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Rhizolith vs Rhinolith - What's the difference?

rhizolith | rhinolith |

As nouns the difference between rhizolith and rhinolith

is that rhizolith is a fossilized root while rhinolith is a calculus that forms in the nasal cavity.

rhizolith

English

Noun

(wikipedia rhizolith) (en noun)
  • A fossilized root

    • rhinolith

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A calculus that forms in the nasal cavity.
  • * 1889 , Clinic of the Month, The Practitioner , vol. 42, page 242
    • Dr. J. Middlemas Hunt […] describes a case of rhinolith . […]. This proved to be a small nasal calculus, weighing seven grains, and consisting mostly of sequestrum of bone.
  • * 2002 , Gary R. Strange, Pediatric Emergency Medicine , page 467
    • A rhinolith is a mineralized nasal foreign body.
  • * 2004 , G. H. Quay, A Monograph of Diseases of Nose and Throat , page 83
    • Or the nucleus of a rhinolith' may be a hardened piece of mucus […]. The symptoms produced by a ' rhinolith are the same as those caused by any other foreign object […].

    External links

    * (wikipedia "rhinolith")