What's the difference between greenstone and nephrite?
Greenstone
Definition:
(n.) A name formerly applied rather loosely to certain dark-colored igneous rocks, including diorite, diabase, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The root surfaces apical to the overhangs were photographed under the scanning electron microscope at a magnification of x 140 and compared by five dentists, in a single-blind manner, with two control photomicrographs of surfaces classified as rough (treated with a coarse diamond bur) or not rough (treated with a greenstone).
(2) Yet according to Michael Greenstone, an economics professor at MIT and one of the study's authors, this study is the first to precisely quantify their relationship.
(3) Take a seaplane to Rock Harbor or Windigo and follow the Greenstone Ridge Trail, a 40-mile hike along the spine of the island, which takes four or five days.
(4) The North Island is Te Ika A Maui, "the fish of Maui" (recounting the mythic tale of New Zealand's creation) where the South is Te Wai Pounamu, "the waters of greenstone" (describing the glassy stone, prized by Maori, that is found in the swift rivers and along the savage misted beaches of the lonely south).
(5) Contact +1 305 242 7700 for a permit application Jeremy Cuff, underwater photographer and contributor to Sport Diver magazine Greenstone Ridge Trail, Isle Royale NP , Michigan Isle Royale is a roadless archipelago in Lake Superior on the Canadian border.
Nephrite
Definition:
(n.) A hard compact mineral, of a dark green color, formerly worn as a remedy for diseases of the kidneys, whence its name; kidney stone; a kind of jade. See Jade.
Example Sentences:
(1) From a practical point of view, it appears that patients forming anti-GBM antibodies may not be good candidates for renal transplantation since they are likely to produce in the transplants the nephritic changes already suffered by their own kidneys.
(2) Autoantibodies which interfere with the function of enzyme cascade systems have also been described in diseases such as acquired haemophilia (anti-factor VIII antibodies) and glomerulonephritis (C3 nephritic factor).
(3) The serum of both patients contained detectable amounts of C3NeF, a factor which has been shown to react with a cofactor found in normal serum to form an enzyme, designated C3 lytic nephritic factor (C3LyNeF), which will cleave C3 to form the breakdown products, beta1A and alpha 2D.
(4) This nephritic factor was found in patients with reduced serum levels of terminal components and its activity, like that of the nephritic factor in MPGN type II, correlated with the serum C3 level indicating that these nephritic factors play a large role in producing hypocomplementemia.
(5) Public Law 92-603 is a mandata from the public for physicians to exercise every avenue of diagnosis and salvage for the nephritic patient.
(6) Dextran sieving studies were performed before and after intravenous administration of indomethacin to control rats and to nephritic rats with heavy proteinuria.
(7) Complement-independent binding of C3 nephritic factor (NEF) to sheep erythrocytes was observed in heat-inactivated sera from patients having this autoantibody.
(8) Phenotypes were quantitatively evaluated in 221 nephritic and 32 control glomeruli.
(9) It was previously shown that when normal human serum and purified properdin or serum containing nephritic factor were allowed to diffuse toward each other in agar, a stainable precipitin line formed only in the presence of an intact alternative pathway.
(10) Diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis was found in 60% of patients with acute nephritic syndrome.
(11) Meanwhile in the inactive nephritic pattern and in the nephrotic pattern, a corticoid-sensitive one, characterized by the phasic course, CRF could not almost be seen over up to 20 years after the disease onset.
(12) A case of partial lipodystrophy with C3 nephritic factor was found to be associated with mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis although all clinical parameters of renal function were normal.
(13) In control nephritic animals, urinary i-TXB2 increased 5-fold on day +1, but was normal again by day +5.
(14) Serum levels of complement components and of C3 nephritic factor (C3NeF) were measured serially in two patients with membrano-proliferative glomerulonephritis who were subjected to bilateral nephrectomy and maintained by peritoneal dialysis for 2 wk before renal transplantation.
(15) The results of adoptive cell migration studies suggest that a subpopulation of T cells in nephritic animals traffic renotropically to either normal or damaged kidneys on transfer.
(16) Levels of components of the classical and alternative complement pathways and the activity of the C3 nephritic factor (C3NeF) were measured in serum specimens from patients with type I (subendothelial deposits) and type II (intramembranous dense deposits) membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN) and the results compared with the levels in normal subjects.
(17) Sedentary nephritic rats that received the same treatment described above served as controls.
(18) In 3 patients tested, the C3 nephritic factor-like activity was heat-labile and was therefore not related to true C3 nephritic factor.
(19) For the two-sample case, data from a prognostic study of the renal function of 87 lupus nephritic patients are used.
(20) In detail 5 types of clinical course are characterized: Nephritic types of course: maximally active nephritic type of course, active nephritic type of course, inactive nephritic type of course.