What's the difference between megalopolis and necrotic?
Megalopolis
Definition:
(n.) A chief city; a metropolis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Instead I look back from here, across the megalopolis I barely crossed, with all that I found charming – and remind myself that since 1531 a great number of people do this walk on their knees.
(2) This carpet of miniature rooftops is hopelessly incapable of keeping up with the city’s relentless pace of change, the exhibition hall too small to ever contain a megalopolis so sprawling that it is currently building its seventh ring road , an orbital loop that will run for almost 1,000km in circumference.
(3) Inside the Huaqiangbei electronics markets of Shenzhen , every booth on all 10 floors represents a factory somewhere in southern China’s Pearl River Delta megalopolis.
(4) But its history, coupled with the pleasing sound of its three syllables, have made it a megalopolis in the human imagination ever since Emperor Moussa I built Djinguereber after returning from Mecca in 1327.
(5) I only ask because LA, the city I live in and love beyond all reason, is, by some considerable measure, the world-class megalopolis most often destroyed, nuked, alien-invaded, bombed-flat, depopulated, dystopianised or demonised in the movies.
(6) Creation of “urban corridors” could create novel habitats that allow totally different groups of species to flourish; one giant megalopolis will exist, unbroken, all the way from Raleigh, North Carolina, to Atlanta, Georgia, 400 miles distant.
(7) The southern megalopolis: Using the past to predict the future of urban sprawl in the Southeast US, PLoS One, 9 (7) e102261.
(8) The sacking consolidates the Kremlin's grip over the third most important post in the country but also presents a new headache: how to administer a megalopolis of 10 million at a time of growing civic uprisings and as Medvedev's own regime loses its appeal.
(9) 'From the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe I look back across the megalopolis at all that I found charming.'
(10) Often I lie here with my back on concrete that emanates heat from a day in the sun, staring up at the city lights and dreaming of the paradise that this ever-growing megalopolis will one day become … if only.
(11) If China's cities carry on growing at the current rate, Shanghai, whose population has doubled in 20 years, will at some stage merge with Nanjing, Ningbo, Hangzhou and others to form a megalopolis of 88 million people.
(12) Ask a cyclist what it’s like to ride in Indonesia’s capital – a sprawling megalopolis of 10.2 million people – and, if they’re generous, they’ll say it’s challenging or possible.
Necrotic
Definition:
(a.) Affected with necrosis; as, necrotic tissue; characterized by, or producing, necrosis; as, a necrotic process.
Example Sentences:
(1) The use of a major pancreatic resection for the surgical management of necrotizing pancreatitis should be excluded from treatment protocols.
(2) At 24 hours, an increased number of cells had become necrotic.
(3) The observations support the idea that the function of pericytes in the choriocapillaris, the major source of nutrition for the retinal photoreceptors, resides in their contractility, and that pericytes do not remove necrotic endothelium during capillary atrophy.
(4) Proven necrotizing enterocolitis was seen in eight infants and was suspected in eight others.
(5) Cooling of the necrotic limb with the application of a tourniquet and general nonoperative treatment were conducted in preparation for amputation.
(6) In the second patient the entire spinal cord was necrotic, clearly placing the second case outside the radiation myelopathy syndrome.
(7) The resolution of this encephalopathy suggests that early changes of subacute necrotizing leukoencephalopathy are reversible and CT is copable of detecting these early changes.
(8) An infectious etiology should be suspected in cases of necrotizing scleritis associated with a purulent discharge, and appropriate smears and cultures should be obtained.
(9) A simple technique that consists of curetting the subcutaneous tissue in the necrotic area of the lesion, to prevent the local destructive actions of the toxin, is described.
(10) Necrotic forms were treated by necrotectomy, whereas segmental pancreatectomy was performed in seven patients.
(11) Several stages in its histogenesis may be discerned: I. focal necroses of hepatic cells associated with their invasion with lister Listeria; 2. appearance of cellular elements around the foci of necroses with subsequent formation of granulemas consisting mainly of leucocytes and lymphoid cells; 3. development of necrobiotic changes in the central areas of granulemas with concomitance of exudative processes; 4. organization of necrotic foci with subsequent scarring.
(12) This vasodilatation limits the necrotic process and promotes the supply of drugs to the injured tissues.
(13) The necrotic, acellular papillary tip eventually separates.
(14) This study was undertaken in the rat to determine if muscle encased in collagen would subsequently become either necrotic or atrophic.
(15) One significant complication was recorded, post biopsy haemorrhage into a large, extensively necrotic renal adenocarcinoma causing severe pain.
(16) In the sediment of the wash-out fluid erythrocytes, degenerated and necrotic epithelial cell clusters were found.
(17) Lymphocytes surrounded necrotic tissue, and there was a follicular pattern of invasion.
(18) The morphology of the necrotic lesions, which were confined to the left lobe in 21 patients, was that of an anemic infarct.
(19) Experiments were designed to determine the rate and nature of postmortem autolysis in the gut of neonatal rats, as necessary baseline information for developing a model of human neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis.
(20) It is suggested that polyamines are released from necrotic neurons and cleared into the blood.