What's the difference between silesia and silesian?
Silesia
Definition:
(n.) A kind of linen cloth, originally made in Silesia, a province of Prussia.
(n.) A twilled cotton fabric, used for dress linings.
Example Sentences:
(1) The quantitative compositions and growth of keratinophilic fungi in fertile and polluted soils of home-attached gardens in Upper Silesia were reported.
(2) Investigations of the goiter prevalence in children, aged from 0 to 18 years of age living in Lower Silesia were performed.
(3) The authors suggest the possible role of coal fibres in the increased fibrogenic activity of the dusts in coal mines in Lower Silesia.
(4) The incidence of lymphomas (Hodgkin's disease, non-Hodgkin lymphoma), chronic lymphatic leukaemia was compared in four provinces in Lower Silesia.
(5) The much higher incidence of these malignancies in Lower Silesia in relation to the whole country suggests that some factors there may increase the susceptibility to this disease.
(6) In the analysis three zones of Upper Silesia with varying concentrations of atmospheric pollution, where the patients lived, were considered, estimating the risk of this tumour in relation to pollution level, and standardizing the risk for tobacco smoking and considering data related to the exposure to harmful factors in occupational work.
(7) On the basis of data obtained from hospitals and outpatient clinics in Lower Silesia the incidence of haematological malignancies was analysed in the years 1972-1985.
(8) 19 000 Polish schoolgirls from the three largest cities of the Upper Silesia conurbation, menarcheal age was studied in relation to parental education (four levels) and father's occupation (12 groups).
(9) Twenty-one samples of house dust collected from dwellings situated in Upper Silesia (Poland) were subjected to bacteriological, mycological and acarological examination.
(10) In 21 samples of various kinds of waste water sediments derived from 10 waste water treatment plants of Upper Silesia, the occurrence of keratinophilic fungi was examined.
(11) Organic material from airborne particulate pollutants collected over a 7-month period at a highly industrialized region in Silesia (Poland) was tested for mutagenicity using the Ames test.
(12) Vinzenz Priessnitz, a small-scale farmer from Gräfenberg (Austrian Silesia), from the 1820's on aroused worldwide interest in hydrotherapy, on the basis of purely empirical observations on his regimen of compresses, head, eye and foot baths, hip baths and full baths, showers and cold-water cures.
(13) Measurements performed in three groups of inhabitants of Chorzów--the most polluted town in the Upper Silesia, revealed in approx.
(14) It decreased from East to West, where territories are under the strong pressure of the Upper Silesia and Olkusz industry.
(15) By the case-control method 367 patients with lung carcinoma coming from the autochthonous population of Upper Silesia and 253 similar patients from the population of immigrants from other areas were compared (620 cases, in all) treated in the Institute of Oncology in Gliwice in the years 1982-1989.
(16) A population-based case-control study of laryngeal cancer among people under 65 years of age was conducted in Lower Silesia, a province in Southwest Poland, from 1986 to 1987, with 249 newly-diagnosed cancer cases and 965 controls.
(17) Among the most prevalent carcinogenic and mutagenic air pollutants in Silesia are the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) which are largely produced by industrial and residential combustion of coal.
(18) The material analysed included 422 children from Lower Silesia aged 12 years.
(19) The authors think that the concentration and development of industry may be the cause of differences in the incidence of these diseases in various provinces of Lower Silesia.
(20) This paper is based on the examination of 2789 individuals of both sexes, aged 7-8, 10-11, 14-15, and 29-49 years, inhabiting the Suwałki region (S), Lublin Coal Basin (LCB), Bełchatów Industrial Center (BIC), Dabrowa Basin in Silesia region (DB) and the city of Lódź.
Silesian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Silesia.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Silesia.
Example Sentences:
(1) The studies involved 47 patients aged between 3 and 15 years and 117 healthy children from Lower Silesian region.
(2) The study group was composed of 2512 healthy children (age range 7-15 years) randomly selected from schools of the Upper Silesian Industrial District.
(3) In the clinic of dermatological surgery, I Department of Dermatology Silesian Medical Academy in Katowice 328 patients were treated surgically for granuloma teleangiectodes in the years 1973-1988.
(4) In the years 1976-1988 in the Department of Paediatrics and Haematology, Silesian Medical Academy in Zabrze 22 children aged 12 to 17 years were diagnosed and treated for mental anorexia.
(5) In the years 1976-1984 in the Department of Neurosurgery, Silesian Medical Academy in Katowice 196 patients were treated surgically for intracranial aneurysms.
(6) The aim of the work was to search for the correlation between the environmental pollution and the ratio of congenital malformations found in the population of 54,493 newborn infants of three Silesian towns: Bielsko-Biała (situated in the mountains, close to a recreation part of the country), Bytom (situated in the center of an old industrial district, where industry is responsible for very high environmental pollution), and Tarnowskie Góry (situated close to vast woodlands, where very high environmental concentration of heavy metals is caused by an outdated, big zinc plant).
(7) During the years 1980-1990 in the Otolaryngological Department of the Silesian Medical Academy in Katowice 452 patients with malignant neoplasms of the head and neck were treated.
(8) From 1983 to 1990, at the I Clinic of Infectious Diseases, Silesian Academy of Medicine in Bytom, 995 patients with meningitis and encephalitis were treated; the average age was 17.86 years.
(9) In Chorzów, the most polluted town in the Upper Silesian Industrial Region, the characteristics of three groups of inhabitants, workers of the Chemical Nitrogen Plant, the Steelworks, and the Slaughterhouse was done.
(10) In the Institute of Haematology in Warsaw and in the Department of Haematology, Silesian Medical Academy in Katowice this agent was used in combination with cytarabine in 49 cases of acute leukaemia (35 with acute myeloid leukaemia and 14 with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia).
(11) 1047 children were selected randomly from schools of the Upper Silesian Industrial District.
(12) Peak expiratory flow (PEF) has been measured with Vitalograph (in liters per minute) in 2,512 school-children aged between 7 and 15 years in Upper Silesian Industrial Region.
(13) In 173 newborns dying at the Neonatology Department, Silesian Medical Academy in Katowice the risk factors connected with pregnancy and labour were analysed.
(14) On the basis of the clinical material of the I Department of Faciomaxillary Surgery, Silesian Medical Academy in Zabrze covering a period of 10 years the authors discuss the problem of respiratory disturbances developing in patients after faciomaxillary injuries associated, sometimes, with injuries to other organs.
(15) Retrospective analysis included 316 case histories of diabetic patients treated at the Silesian Rheumatology Hospital in 1987-1988.
(16) The authors present an analysis of the results of treatment of patients with injury of the central fragment of the face, who have been hospitalized in the 2nd Department of the Maxillofacial surgery in Silesian Academy of Medicine.
(17) As part of the programme of investigations on the effect of environmental pollution, which is far advanced in the Upper Silesian Industrial Region, on the health of the population the authors analysed the death rate from vascular diseases of the central nervous system.
(18) From 1973 to 1988 in the Dermatological Surgery Unit of the 1st Department of Dermatology of the Silesian School of Medicine in Katowice 82 patients were treated surgically for keratoacanthoma.
(19) The authors analysed mortality from brain strokes in 1366 patients hospitalized at the Department of Neurology, Silesian Medical Academy in Katowice and Zabrze and in the 8th Municipal Hospital in Katowice in the years 1970--1974.
(20) Determined PEF values for children from the Upper Silesian Industrial Region are considered as a biological reference values for assessment of PEF in both health and disease.