What's the difference between violaceous and violet?
Violaceous
Definition:
(a.) Resembling violets in color; bluish purple.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants, of which the violet is the type. It contains about twenty genera and two hundred and fifty species.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mass was a violaceous, protuberant, compressible tumor covered with distended peau d'orange skin.
(2) Physical examination did not reveal typical Cushingoid symptoms such as moon face, central obesity and violaceous striae.
(3) We have studied a 65-year-old woman with myelofibrosis and approximately 40 violaceous, firm, non-tender cutaneous nodules measuring 1 to 4 cm in diameter, located on her abdomen near a splenectomy scar.
(4) The lesions were asymptomatic erythematous-violaceous papules and nodules.
(5) A forty-one-year-old homosexual man with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and biopsy proven Kaposi's sarcoma of the oral cavity presented to our clinic with a several month history of violaceous papules and plaques on his trunk and extremities.
(6) We therefore suggest consideration of sweat gland primary mucinous adenocarcinoma in the differential diagnosis of red or violaceous eyelid masses.
(7) These tumors characteristically involve the scalp or face of elderly individuals, where they present as bluish or violaceous plaques and nodules.
(8) On the clinical point of view, the lesion is a roughly oval 7 X 5 cm., plaque formed by the junction of small violaceous nodules.
(9) A case of epithelioid hemangioendothelioma presenting as violaceous nodules on the skin of the thigh is described.
(10) The ulcers are characterized by their undermined, violaceous borders and necrotic tissue at the ulcer base.
(11) violaces 1935 in the synthetic medium the level of gentamicin biosynthesis increased on the average by 2--2.5 times when cyancobalamine, methylcobalamine, L-methionine or L-serine were added to the medium.
(12) We report a 63-year-old man with violaceous nummular patches on the trunk.
(13) Disseminated Fusarium infection should be suspected in immunocompromised patients with fever and neutropenia who have generalized, eroded, violaceous papules, vesicles, and pustules, particularly with associated myalgias.
(14) The cutaneous lesions were erythematous to violaceous in color and had associated scale; the most frequently observed sites of involvement were the ears, nose, hands, and feet, including the nails.
(15) Pyoderma gangrenosum is an uncommon skin disorder characterised by deep ulcers surrounded by a violaceous over-hanging edge.
(16) Localized granuloma annulare is the commonest form of a granulomatous dermatosis characterized by flesh coloured or violaceous papules often arranged in rings.
(17) Multinucleate cell angiohistocytoma is a newly described benign vascular condition that usually arises on the extremities of women over the age of 40 as discrete grouped violaceous erythematous papules, often mimicking Kaposi's sarcoma.
(18) During the past 18 months we have studied 36 biopsy specimens taken from 11 young men ranging in age from 21 to 36, each of whom had multiple, reddish to violaceous papules, some distinctly verrucoid or velvety on either or both the shaft and glans of the penis.
(19) We report a case APACHE in a 14-year-old Japanese girl with asymptomatic red and violaceous papules and nodules on the ring finger of the left hand.
(20) They all developed a sparse rash with purpuric maculopapules with a violaceous hue centrally.
Violet
Definition:
(n.) Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species. The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or of several colors, as the pansy (Viola tricolor).
(n.) The color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. It is the most refrangible part of the spectrum.
(n.) In art, a color produced by a combination of red and blue in equal proportions; a bluish purple color.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of small violet-colored butterflies belonging to Lycaena, or Rusticus, and allied genera.
(n.) Dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color produced by red and blue combined.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paraffin sections (8 microns) containing the medial habenular nucleus were stained with cresyl violet and both left and right medial habenular nuclei were measured by planimetry.
(2) Transition of the dye into the carbinol form is in water extremely slow, but is greatly accelerated in the presence of an organic phase, at least for malachite green and brilliant green, but not for crystal violet and pararosaniline.
(3) The spectra were obtained with a variety of excitation wavelengths, spanning the UV, violet, and yellow-green regions of the absorption spectrum, and at temperatures of 30 and 200 K. The RR data indicate that the structures of the bacteriochlorin pigments in RCs from Rb.
(4) Polarization microscopic studies proved that Levafix Red Violet E-2BL is bound to well-oriented fibrous proteins in glia fibers.
(5) Stationary-phase cells of Escherichia coli were enumerated by the pour plate method on Trypticase soy agar containing 0.3% yeast extract (TSYA), violet red-bile agar, and desoxycholate-lactose agar, and by the most-probable-number method in Brilliant Green-bile broth and lauryl sulfate broth.
(6) The persistency of elution over long time after subsequent transfer to fresh water was calculated at 210 nm absorbance with ultra violet spectrometer.
(7) Eliminating the lymphocytes from ultra-violet radiated blood specimens, we observed a decreased effect by this retransfused blood on the whole blood viscosity after 9 radiations to 18%.
(8) After 3 days, marked lesions were noted in SNPR and GP as seen with cresyl violet staining.
(9) For quantitative measurement of Coli and Coliform microorganisms five different culture media were used (Endoagar, Hexachlorophene Endoagar, Desoxycholatcitrat Agar, Violet Red Bile Agar and Brilliant Green Broth).
(10) A complex of diagnostic and therapeutic measures, including the establishment of indications for operative treatment, development of tactics, use of ++physico-technical methods (ultrasound study, rheography, electrocardiography, ++roentgeno-contrast angiography, ultra-violet blood irradiation, electromyostimulation) was developed.
(11) The Infinity towel comes in colours more vibrant than one might expect from an eco-friendly product, including coral, green, blue and violet.
(12) In addition, a number of antiparasitic agents have been shown to exert their actions through a free radical metabolism: nitro compounds used against trypanosomatids, anaerobic protozoa and helminths; crystal violet used in blood banks to prevent blood transmission of Chagas' disease; the antimalarial primaquine, chloroquinine, and quinhasou; and quinones active in vitro and in vivo against different parasites.
(13) Ultra-violet and infra-red rays are inactive on the autonomic retina and on the hypothalamus.
(14) Studies in this country more than 20 years ago implicating ultra-violet light as a factor in the aetiology of malignant melanoma are being ratified by epidemiologic studies in the United States.
(15) One of these receptor pigments is a blue-light receptor with positive action; the other is a violet-red-light receptor which can operate far below the photosynthetic threshold and exerts a negative regulation.
(16) These organisms tolerated concentrations of crystal violet and ethyl violet about 100-fold higher at pH 5.0 than at pH 9.0.
(17) After incubation, the surviving cells were fixed with methanol and stained with crystal violet.
(18) Cellular proliferation on the crystal violet staining.
(19) Mutant W 1421 mostly studied shows the following phenotypic properties not found in the wild-type: (1) The growth is hypersensitive to various antibiotics, detergents and dyes which differ remarkably in their chemical structure and antibacterial action-mechanism, (2) the cells can be easily solubilized by 0;05% Sodium-dodecyl-sulfate, (3) the cells allow the adsorption of the rough-mutant specific Salmonella phage 6SR; (4) strong cellular binding of crystal violet, (5) agglutination of the cells in 0.3% auramin solution and (6) reduced formation of red pigment.
(20) On the other hand, the CRU emails hardly suggest that the scientists are shrinking violets.