What's the difference between putrid and rot?

Putrid


Definition:

  • (a.) Tending to decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; -- said of animal or vegetable matter; as, putrid flesh. See Putrefaction.
  • (a.) Indicating or proceeding from a decayed state of animal or vegetable matter; as, a putrid smell.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 20 patients, 10 of them suffering from a putrid peritonitis, showed a good efficacy of Optocillin (Bay 1-1330), a combination of 6-((R)-2-[3-methylsulfonyl-2-oxo-imidazolidine-1-carboxamido]-2-phenyl-acetamido)-penicillanic acid sodium salt (mezlocillin, Baypen) and 5-methyl-3-phenyl-4-isoxazolylpenicillin (oxacillin, Stapenor), in 85%.
  • (2) Ten putrid-smelling decubitus ulcers were successfully treated with metronidazole gel.
  • (3) Gas echoes within pleural or abscess fluid were found to be a sensitive and specific indicator of anaerobic infection, as was a putrid odor to the breath or pleural fluid.
  • (4) Clinical clues that indicate anaerobic sepsis include a putrid odor of the exudate and evidence of abscess, necrosis, or associated gas formation.
  • (5) Clinical clues that indicate anaerobic sepsis include a putrid odor of the exudate and evidence of abscess, necrosis or associated gas formation.
  • (6) While it may be possible, or maybe even inevitable, that a team below .500 will win their division (Atlantic, we're looking at you) it would pretty much violate the laws of probability for the East to remain this putrid for the entire season.
  • (7) Typical anaerobic infections include gas gangrene, brain abscess, oral infections, putrid lung abscesses, intra-abdominal abscesses, and wound infections following gynecologic and bowel surgery, perirectal abscesses, postabortal infections, and septic thrombophlebitis.
  • (8) A patient with a putrid pulmonary abscess that did not resolve developed massive aspiration of the contents of the cavity following a fiberoptic bronchoscopic procedure.
  • (9) Nnimmo Bassey, chair of Friends of the Earth International and director of Environment Rights Action in Nigeria, said: "The widespread pollution of Ogoniland as documented does not come as a surprise because the manifestation is physical and people have been living in that putrid situation for decades now.
  • (10) But that is not possible for as long as Assad remains in power without any timetable for his departure, and for as long as his security forces murder, torture, gas and bomb his own people.” Nigel Dodds, the deputy DUP leader, indicated he was likely to back airstrikes and issued a vicious assault on the Labour leadership, saying: “It’s the petulant, putrid response of the irresponsible revolutionary bedsit they barely seem to have clambered out of.
  • (11) Clostridial infections, putrid infections with aerobic and anerobic growing germs, air forced into the tissue during the primary trauma and the formation of gas by contact of the wound with aluminium, H2O2 and gasoline may be causes for the formation of gas and oedema in the tissues.
  • (12) Green, putrid water laps against the walls of the rainbow-coloured village mosque.
  • (13) Escherichia coli was identified as the pathogenic organism in the spinal putrid fluid.
  • (14) The type strain of Eikenella corrodens (Eiken 1958) Jackson and Goodman 1972 and eleven epidemiologically independent clinical isolates recovered from periodontal locations, putrid wounds, abscesses, and bacteraemias were investigated for their genomic relationships by DNA-DNA hybridization with the renaturation method, genome molecular complexity, DNA base composition and some phenotypic features.
  • (15) Two adolescents with acute anaerobic (putrid) lung abscess were seen during an influenza epidemic.
  • (16) Putrid and charred specimens become quite manageable.
  • (17) Bacterioscopy allows a rapid differentiation to be made between putrid and clostridial infection.
  • (18) The putride arthritis should be managed by early synovectomia and movement trauma in order to limit infection and prevent ankylosis.
  • (19) This 51-year-old report detailed the principles of operative treatment of acute putrid abscess of the lung in the era prior to antibiotic availability.
  • (20) By therapeutic practical considerations a subdivision of chronic bronchitis with mucoid sputum, putrid sputum, obstruction and obstructive bronchiolitis was attempted.

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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