What's the difference between sponge and spongious?
Sponge
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of Spongiae, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiae.
(n.) The elastic fibrous skeleton of many species of horny Spongiae (keratosa), used for many purposes, especially the varieties of the genus Spongia. The most valuable sponges are found in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and on the coasts of Florida and the West Indies.
(n.) One who lives upon others; a pertinaceous and indolent dependent; a parasite; a sponger.
(n.) Any spongelike substance.
(n.) Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven.
(n.) Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.
(n.) Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.
(n.) A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff.
(n.) The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel.
(v. t.) To cleanse or wipe with a sponge; as, to sponge a slate or a cannon; to wet with a sponge; as, to sponge cloth.
(v. t.) To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.
(v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of something by imposition.
(v. t.) Fig.: To get by imposition or mean arts without cost; as, to sponge a breakfast.
(v. i.) To suck in, or imbile, as a sponge.
(v. i.) Fig.: To gain by mean arts, by intrusion, or hanging on; as, an idler sponges on his neighbor.
(v. i.) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast, or leaven.
Example Sentences:
(1) The popularly used procedure in Great Britain is that in which a sheet of Ivalon sponge is sutured to the sacrum and wrapped around the rectum thus anchoring it in place.
(2) Similar sponges were reintroduced into four ewes at each of the intervals 1, 3, 5, and 7 days later; three ewes served as controls.
(3) After washing for 7 days and freeze drying the resultant collagen sponge was tested with regard to mechanical, physical, enzymatic degradation properties and biological responses.
(4) The substance benzalconium chloride (BZC) was contained in vaginal sponges (n = 46), pessaries (n = 4) and cream (n = 6) at a dose rate of 1.18%.
(5) Depending on depth regions from which the sponges were collected, differences in occurrence of metabolites were observed.
(6) Turn the sponge out onto the paper, then carefully peel off the lining paper.
(7) The concentrations of NaB3H4-reducible collagen cross-links were determined at the time when collagen fibres and bundles are observed in electron micrographs of connective tissue developing around the implanted Ivalon sponge in adult male rats.
(8) Nonetheless, these donor-reactive CTL rarely constitute more than 0.5% of the T cells recovered from sponge allografts, even at the peak of the rejection response.
(9) Attention is given to the poor design of a disposable cellulose sponge that results in frequent hooking of sutures during microsurgical procedures.
(10) The effects of epidermal growth factor (EGF) on granulation-tissue formation and collagen-gene expression were studied in experimental sponge-induced granulomas in rats.
(11) In spite of the growing variety of materials being used in the manufacture of intraabdominal packs (sponges), no data have been published on their adhesion-producing properties.
(12) Of the 19 women, 4 of 6 sponge users (66%) developed a bacterial vaginosis recurrence (RR 2.93, 95% CI: 1.43-6.02).
(13) Explants of a human sacral chordoma were successfully maintained on collagen-coated coverslips, gelfoam sponge matrices, and Millipore filter platforms for up to 30 days.
(14) A fraction prepared from normal human plasma inhibits the migration of polymorphonuclear and mononuclear leucocytes into inflammatory exudates produced by the intrapleural injection of carrageeman or turpentine by the subcutaneous implantation of polyvinyl sponges in the rat.
(15) These sponges were dissociated both mechanically, which leaves the factor on the cell surface, and by Humphrey's (1963) method, which isolates the factor from the cells.
(16) Five new 20,24-bishomoscalarane sesterterpenes, phyllactones A [1], B [2], C [3], D [4], and E [5], are reported from the sponge Phyllospongia foliascens collected in the waters of the Nansha Islands in the South China Sea.
(17) To determine if alloantigen-induced .N = O production might be operative in vivo, cells that had infiltrated a rat sponge matrix allograft were tested for de novo .N = O production as well as .N = O production upon restimulation with the sensitizing alloantigen.
