What's the difference between putrefy and putrescent?
Putrefy
Definition:
(v. t.) To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.
(v. t.) To corrupt; to make foul.
(v. t.) To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous; as, to putrefy an ulcer or wound.
(v. i.) To become putrid; to decay offensively; to rot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eighty-five blood samples with COHb concentrations of 40% and 70% were allowed to putrefy in order to measure the time-dependent changes in COHb values.
(2) Toxicological analyses on a putrefied cadaver are sometimes difficult to perform because of the absence of blood and urine.
(3) To their left, the killers entered the room of the centre's director, who made it outside, where the pond of his blood putrefied on the cement.
(4) Mass graves commonly contain hundreds of putrefying bodies, which bear evidence of torture and extrajudicial execution.
(5) Bromazepam and levomepromazine were identified and assayed in the remains of cerebral tissue, in the clavicle of a putrefied cadaver, and in the fly larvae found on and in the corpse.
(6) For centuries, the Sioux and other tribes used it to treat venomous snake and insect bites, ulcers, sores and any disease (notably syphilis) involving foul-smelling discharges or putrefying flesh.
(7) Toxicological analyses on a putrefied cadaver are sometimes difficult to achieve because of the absence of blood and urine.
(8) When the blood was putrefied, two or three pieces of membranes filters were needed because of choking membrane pore.
(9) The evidentiary specimens chosen for DNA were classified according to substrate (scrapings, plastic bags, synthetics, denim, and carpet) and according to a subjective evaluation of the condition of the stain (soiled, damp, or putrefied) and to its size (small or large).
(10) This method was found to be useful even if applied to old or putrefied blood samples.
(11) The method used would seem to be very useful for determination of methamphetamine and amphetamine in marked putrefied biological materials.
(12) A forensic study was performed on the toxicological effects of triazolam using putrefied tissues.
(13) In case of putrefied liver lipid content is increased slightly but in all periods of putrefaction lipid content in the liver in case of fat dystrophy remains significantly higher than in controls.
(14) In this study, morphine and phenobarbital were simultaneously identified and assayed in several tissues of a putrefied cadaver and in the fly larvae of Calliphoridae found on the corpse.
(15) Finding a putrefying corpse in a lock-up might not feature on most people’s list of job satisfaction criteria, but things are different in Happy Valley (Tuesday, 9pm, BBC1) .
(16) Five drugs (triazolam, oxazepam, phenobarbital, alimemazine, and clomipramine) were identified and assayed in some tissues of a putrefied cadaver and in the maggots found on and in the body.
(17) No RFLP profiles could be obtained from putrefied soft tissues.
(18) Samples of thoracic fluid were obtained at regular intervals from the putrefying bodies of dead dogs.
(19) And that's how I picture you when I read your comments – as a shovelful-of-putrefied-matter-to-be making the very least of its brief window of consciousness.
(20) A reliable and sensitive method has been developed to assess the concentrations of the hypnotic drug triazolam in human tissues, including putrefied tissues.
Putrescent
Definition:
(a.) Becoming putrid or rotten.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the process of putrefaction; as, a putrescent smell.
Example Sentences:
(1) The odor intensity of putrescent saliva and plaque head-space vapor has been correlated with the concentration of volatile sulphur compounds consisting of hydrogen sulphide, methyl mercaptan, dimethyl sulphide and dimethyl disulphide.
(2) Using chi 2, the amounts were significantly greater in teeth with spontaneous pain, swelling and putrescent odor (p less than 0.01), with exudate (p less than 0.025) and with percussion pain (p less than 0.1) than in teeth without.
(3) No significant relationship was established between the amount of each polyamine and the presence of putrescent odor or gingival swelling.
(4) Each day the average Frenchman produces near 1 kg of HHR, mainly paper and cardboard, vegetal and animal putrescible residues, glass, plastics, metals, ashes,... giving four important linked fractions of recyclable, biodegradable, combustible and inert matters.
(5) Hence the magnificent diatribe against Venice, "this putrescent city ... this bath adorned with jewels for cosmopolitan whores", with its "stinking little canals ... its shady little businesses", and its gondolas, "rocking chairs for cretins".
(6) Considering storage temperature measurement of DAVA concentration can be of relevance for the estimation of the time of death in cases of putrescent corpses.