What's the difference between cloud and coma?

Cloud


Definition:

  • (n.) A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.
  • (n.) A mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling vapor.
  • (n.) A dark vein or spot on a lighter material, as in marble; hence, a blemish or defect; as, a cloud upon one's reputation; a cloud on a title.
  • (n.) That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect.
  • (n.) A great crowd or multitude; a vast collection.
  • (n.) A large, loosely-knitted scarf, worn by women about the head.
  • (v. t.) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded.
  • (v. t.) To darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with a cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen.
  • (v. t.) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; -- esp. used of reputation or character.
  • (v. t.) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn.
  • (v. i.) To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; -- often used with up.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A golden toad (Bufo periglenes) in Monteverde Cloud forest reserve in Puntarenas province of Costa Rica.
  • (2) The dermatan and keratan sulfate-storing diseases have corneal clouding.
  • (3) Aircraft pilots Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Getting paid to have your head in the clouds.’ Photograph: CTC Wings Includes: Flight engineers and flying instructors Average pay before tax: £90,146 Pay range: £66,178 (25th percentile) to £97,598 (60th percentile).
  • (4) Read any technology trends article and you’d be forgiven for thinking all roads lead to the cloud.
  • (5) Chris Williamson, of data provider Markit, said: "A batch of dismal data and a gloomier assessment of the economic outlook has cast a further dark cloud over the UK's economic health, piling pressure on the government to review its fiscal policy and growth strategy.
  • (6) In the process, PR firms have grown even more influential in shaping the debate around climate policy, said James Hoggan, who ran his own public relations firm in Vancouver and founded DeSmogBlog , a blog that describes itself as “clearing the PR pollution that clouds climate science”.
  • (7) They belong to the people who built Choquequirao, one of the most remote Inca settlements in the Andes, and were stashed here by the archaeologists who, over the past 20 years, have been slowly freeing the ruins from the cloud forest.
  • (8) Its radar will penetrate thick cloud to warn of catastrophic rainfall.
  • (9) The present standard method for evaluating asbestos fiber concentrations in workroom air excludes fibers less than 5 micron long even though it has been shown that small fiber concentrations dominate in a dust cloud.
  • (10) Since then, Amazon has expanded into other retail categories, such as food, clothing and electricals, and developed a formidable cloud computing service, its own television shows and an electronic personal assistant for people’s homes.
  • (11) He said: "Strong feeling must never be allowed to cloud clear judgment about where this country's real long-term economic interests lie.
  • (12) Ukip is also a very grey revolt, which adds another dark cloud over its long-term prospects – although, of course, generational change takes a long time!
  • (13) On the day I arrive a time lapse of cloud is drifting across the ridge, above a geometry of Inca stairways and terraces cut into a steep, jungly spur above the Apurímac river, 100 miles west of Cusco in southern Peru.
  • (14) A 32-year-old insulin-dependent diabetic patient reported recurrent clouding of her short-acting insulin, caused by silicone oil contamination from re-used disposable syringes.
  • (15) The picture was clouded by job losses at the other end of the age range, after employers exploited a final chance to impose mandatory retirements which were outlawed this month .
  • (16) Similarly literary and pensive was Clouds of Sils Maria , in which France's Olivier Assayas combined some modish themes — the internet, celebrity gossip, superhero movies — with some hoarier themes regarding the theatre-cinema divide, ageing and female rivalry.
  • (17) US attorney general Loretta Lynch closed the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email practices with no charges on Wednesday, formally ending a protracted saga that has clouded her campaign with questions of trustworthiness.
  • (18) Sony has announced a new cloud-based gaming service, which will bring classic PlayStation titles to a range of gadgets, from tablet computers to televisions.
  • (19) But retweet if you remember destabilizing a region based on falsified claims that everyone in America needed to be afraid of a mushroom cloud, fave if you don’t understand causation.
  • (20) We should grieve and we should be angry, but we must not let grief or anger cloud our judgment,” he said.

Coma


Definition:

  • (n.) A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.
  • (n.) The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet.
  • (n.) A tuft or bunch, -- as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The patient presented in coma but regained full consciousness over the next six hours with supportive therapy.
  • (2) A series of 170 patients with non-traumatic coma seen over a 16-month period is reported.
  • (3) All of them had fever, jaundice, abdominal pain, leucocytosis and deranged liver function while 26.6% were in shock, 13.3% in coma and 40% in azotaemia.
  • (4) The Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) were recorded at the time of admission for all patients.
  • (5) Other factors that may have important effects on recovery include the localization, nature, extension and degree of brain damage, the patient's sex and age, the duration of coma, the patient's original cognitive capacity, his personality and motivation as well as the duration and intensity of rehabilitation and the time before starting rehabilitation.
  • (6) Insulin-induced hypoglycemia provokes polyribosome disaggregation and accumulation of monomeric ribosomes in the brain of rats with hypoglycemic paresis and coma.
  • (7) Characteristics of the poisoning include a delay between exposure and onset of symptoms; early systemic toxicity with congestive changes in the lungs and oliguric renal failure; prominent cerebellar and Parkinsonian neurologic symptoms as well as seizures and coma in severe cases; and psychiatric disturbances that can last from months to years.
  • (8) The authors report 6 cases of acute respiratory failure complicating chronic bronchial and lung disease admitted to hospital with the diagnosis of: heart disease, 3 cases, pulmonary oedema, pulmonary embolism, atrial flutter; status asthmaticus : one case; neuro-psychiatric disease : 2 cases (toxic coma and agitation).
  • (9) Authors have previously published April 1988 a lecture where they criticize the bad denomination "passed coma" full of ambiguity for public mind, to which "brain death" ought to be preferred.
  • (10) A clinical examination is carried out one month after the coma when the patient survives.
  • (11) No changes in content of cerebral fructose 2,6-bisphosphate were found in mild hypoglycemia, but the level of this compound was markedly decreased in hypoglycemic coma and recovered after 30 min of glucose administration.
  • (12) Nonketotic hyperosmolal diabetic coma, which is rare in children, is associated with a high mortality in both children and adults.
  • (13) Characteristic clinical features were present in 19 patients, including a gradual obtundation after the initial hemorrhage in 16 patients and small nonreactive pupils in nine patients (all with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 7 or less).
  • (14) We have chosen six illustrations showing how much vital information can be obtained from median nerve SEPs during the first 24 hours in coma.
  • (15) In 11 patients with hepatic coma (stage IV and V according to Abouna) extracorporeal haemoperfusion using the Scribner shunt (radial or profunda femoris artery) was performed over 12 to 27 hours with 22 baboon and one human livers.
  • (16) The comA gene product has been found to exhibit amino acid sequence similarity to the so-called effector class of signal-transduction proteins.
  • (17) Eight patients emerged from coma, six of them showed sufficient regeneration of the diseased liver.
  • (18) The importance of including highaltitude pulmonary edema in the differential diagnosis of any patient who is admitted with coma after a sojourn at high altitude is stressed.
  • (19) Dyspnea, shock, coma, convulsions, infectious CNS affections, head injury and burns are reported in detail.
  • (20) Recovery was assessed by means of a modified Steward coma scale.