What's the difference between putrefy and putrify?

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.

Putrify


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To putrefy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pyrithyldione was isolated from highly putrified human brain and small intestine samples by ether extraction followed by alumina column cleanup.
  • (2) He suggested three hypotheses about their function: "to store up the food," "putrify it up," and "concoct it" (i.e., storage, fermentation, and digestion).
  • (3) The determination of the CO-content is difficult in heated or putrified samples of blood and tissues.
  • (4) In this way different volatile compounds occurring in putrified biological material could be identified and characterised by retention-indices on two columns for future identification by usual FID-Detection.

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