more useful purpose by collecting under one roof and in front of one cluster of observers all the necessary and relevant data on a sufficiently large number of cases to enable rapid (1973-1974) wide dissemination of knowledge about the occurrence and behavior of the disease and its response to treatment.
  • (6) She was left at Nizhny Novgorod's railway station with her passport but no money, still wearing her prison overalls embossed with her name and prisoner number.
  • (7) Experiment 2 showed that tilt lowered performance for tangible, large embossed letters, as well as for braille.
  • (8) Heading towards the narrowest capillary spaces, groups of bacilli form, immediately after seeding, protrusions that emboss the outer contour of the droplet ("protuberances" Fig.
  • (9) I pull out my business card with the red embossed logo of Time magazine.
  • (10) This is where Irving is happiest, rolling around in swastika-embossed paper.
  • (11) An ostentatious leather-bound album with Kniga Dlya Dam embossed in gold on the cover opens to reveal a Chinese silk drawing of an entwined couple.
  • (12) Plastic surfaces embossed with patterns of dots designed to produce predictable alterations in temporal and spatial firing rate variation were used as stimuli in psychophysical and neurophysiological experiments.
  • (13) Shrunken cells with intracellular yolk granules embossed on the surface are produced by the strongly hypertonic Karnovsky's fixer (Final: 2010 mOsm).
  • (14) In the normal arachnoid membrane, two basic surface patterns were observed; one fenestrated and the other embossed with parallel fibers.
  • (15) These are inspired by the label's legendary tuxedo, le smoking , while the embossed rectangles on the packaging are modelled on art deco panelling in Yves's rue de Babylone home.
  • (16) Embossed letters, used previously in pattern recognition experiments in humans, were used to study the spatial patterns of neural activity evoked in peripheral fibers and cortical neurons in areas 3b and 1 of the primary somatosensory cortex of alert rhesus (Macaca mulatta) monkeys.
  • (17) Embossed in gold with the letters LXB, they stayed there for the remainder of the hour-long ceremony.
  • (18) In addition, when fusion was completed, occasional double lines of large particles transiently embossed the P face of the plasma membrane (postacrosomal) side of the fusion zone.
  • (19) Embossed upon it in oh-so-subtle slightly darker grey was an advert for Facebook.
  • (20) None of the past methods of marking call numbers on the spines or covers of books-direct hand lettering by pen, brush, or stylus; affixing cold release characters; embossing by hot type; or gluing labels which are handlettered, typed, or printed-nor even present automatic data processing systems have offered all the advantages of the relatively new Se-Lin labeling system: legibility, reasonable speed of application, automatic protective covering, permanent bonding, and no need for a skilled letterer.

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