What's the difference between putrefaction and rot?

Putrefaction


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or the process of putrefying; the offensive decay of albuminous or other matter.
  • (n.) The condition of being putrefied; also, that which putrefied.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Based on these results, we concluded that the inhibition of putrefactive anaerobe 3679 by sorbate resulted from a stringent-type regulatory response induced by the protonophoric activity of sorbic acid.
  • (2) Furthermore, volatile sulfide and 2-ketobutyrate productions from methionine in a saliva putrefaction system were completely inhibited by the two-phase mouthwash; and consumption of methionine was decreased by 65 percent.
  • (3) Optimal pasteurization of these meats (for reduction of nonspore microflora without affecting indigenous putrefactive anaerobic spore levels) was 50 min at 60 C. C. botulinum spores were recovered with good precision from meat samples inoculated with mixtures of C. botulinum and Putrefactive Anaerobe 3679 at 1:1 and at 1:99 ratios.
  • (4) putrefaction we determined the AChE activity under different conditions.
  • (5) Pea extract contains a factor which improves recovery counts of heat-stressed putrefactive anaerobe spores in a complex medium up to threefold.
  • (6) Any such levity, however, is leavened by the tacit acknowledgment that existence is futile, and we are all just bags of flesh and bones whiling away the days before death and putrefaction sets in.
  • (7) 1966.-A chemically defined medium was used to study the nutritional requirements for germination, outgrowth, and vegetative growth of putrefactive anaerobe 3679.
  • (8) Such formation has as its basis bacterial putrefaction, the degradation of proteins, and the resulting amino acids by microorganisms.
  • (9) In one case no blood was available because of putrefaction, and muscle was analysed for triazolam instead of blood.
  • (10) The effects of dietary fat and dietary fiber (DF) levels in diet on fecal flora, activities of three fecal enzymes, putrefactive metabolites, fecal mutagenicity and fecal properties were studied in eight healthy volunteers.
  • (11) sporogenes (putrefactive anaerobes), and 95 slurry samples were tested.
  • (12) In 70 cases H2, a clear marker of putrefaction, could be identified in the samples.
  • (13) The ancient Greeks extended the concept of putrefaction to involve not only the residues of food, but also those of bile, phlegm, and blood, incorporating it into their humoral theory of disease.
  • (14) They also make evident the decomposition grade that bone organic material undergoes during the postmortem putrefactive process.
  • (15) The authors have investigated ten kinds of putrefactive findings on 368 cadavers which were subjected to medico-legal autopsies in our laboratory and have come to the following conclusions.
  • (16) Since the pH on oral mucosal surfaces where odor formation occurs is largely determined by the fermentative and putrefactive activities of the adhering bacteria, these acid-base processes are necessarily of major regulatory importance.
  • (17) The flesh rolled away like blancmange, soft and gassy with putrefaction.
  • (18) Although this intravascular hemolysis resembled that which develops during putrefaction, in this case it was thought to be due to pooling and freezing of blood in subcutaneous vessels.
  • (19) The present work deals with the factors affecting ABO grouping of dry blood stains in Riyad, including exposure to extremes of temperature, from refrigeration at -4 degrees C up to heating at 150 degrees C, effect of time till 6 months, occurrence of the stains on different fabrics, and effect of putrefaction.
  • (20) Earlier we heard another example of pure party-political putrefaction.

Rot


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay.
  • (v. i.) Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.
  • (v. t.) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.
  • (v. t.) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
  • (n.) Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
  • (n.) A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.
  • (n.) A fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke, 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Three strains of fluorescent pseudomonads (IS-1, IS-2, and IS-3) isolated from potato underground stems with roots showed in vitro antibiosis against 30 strains of the ring rot bacterium Clavibacter michiganensis subsp.
  • (2) Severe fruit rot of guava due to Phytophthora nicotianae var.
  • (3) The evidence suggests that this isozyme is not necessary for soft-rot pathogenesis.
  • (4) The eurozone's 17 finance ministers began crisis talks in Brussels on Monday night "to stop the rot" with Italian bond yields – the country's cost of borrowing – hitting a new peak of 6.69%, threatening to crash the euro system, and political leaders from virtually all countries outside Germany lining up to demand full-scale ECB intervention.
  • (5) Bundesliga in 1997 when his team Rot-Weiss Essen was relegated," writes Matthias Gläfke.
  • (6) The antibiotic is effective in control of cucumber root rot under hydroponic cultivation conditions.
  • (7) Partly ROT arises from aversion of healthy people to very severe decay.
  • (8) I would like it to always look as fresh as the day I made it, so part of the contract is: if the glass breaks, we mend it; if the tank gets dirty, we clean it; if the shark rots, we find you a new shark."
  • (9) Yvonne Roberts: Mea culpa is journalism's dry rot You are right, Lucy, the best confessional writing has a universal truth.
  • (10) cereanus are also frequently recovered from the rotting tissue being utilized by the Drosophila species, the interactions described here are viewed as a possible adaptation in which the yeast provides benefits to one of its vectors by metabolism of 2-propanol in the habitat.
  • (11) In preparations stained by congo-rot and covered with arabic gumm amyloid deposits reveal intensive, positive bi refringement, collagen is isotrop, or shows a mild bi refringement.
  • (12) Extensive metabolism of AT to CO2 by the white rot fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium (approximately 60% in 30 days) was also demonstrated.
  • (13) Liverpool still do not look convincing top-four candidates but at least the rot has been stopped.
  • (14) In 22 mildly deteriorated elderly patients the total score on a reality orientation questionnaire improved after 3 months ROT.
  • (15) Differences between the pathogen and nonpathogen suggest that regulation of pectate lyase synthesis is related to pathogenicity of soft-rot bacteria.
  • (16) Fetal hypothalamic-pituitary ROT does not seem to play any part in parturition.
  • (17) But nothing in the photographs of Gaddafi wounded, dead, dragged through the streets, and finally on display, rotting in public, has been anything like as disgusting as the thoroughly hypocritical and self-deceiving international reaction to these pictures.
  • (18) When we came the first time we found her trying to cook two slices of rotting apple in a saucepan,” said Valentina.
  • (19) The difference in washout-efficacy between Pap and Rot on the inhibition of 40-K induced tension was ascribed to a difference in their mitochondrial binding properties.
  • (20) Two hundred sheep were included in the study, 100 with detectable foot rot lesions and 100 without.

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