Figurate vs Figurante - What's the difference?
figurate | figurante |
Forming a figure.
* 1880 , Alex. Napier, translator, A Handbook of Physical Diagnosis , translation of, 1877, Paul Guttmann, [unknown title], third German edition; New York: William Wood & Company, page 296,
* 1978 , Lawrence Marvin Solomon, Nancy B. Esterly and E. Dorinda Loeffel, Adolescent Dermatology , Saunders, ISBN 0721684920, page 414,
As an adjective figurate
is forming a figure.As a noun figurante is
a female figurant, especially a ballet dancer.figurate
English
Adjective
(-)- Normal urine is perfectly clear, containing neither crystalline nor any other organic figurate element, except possibly now and then traces of mucus.
- Because large figurate lesions (cyclic, annular, or serpiginous) may exist