What's the difference between flora and foliage?

Flora


Definition:

  • (n.) The goddess of flowers and spring.
  • (n.) The complete system of vegetable species growing without cultivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the past, the interpretation of the medical findings was hampered by a lack of knowledge of normal anatomy and genital flora in the nonabused prepubertal child.
  • (2) Concentrations of the drugs in feces increased with increasing dosage, resulting in greater changes of the intestinal bacterial flora.
  • (3) In this study, bacterial flora, especially the occurrence of A. actinomycetemcomitans, in the periodontal pockets of one juvenile with gingivitis (G), one JP patients, five rapidly progressive periodontitis (RP) patients and one adult periodontitis(AP) patient, and one adult with healthy periodontium was investigated using a blood agar medium and a selective medium for A. actinomycetemcomitans.
  • (4) Morphologic and microbiologic study of the operation and biopsy specimens, obtained from 73 patients with odontogenic inflammatory processes has shown that in 38% of cases the inflammation was induced by mixed fungal and bacterial flora.
  • (5) Clinical response was associated with eradication of the abnormal anaerobic flora, despite persistence of G vaginalis in nine (26%).
  • (6) After 1 month, scaling and root planing had effected significant clinical improvement and significant shifts in the subgingival flora to a pattern more consistent with periodontal health; these changes were still evident at 3 months.
  • (7) To be used as a model in dental and medical research, an animal must fulfil experimental needs and information on the composition and variation of its oral flora must be available.
  • (8) During this period, the microbial flora of the isolator was unchanged, and the time required to clean the cages was reduced by 50%.
  • (9) The superficial bacterial flora were sampled by velvet pad imprints, and the deep flora were determined from whole skin biopsies.
  • (10) alpha-HCH was also, but more slowly as with gamma-HCH, degraded by the anaerobic mixed flora.
  • (11) Experimental data on protective function of Escherichia coli, Enterococcus faecalis and Bacteroides distasonis comprising intestinal flora against oral infection of Shigella flexneri which causes localized infection are presented.
  • (12) Senior figures in the Lockerbie case – including Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora was killed in the attack, and Professor Robert Black, a lawyer and architect of the trial of two Libyans accused of the atrocity – have said they believe Koussa might have significant information about Libya's role.
  • (13) The fixed prosthodontic procedures alone altered the subgingival and marginal microbiota toward a more health-associated flora.
  • (14) Previously, only incomplete information was available regarding the indigenous bacterial flora of the lower intestinal tracts of these coprophagic animals.
  • (15) Aerobic microorganisms are constantly entering the digestive tract with food, but colonization is resisted by autochthonous anaerobic flora (microbial colonization resistance) and by host-related factors (physiologic colonization resistance).
  • (16) The need to reappraise methods of reducing transient skin flora in 'hygienic' hand cleansing and the tests used for this purpose are discussed.
  • (17) The instability of conjunctival flora with time implies a modification in tactics of bacteriological preoperative samples in order to obtain a better operative security.
  • (18) This mixed bacterial population exhibits many similarities to the native rat flora, and the diversity of bacterial species and the activity of a number of hydrolytic and reductive enzymes (e.g.
  • (19) All animals were capable of adapting to 20% dietary xylitol and an accompanying enhancement of the ability of caecal and faecal flora to utilize xylitol was observed.
  • (20) The behaviour of the aerobic skin flora of the flexor sides of the forearms, under a three-week restriction of washing, was investigated in twenty-four patients for its quantitative and qualitative aspects.

Foliage


Definition:

  • (n.) Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.
  • (n.) A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc.
  • (v. t.) To adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Over the decades, the Mauna Loa readings, made famous in Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth, show the CO2 level rising and falling each year as foliage across the northern hemisphere blooms in spring and recedes in autumn.
  • (2) This is a guy whose last feature, Trash Humpers , was 80 minutes of old people shagging foliage.
  • (3) The method appears applicable to detection of the residues of Pydrin in the foliage of many types of crops.
  • (4) Mimosine was administered orally to Merino sheep once daily for periods of 1-3 days, either as the isolated compound or in the foliage of Leucaena leucocephala.
  • (5) Conditions of foliage forests with high grass, where occur hosts of all developmental phases of ticks (elks, hares, rodents, insectivores), are most favourable for I. persulcatus.
  • (6) The air concentration was then used to estimate the flux to foliage, which was compared with direct plant uptake through the roots.
  • (7) Violence picks up from April when the opium poppy harvest is in, spring foliage provides cover for fighters, and snow melts on the mountain passes that fighters use to return from safe havens in Pakistan.
  • (8) The results show that N-methylcarbamoyl and N-dimethylcarbamoylindolines in which the indoline nucleus bears a halogen or alkyl substituent are highly active on absorption via the roots of foliage and have a wide spectrum of action.
  • (9) Now workers ensure structures, with their flower-shaped arches and towering pillars topped with giant leaves, aren’t reclaimed by the ever-encroaching jungle foliage.
  • (10) Foliage collected at several times was analyzed for total terbufos residues as terbufoxon sulfone.
  • (11) Add a sprinkling of compost and lay them on their side to stop the foliage from rotting if it gets too wet.
  • (12) It was concluded that the gut-filling effect of a bulk of indigestible fibre is a major reason why the brushtail possum does not feed exclusively on Eucalyptus foliage in the wild.
  • (13) Inside Nunhead cemetery sits a humble bench that commands a spectacular window on St Paul’s Cathedral, perfectly framed amid the foliage, although it can only be seen if you align yourself dead centre.
  • (14) The digestion and metabolism of Eucalyptus melliodora foliage was studied in captive brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula).
  • (15) However most of the compounds showed phytotoxic activity by absorption through the foliage.
  • (16) Two methods are described in which light-exposed films could be used clinically with application of the principle of solarization: (1) as duplicating films with the use of sunlight and (2) as receptors for images of foliage with the use of sunlight.
  • (17) The ascorbic acid content of foliage available to wild primates and bats in Panama (in transition between wet and dry seasons) was lower than that of temperate zone foliage but higher than that of most fruits and vegetables.
  • (18) Using energy from the sun, they turn the carbon captured from the CO2 molecules into building blocks for their trunks, branches and foliage.
  • (19) The cathedral had been transformed into a grove of white roses, and foliage including sweet scented broom, the “planta genista” emblem of the Plantagenets.
  • (20) In other experiments, potassium levels of the foliage were monitored.