What's the difference between blind and eyeless?

Blind


Definition:

  • (a.) Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.
  • (a.) Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects.
  • (a.) Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.
  • (a.) Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch.
  • (a.) Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.
  • (a.) Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.
  • (a.) Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.
  • (a.) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers.
  • (v. t.) To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.
  • (v. t.) To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.
  • (v. t.) To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.
  • (v. t.) To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
  • (n.) Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse.
  • (n.) Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
  • (n.) A blindage. See Blindage.
  • (n.) A halting place.
  • (n.) Alt. of Blinde

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clonazepam was added to the treatment of patients with poorly controlled epilepsy in a double-blind trial and an open trial.
  • (2) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
  • (3) We report the results of a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of acitretin (Soriatane) in 15 patients with moderate to severe psoriasis.
  • (4) In a double-blind, crossover-designed study, 9 male subjects (age range: 18-25 years) received 25 mg orally, four times per day of either S or an identically-appearing placebo (P) 2 d prior to and during HA.
  • (5) In a randomized double-blind study, 40 patients with coronary heart disease received intravenously either 0.025 mg nitroglycerin or placebo.
  • (6) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.
  • (7) The effect of ipratropium bromide administered at two dosage levels, 40 and 80 mug, isoproterenol, 150 mug, and placebo using a metered dose inhaler was evaluated in ten adult patients with asthma in a double-blind, crossover study.
  • (8) The epidemiological effectiveness of dipyridamol, an interferon-inducing agent used for the prevention of influenza and viral acute respiratory diseases, was tested in 4 epidemiological trials, 3 of them carried out as double blind trials.
  • (9) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
  • (10) A randomised double-blind trial comparing this preparation with a so-called 'shotgun' combination containing 0.05% betamethasone 17-valerate, 0.1% gentamicin, 1.0% tolnaftate and 1.0% clioquinol in 288 patients in the Philippines resulted in a better efficacy for the diflucortolone preparation in the 80 patients with bacterially or mycotically infected skin diseases.
  • (11) Blinded outcomes of depression and cognition were measured initially and twice in each phase.
  • (12) Therefore, two-dimensional echocardiographic findings in 22 patients with perivalvular abscess found at surgery or necropsy were compared with those in 24 patients without abscess in a retrospective but blinded study.
  • (13) In a double-blind trial, 50 patients with subcostal incisions performed for cholecystectomy or splenectomy, received 10 ml of either 0.5% bupivacaine plain or physiological saline twice daily by wound perfusion through an indwelling drainage tube for 3 days after operation.
  • (14) In a double-blind, randomized, within-patient comparative study, the efficacy and tolerability of Ro 14-9706 (an arotinoid methyl sulfone) in the treatment of actinic keratoses was compared with that of tretinoin (all-trans-retinoic acid).
  • (15) Eighteen adult epileptic patients under CBZ therapy were evaluated in this single-blind, randomized cross-over study.
  • (16) A total of 17 patients suffering from musculoskeletal disease were included in a double blind study to compare the efficacy and safety of piroxicam and indomethacin.
  • (17) Each subject applied a vehicle cream containing 0.075% capsaicin (Axsain, GalenPharma Inc.) to a 4 cm2 area of skin on one volar forearm and vehicle alone to an identical treatment area on the other forearm, according to a double-blind procedure.
  • (18) A prospective, double-blind study was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of oral dexamethasone premedication in reducing a variety of side effects associated with metrizamide myelography.
  • (19) They then entered, on a randomized and double-blind basis, a cross-over trial of two 16-week periods, blood pressure being measured fortnightly.
  • (20) The design was a single-blind randomised controlled study.

Eyeless


Definition:

  • (a.) Without eyes; blind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This study detected deficiencies in ir-LHRH in the anterior hypothalamus of eyeless mutants.
  • (2) The results of protein, phospholipid and enzyme analyses were corroborated by analyses by 'genetic dissection' using an eyeless mutant line.
  • (3) A mutation that causes adult eyelessness (e eyeless, nonlethal, recessive) affects the earliest event in eye development (stage 1a), while a mutation that causes arrest of eye development (mi microphthalmic, lethal, recessive) acts in a later event (stage 8).
  • (4) These observations suggest a possible utility of the eyeless mutant axolotl for studies concerned with endocrine development in the absence of hypothalamic modulation.
  • (5) This arrangement was not observed in eyeless embryos.
  • (6) The transient expression of n alpha nAChR gene does not take place in the optic tectum of 'eyeless' embryos.
  • (7) On a Western blot, the antibody recognizes a 41 kDa protein that is present in the heads of yellow white flies, but not in the heads of eyeless mutant flies, eyes absent.
  • (8) Muscle proteins were quantified in the 1 M LiCl-soluble and distilled water-insoluble fraction of the eyeless, brainless, eviscerated and skinned carcass, as compared with a striated muscle sample from the same animal used as standard and processed in the same way as the whole carcass.
  • (9) The eyeless subjects showed no blanching (thus remained dark) in white cups, and they exhibited melanin spots 7 or 8 times the size of those of the other two groups.
  • (10) Prospective anterolateral neural fold was grafted from normal axolotls into the posterior neural fold region (statocyst area) of eyeless mutant hosts.
  • (11) These unilateral anteroposterior grafts stimulated bilateral eye formation in the eyeless mutant at a rate of 79%.
  • (12) Histological examination looking for paraldehyde-fuchsin-positive secretory neurons revealed a paired nucleus preopticus in both normals and eyeless mutants, but this region lacked the emanating paraldehyde-fuchsin-positive fiber tracts in eyeless mutants.
  • (13) Eyeless mutants also expressing a neural mutation were entrained by light:dark (LD) cycles, but their activity pattern in LD was changed compared to the wild-type and the eyeless mutant so.
  • (14) Brief heating of the oocytes and larvae of eyeless mutants during the critical periods of faceted-eye development caused an increase in the thermal sensitivity of the eye rudiments, which led to an increase in the number of one-eyed individuals among the flies that hatched.
  • (15) Thirty generations of selection for directional asymmetry of eye size was practiced on a stock of D. melanogaster homozygous for the mutant eyeless-recessive.
  • (16) Immunochemical studies were done to look at the distribution of immunoreactive luteinizing-hormone-releasing hormone (ir-LHRH) in brains of eyed and eyeless mutant axolotls of different stages.
  • (17) The eyeless-Dominant (eyD) mutation is a fourth chromosome insertional translocation which affects the eyes, antennae, ocelli, and sexcombs when heterozygous but is a larval-pupal lethal when homozygous.
  • (18) The aim of the present study was to determine the cellular site of eyeless-I (ey-I) and eyeless-2 (ey-2) gene action, causing anophthalmia or microphthalmia.
  • (19) The major morphological difference observed in the hypothalamus of normals compared to eyeless mutants was the reduced nature or complete lack of a preoptic recess in eyeless mutants.
  • (20) A model depicting 2 horizontally positioned black spots resembling facing eyes, as compared with models depicting other spot arrangements, elicits intense flight activity in young African jewel fish (Hemichromis bimaculatus) under 5 months of age and 7-month-old subadults reared apart from conspecifics with eyeless cave fish (Anoptichthys jordani).

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