Calcigenous vs Calcigerous - What's the difference?
calcigenous | calcigerous |
Containing lime.
* 1839 , R. Harlan, letter to the editor, J. V. C. Smith (editor), The New England Journal of Medicine , Volume 20,
* 1842 , Richard Owen, Description of the Skeleton of an Extinct Gigantic Sloth: Mylodon robustus, Owen ,
* 1963 , Aerospace Medical Association ,Aerospace Medicine , Volume 34,
As adjectives the difference between calcigenous and calcigerous
is that calcigenous is that forms a calx when oxidized while calcigerous is containing lime.calcigerous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)page 72,
- These calcigerous tubes do not run in a straight line, but their general tendency is a curvature upwards, and, in addition to which, each line or tube is distinctly waved in itself.
- The cement is traversed by numerous fine calcigerous' tubes continued in many parts from those of the hard dentine, but having a less regular course, which is however generally at right angles to the surface: they terminate principally in minute branches, which form a rich plexus around the ' calcigerous cells with which they communicate.
page 394,
- From 89-95 per cent of all urinary calculi are reported as being calcigerous in nature.12, 33