What's the difference between mummies and mummification?
Mummies
Definition:
(pl. ) of Mummy
Example Sentences:
(1) Structures resembling red blood cells have been seen in mummies, but have been considered by some to be artifacts or molds.
(2) Three beautifully restored mummy portraits of well-off young people who were, 2,000 years ago, probably members of a mysterious group called "the 6475" are to go on display at the new home for one of the most important Egyptian collections in the world.
(3) If he comes back it’s like he’s got away with it.” In the club’s superstore, Zak Dilly and his girlfriend Hannah Betts – who have just chosen a babygrow for their niece with the slogan “Mummy taught me ABC, Daddy taught me SUFC” – are clear about whose side they are on.
(4) "It is not by any means the end of the road because the technology is moving on rapidly all the time, and we're hoping in the next few years we'll be able to continue scanning more mummies and revealing more remarkable facts."
(5) Three Pharaonic mummies, preserved for thousand of years, had fiberoptic endoscopy carried out of the cranial, thoracic and abdominal cavities.
(6) No cases of this disease have been seen in Peruvian mummies while in Chile it seems quite common, suggesting some environmental factor in the etiology.
(7) There are still disputes over mummy portraits, for example whether they were done while the subjects were alive or after they were dead, as part of the 70-day mummification process.
(8) The bile acids of the gall bladder and hepatic tissue of a 3200-year-old Egyptian mummy were isolated by thin-layer chromatography and identified by combined gas-liquid chromatrography and mass spectrometry.
(9) Common issues also included the books being of poor quality, getting basic facts wrong (such as referring to same-sex adopters as mummy and daddy) or being completed by someone who had never met the child.
(10) One female mummy is displayed with a translation of an offering inscription, which visitors will be invited to recite to ensure her food supply in the next world.
(11) It is worthwhile to note the suggestive role of mummy cells in pathological diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease.
(12) And Mummy said darling, do you remember Bodrum when Nanny walked into pre-lunch drinks on the gulet, of course everyone was incredibly kind, bringing her a Tizer and some After Eights before the men threw her in the sea, the gentlest of hints but basically she never left the lower decks again?
(13) A 500-year-old mummy of a seven-month-old Eskimo infant recently removed from a tomb north of Umanak presented problems of preservation.
(14) The museum has been x-raying mummies since the 1960s but, as the technology has improved, the results have dramatically improved.
(15) The ancient cultures of Babylon, Jericho, and Egypt used "art-eyes" in mummies, sarcophagus lids, and statues; they were made from precious stones, silver, gold, and copper as a symbol of light and life in their religious beliefs.
(16) The second mummy was a 18-year-old young woman, 800-700 b. C. From the inscriptions on the sarcophagus name, family and living circumstances could be found.
(17) Taylor hopes even more secrets will be revealed in years to come, including being able to read hieroglyphic inscriptions on objects inside the mummies.
(18) Recently I've just been at home enjoying being a mummy, but it's been nine months now and I'm slowly getting ready to return to work.
(19) 17.42 Julie : Mummy, tell the police they must be quick.
(20) Zoe Dronfield set up a support group, I want my Mummy (IWMM), after her abusive ex-partner was given emergency custody of their child.
Mummification
Definition:
(n.) The act of making a mummy.
Example Sentences:
(1) With outdoor exposure, remains are more likely to pass through a long period of dehydration of outer tissues, mummification, and reduction of desiccated tissue.
(2) There are still disputes over mummy portraits, for example whether they were done while the subjects were alive or after they were dead, as part of the 70-day mummification process.
(3) For 4,732 pregnancies followed from 2,163 cows in a 6.5 year period, the respective proportions (percentage) of cows aborting (1--cumulative proportion not aborting by 260 days) and abortion densities (abortions per 10,000 cow-days-at-risk) were 10.63 and 6.29 for all fetal deaths, 9.36 and 5.49 for deaths resulting in fetal expulsion, and 1.39 and 0.80 for deaths resulting in mummification.
(4) The unvaccinated ewes responded to the infection with abortion, resorption of the fetus, mummification or no changes at all.
(5) Detection of the positive antibody was associated with clinical herd history of increased mummification, stillbirth and neonatal death.
(6) The spectrum and degree of limb gangrene ranged from phalangeal necrosis to distal limb mummification affecting one or more limbs.
(7) to correct cases of fetal mummification in two Holstein cows are described.
(8) The main purpose of such exposures of the injured areas is to achieve mummification and to make the operation as early as possible.
(9) The radiological findings provided further information regarding the technique of mummification and the method of burial.
(10) There was graphic depiction of the mummification process that corroborated information previously obtained from Egyptological studies.
(11) The virus crosses the placenta readily and can cause foetal death with resorption, mummification or stillbirths.
(12) The greatest degree of mummification was seen with the calcium hydroxide-saline paste.
(13) Although fetuses are normally resorbed prior to calcification, fetal death after that stage of development leads to mummification.
(14) Occurrence and type (resorption, abortion, stillbirth, mummification) of pregnancy loss in the dog and cat depend on the cause of the loss and the stage of gestation at which it occurs.
(15) Evidence is reviewed in support of the hypothesis that immature unkeratinized fetal skin must be present if bovine fetal mummification is to occur.
(16) The virus caused fetal reabsorption in swine during the first period of pregnancy (group A), while infection during late pregnancy resulted in still birth or normal pigs and one mummification (group B).
(17) He has told us of mummification and mass graves; the heads once displayed on spikes at the entrance to London Bridge; and the bodies that washed up in dead man's hole in the Thames, before being taken to a mortuary.
(18) Aspergillus ochraceus Wilhelm was isolated from Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Latreille) ticks infected under natural conditions, and developing an illness characterized by absence of oviposition, mummification and death.
(19) These features included abortion, mummification, stillbirth, premature and term birth of weak calves and full-term birth of live apparently healthy calves.
(20) Artificial mummification was practised in Egypt from approximately 2600 BC until the fourth century AD.