What's the difference between excrescency and morbid?
Excrescency
Definition:
(n.) Excrescence.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.
(2) Pleomorphism and irregular size of endothelial cells associated with excrescences were noted in case 3 and 4.
(3) 3-D-reconstructions of serial sections of human embryos show that the margin of the lip furrow band is irregular and consists of an abundance of individual epithelial excrescences.
(4) At higher magnification the synoviocytes showed evidence of considerable surface activity (smooth granules, larger cauliflower-like excrescences, thin lamelliform filopodia).
(5) The histopathologic and ultrastructural findings of globular excrescences of the peripapillary region of the optic nerve associated with retinitis pigmentosa were described in a 22-year-old patient who died in a car accident.
(6) Our primarily noninvasive cells form a multilayered base of rounded cells covered with various excrescences and numerous attached dividing and giant cells.
(7) The occurrence of excrescences on proximal dendrites was a characteristic feature of all mossy cells.
(8) These alterations were: (i) a fast transition of rough to smooth morphology macroscopically, and (ii) fading of the cell borders concomitant with the disappearance of cell-membrane excrescences, as seen by scanning electron microscopy.
(9) The operative procedures involved decompression of peripheral nerves in the foot and ankle, consisting of release of soft tissues in the tarsal tunnel and foot or removal of abnormal bony excrescences that were irritating these nerves.
(10) A circular zone devoid of identifiable connective tissue is present at the center of the filiform excrescences.
(11) Free-margin excrescences are the least numerous and occur more frequently in persons older than 40 years.
(12) Peritoneal washings contained malignant cells in 14 of 32 patients (not recorded or obtained in 49), cyst rupture occurred in 25%, surface excrescences in 40%, and adhesions in 46%.
(13) However, thickened cribriform peritoneum usually was not endometriotic (9% of n = 11) and vesicular excrescences were, in every case, reactions to oil-based salpingographic medium (n = 5).
(14) The sympathetic trunk itself (ganglia and cord) was affected only by osteophytes of vertebrae at the lowest thoracic levels; however, bony excrescences due to costovertebral joint arthritis were frequently found impinging on the sympathetic trunk and its rami communicantes at similar frequencies on both sides.
(15) Membrane-delimited vacuoles, lipid droplets and cytoplasmic excrescences appeared in myelinating Schwann cells at 24 hr; demyelinating axons appeared at 48 hr of tellurium exposure.
(16) Mossy fiber endings were identified by their large size and their numerous clear synaptic vesicles with some dense-core vesicles intermingled, and were observed to form synaptic contacts on the large spines or excrescences.
(17) One category, termed short-shaft pyramidal neurons, is characterized by short apical shafts, a large number of thorny excrescences, and densely branched apical and basilar trees.
(18) A calcific eyelid excrescence removed from the patient, studied by x-ray diffraction, was found to consist of crystals of hydroxyapatite.
(19) Comparison with phase contrast light microscopy shows that the fine excrescencies cannot be resolved and therefore lead "artificially" to a more confined aspect of the nucleoid.
(20) A few small excrescences are present on the proximal dendrites.
Morbid
Definition:
(a.) Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant.
(a.) Of or pertaining to disease or diseased parts; as, morbid anatomy.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
(2) A modification of Mason's vertical banded gastroplasty for morbid obesity is presented, along with experience from 62 treated patients.
(3) In this study, standby and prophylactic patients had comparable success and major complication rates, but procedural morbidity was more frequent in prophylactic patients.
(4) There appears to be no risk of morbidity or mortality.
(5) The diseases of airways had the highest contribution to the coefficient of morbidity.
(6) Asthma is probably the commonest chronic disease in the United Kingdom, and its attendant morbidity extends outside the possible scope of the hospital sector.
(7) Our results underline the importance of patient-related factors in MVR, and indicate that care is needed in comparing the quality of MVR from different institutions with respect to mortality and morbidity.
(8) Psychiatric morbidity is further increased when adjuvant chemotherapy is used and when treatment results in persistent arm pain and swelling.
(9) The positive predictive accuracy of a biophysical profile score of 0, with mortality and morbidity used as end points, was 100%.
(10) By vaccinating adult dogs in boarding kennels the morbidity rate dropped from 83.5% to 6.5% and the mortality rate from 4.1% to 0.5%.
(11) Higher anxiety, depression and psychiatric morbidity scores were reported by all patients at 6 and, to a lesser extent, at 12 weeks with greater differences in women.
(12) The morbidity is well known and if properly anticipated can be reduced to a minimum by judicious use of antibacterial agents and early surgical intervention when appropriate.
(13) All of these factors make morbidity and mortality associated with penetrating injuries low.
(14) Greater knowledge about these disorders and closer working relationships with mental health specialists should lead to decreased morbidity and mortality.
(15) Although some modes of therapy are effective, there is a significant associated morbidity and mortality.
(16) A patient died after gastric surgery for morbid obesity.
(17) A retrospective study was conducted into 136 patients who had received surgical treatment for perforated gastroduodenal ulcers, with the view to establishing postoperative lethality and morbidity (comparing simple suturing with definitive ulcer surgery).
(18) The fetal monitoring (electronical and gasanalytical) is able to acknowledge in due time a hypoxic situation and procures favourable to the perinatal morbidity.
(19) The time for cervical dilatation from 7 to 10 cm and duration of the second stage of labor did not influence maternal morbidity or fetal outcome, regardless of the method of anesthesia.
(20) The morbidity and mortality rates among the mothers and children are low.