What's the difference between petaline and petalite?
Petaline
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to a petal; attached to, or resembling, a petal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Petaline chloride increased, in a concentration-dependent manner, the contractions of the spontaneously-beating atrium and the isolated perfused heart.
(2) The characteristics of TNT lens impairment are: (1) gray-yellow dot opacities, with circular and cuneiform in the peripheral part of the lens detectable with transillumination and slit-lamp; (2) circular, discal or petaline opacities in the central part of the lens; (3) a transparent zone between the circular shadow and the lens equator.
(3) The effects of petaline chloride on the atrium and on the perfused heart were not affected by propranolol but were significantly reduced in the presence of quinacrine, suggesting the participation of arachidonic acid metabolism to this effect.
Petalite
Definition:
(n.) A rare mineral, occurring crystallized and in cleavable masses, usually white, or nearly so, in color. It is a silicate of aluminia and lithia.