(n.) A kind of pseudomorph, in which there has been a change of physical characters without alteration of chemical composition, as the change of aragonite to calcite.
Example Sentences:
(1) The removal of dye was most effective at pH 2.5 and more dye was adsorbed per unit mass of cells in the paramorphic cultures than in the normal hyphae.
(2) It exist a great difference between the structural conformations, that are true pathologies, and the functional ones or paramorphisms, without bony alterations.
(3) Experiments on the adsorption of Procion Scarlet MX-G by normal hyphae and by paramorphic colonies of Neurospora crassa were performed at pH 2.5, 4.5 and 6.5 at 30 degrees C. The measured adsorption isotherms were evaluated by the Freundlich and Langmuir equations.
(4) The paramorphous action was manifested by beta-ionone in the presence of sunflower oil.
Pseudomorph
Definition:
(n.) An irregular or deceptive form.
(n.) A pseudomorphous crystal, as a crystal consisting of quartz, but having the cubic form of fluor spar, the fluor crystal having been changed to quartz by a process of substitution.
Example Sentences:
(1) SEM examination revealed structures similar to human stones such as bipyramidal weddellite, pseudomorphs from whewellite to weddellite, apatite deposits in cystine stones and characteristic mono-ammonium-urate needles.
(2) Pseudomorphous foliated texture and cross-cutting relationships indicate replacement of talc by sepiolite.
(3) Mature ependymal cells were either: columnar, pseudocolumnar, cuboidal, squamous, or pseudomorphic; had cilia and villi on only one surface of the cell and shared tight junctions when contiguous.
(4) The radiographic findings of the patients with poorer prognosis tended to show three patterns of tumor shadows: more than 5 cm in diameter, dense with spicular radiation, ill-marginated, faint and pseudomorphic with pleural indentation.