(18) The fine structure of four glioblastomas and two cerebellar astrocytomas maintained in organ culture systems up to 137 days and 43 days, respectively, using either a three-dimensional sponge foam matrix technic or a Millipore filter platform technic, is described and compared.
(19) The intensity-measuring device in both apparatuses has a mobile disk attached to a motionless axis by a spiral spring; the clamps have fixing screws in the butts of a spong.
(20) Initially, 4-5 days post-operative, the plasma clot maintained the grafted cells in a loose sponge-like sack at the site of implantation.
Spongious
Definition:
(a.) Somewhat spongy; spongelike; full of small cavities like sponge; as, spongious bones.
Example Sentences:
(1) Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) also becomes noticeable at the numerous entheses of the forefoot mainly with exomarginal formation of spongious bone.
(2) Indeed, the spongious regions seen mainly in the grey matter contained vacuoles, whose walls were clearly stained by peroxidase-labelled immune serum to G antigen, without detectable virions or inflammatory lesions.
(3) Apart from changes in the histoenzymic pattern of the experimental brains, the ingestion of mercury phenylacetate brought about evident morphological changes in form of neuronal vacuolisation and spongious degeneration of the white matter.
(4) After extraction histologic examination of the facsimile showed that it consisted of an outer form-giving thin layer ocal bone and a system of spongious bone surrounded by marrow with haemopoetic cells.
(5) The improvement of operation procedure and the application of spongious bone make it possible to reconstruct extreme defects of bone tissue of acetabulum and femur.
(6) When fractures with a bone defect were treated by plate fixation stability was improved significantly when lateral support was preserved or when a medial cortico-spongious bone chip was used.
(7) After flight in the metaphysis of bones the density and volume of the spongious trabeculae diminished significantly indicated by the Sv and Vv histomorphometric values and histological data comparing to the controls.
(8) Quantitative computed tomography (QCT) measurements of bone mineral density, volume, and content were made of the spongious and compact portions of a vertebral body and of the total vertebral body in 19 osteoporotic patients (13 women and 6 men) and 20 normal (control) age- and sex-matched patients.
(9) In the animal kingdom there exist four types of myocardial blood supply: a) spongious musculature alone, which is supplied from the ventricular cavity; b) an inner spongious layer covered by an outer compact musculature with a vascular supply; c) as b), but with capillaries also present in some trabeculae of spongious musculature; d) compact musculature only, supplied from coronary vessels.
(10) The heart of adult poikilotherm animals is either entirely spongious, supplied from the ventricular cavity or its spongious musculature is covered by an outer compact layer with vascular supply.
(11) The clinical results in 495 transplantations of cryopreserved allogeneic spongious bone confirm the experimental findings.
(12) The central nervous system of monkeys with chronic tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) shows the following ultrastructural alterations which differ from those in acute TBE: widespread destructive changes in neurons, astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, processes, myelin, vascular walls, severe edema of brain tissue with the signs of a so-called spongious degeneration and the absence of cell proliferation and perivascular cell infiltrations, glial nodules as well as circulatory disorders (hyperemia, stasis, hemorrhages).
(13) After closure of the cavity there was a gradual spongious change in the bone tip and simultaneously the cortex atrophied and the medullary cavity dilated.
(14) There also appears the destruction of the polymer, marked, above all, in the spongious bone.
(15) A screw fixation of the articular processes is performed with two spongious screws.
(16) At hour 24 these ratios were 21% and 8% in spongious and cortical bone respectively.
(17) This is explained by the higher elasticity of the spongious bone, permitting a marked space reduction by compression even before a fracture sets in.
(18) An acetabular bone graft with spongious bone chips was performed in 27 primary total hip arthroplasties in 23 patients with rheumatic disease.
(19) The activities of enzymes connected with aerobic oxidation and glucose phosphorylation are higher in the spongious musculature than in the compact layer.
(20) Arthroscopy eliminated a cartilage lesion and directed towards a cavity filled by spongious bone through an extra articular approach.