What's the difference between ferruginous and manganiferous?
Ferruginous
Definition:
(a.) Partaking of iron; containing particles of iron.
(a.) Resembling iron rust in appearance or color; brownish red, or yellowish red.
Example Sentences:
(1) In some connective-tissue cells ferruginous micelles were found in the mitochondrial matrix.
(2) As the number of ferruginous bodies increased, neutrophils and T lymphocytes decreased, but B lymphocytes increased.
(3) Simultaneously with iron uptake, mitochondria differentiate to lamellated bodies and, successively, expansions rise for ferruginous compounds and G polypeptides gathering, followed by prehemosome vesicles formation, which condense and change to prohemosomes that afterwards evolve to hemosomes.
(4) A new method of preparing ferruginous (asbestos) bodies for electron-optical examination is described.
(5) Ferruginous bodies and microliths were also associated in this case.
(6) Histological slides from the lungs of 89 dead asbestos cement workers have been examined with respect to ferruginous bodies and fibrosis.
(7) These included microcephaly, white matter atrophy with patchy loss of myelinated fibers, calcifications of the basal ganglia, occasional ferrugination of cerebral and cerebellar neurons, and severe cerebellar degeneration.
(8) Lesions obtained in human beings could be reproduced in rats subjected to intratracheal injection of arsenic containing ore dust, which was prepared in order to study the deposition, dissociation and release of inhaled less-soluble arsenic containing ors dust in the lungs and the process of development of different ferruginous bodies.
(9) Ferruginous bodies have been found in the sputa of 187 (33%) workers.
(10) There was no apparent difference in the incidence or quantity of ferruginous bodies between the group with pulmonary neoplasms and the randomly selected group.
(11) Clear dose-response relations between exposure (duration of exposure and cumulative asbestos dose) and level of ferruginous bodies were found.
(12) The lungs of 100 consecutive patients at autopsy and of 24 patients with various pulmonary neoplasms were analyzed for the presence of ferruginous (asbestos) bodies.
(13) Combined studies in tissue sections as well as on digested specimens revealed that the core of a majority of the ferruginous bodies was an iron-rich fiber.
(14) No significant association is found between the occurrence of ferruginous bodies and the worker's age, smoking history, degree of cellular epithelial atypia, or time since last exposure.
(15) Examination of sputum from 76 current employees showed that only two specimens contained typical ferruginous bodies, confirming low cumulative fibre exposure.
(16) All cases had occupational histories of asbestos exposure, but ferruginous bodies in BAL fluid were only detected in 21 of 31 cases.
(17) The digested samples from lungs of 2 workers yielded no ferruginous bodies by light microscopy, even though these samples by electron microscopy contained respective loads of 780,000 and 1.2 million uncoated amphibole fibers per gram.
(18) The occurrence of ferruginous bodies in sputa is found to increase as a logarithmic function of the length of occupational exposure to asbestos in workdays.
(19) More than 90% of both population groups had ferruginous bodies in their lungs.
(20) Therefore, the primary site of lung cancer is not dependent on the number of ferruginous bodies.