What's the difference between spongious and spongy?
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.
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.