What's the difference between entombment and inhumation?

Entombment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sergeant Kerry Hazelhurst said the body was no longer in Worcester, east of Boston, and was now entombed.
  • (2) Most tissues were completely disintegrated and partly replaced by masses of bacteria, an indication of considerable postmortem decay before the remains were entombed beneath the permafrost zone.
  • (3) Once they had passed, it was announced the Kaczyńskis would be entombed in Krakow's Wawel Cathedral, the resting place of Polish historical leaders.
  • (4) We were not going to be modern sacrifices, entombed in some future museum, still clutching our votive digital gadgets.
  • (5) I think of that configuration of berm, chamber, shaft, disc and hot cell – all set atop the casks of pulsing radioactive molecules entombed deep in the Permian strata – as perhaps our purest Anthropocene architecture.
  • (6) Trypanosomes became entombed in the peritrophic membrane (PM) to form intraperitrophic cavities which were more electron-translucent than the amorphous layer of the PM.
  • (7) Foreman, roughly disabused of his conviction that all his rivals were entombed in physical inferiority, is by no means the only one left stunned by the blow and that gives Ali a particular satisfaction.
  • (8) The reasons for not doing so are many and various – who wants to retire entombed in a dead relationship?
  • (9) Next to those was a growing pile of the album Clandestine by the Swedish death metal band Entombed , being pressed on purple vinyl.
  • (10) Beyond the High Blue Air , her heart-searing memoir, pits the boundless energy of her funny, sporty, intellectually questing son against the entombing constraints of his MCS existence and the family’s eventual despair at being unable to release him from it.
  • (11) At a hilariously dismal-sounding Lowestoft hotel, did he really bend his fork on a battered fish "that had doubtless lain entombed in the deep-freeze for years"?
  • (12) What’s the right state of mind to contemplate pictures of the dead, the unarmed women and men and their kids, entombed in ash?
  • (13) This week, Carson restated his belief that the pyramids were built by the biblical Joseph to store grain , and not by Egyptians to entomb their kings.
  • (14) In self-defence, and despite themselves, people harden their identities, entombing their ethics and intellect in religion, ethnicity or privileged blue passports.
  • (15) Christened “Tiny”, she (I like to think it was female, but we can’t actually tell) is entombed in a chunk of boring, black rock.
  • (16) During the botched execution of Clayton Lockett, he was subjected to conscious chemical paralysis, chemical entombment and suffocation because paralytic drugs are very rapidly absorbed into the circulatory system even if they are accidentally injected outside of the vein and into the surrounding tissues.
  • (17) The large amounts of free fatty acids, diglycerides, cholesterol and phospholipids as intrinsic components were probably due to the persistence of membrane remnants entombed during enamel formation, as indicated by the visualization of holes and by the increase in the size and number of focal holes after lipid-solvent interaction with the enamel surface.
  • (18) Such calcified masses, often spherical in shape, have a sponge-like appearance with empty spaces representing the former sites of entombed and degenerated organisms.

Inhumation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of inhuming or burying; interment.
  • (n.) The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.
  • (n.) Arenation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For three of these major causes of suffocation and strangulation deaths among infants and children (refrigerator or freezer entrapment, suffocation by plastic bag, and inhumation at construction sites), there appears to have been a significant decline in incidence; however, there is no evidence of a significant reduction in deaths from mechanical strangulation in cribs.
  • (2) The inhumation and cremation burials from two tumulus cemeteries of the Hallstatt period (750-500 BC), Dietfurt and Schirndorf, which are both located in the Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, were used as illustrations.
  • (3) A few years later, countermeasures were introduced to prevent deaths resulting from suffocation by plastic bags, inhumation, and mechanical strangulation from wedging in infant cribs.
  • (4) Using the described methods, the following data relating to age-structure for the inhumation burials of both Hallstatt cemeteries could be attained.
  • (5) Pathological findings from early Iron Age inhumation burials from three cemeteries of the Hallstatt Period (Beilngries, Dietfurt and Schirndorf) in the Upper Palatinate (Bavaria) were compiled.

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