What's the difference between sigil and signet?

Sigil


Definition:

  • (n.) A seal; a signature.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The house, when it’s revealed, is beautiful, made up of four incrementally smaller sections with a shining copper roof, and clad in a harlequin pattern of 1,924 glazed sigils of St Jules.

Signet


Definition:

  • (n.) A seal; especially, in England, the seal used by the sovereign in sealing private letters and grants that pass by bill under the sign manual; -- called also privy signet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In order to study the progression of signet ring cell carcinomas in the human stomach, we compared cell proliferation and differentiation between small and large intramucosal cancers, and between intramucosal and advanced cancers.
  • (2) Microscopic examination showed that the tumor was an invasive papillary growth with numerous signet-ring cells and mucous production.
  • (3) Carcinoma exhibiting signet ring cell appearance in the prostatic gland is rare.
  • (4) The results show that signet-ring cell carcinoma has a poor prognosis.
  • (5) Most of the tumours were well or moderately differentiated adenocarcinomas, one was poorly differentiated, and one was a signet ring cell carcinoma.
  • (6) The signet-ring cell adenocarcinoma cell line (HSKT-C) and the fibroblast cell strain (HSKT-F) were established from a Krukenberg tumor.
  • (7) Signet ring cell carcinoma of the breast is a rare type of tumor characterized by the presence of numerous cells containing large intracellular and little extracellular amounts of mucin.
  • (8) At operation, ovarian involvement was found to be secondary to metastatic signet ring cell adenocarcinoma of the colon, an extremely rare malignancy in this age group.
  • (9) The histologic features that caused diagnostic difficulty were: a solid, sheet-like proliferation of cells (four cases), a pseudoinfiltrative pattern (one case), abundant stromal hyalinization (one case), signet ring cells (two cases), hobnail cells (two cases), and the presence of moderate degrees of nuclear atypicality (two cases) and occasional mitotic figures (two cases).
  • (10) A review of the literature revealed this case to be the first reported case of triple cancers including signet ring-cell carcinoma of the breast, proven by autopsy in Japan.
  • (11) An immunoperoxidase method was used to compare the distribution of fibronectin and laminin between superficially spreading and deeply infiltrating parts of signet-ring-cell carcinoma of the stomach.
  • (12) The subsequent maturation stages are the well-known globular multivacuolated adipocyte and finally the mature univacuolated, signet-ring, white adipocyte.
  • (13) Argyrophil cells were observed in six cases (14.3%) and argentaffin cells in one (2.3%); their histopathological pattern were well differentiated adenocarcinoma (5) and "signet ring cell carcinoma" (1).
  • (14) In part of the tumor the direct transition between well-differentiated adenocarcinoma and signet-ring cell carcinoma was seen.
  • (15) Superficial carcinoma arose multicentrically and showed figures of signet ring cell carcinoma.
  • (16) Vesical adenocarcinoma has several variants, including signet-ring cell and clear cell types.
  • (17) Conclusions from formal histogenesis suggest that the signet ring cell type and the anaplastic (solid) type of early gastric cancer might start in the lower part of tubule necks.
  • (18) Only 1 tumor (a signet ring carcinoma) metastasized to the peritoneal cavity.
  • (19) Postmortem examination of the patient's brain revealed diffuse leptomeningeal infiltration by a signet-ring adenocarcinoma.
  • (20) The intestinal properties of the tumor cells were noted not only in the well-differentiated but also in the poorly differentiated or signet ring cell carcinomas, not closely being related to the presence of background intestinal metaplasia.

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