What's the difference between fetid and ichor?

Fetid


Definition:

  • (a.) Having an offensive smell; stinking.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Every time we have a negotiation, the bidding process (for the project) slows and postpones things.” Water quality has become a hot-button issue as the Olympics draw closer with little sign of progress in cleaning up the fetid bay, as well as the lagoon system in western Rio that hugs the sites of the Olympic park, the very heart of the games.
  • (2) Transtracheal aspiration is not deemed necessary if the patient is expectorating fetid sputum.
  • (3) He is now Rwanda's justice minister, who has had to contend with the daunting question of what to do with close to 150,000 accused genocidaire who a decade ago were packed into overcrowded, fetid prisons.
  • (4) Symptomatology perceived incorrectly as abnormal: a) In pregnancy: Frequent urination: 17 per cent, morning nausea in the 1st trimester: 9 per cent, emotional instability: 21 per cent, Braxton Hicks contractions: 41 per cent, and b) Postpartum period: Decreased quantity in lochia rubra: 9 per cent, non-fetid lochia alba: 43 per cent, calostrum: 20 per cent.
  • (5) In the fetid ecosystem that is our incubator of conservative columnists, he is the apex predator.
  • (6) Early diagnosis was rare, even after fetid otorrhea of long duration; occassionally they presented as acute mastoiditis.
  • (7) b) In puerperium: Increased quantity in lochia rubra: 17 per cent, fever: 22 per cent, fetid lochia: 28 per cent, and c) In breastfeeding: Breasts red and warm: 48 per cent, fever: 30 per cent, nipple fissures: 70 per cent.
  • (8) It was dramatic with high fever and multiple fetid stools in one patient, and mild, successfully treated within a few days, in the second.
  • (9) In this discussion, the case report of a fetid diabetic right foot infection is presented.
  • (10) Whatever people say about the US, it at least embraces the filth and fury of politics, and puts the whole malfunctioning and fetid business out there for all to see.
  • (11) And just as our great moments in cinema concern stammering monarchs, so the likes of Garrone choose to examine criminality, and now the fetid scourge of reality TV.
  • (12) Differential diagnosis of the omphalic stone includes the so called umbilical cholesteatoma, an accumulation of crumbling, fetid masses in the umbilicus, often times accompanied by seborrhea which may lead to abscess formation.
  • (13) Fetid vaginal discharge (60%) and premature rupture of the membranes (35%) were the main findings upon history taking.
  • (14) This provoked the appearance of a pyogenous process with a profuse, purulent and fetid secretion (Staphylococcus aureus) resistant to many antibiotics which was finally controlled with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole.
  • (15) The twelve other bacteremic patients had fetid diarrhea a few hours after admission.
  • (16) City hall, on a hill overlooking the city, is a devastated but functioning headquarters packed full of relief goods, water-logged office files, broken glass partitions and fetid toilets where journalists, aid workers, civil servants and homeless locals meander the halls aimlessly.
  • (17) Pseudomonas aeruginosa was the dominant causative organism in pulmonary infections of the aged while in presenile ones the organism was mainly Pseudomonas fetid.
  • (18) The water no longer bubbles out of the ground but sits low and fetid, a milky pond with concrete walls contaminated by faeces.
  • (19) Fetid diarrhea and failure to gain weight were consistent clinical signs.
  • (20) Trucks still rumble down the potholed road through the town but the last workers have long gone home, walking past the furled awnings of the market stalls, over the single footbridge, along the battered pavements, to the tenement apartments, the squalid huts, the tin-roofed homes by the fetid pond.

Ichor


Definition:

  • (n.) An ethereal fluid that supplied the place of blood in the veins of the gods.
  • (n.) A thin, acrid, watery discharge from an ulcer, wound, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bacteriological examinations were made from the ichor before the primary wound care and immediately after its finishing.
  • (2) The ichorous splenitis revealed by the post-mortem studies was not observed on clinical examination.

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