What's the difference between ligneous and lignify?
Ligneous
Definition:
(a.) Made of wood; consisting of wood; of the nature of, or resembling, wood; woody.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ligneous conjunctivitis occurred unilaterally in a 74-year-old man after pterygium excision and only involved the bulbar conjunctiva.
(2) Three possibilities are considered: the proper inflammatory lesions--granulomatous, lymphoplasmocitary and ligneous thyroiditis, the cystic formations circumscribed by the glandular tissue with inflammatory signs as well as the association of thyroid cancer with chronic thyroiditis--seldom reported in literature--upon which 2 observations have been made.
(3) A considerable number of agents have been proposed as causing ligneous conjunctivitis.
(4) Seventeen cases of ligneous conjunctivitis were studied.
(5) The treatment of ligneous conjunctivitis with Imuran has not previously been reported in the literature.
(6) Using immunohistochemical techniques, we studied ligneous conjunctival lesions from two patients.
(7) On the basis of his studies on Fabry's disease, the dyscephalic syndrome of François, ligneous conjunctivitis and macular dystrophy of the cornea, the author stresses the importance of heredity in ophthalmology.
(8) The origin and treatment of ligneous cellulitis are discussed.
(9) A case of ligneous conjunctivitis, which presented in the acute form and converted to a mixed form after several months is described.
(10) We report the association of ligneous conjunctivitis with middle-ear and tympanic membrane involvement in two children.
(11) The diagnosis of ligneous conjunctivitis was made by excisional biopsies in both.
(12) Ligneous conjunctivitis is a rare disease of unknown cause characterized by pseudomembranous, fibrous, woody, plaquelike deposits on the conjunctiva.
(13) On the basis of this family and previous reports, we believe that ligneous conjunctivitis is a genetic disorder inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern and that genetic counseling should be offered to the parents of affected children.
(14) These findings support the hypothesis that ligneous conjunctivitis could be the result of a lowered resistance associated with a disturbance of wound healing.
(15) The diffused floor coverings on epoxide basis, paste "Pirolik" and some types of ligneous surfaces on the basis of carbamide-formaldehyde pitch, received unfavourable hygienic assessment.
(16) Ligneous conjunctivitis tends to occur more frequently in children.
(17) The cases of ligneous conjunctivitis published since 1964 are presented in a review of the literature.
(18) On the basis of his studies on Fabry's disease, the dyscephalic syndrome of François, the ligneous conjunctivitis and the macular dystrophy of the cornea the author stresses the importance of heredity in ophthalmology.
(19) Eye and ear specimens revealed histopathologic and ultrastructural findings consistent with ligneous conjunctivitis, characterized by an amorphous, eosinophilic material with acute and chronic nongranulomatous inflammation.
(20) The success of Intal therapy in this case supports the theory that mast cells are involved in the pathogenesis of ligneous conjunctivitis.
Lignify
Definition:
(v. t.) To convert into wood or into a ligneous substance.
(v. i.) To become wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) The parenchyma located close to the sclerenchyma became indigestible as the cell walls lignified progressively from the third stage.
(2) The recently isolated ruminal sporeforming cellulolytic anaerobe Clostridium longisporum B6405 was examined for its ability to degrade barley straw, nonlignified cell walls (mesophyll and epidermis) and lignified cell walls (fiber) of ryegrass, and alfalfa cell walls in comparison with strains of Ruminococcus albus.
(3) The NEL of hay crops and corn silages also were predicted from an expression of lignified NDF in DM with moderate precision.
(4) Consequently, study of medicinal potential, especially immunopotentiating capacity, of lignified materials is important.
(5) The increase in the digestibility of the treated straw was due to the greater access the micro-organisms had to the polysaccharides of the lignified walls.
(6) With the exception of the phloem and the crown of the parenchyma, which borders the medullary lacuna, the walls of the tissues of both treated and untreated straw were lignified.
(7) Smaller particles in the rumen and F appeared to contain more lignin (determined histochemically) and were composed of indigestible fragments of cuticle and lignified vascular tissue.
(8) The data suggest that the polymerized phenolic structure of lignified materials is responsible for the anti-influenza A virus activity.
(9) After treatment of the bran with alkali, the extent of degradation was increased three-fold as a result of saponification of ester cross-links which facilitated increased degradation of the polymers from both the aleurone and outer, lignified, layers.
(10) With an appropriate eliciting agent, intravenous administration of natural lignified substances transiently induced endogenous production of a cytotoxic factor (possibly tumor necrosis factor) in normal mice.
(11) Possible physiological relevance of the stimulation of iodination by lignified substances is discussed.
(12) Filaments and rod and coccal forms of the microbe degraded rigid forage cell walls and lignified, thick-walled sclerenchymal cells.
(13) SbPRP1 expression increased within epidermal cells in the elongating and mature regions of the hypocotyl; expression was detected also in lignified cells surrounding the hilum of mature seeds.
(14) Two other cell-wall preparations, representing lignified walls of dicotyledons and unlignified walls of vegetative parts of grasses and cereals (monocotyledons belonging to the family Poaceae), adsorbed DNP much more effectively.
(15) Natural lignified material and dehydrogenation polymers, but not their precursors, effectively inhibited the cytopathic effect of HIV infection in both these cells as well as in MT-4 and MOLT-4 cells.
(16) When sections or leaf pieces are stained in aqueous 0.05% toluidine blue O, then placed in 20% calcium chloride solution, all tissues destain except those with lignified or partially lignified cell walls.
(17) The application of the new method makes possible fast and direct detection of the pathogen in lignified plant tissues, a goal not previously achieved when a cloned probe and a dot-blot test were employed.
(18) Lignin was also localized in secondary walls of tracheary elements, sites known to be highly lignified.
(19) After 48 h of culture, all non-lignified tissues observed by scanning electron microscopy disappeared with P communis and degradation was as complete as that observed in the rumen.
(20) Various natural lignified materials and synthetic dehydrogenation polymers (the so-called synthetic lignins) prepared from several phenylpropenoids were investigated for their mitogenic activity.