What's the difference between porites and sorites?
Porites
Definition:
(n.) An important genus of reef-building corals having small twelve-rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species are branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms.
Example Sentences:
(1) The material used for implantation was a hydroxylapatite replicate of coral from the genus Porites, with a pore size of 190 to 220 micron.
(2) Adult specimens of Astrangia danae (Agassiz) and settled planulae of Porites porites (Pallas) contain crystals averaging 0.7 mu by 0.1 mu by 0.3 mu within Golgi-derived vesicles.
(3) He said many of the huge porites corals, which could be a thousand years old, had died.
(4) Serologic tests showed more poritive CF tests to Histoplasma than to Blastomyces so that the test appears of no practical value.
(5) The authors studied the behaviour of the porite type coral which has been previously implanted in man in order to get a reparation of osseous and parodontal defects.
(6) Twenty two cranio-facial reconstructions were performed utilizing madreporic coral graft, genera porites.
(7) These pores measured 260-600 mu for CHA-Goniopora (CHAG), 190-230 microns for CHA-Porites (CHAP), and 100-300 microns for TCP.
(8) Porous hydroxyapatite (IP200), formed by conversion of the Poritidae porites exoskeleton, has pores averaging 230 microns and pore interconnections averaging 190 microns in diameter.
(9) Porous hydroxyapatite (Interpore 500) formed by conversion of the Porites goniopora coral exoskeleton has pores averaging 600 micrometers and pore interconnections averaging 260 micrometers in diameter.
(10) Studies were made on the frequency, the propagation velocity of the spike-bursts in the portions mentioned above, and the incidence of the spike-bursts which propagated from the distal porition of the interposed jejunal segment to the preserving pylorus, and from the preserving pylorus to the proximal portion of the duodenum.
(11) Porites corals can be centuries old and grow into 6m tall mounds.
(12) Since 1985, the authors have been using madreporic coral fragments (genera Porites) as a bone graft substitute.
(13) The objectives of this study were to compare the fate of two Madreporian corals, Porites and Acropora, after implantation during 1 and 2 months into sheep and pig long bones.
(14) "Our data shows that growth and calcification of massive Porites in the GBR [Great Barrier Reef] are already declining and are doing so at a rate unprecedented in coral records reaching back 400 years," wrote Dr Glenn De'ath from the Australian Institute of Marine Science in Townsville, Queensland, and his colleagues in the journal Science .
(15) A kind of coral, Porites, which was originated from the Madreporaria reef builders in Hainan Province, was studied as a bone substitute.
(16) The authors have used Porites coral as a bone substitute in more than 200 patients since 1985, initially for reconstruction after craniotomy or removal of graft from the iliac crest.
Sorites
Definition:
(n.) An abridged form of stating of syllogisms in a series of propositions so arranged that the predicate of each one that precedes forms the subject of each one that follows, and the conclusion unites the subject of the first proposition with the predicate of the last proposition