What's the difference between reddish and rufous?

Reddish


Definition:

  • (a.) Somewhat red; moderately red.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A diffusely reddish and swollen vaginal mucosa from a 5 year old caucasian female, which experienced recurrent haemorrhages since the first year of life, proves to be a venous angiosis or varicosis, representing a congenital vascular malformation.
  • (2) Grossly, the majority of the tumor showed dark reddish polypoid masses with the surface bled easily.
  • (3) The recipient lymph node became reddish because of the increase of erythrocytes in the lymphatic sinuses and medullary cords.
  • (4) Acute hemorrhage usually had a dark-reddish fluid and an increased echogenicity.
  • (5) A soft reddish brown mass was found in the sphenoid sinus and the bilateral cavernous sinus extending from the sella turcica.
  • (6) Oral administration of 50% ethanol (1 ml) produced elongated reddish bands of lesions in the mucosa with a significant reduction of GSH levels and increase of microvascular permeability.
  • (7) The brain tumor, partly emerged from right frontal lobe, was reddish and easy to bleed.
  • (8) The second group included generally younger patients (average age 2.9 years) in whom misformulation of rifampicin preparations for treatment of Haemophilus influenzae Type B resulted in bright reddish-orange discoloration to the skin.
  • (9) Pulmonary artery aneurysm and thrombosis were detected angiographically, and fiberoptic bronchoscopy revealed a reddish irregular eminence of the left main bronchus and lingulate++ ++ bronchus.
  • (10) Interstitial reddish markings and patchy nodules were, however, more frequent in NALC (51 and 28%, respectively) than in ALC (8 and 5%, respectively).
  • (11) Nine months after the first attack of the illness, he again developed a persistent moderate rise of temperature, conjunctivitis, red lips, reddish swelling and desquamation of his palms.
  • (12) Additional sections were also stained with a method which allows the simultaneous demonstration of HRP (blue) and acetylcholinesterase (reddish-brown).
  • (13) Chromosome bands, as far as they are identifiable, are stained pale with the exception of the centromere bands and in some cases telomeres, which then are intensely stained reddish blue.
  • (14) One of the best staining methods to demonstrate NIB, for example, is to exhibit it as a reddish body stained by Luna, with a contrast of HBsAg counterstained purple in color by aldehyde fuchsin after thiosulfation.
  • (15) Reddish-tan and fawn-colored hyperpigmentation in tinea versicolor of this type is not due to melanin pigment.
  • (16) A case of cholesterol embolism of bone marrow, concerning the pelvis and lumbar region and clinically masquerading as systemic disease or metastatic tumor, is reported in an 82-year-old man hospitalized for acute onset of reddish purple nodules on the legs and toes, intense myalgia and dorsal vertebral bone pain.
  • (17) The occasionally observed clinical picture of a reddish optic disk, retinal hemorrhages, a very fine granular pigment alteration of the macular region, and loss of vision for more than a year without optic disk pallor suggests a toxic retinitis or retinoneuritis rather than neuritis.
  • (18) The enzymatic activity was revealed by reddish-brown, purple red, and indigo-blue cytoplasmic precipitate, using the substrates alpha-naphthyl-acetate, naphthol-AS acetate and 5-bromo-4-chloro-indoxyl acetate respectively.
  • (19) Granules in the PMN cytoplasm were yellow or reddish.
  • (20) Physical examination revealed a slightly exudative erythema at the areola and a reddish, enlarged left nipple.

Rufous


Definition:

  • (a.) Reddish; of a yellowish red or brownish red color; tawny.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With the possible exception of rufous coloring, the color of the hair and eyes are poor predictors of the competence of the ureteral orifice.
  • (2) This report describes the ontogenesis of tonotopy in the inferior colliculus (IC) of the rufous horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus rouxi).
  • (3) The functional role of brainstem structures in the emission of echolocation calls was investigated in the rufous horseshoe bat.
  • (4) In the place of last year's depiction of the hydrological cycle and 2012's flowers , this year's doodle is half a dozen animated illustrations of species, from the photographer's favourite, the Japanese macaque ( Macaca fuscata) , to the Rufous hummingbird ( Selasphorus rufus ), a small bird found mostly on the west coast of the US.
  • (5) Red or rufous albinism is a rare type of oculocutaneous albinism described, but not as yet fully investigated, in Africa and New Guinea.
  • (6) But there it is: a huge Rufous Owl, the only exclusively tropical member of its family found in Australia, chestnut above and barred buff below, staring right back down at me with lofty disdain.
  • (7) The virus was isolated from two sentinel mice exposed in the epidemic zone and from a rufous collared sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis) collected in the area.
  • (8) The prevalence of rufous albinism was found to be approximately one in 8,580 among school children in the negroid population.
  • (9) Measurement of the maximum activities of key enzymes of carbohydrate, fat, and amino acid catabolism in flight muscle and heart of rufous hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus) reveals that the high ATP requirements of short-term hovering flight can only be supported by the oxidation of carbohydrate.
  • (10) Female rufous-and-white wrens have less than half as large a song repertoire as female bay wrens, and all of their SCRs measured are significantly smaller than those of bay wren females.
  • (11) On the day before clinical symptoms appeared the patient had eaten homemade salted mushrooms, rufous milkcap (Lactarius rufus Fr.).
  • (12) Tyrosinase assays showed that rufous albinos are tyrosinase positive and on electron microscopy studies normal melanosomes and melanocytes were observed in hair bulbs and skin.
  • (13) Fasting and fed metabolic rates were measured in three species of potoroine marsupials, the rufous rat-kangaroo (Aepyprymnus rufescens), the long-nosed potoroo (Potorous tridactylus) and the brush-tailed bettong (Bettongia penicillata).
  • (14) Traill told Guardian Australia that animals such as bilbies, the burrowing bettong and the Rufous hare wallaby have been wiped out in areas of central and northern Australia as people move away from remote areas.
  • (15) Twelve rufous albino subjects from 10 families participated in this preliminary study.
  • (16) Bacteriophages were observed in forestomach contents from three species of Australian macropodoid marsupials possessing a foregut fermentative digestion: the eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus), the eastern wallaroo (Macropus robustus robustus), and the rufous bettong (Aepyprymnus rufescens).
  • (17) Rufous albinism might be at one end of the spectrum of types of oculocutaneous albinism and, because affected people have such mild symptoms, their inclusion in this group might be debatable.
  • (18) In the rufous horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus rouxi, responses to pure tones and sinusoidally frequency modulated (SFM) signals were recorded from 289 single units and 241 multiunit clusters located in the nuclei of the lateral lemniscus (NLL).
  • (19) Half of North America’s bird species, from common backyard visitors like the Baltimore oriole and the rufous hummingbird to wilderness dwellers like the common loon and bald eagle , are under threat from climate change and many could go extinct, an exhaustive new study has found.
  • (20) Three models for torpor initiation were tested in rufous hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus) during moult, when these birds appear to avoid the use of torpor.

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