What's the difference between enterolith and mineral?

Enterolith


Definition:

  • (n.) An intestinal concretion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A single enterolith had caused obstruction and rupture of the small colon.
  • (2) The impacted enterolith was removed by enterotomy and the smaller one milked into the intestine.
  • (3) Many cases of enteroliths were reported in the nineteenth century but the number greatly decreased in the early twentieth century.
  • (4) Radiography of the enterolith did not reveal a metallic center, but division of the stone allowed identification of a canvas cloth, and chemical analysis determined the stone's composition to be ammonium magnesium phosphate.
  • (5) Two cases of perforating duodenal diverticulitis are reported, one with enterolith formation, and the other with sonographic evidence of retroperitoneal emphysema.
  • (6) The mean reported age of horses requiring abdominal surgery because of an obstructive enterolith is 10 years, with the youngest being 4 years.
  • (7) Enteroliths were formed by mineral deposition in concentric layers about a central nidus of ingested material and were spherical or tetrahedral in shape.
  • (8) We describe small bowel obstruction secondary to an enterolith formed in a duodenal diverticulum, probably as a result of habitual ingestion of large amounts of kaolin.
  • (9) Conditions causing stasis predispose formation of enteroliths, which may be either radiopaque or radiolucent.
  • (10) Enterotomy of the large colon allows retrieval of most enteroliths from its lumen.
  • (11) A case of intestinal obstruction due to impaction of an enterolith in the distal ileum is reported.
  • (12) The intake of nitrogen, magnesium and phosphorus (the primary components of enteroliths) from water and food is likely to be a factor.
  • (13) Enteroliths or intestinal autochthonous calculi are among the rare causes of intestinal occlusion.
  • (14) In this paper we present an asymptomatic patient with enteroliths as a result of prior hemicolectomy for cecal carcinoma.
  • (15) Further studies in which the effect of mineral intake and form of the mineral on enterolith formation are needed.
  • (16) Obstructions caused by "true" enteroliths were confined to horses more than four years old.
  • (17) Studies of enterolith formation in the past have all been retrospective.
  • (18) Enteroliths of varying sizes were removed from the region of the transverse colon in all four horses.
  • (19) Apple cider vinegar and a high grain diet may reduce the incidence of enteroliths in horses prone to this problem.
  • (20) An enterolith was found in a huge jejunal diverticulum at post-mortem examination in the second patient.

Mineral


Definition:

  • (v. i.) An inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. Rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals.
  • (v. i.) A mine.
  • (v. i.) Anything which is neither animal nor vegetable, as in the most general classification of things into three kingdoms (animal, vegetable, and mineral).
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to minerals; consisting of a mineral or of minerals; as, a mineral substance.
  • (a.) Impregnated with minerals; as, mineral waters.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is suggested that the Japanese may have lower trabecular bone mineral density than Caucasians but may also have a lower threshold for fracture of the vertebrae.
  • (2) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
  • (3) There will be no statutory inquiry or independent review into the notorious clash between police and miners at Orgreave on 18 June 1984 , the home secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced.
  • (4) There was however no difference in the cross-sectional studies and no significant deleterious effect detected of tobacco use on forearm bone mineral content.
  • (5) From these results, it was suggested that the inhibitory effect of Cd on in vitro calcification of MC3T3-E1 cells may be due to both a depression of cell-mediated calcification and a decrease in physiochemical mineral deposition.
  • (6) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
  • (7) The greatest advantages of spinal QCT for noninvasive bone mineral measurement lie in the high precision of the technique, the high sensitivity of the vertebral trabecular measurement site, and the potential for widespread application.
  • (8) The model has been used to evaluate mineral changes from the use of fluoride dentifrices and rinses, chewing gum, and food sequencing.
  • (9) These data indicate improved bone mineralization as compared with previously reported data from very-low-birth-weight neonates.
  • (10) Gladstone's speech was not made in Parliament, but to a crowd of landless agricultural workers and miners in Scotland's central belt, Gove pointed out.
  • (11) Artificially produced mineral waters which are identical to natural ones are also applied.
  • (12) The method of mineral estimation using phalanges is described and its reproducibility was tested on 17 parameters.
  • (13) Secondary structural features of bovine amelogenin, a hydrophobic protein of developing enamel implicated in ename mineralization, are derived using 2D NMR spectroscopy in solution and molecular mechanics-dynamics studies.
  • (14) Reduced mineral absorption is fairly well documented and has sound theoretical support from basic chemistry.
  • (15) Microbiological analyses of sediments located near a point source for petrogenic chemicals resulted in the isolation of a pyrene-mineralizing bacterium.
  • (16) Years of education completed and poverty status did not significantly affect folate concentrations; however, the prevalence of low folate concentrations among users of vitamin or mineral supplements was significantly lower than it was among nonusers in selected subgroups.
  • (17) Unsupplemented human breast milk may not provide sufficient calcium and phosphorus for the rapidly growing preterm infant to match the accumulation that should have taken place in utero and to permit normal bone mineralization.
  • (18) In some areas of the ligament, extracellular plasma membrane-invested matrix vesicles and thick wall-bound matrix giant bodies with or without mineralized deposits were present.
  • (19) My grandfather was a coal miner and Nana was rather plump and bossy.
  • (20) These diets were: diet C consisting of commercial Rat Chow: diet CG, the same diet diluted with 70% glucose calories, diet A, a simulated "American" diet made up of 25 widely used foods, diet AS, the same diet supplemented with small amounts of 25 vitamins and minerals.

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