What's the difference between defiled and maculate?

Defiled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Defile

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To most of us, Ken Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian activist and a martyr, a brave and inspiring campaigner who led his Ogoni people's struggle against the decades-long defilement of their land by Big Oil, and ended up paying for it with his life.
  • (2) He told the Weekend Nation: "Malawians must understand that the person they employed as the president of their country … has defiled the conditions of service."
  • (3) Hindu nationalists want to make India great again.” Hindu nationalism is rooted in the belief that Muslim and British invasions defiled Hindu culture and values, which are seen as synonymous with those of India, writes Syracuse professor Prema Kurien in her book A Place at the Multicultural Table: the Development of an American Hinduism .
  • (4) for bladder neck and prostatic obstructions because the risk of jatrogenic defilement, and any method of preventing, reducing or delaying the occurrence of infection in catheterized patients, should be tooking considerations.
  • (5) In outdoor factory environments many defiling substances are produced by different working processes.
  • (6) Many Sunnis regard the Alevis as infidels and believe that to share their food is to be defiled.
  • (7) When a young unmarried girl gets pregnant, the man may be accused of "defilement" - rape.
  • (8) Kancha Sherpa, the sole surviving member of Hillary's expedition, believes the melting glaciers are a punishment for defiling nature.
  • (9) Various surgical techniques were employed, such as refixation at the processus coracoideus, tenodesis in the sulcus intertubercularis, keyhole operation, in combination with an intraarticular inspection, revision, or if necessary widening of a narrow passage ("defile").
  • (10) Most dangerously, we see it in the way that religion is used to justify the murder of innocents by those who have distorted and defiled the great religion of Islam, and who attacked my country from Afghanistan.
  • (11) Among that majority, count the man who could have defied it and thereby defiles the term “leader of the opposition”, because that’s exactly what he’s not.
  • (12) We don’t want anything tomorrow to happen that would defile the name of Michael Brown,” he said.
  • (13) Several hemorheologic and plasma proteic features were analyzed in workers exposed to acoustic defilement.
  • (14) In all cases, the approach was done through the anterior way, with up thoracic defile exploration and mobilizing upper limb.
  • (15) Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.
  • (16) Initially (at 2 cm depth), high radioactivity is always detected, which among other things is caused by the defilement of the bullet's surface when shot through the textile covering marked by technetium.
  • (17) The exposition to acoustic defilement during work activity may be considered as aetiological factor for the development and progression of sensorineural hearing impairment, and more extensively for the occurrence of cardiovascular complications.
  • (18) Abbas, in a speech two weeks ago, warned of religious war, and with the same breath accused Jews of defiling the Jerusalem mosques.
  • (19) It’s not just someone strangling and poisoning, it’s physically defiling women.
  • (20) He has defiled the Holocaust, which is sacrosanct for the Jewish people, with absurd historical inaccuracies.

Maculate


Definition:

  • (v.) To spot; to stain; to blur.
  • (a.) Marked with spots or maculae; blotched; hence, defiled; impure; as, most maculate thoughts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Three types of lesions were observed: red plaques, pityriasis versicolor (PV)-like macules and plane warts.
  • (2) The case also showed characteristic palmar melanotic macules.
  • (3) We report the clinical features, electrophysiologic findings, and dapsone and isoniazid excretion studies in three young people who ingested excessive amounts (2-4 times the prescribed dose) of dapsone for hypopigmented macules and who developed, subacutely, progressive motor neuropathy a few months later.
  • (4) Nodular lesions were found in three patients, who did not have macules.
  • (5) A 44-year-old woman was diagnosed as having unilateral multiple progradient pigmented macules and papules of the upper extremity and adjacent part of the back.
  • (6) The lesions developed as solitary, slowly extending, erythematous macules and plaques, usually occurring on the extremities or the shoulders in adolescents or adults.
  • (7) An asymptomatic macule or patch may be the first recognizable feature.
  • (8) We report a case of a 10-month-old male infant with GM1 type 1 gangliosidosis who also had hyperpigmented macules and patches.
  • (9) In this group, flat melanotic macules around the eyes were located on the opposite parts of the upper and lower eyelids.
  • (10) Hair cell polarization patterns were investigated on the sensory macule of the sacculus and lagena of the lake whitefish.
  • (11) Histological examination using serial sections were performed on 47 cases and showed evidence of dermal melanocytosis in 40 cases (85%) consisting of 33 (70%) without clinically detectable macules and 7 (15%) with obvious pigmented macules.
  • (12) In some HIV-infected patients the cause of the macules might relate to the administration of zidovudine and antifungal or antibacterial drugs.
  • (13) The skin lesions that are often seen are hypopigmented circular macules, measuring approximately 0.5 cm in diameter.
  • (14) This disease, which affects children and teenagers, males as well as females, is characterized by pigmented macules 5-25 mm in diameter, affecting the neck, the trunk and the limbs.
  • (15) We found that the population and structure of melanocytes differ greatly depending on the coloration of the café-au-lait macules.
  • (16) Generalized discrete hypopigmented macules forming a camouflage pattern appeared on the skin of a man.
  • (17) A hypopigmented macule on her face along with neuroimaging studies suggested an inflammatory process.
  • (18) Photoactivated psoralens were studied in sixty cases of tuberculoid leprosy for the repigmentation of hypopigmented macules.
  • (19) This article describes the light and electron microscopic studies from a macule and the surrounding lightly hyperpigmented skin of a patient with the Cronkhite-Canada syndrome.
  • (20) Pigmented macules and plaques in the oral cavity, representing the radial growth phase of tumors, often go unrecognized for months or years before tumor invasion.

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