(n.) A pendent, and usually conical, mass of ice, formed by freezing of dripping water; as, the icicles on the eaves of a house.
Example Sentences:
(1) Five years ago, as Branson was declaring SpaceShipTwo to be “the sexiest spaceship ever” at an unveiling at the Mojave air and space port, howling winds, sleet and near-freezing temperatures reduced the invited glitterati – politicians, actors, glamour women and some of the world’s top aerospace engineers – to human icicles.
(2) All exostoses occurring only in pes anserinus showed an icicle appearance in roentgenography and had no detectable cartilage cap.
Stalagmite
Definition:
(n.) A deposit more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns; hence, a similar deposit of other material.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over time the paintings had built up a thin crust of calcium carbonate, formed by the same process that gives caves stalagmites.
(2) There will be no half-full glasses; no stalagmites of loose change; no convention of shoes in a huddle under the bed, on which the duvet cover will rest as smooth as an airbrushed forehead; and the sheets will always match the pillowcases.
(3) Vessel wall alterations such as stalagmite-shaped lesions, subintimal bleeding and thrombotic layers, plaques, ulcerations and postoperative intimal bridging or ablation, which could not be identified by angiography have been analysed with high resolution of details using angioscopy with a video monitoring technique.
(4) Carlsbad isn't just big – it's also strikingly intricate, featuring thousands upon thousands of unique cave formations, including stalagmites, stalactites, cave pearls, flowstones, cave crystals and underground lakes.
(5) Resulting still photographs and movies reveal fatty dots and streaks, elevated gelatinous plaques, mural thrombi, thrombosis, ulcerations and ulcers with or without organizing thrombi, boulder and stalagmite-shaped lesions, bridging and elevated plaques in the carotid artery.
(6) Materials suitable for U-series dating are found in many prehistoric archaeological sites, and include stalagmitic layers (flowstones), and spring-deposited travertines.
(7) He created “environments” in his art room to inspire our imagination, transforming it into mystical landscapes, such as a prehistoric cave, complete with stalactites and stalagmites, stone carvings and eerie lighting.
(8) Histologically, the bone columns resembled stalagmites and stalactites, as seen by microradiography and scanning electron microscopy, that projected from each corticotomy surface toward the center.