different between induration vs edema

English

Alternative forms

• enduration

Etymology

From Old French induracion (“hardness, obstinacy”), from Medieval Latin indurati?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ndj???e???n/

Noun

induration (countable and uncountable, plural indurations)

1. Hardness.
   • 1980. Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:

     The voice was harder than I had known, and not only in stony reaction to long floods of wholly just selfpity, also roughened with gin and smoke, perhaps also assimilated to New York induration, the hardness of culture as well as of pain.

2. Process of becoming hard.
3. (medicine) Hardening of an area of the body as a reaction to inflammation, hyperemia, or neoplastic infiltration.
4. (medicine) An area or part of the body that has undergone such a reaction. Most often this term is used to describe dermatologic findings.
   • 2005. Kimura, et al. "Comparison of erythema and induration as results of tuberculin tests." Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2005;9(8):853-7. PMID 16104630:

     Both erythema and induration appear to be adequate indices of tuberculin sensitivity.

   • 2005. Race, et al. "Painful nodule with induration and spreading erythema." Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings. 2005;18(4):401–404:

     The erythema had spread to 20 cm, and the central induration had spread to 9 cm.

5. (geology) The quality of non-friability; the extent to which a rock does not crumble; rock strength.
   • "Induration is a measure of rock "strength" and is defined as the ratio of the measured frame modulus to the maximum frame modulus allowed by the Gassmann-Biot model." Spratt, R. S.; Goins, N. R. and Fitch, T. J. (1993) "Pseudo-shear — The analysis of AVO." Castagna, John P. and Backus, Milo M. (eds.) Offset-Dependent Reflectivity — Theory and Practice of AVO Analysis. Series: Investigation in Geophysics volume 8. Tulsa : Society of Exploration Geophysicistspp. 37-56, page 37, isbn 978-1-56080-059-0.
6. (geology) The process of the strengthening of rocks by heating, compaction or cementation, or a combination thereof.
   • "Induration of carbonate rocks proceeds predominately in the early stages (prior to diagenesis) by compaction and expulsion of fluids." Whittaker, Alun (1985) Formation Evaluation: Geological Procedures Dordrecht : Springer Verlag page 104, isbn 978-94-010-8861-9.
   • "At a given degree of induration, massive rocks of sandstone, siltstone, and limestone are the strongest, while shaly rocks with more or less parallel, closely spaced separation surfaces created during sedimentation in thin layers are the weakest." Committee on Underground Coal Mine Safety (1982) Toward Safer Underground Coal Mines Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, page 32, isbn 978-0-309-03298-8.

Translations

References

• Induration, Merriam-Webster online.
• Induation, In Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Random House, Inc. 2001. Page 975. ?ISBN.

Anagrams

• diurnation

English

Alternative forms

• oedema (UK), œdema (UK, non-standard)

Etymology

From New Latin edema, from Ancient Greek ?????? (oíd?ma, “swelling”), from ????? (oidé?, “I swell”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /??di?.m?/

Noun

edema (plural edemas or edemata)

1. (American spelling, pathology) An excessive accumulation of serum in tissue spaces or a body cavity.
   • 1991, Albrecht M. Ehrly, Therapeutic Hemorheology, page 115,

     In the patients with myocardial edemas [247, 471] it was shown that, despite a considerable loss of fluid via the kidneys after the intravenous administration of a short-acting and very effective diuretic (furosemide), there was no increase in the blood and plasma viscosities.

   • 2002, Peter Lanzer, 26: Peripheral Vascular Disease, Peter Lanzer, Eric J. Topol (editors), Pan Vascular Medicine: Integrated Clinical Management, page 389,

     In particular, changes in color and temperature, edemas, and ulcerations are noted. Palpation is applied as needed. In this chapter, only two skin and body surface changes will be discussed: peripheral edemas and ulcerations.

   • 2015, Hans Scholz, Arteriovenous Access Surgery: Ensuring Adequate Vascular Access for Hemodialysis, page 185,

     Local lymph edemas can often be found on the inside of a looped graft.

2. (American spelling, botany) A similar swelling in plants caused by excessive accumulation of water.

Synonyms

• (pathology): hydrops; dropsy (archaic), hydropsy (archaic)

Translations

Anagrams

• Meade, Medea, adeem, meade

Italian

Etymology

New Latin edema, from Ancient Greek ?????? (oíd?ma, “swelling”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?d?.ma/, /??.de.ma/
• Rhymes: -?ma, -?dema
• Hyphenation: e?dè?ma, è?de?ma

Noun

edema m (plural edemi)

1. (pathology) edema

Derived terms

• edematico / edematoso

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• œdema (obsolete)

Etymology

New Latin edema, from Ancient Greek ?????? (oíd?ma, “swelling”), from ????? (oidé?, “I swell”).

Noun

edema m (plural edemas)

1. oedema (excessive accumulation of serum in tissue)

Spanish

Etymology

From New Latin edema, from Ancient Greek ?????? (oíd?ma, “swelling”), from ????? (oidé?, “to swell”).

Noun

edema m (plural edemas)

1. (pathology) edema