What's the difference between apparition and spectrum?

Apparition


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
  • (n.) The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
  • (n.) An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; a ghost; a specter; a phantom.
  • (n.) The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; -- opposed to occultation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So Richard arose as himself again, a dreadful apparition cavorting.
  • (2) It seems to be very likely that the apparition of these secondary tumors is due to the failure of the shole defence systems of the body, favoured by the relative long survical of these patients and the surgical opening of the brain envelops.
  • (3) (ii) The male liver, offering, an ideal experimental control of "zero" background, we followed-in the liver of male trout--the kinetics of induction of Vg mRNA by hybridization with Vg cDNA, after E2 stimulation, and (iii) the apparition of Vg in the serum by using an original rocket immuno-electrophoretic technique.
  • (4) The apparition of cyclosporine, immunodepressive drug, has largely improved the organ transplantations.
  • (5) The BLEL could be considered as the pseudotumoral form of an isolated GS which could be completed after many years with the apparition of auto anti-bodies.
  • (6) All these factors influence the apparition of adjustment difficulties or disorders.
  • (7) The diminution of NK activity during the preleukemic period could favour preleukemic cells apparition.
  • (8) When H antigen is absent on the O red blood cells, there is no apparition of new I and i antigenic sites.
  • (9) Furthermore, several points deserve attention such as apparition of teeth (21 weeks), calcaneum (24 weeks).
  • (10) We report a case in which the late apparition of arterial hypertension expressed as an acute aortic coarctation syndrome pointed out the diagnosis.
  • (11) The phantom kidney is a "kidney-like" apparition which may be seen in dynamic renal scintigraphy typically in post-nephrectomy patients or in patients with unilateral renal agenesis.
  • (12) A correlation between the ovary stages and apparition, number and ultrastructural aspects (paracrystalline arrangement) of the inclusions is established.
  • (13) The time of apparition of the first outline, as a derivative of the roof of the third ventricle, was fixed at 3 days.
  • (14) Signs suggestive of thrombosis were inconsistant and the diagnosis was made on the association of severl of the following features: -- systemic embolism (44%); -- radiographic signs of left ventricular failure (51%); -- absence of opening click, variable A2 -- opening click intervals, apparition or aggravation of a systolic regurgitant murmur or a distolic murmur suggestive of obstruction on the phonocardiogramme; -- delayed opening of the mobile component or the presence of abnormal echos between the ball and anterior cage echo on the echocardiogramme; -- a gradient of over 12 mmHg across the prosthesis.
  • (15) Among these factors, straw bedding quantity seems to be the more important one: a low quantity of straw, even in herds where prophylaxis against mastitis is largely used (teat dipping, dry cow therapy, disinfection), is a favouring factor for apparition of mastitis just after calving.
  • (16) The absence of ER in normal skin appendages suggests that its apparition is a feature of specialized differentiation of breast epithelium.
  • (17) After the apparition of bulbar signs ans cachexia she died at 45.
  • (18) With early detection, new therapies for the prevention of the disease could be experimented on the higher risk women before the apparition of clinical symptoms or signs.
  • (19) The hyoid bone plays a role in speech articulation and may have been a factor in its apparition.
  • (20) Nevertheless, the prolongation of hemodialysis treatment duration over 7 years has led to the apparition of destructive arthropathies which are very painful and handicapping.

Spectrum


Definition:

  • (n.) An apparition; a specter.
  • (n.) The several colored and other rays of which light is composed, separated by the refraction of a prism or other means, and observed or studied either as spread out on a screen, by direct vision, by photography, or otherwise. See Illust. of Light, and Spectroscope.
  • (n.) A luminous appearance, or an image seen after the eye has been exposed to an intense light or a strongly illuminated object. When the object is colored, the image appears of the complementary color, as a green image seen after viewing a red wafer lying on white paper. Called also ocular spectrum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hypothyroidism complicated by spontaneous hyperthyroidism is an interesting but rare occurrence in the spectrum of autoimmune thyroid disorders.
  • (2) Along the spectrum of loyalties lie multiple loyalties and ambiguous loyalties, and the latter, if unresolved, create moral ambiguities.
  • (3) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
  • (4) The reference library used in the operation of a computerized search program indicates the closest matches in the reference library data with the IR spectrum of an unknown sample.
  • (5) This transient paresis was accompanied by a dramatic fall in the MFCV concomitant with a shift of the power spectrum to the lower frequencies.
  • (6) Achilles tendon overuse injuries exist as a spectrum of diseases ranging from inflammation of the paratendinous tissue (paratenonitis), to structural degeneration of the tendon (tendinosis), and finally tendon rupture.
  • (7) Symptoms consistent with major affective disorder were present in one half and depressive spectrum diagnoses were made in one fourth of the cases prior to final diagnosis.
  • (8) The power spectrum of the EMG was analyzed during isometric contractions of the shoulder muscles.
  • (9) However, two methodologic factors might account for the covariation of these 'schizophrenia spectrum' personality traits and measures of brain function.
  • (10) The spectrum of one of these species ressembles that of a N(5)-C(4a) dihydroflavin adduct.
  • (11) Cefuzoname seems to be among the middle ranks of beta-lactam agents as far as penetration rate is concerned; however, when its potent antibacterial activity and broad spectrum are taken into account, the concentrations in CSF in patients with meningitis seem worth examining.
  • (12) (Tokyo) 58, 227), yields a protein mixture that has a time-dependent 13C-NMR spectrum.
  • (13) Respiratory muscle endurance at a given level of load was assessed from the time of exhaustion and from the time course of the change in the power spectrum (centroid frequency) of the diaphragm electromyogram (EMG).
  • (14) Sodium taurolithocholate, a monohydroxy bile salt, does not affect the CD spectrum of CEase, and neither the di- or the monohydroxy bile salt activates the enzyme.
  • (15) Broad-based secular comprehensives that draw in families across the class, faith and ethnic spectrum, entirely free of private control, could hold a new appeal.
  • (16) Starting from the observation that the part above 6 Hz of the power spectrum of force tremor during isometric contractions can be related to the unfused twitches of motor units firing asynchronously, an attempt was made to study the usefulness of force tremor spectral analysis as a global descriptor of motoneurone pool activity.
  • (17) This technique may help to a better understanding of the spectrum of abnormalities in each type of neurofibromatosis, thus facilitating the evaluation of this complex condition.
  • (18) An unusual spectrum of craniofacial and foot abnormalities has been detected within a large midwestern Amish kindred.
  • (19) No new peak appears in the ultraviolet spectrum (240 approximately 300 nm) while mycobacillin is inactivated.
  • (20) The sequential resonance assignment of the 1H NMR spectrum of the antihypertensive and antiviral protein BDS-I from the sea anemone Anemonia sulcata is presented.