What's the difference between oblite and oolite?

Oblite


Definition:

  • (a.) Indistinct; slurred over.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No signs of significant obliterative arterial changes were found.
  • (2) Hepatic fibrosis with obliterative lesions of the small hepatic veins occurred in a three month old infant with fatal congenital leukaemia treated with cytostatic drugs.
  • (3) This demonstrates the low incidence of obliterative lesions (4 cases throughout the world) which are always associated with collateral vascularization.
  • (4) In most patients there was an oblitering angiopathie of digital type, stage II to IV, confirmed by angiography.
  • (5) The angiographic hallmark of allograft arteriopathy is an extensive, diffuse, obliterative process that primarily involves distal, small, subendocardial arteries.
  • (6) The frequent occurrence of adhesive and obliterative pericarditis with loculated effusions suggests the need for pericardiectomy rather than pericardiocentesis in the patient with rheumatoid arthritis and symptomatic pericardial involvement.
  • (7) The process of atherosclerosis as a cause of the proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells in complicated by ulceration, parietal and obliterative thrombosis as well by intramural hemorrhages.
  • (8) The role of the parasite in the production of obliterative arteritis in this fatal case of haemorrhagic enteropathy is discussed.
  • (9) Defibrotide (D) a polidesoxyribonucleotidic derivative provided with fibrinolytic and antithrombotic activity has already proven effective when administered by parenteral route in patients with peripheral obliterative arterial disease (POAD).
  • (10) Peripheral deposition of 99m Tc-DTPA was uniform in normal subjects and patients with CFA, but patchy in patients with obliterative bronchiolitis, possibly resulting from altered patterns of ventilation associated with patchy distribution of bronchiolitis within affected lungs.
  • (11) We examined a 26-year-old woman with biopsy-proven Crohn's disease who developed a severe bilateral, obliterative retinal arteritis and phlebitis, leading to a marked loss of vision.
  • (12) This study of 41 cases of young patients with obliterative arterial disease treated surgically, with follow-up for 6 and a half years, used the standard classification.
  • (13) According to these findings we see the decisive mechanism for the pathogenesis of all stenosing, obliterative arteriopathies in a disturbed interaction between vessel wall and arterially circulating blood.
  • (14) The overall risk of soft tissue organ failure caused by the obliterative sickle vasculopathy (including stroke, renal failure, chronic lung disease with cor pulmonale, leg ulcers, and young adult death) was increased threefold in those with a CAR haplotype and was decreased in those with a Senegalese chromosome (p = 0.003).
  • (15) By means of a polarographic method, the peculiarities of blood distribution in the tissues of the lower extremities in 34 patients with obliterative atherosclerosis and in 29--with obliterative endarteritis after sympathectomy were studied.
  • (16) These findings indicate that pulmonary vascular disease begins at or soon after birth with abnormal pulmonary vascular remodelling which leads to obliterative pulmonary vascular disease.
  • (17) Since obliterative bronchiolitis may be reversed by early recognition and treatment of rejection, we have aggressively used bronchoscopy with transbronchial lung biopsy and bronchoalveolar lavage for surveillance of both rejection and infection in our recent patients.
  • (18) Regional hemodynamics in the lower limbs was studied in 250 patients (480 lower limbs) with obliterative lesions of the abdominal aorta and lower limb arteries.
  • (19) Angiographic diagnosis and therapy are discussed in relationship to the indications and follow-up of radiological interventions in patients with obliterative atherosclerosis located in the arteries of the pelvis and lower limbs.
  • (20) Patients with peripheral obliterative arterial disease, ischaemic cardiopathies and cerebrovascular insufficiencies show a diminution in blood fluidity during spontaneous or provoked ischaemic conditions which disappears after reperfusion of the tissue.

Oolite


Definition:

  • (n.) A variety of limestone, consisting of small round grains, resembling the roe of a fish. It sometimes constitutes extensive beds, as in the European Jurassic. See the Chart of Geology.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I think, in all honestly, if I could be Bradley Whitford I would be very, very happy.” He becomes almost drawlingly dreamy, rolling his “r”s as he leans against the warm oolite cliffs of this Jurassic Coast, until rudely interrupted by me, asking whether there’s talk of a Broadchurch 3 .

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