What's the difference between spongiform and spongy?
Spongiform
Definition:
(a.) Resembling a sponge; soft and porous; porous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pathomorphologically, spongiform alteration and demyelinization of the white matter in the vicinity of the amyloid deposits was detected and systemic amyloidosis excluded.
(2) Naturally occurring transmissible spongiform encephalopathies have been recognised in sheep, man, mink, captive deer and cattle.
(3) The primary lesion of the brain consists of spongiform degeneration, associated with vesicle formation in the cortex and underlying white matter of the cerebral hemispheres, and in the molecular layer of the cerebellum.
(4) A cat which developed a change of temperament, with muscle tremors, ataxia and pupillary dilatation was suspected and later confirmed histopathologically to have a spongiform encephalopathy.
(5) Hamsters intracerebrally inoculated with the biopsy material demonstrated typical spongiform changes in the gray structures of the brain when sacrificed on the 309th and 332nd days post inoculation, characteristic of experimental Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
(6) In electron microscopy, no virions could be detected in spongiform lesions.
(7) This test can help to detect the human spongiform encephalopathies.
(8) The causation, structural origin, and mechanism of formation of spongiform lesions in transmissible encephalopathies are unknown.
(9) To determine whether unconventional pathogens causing subacute spongiform encephalopathy may be present in blood products, a newly developed hepatitis B vaccine and a widely used blood product were injected into mice and rats.
(10) Pathologic examination confirmed a rare CJD case with primary generalized spongiform changes of the white matter and only moderate, but typical changes of the gray matter.
(11) After a short introduction into the general concept of amyloidoses and the genetic disposition involved in these diseases, the genetic disposition for unconventional virus diseases (or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies) and the disease specific amyloid are described.
(12) In the tubules there was spongiform degeneration and fusion of cells.
(13) The latter ranged from spongiform transformation of the neuropil and scattered foci of demyelination to large perivenous areas with marked rarefaction of myelinated fibers.
(14) Histologically, the type of spongiform lesion in rabies was the same as that in scrapie.
(15) Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), discovered in Great Britain in 1986, was to pose one of the most serious threats to the well-being of the British cattle industry this century.
(16) Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a new disease of cattle which has considerable homology with scrapie, the archetype of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
(17) Scrapie, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) are the best known of the transmissible degenerative encephalopathies (TDE) that affect animals and man.
(18) A molecular clone of wild mouse ecotropic retrovirus CasBrE (clone 15-1) causes a spongiform neurodegenerative disease with a long incubation period, greater than or equal to 6 months.
(19) Polygraphic recordings of EEG, EMG, EKG and respiration were made on three patients with histologically verified subacute spongiform encephalopathy and one patient with anoxic encephalopathy both before and after intravenous diazepam.
(20) Spongiform changes were occasionally observed and were mild.
Spongy
Definition:
(a.) Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones.
(a.) Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.
(a.) Having the quality of imbibing fluids, like a sponge.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that during exposure to simulated microgravity early signs of osteoporosis occur in the tibial spongiosa and that changes in the spongy matter of tubular bones and vertebrae are similar and systemic.
(2) No AbMV DNA was found in cells from palisade and spongy parenchyma, the tissues which show the predominant cytopathological effects.
(3) The anterior superior iliac crest, the usual donor site for cortico-spongy bone grafts is unsuitable for the removal of large quantities of spongy bone.
(4) These stones contained little cholesterol and exhibited a spongy microstructure characterized by small tubules with a diameter of 1 micrometer.
(5) The article deals with study of some patterns of long spongy rib bone destruction in static and dynamic load of thorax.
(6) The spongy zone then dwindled in size just before parturition.
(7) Tissues in which concentrations were measured included cortical bone, spongy bone, muscle, fascia, cutis and subcutis.
(8) The specimens included the surrounding cortical bone and its internal spongy substance.
(9) The experimental findings can be satisfactorily treated in a quantitative way with the help of a model which contains the three components of spongy bone (mineral, fat and fat-free connective tissue.
(10) In both mutant types, the presence of many vacuoles gives the central nervous system a spongy appearance.
(11) An astrocytic hypertrophy was usually associated with the spongy change.
(12) The low density was due to a microcystic structure, which caused a spongy appearance and consistency.
(13) This tablets had a spongy aspect, with a desaggregation time of 1-2 min.
(14) The MA were restricted to spongy areas in Canavan's disease and Alpers' syndrome, whereas they were distributed throughout the brain in Leigh's disease.
(15) There was severe cerebral involvement with multifocal cystic necrosis, dystrophic calcification, spongy change, and vacuolization that had produced profound neurologic deficits.
(16) A certain regularity between enlargement of the teeth size, increasing angle of the lower jaw and decreasing size of the longitudinal and expressive dimensions of the jaws (in accordance with decreasing size of the spongy substance and its cells) has been revealed.
(17) An intraarticular surgical approach allows complete resection, but one case required spongy bone grafts.
(18) The major histological findings consisted of severe ependymal destruction, spongy changes in the periventricular white matter, increased density of capillaries in this area, and varying degrees of thickening, fibrosis, and fusion of the choroid villi.
(19) Eventually a steady state is reached in which mature chondrocytes resurface the defect while in the deeper areas spongy bone replaces the hypertrophic chondrocytes.
(20) The spongy changes, similar to Van Bogaert-Bertrand disease, resulted from intramyelinic edema.