What's the difference between stipple and stopple?
Stipple
Definition:
(v. t.) To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines.
(v. t.) To paint, as in water colors, by small, short touches which together produce an even or softly graded surface.
(n.) Alt. of Stippling
Example Sentences:
(1) There was a 25-year history of normochromic normocytic anaemia with moderate basophilic stippling, mild renal failure, hyperuricaemia and abnormal porphyrins.
(2) Basophilic stippling and circulating nucleated red cells were not common findings in blood films.
(3) All of the cases exibited the classic form of osteopoikilosis with stippling.
(4) Seven of 100 (three bilateral, four unilateral) patients demonstrated rib stippling.
(5) We observed various macular pathologies in the form of macular stippling, retinal pigment epithelial defects, colloids & disciform lesions all in NIDDM patients, 70% of whom were uncontrolled on therapy.
(6) A distinct stippled pattern of vascular fluorescence was found in 87% of lesion biopsies; 75% of these contained deposits of IgA.
(7) We assumed, therefore, that there are two different ultrastructural forms of 3H-tryptophan containing extracellular enamel proteins and suggest that the granular or "stippled" form represents newly secreted precursor enamel protein.
(8) The "experimental" morphologic criteria were the presence of both basophilic stippling and either microcytosis or target cells.
(9) The calcification of the involved joints was more diffuse than the usual linear stippled calcification.
(10) The fish exposed to the highest lead concentration also showed an anemic response and basophilic stippling of erythrocytes.
(11) The second was a 16 months old Arabic boy without typical features but with a cataract and stippled calfications of a limited number of epiphysae.
(12) The neoplastic lymphoid cells consisted of either a monomorphous population or a variable mixture of small, medium-sized, and large cells with stippled chromatin and distinct nucleoli.
(13) In preameloblasts, on the other hand, the precipitates were located in mitochondria, nuclei, and on the inner face of the plasma membrane; however, few reaction products were observed in the intercellular spaces, lysosomelike granules, secretory granules, and stippled materials.
(14) Since the majority of transitional cell neoplasms have a papillary configuration, the stipple sign is highly suggestive of the presence of this lesion.
(15) In all three eyes, characteristic "stippling," or granularity, of the affected macula developed rapidly and vitreal cells were observed.
(16) Upon microscopic examination, any vaginal discharge with epithelial cells stippled with small coccobacilli indicated a possible Gardnerella vaginalis infection.
(17) To evaluate the mechanical or biochemical insult to the cornea induced by overnight rigid gas permeable (RGP) or soft contact lens (SCL) wear, punctate, stipple staining and corneal blotting were evaluated by biomicroscopy in a group of 23 subjects who participated in a single overnight in-laboratory test session.
(18) Fan-shaped stippled burns were produced on the skin when a revolver whose barrel had been modified by the Mag-Na-Port process was fired twice with the side of the muzzle in contact.
(19) The phalangeal anomaly is very important for the diagnosis of chondrodysplasia punctata at an age when epiphyseal stippling is no longer present.
(20) On computed tomographic scanning, an iso-or high-density mass containing stippled calcifications and originating in a posterior cervical neural arch was observed in all three cases.
Stopple
Definition:
(v. t.) That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper; as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple.
(v. t.) To close the mouth of anything with a stopple, or as with a stopple.