What's the difference between vermiculate and vermiculite?
Vermiculate
Definition:
(v. t.) To form or work, as by inlaying, with irregular lines or impressions resembling the tracks of worms, or appearing as if formed by the motion of worms.
(a.) Wormlike in shape; covered with wormlike elevations; marked with irregular fine lines of color, or with irregular wavy impressed lines like worm tracks; as, a vermiculate nut.
(a.) Crawling or creeping like a worm; hence, insinuating; sophistical.
Example Sentences:
(1) Babesia major mature and immature vermicules in the haemolymph of Haemaphysalis punctata were measured and found to be significantly larger than vermicules of Babesia bigemina.
(2) The primary schizonts and the large merozoites (= vermicules) produced by them were observed in the gut epithelium, haemocytes, muscles, ad peritracheal cells.
(3) During the next 32 h elongate forms and vermicules developed.
(4) This vermiculate bone is resistant to oriented cracking from weathering or fractures.
(5) The microscopic structure of bone of the brow region was studied in adult human crania showing the vermiculate surface pattern, and in immature nonhuman primates with an areolar surface.
(6) Postoperative histological investigation showed vermiculous destruction of the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland, and also scattered lymph follicles accompanying infiltration by numerous lymphocytes and multinucleated foreign-body giant cells, and deposition of calcium.
(7) The disease resolved with garland-like vermiculate scars.
(8) About 10 days after repletion, those round-formed protozoa were transformed into vermicule-formed and round-formed protozoa, 13-15 microns in length, appeared again in the gut epithelial cells.
(9) Two organelles were specifically labeled: cytoplasmic dense bodies with a finely vermiculate texture, and mature trichocysts, labeled in the space between the shaft and the membrane.
(10) The elevations and depressions of vermiculate surfaces are lamellar bone, usually covered by layers featuring Sharpey's fibers.
(11) Numerous varicosities are characteristic for the tubular lysosomes whose similarity with grumose bodies has lead to conclusion that the vermiculate variety of the latter are almost certainly tubular lysosomes.
(12) Mature B. major vermicules had a mean length of 15.53 micrometer and mature B. bigemina vermicules had a mean length of 11.79 micrometer.
(13) These findings indicate that fossil and modern human vermiculate surfaces are not structurally equivalent to areolar brow surfaces observed in some immature nonhuman primates.
(14) The ultrastructure of Babesia major vermicules was studied in samples derived from the haemolymph of Haemaphysalis punctata adults and negatively stained with phosphotungstic acid.
(15) A cytoplasmic organelle similar to the granular body described in Theileria annulata ookinetes was seen for the first time in a B. major vermicule.
(16) The apical and the perinuclear regions and the posterior end of the vermicules appeared to fluoresce more intensely than the rest of the cytoplasm.
Vermiculite
Definition:
(n.) A group of minerals having, a micaceous structure. They are hydrous silicates, derived generally from the alteration of some kind of mica. So called because the scales, when heated, open out into wormlike forms.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study was conducted to estimate the exposure-response relationship for tremolite-actinolite fiber exposure and radiographic findings among 184 men employed at a Montana vermiculite mine and mill.
(2) Fibrous actinolite was found in unexpanded Montana vermiculite ore at a maximum concentration of 2.0%.
(3) The addition of either vermiculite or polystyrene pellets in the two culture methods significantly (P less than 0.05) improved larval recoveries of both parasite species.
(4) A cohort of 406 men employed before 1963 for at least one year in a vermiculite mine in Montana was followed up until July 1983.
(5) Any possible adverse effects of work with vermiculite, minimally contaminated with fibrous or non-fibrous tremolite, were thus beyond the limits of detection in this workforce.
(6) A trickle-bed system employing inert matrices of vermiculite or polyurethane foam packed in the downcomer section of a split-flow air-lift reactor has been developed for hybridoma culture to enhance antibody productivity.
(7) In the course of a study on the health effects of vermiculite, 653 black rural industrial workers had their lung function measured.
(8) Actinolite was also found in the Virginia vermiculite ore but at a lower concentration and mostly as cleavage fragments with low length-to-width ratios.
(9) In the present project sputum samples from nearly 600 volunteers from 11 cohorts of workers exposed to asbestos and other mineral fibres were found to contain much lower numbers of asbestos bodies than had been observed in vermiculite workers and these counts did not reliably reflect past levels of exposure.
(10) Health effects have been documented among American vermiculite workers who mined and processed vermiculite contaminated with amphibole asbestos, viz., tremolite-actinolite.
(11) Rate parameters were derived from laboratory studies in which donor and recipient strains were incubated in test tubes with a peat-vermiculite solution or on excised radish or bean leaves in petri dishes.
(12) In the growth chamber, in sterilized soil-vermiculite mixtures, at 28 days after planting, UW85 seed treatments enhanced nodulation by 34 to 61%, indicating that the increase in nodulation was not dependent on the soil flora.
(13) A risk of mesothelioma caused by the fiber content of the vermiculite cannot be excluded by this study.
(15) The vermiculite workers were compared with other workers involved in the mining or refining of copper.
(16) The procedure was applied to data from a cohort of 406 vermiculite miners to examine the lung cancer risk associated with exposure to fibrous tremolite, which contaminated the vermiculite.
(17) In the presence of montmorillonite and vermiculite, expanding clays with high cation-exchange-capacity (CEC), nitrite yield was increased, ammonia oxidation continued at pH values below those which inhibited growth in the absence of clays and growth was biphasic.
(18) No larvae hatched out of a seven-day vermiculite culture of faeces collected from the treated calves 24 h after treatment.
(19) Transfer of seedlings to low-water-potential vermiculite caused a rapid decrease in mRNA hybridizing to pGE23.
(20) The data indicate that vermiculite mixed with sand (volume 1:1) is the most suitable soilless substrate for P. quinquefolium, for it is loose and features good preservation of fertility, water retaining, drainage, and air permeability.