What's the difference between favus and honeycomb?

Favus


Definition:

  • (n.) A disease of the scalp, produced by a vegetable parasite.
  • (n.) A tile or flagstone cut into an hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern, as in a pavement; -- called also favas and sectila.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the tropical regions, trichophytosis caused by endothrix-species are often of inflammatory nature, the favus appears often without scutula formation (afavic).
  • (2) In 1839 Johann Lucas Schönlein discovered fungal elements within the lesions of favus of man.
  • (3) Twenty indigenous cases of favus in two families residing in the province of Quebec were studied.
  • (4) A Trichophyton schoenleinii (T. schoenleinii) strain from tinea favus was cultured in a liquid medium, from which an extracellular keratinase extract was obtained.
  • (5) The ultrastructure of 5 griseofulvin-resistant fungi of favus was studied by image processing with microcomputer.
  • (6) His 3 important discoveries, all made during his years in Zurich, were published on a total of 3 printed pages: so-called typhoid crystals in patients' stools (1836), "peliosis rheumatica" (1837), and - most important - the causative agent of favus (1839), a fungus later named Achorion schoenleinii.
  • (7) Less frequently encountered conditions include creeping eruption, favus, fowl-mite dermatitis and allergic dermatitis.
  • (8) Favus, or avian ringworm, was diagnosed in a backyard flock of game chickens from which Microsporum gallinae was isolated.

Honeycomb


Definition:

  • (n.) A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.
  • (n.) Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Later alveolar septa between adjacent bronchioles became progressively thickened to produce lesions with similarities to human honeycombing.
  • (2) Honeycombing was seen in seven patients (30%), while parenchymal bands were seen in six patients (26%).
  • (3) In all cases the Papanicolaou stained lavage fluid presented a distinctive appearance and contained abundant, often biphasic, staining, "honeycomb" debris, and few alveolar macrophages.
  • (4) Chest x-ray revealed a honeycombed reticulonodular pattern consistent with pulmonary histiocytosis-X.
  • (5) Human rotavirus has a characteristic icosahedral structure which has a honeycomb-like appearance on the surface of the smooth particles and 42 polygonal capsomeres in the rough particles.
  • (6) We found significant differences in grading scores of the following parameters: follicular adenomas showed greater cellularity, greater follicle formation, larger nuclei, and more nuclear pleomorphism and overlap; adenomatous nodules showed more colloid and honeycomb arrangements.
  • (7) The histological features were similar in all the cases--most strikingly the basket weave pattern of the thickened pleura and a dense subpleural parenchymal interstitial fibrosis with fine honeycombing, extending up to 1 cm into the underlying lung.
  • (8) Chest X-ray films revealed bilateral diffuse nodular shadows, honeycombing in the lower lung fields and pleural thickening suggestive of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia.
  • (9) Parenchymal and vascular changes were closely related: Average medial thickness rose from nearly normal values (4.9%) in cases with low area portions of honeycombing and bleeding to the double (11.1%) of normal values in cases with area portions of honeycombing and bleeding greater than 40%.
  • (10) The specimen showed a honeycomb appearance with mucoid content.
  • (11) In the lacunae, honeycomb-like structures were found.
  • (12) Focal honeycombing was the major parenchymal abnormality after 4 weeks.
  • (13) The branched capillaries from the afferent filament arteriole formed two plates of respiratory capillary networks with irregular honeycomb-shaped meshes.
  • (14) Granular pial cells usually contained large honeycomb bodies and were a prominent feature of the ageing leptomeninx but in contrast leptomeningeal macrophages showed no evidence of phagocytic activity suggesting that cell death or degeneration was not a feature of cells of the leptomeninx even in extremely old mice.
  • (15) A characteristic "honeycomb" pattern of the subcutaneous compartment was seen in 10 of these patients.
  • (16) In the outer part of the enamel the interprismatic substance exhibited a honeycomb appearance.
  • (17) Post-eruptive lesions that resulted from mechanical stress on hypomineralized enamel during mastication were characterized by steep walls and a typical honeycomb structure on their bottom, a result of fracture of enamel rods; holes left by fractured rods were surrounded by interrod enamel.
  • (18) Patients with bronchial asthma often develop acute attack in kitchen while burning honeycomb briquet which is widely used for cooking in southern China.
  • (19) In freeze-fracture, the zonulae occludentes are of variable apicobasal depth and consist of honeycomb-like meshworks of fibrils.
  • (20) In two lungs with honeycombing, cysts lined by fibrosis were easily seen on high-resolution CT scans.

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