What's the difference between hole and spongiform?
Hole
Definition:
(a.) Whole.
(n.) A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.
(n.) An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation.
(n.) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.
(n.) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.
(v. i.) To go or get into a hole.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
(2) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(3) The speed of visiting holes and the development of a preferred pattern of hole-visits did not influence spatial discrimination performance.
(4) Macular holes, formerly believed to be rare in these injuries, were found in two of the five patients.
(5) Jane's life clearly still has a massive Spike-shaped hole in it.
(6) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.
(7) Bar manager Joe Mattheisen, 66, who has worked at the hole-in-the-wall bar since 1997, said the bar has attracted younger, straighter crowds in recent years.
(8) Guzmán was sent to Altiplano high-security prison, 56 miles outside Mexico City, but in July 2015, he absconded again, squeezing through a hole in his shower floor then fleeing on a modified motorbike through a mile-long tunnel fitted with lights and a ventilation system.
(9) If the attacker's plan was to make important ideas disappear down the memory hole, it looks as if it has backfired spectacularly.
(10) In contrast, eyes with macular holes had a greater reduction in the steady-state VEP amplitude than eyes with optic neuritis.
(11) An 8-French right Judkins guiding catheter with a single side hole (USCI), a 3.0 mm balloon dilatation catheter (ACS), and a 0.018 high torque floppy guide wire (ACS) were used.
(12) Four hours p.i., a clustering of the p60 antigen and, 12 h p.i., a formation of finger-like holes, penetrating the nucleus, occurred.
(13) Campbell, Ann E. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass.
(14) We don't whip homeless vagrants out of town any more, or burn big holes in their ears, as in the brutish 16th century.
(15) The chancellor deliberately made cautious assumptions for the deficit in the budget, but the 5.6% contraction in the economy has blown an even bigger hole in the public finances than feared in April.
(16) He avoided everyone he didn't want to see when he was in Hong Kong, the first place he escaped to, and for several weeks he remained beyond the reach of the world's media, and doubtless a small army of spies, while holed up in a hotel room in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.
(17) There were no thromboses among infants with long end-hole catheters while infants with short end-hole catheters had thrombosis in 26%, long side-hole catheters in 33% and short side-hole catheters in 64%.
(18) The animal model was induced by left frontal burr hole opening and inoculation of a small piece of G-XII glioma tissue to 6- to 8-week-old rats.
(19) In February last year the BBC was forced to apologise to the Mexican ambassador after a joke made by the three presenters that the nation's cars were like the people "lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat".
(20) Thus, VP2 and VP5 together form a continuous layer around the inner shell except for holes on the 5-fold axis.
Spongiform
Definition:
(a.) Resembling a sponge; soft and porous; porous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pathomorphologically, spongiform alteration and demyelinization of the white matter in the vicinity of the amyloid deposits was detected and systemic amyloidosis excluded.
(2) Naturally occurring transmissible spongiform encephalopathies have been recognised in sheep, man, mink, captive deer and cattle.
(3) The primary lesion of the brain consists of spongiform degeneration, associated with vesicle formation in the cortex and underlying white matter of the cerebral hemispheres, and in the molecular layer of the cerebellum.
(4) A cat which developed a change of temperament, with muscle tremors, ataxia and pupillary dilatation was suspected and later confirmed histopathologically to have a spongiform encephalopathy.
(5) Hamsters intracerebrally inoculated with the biopsy material demonstrated typical spongiform changes in the gray structures of the brain when sacrificed on the 309th and 332nd days post inoculation, characteristic of experimental Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
(6) In electron microscopy, no virions could be detected in spongiform lesions.
(7) This test can help to detect the human spongiform encephalopathies.
(8) The causation, structural origin, and mechanism of formation of spongiform lesions in transmissible encephalopathies are unknown.
(9) To determine whether unconventional pathogens causing subacute spongiform encephalopathy may be present in blood products, a newly developed hepatitis B vaccine and a widely used blood product were injected into mice and rats.
(10) Pathologic examination confirmed a rare CJD case with primary generalized spongiform changes of the white matter and only moderate, but typical changes of the gray matter.
(11) After a short introduction into the general concept of amyloidoses and the genetic disposition involved in these diseases, the genetic disposition for unconventional virus diseases (or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies) and the disease specific amyloid are described.
(12) In the tubules there was spongiform degeneration and fusion of cells.
(13) The latter ranged from spongiform transformation of the neuropil and scattered foci of demyelination to large perivenous areas with marked rarefaction of myelinated fibers.
(14) Histologically, the type of spongiform lesion in rabies was the same as that in scrapie.
(15) Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), discovered in Great Britain in 1986, was to pose one of the most serious threats to the well-being of the British cattle industry this century.
(16) Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a new disease of cattle which has considerable homology with scrapie, the archetype of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
(17) Scrapie, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) are the best known of the transmissible degenerative encephalopathies (TDE) that affect animals and man.
(18) A molecular clone of wild mouse ecotropic retrovirus CasBrE (clone 15-1) causes a spongiform neurodegenerative disease with a long incubation period, greater than or equal to 6 months.
(19) Polygraphic recordings of EEG, EMG, EKG and respiration were made on three patients with histologically verified subacute spongiform encephalopathy and one patient with anoxic encephalopathy both before and after intravenous diazepam.
(20) Spongiform changes were occasionally observed and were mild.