What's the difference between cognizance and recognizance?

Cognizance


Definition:

  • (n.) Apprehension by the understanding; perception; observation.
  • (n.) Recollection; recognition.
  • (n.) Jurisdiction, or the power given by law to hear and decide controversies.
  • (n.) The hearing a matter judicially.
  • (n.) An acknowledgment of a fine of lands and tenements or confession of a thing done.
  • (n.) A form of defense in the action of replevin, by which the defendant insists that the goods were lawfully taken, as a distress, by defendant, acting as servant for another.
  • (n.) The distinguishing mark worn by an armed knight, usually upon the helmet, and by his retainers and followers: Hence, in general, a badge worn by a retainer or dependent, to indicate the person or party to which he belonged; a token by which a thing may be known.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We feel that the change in the back table procedure has positively influenced the function of the hepatic allografts, and we conclude that transplant centers need to monitor the temperature at which all allografts are stored and prepared, and the cognizant that this may influence the postoperative function of the transplanted liver.
  • (2) In the future, researchers need to be cognizant of gender differences and consider men and women as separate populations.
  • (3) The trauma-ready practice must also be cognizant of the some-times perplexing legal and insurance issues with regard to preventing and treating sport-related injuries.
  • (4) The present study indicates that consultants need to be cognizant of such concerns to effectively assist such staff.
  • (5) Cognizance of all these alterations is essential if kidney problems in pregnancy are to be suspected, detected, and managed correctly.
  • (6) Other toxicities which can occur with a chemotherapeutic regimen are numerois and varied, and the physician must be cognizant of them in order to minimize damage.
  • (7) Health care professionals should be especially cognizant of the magnitude of the impact of sexual abuse on adolescent girls and recognize the need of these patients for psychologic and medical services.
  • (8) The present study revealed a tendency for BP college women to be less cognizant of eating satiety cues and less responsive to these cues as far as termination of eating is concerned.
  • (9) The nurse needs to be cognizant of language and setting that is developmentally compatible with the child and directs interventions that help to empower the child to resolve his or her vulnerability.
  • (10) In order to prevent a resurgence of the starch peritonitis syndrome we must continue to emphasize the importance of washing gloves, maintain the quality control and purity of the powder used, and be cognizant of the signs and symptoms so that such cases may be managed nonoperatively.
  • (11) Dental health-care workers must be cognizant of the oral conditions associated with systemic disease and the use of medication, a major concern in older adults.
  • (12) However, the therapeutic endoscopist should be cognizant of this potential adverse reaction when performing sclerotherapy.
  • (13) It is incumbent on dentists to become cognizant of these reasons, since this would help them inform patients of the benefits to be gained by restoring such deficient areas.
  • (14) Patients may be directed to members of the team who are cognizant of each other's capabilities.
  • (15) It becomes very clear that to assume proper care of their patients, surgeons must not only be cognizant of the diagnosis and management of these complications, but also be aware of those patients at risk, and the effective methods of prevention.
  • (16) A close-working relationship between the surgeon and anesthesiologist is mandatory with each being cognizant and understanding of the special problems encountered by the colleague.
  • (17) Studies with anti-inflammatory agents therefore need to be interpreted cautiously with due cognizance of the possible complexities of agent action, of possible interactions between mediators, and of longer term changes in immune function and resistance that may be being initiated.
  • (18) Good management also involves taking cognizance of the human factors in the old meaning of the term.
  • (19) To comply with the law, the health care providers must be cognizant of the law and acquire skills as students to enable the client to be active and intelligent participants in their health care team, in either acceptance or refusal of care.
  • (20) We are cognizant that a constellation of other as yet unidentifiable variables also may play a role in the visual prognosis.

Recognizance


Definition:

  • (n.) An obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, as to appear at the same or some other court, to keep the peace, or pay a debt. A recognizance differs from a bond, being witnessed by the record only, and not by the party's seal.
  • (n.) The verdict of a jury impaneled upon assize.
  • (n.) A token; a symbol; a pledge; a badge.
  • (n.) Acknowledgment of a person or thing; avowal; profession; recognition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
  • (2) Using an oil painting by G.F. Watts displayed in the National Portrait Gallery of London, we made an attempt to diagnose the dermatological alterations recognizable.
  • (3) A clearly recognizable relationship of SEH to gestational age and clinical status exists in that all SEH occur in premature infants under 2500 g birthweight (although only 56% of all premature infants have SEH) and 95% of SEH occur in infants with the respiratory distress syndrome (although only 60% of infants with the respiratory distress syndrome have SEH).
  • (4) Of the 188 males, 19 were found to have the fragile X syndrome, while the remaining 169 males had no recognizable cause of their mental retardation, including normal chromosomes.
  • (5) Newborn animals already exhibited clearly recognizable crypts of Lieberkühn.
  • (6) All manipulations were carried out from birth (P0), when no LGN cell layers are evident, to or past the point when layers are recognizable (i.e., 1-2 weeks).
  • (7) His stencils, skewed perspective and wit are recognizable enough to be mocked in the New Yorker .
  • (8) If purified nuclei were heated for 45 min at 37 degrees C, the final matrix exhibited well-recognizable nucleolar remnants, an inner network and a peripheral lamina.
  • (9) From the review of 56 published reports they conclude that triploidy syndrome has a characteristic and recognizable array of phenotype abnormalities.
  • (10) At medium concentrations (ED50 = 10 ppm) in Mucor mucedor several alterations of ultrastructure are recognizable even after short incubation periods.
  • (11) Another authentically "abnormal" DNA structure recognizable on transverse pore gradient gels is supercoiled DNA derived from the reaction of topoisomerase with a plasmid.
  • (12) In contrast, recognizable sensory neurons never exhibited adrenergic properties and did not divide.
  • (13) This unusual, distinctive synovial neoplasm presents readily recognizable pathological features (Fig.
  • (14) A corresponding effect after treatment with 5 mg Carazolol was not recognizable (p greater than 0.05).
  • (15) This study demonstrated that there are appreciable differences in mental and physical status within sibships of daughters of male carriers, as well as recognizable physical alterations and intellectual impairment in the transmitting males.
  • (16) Because detection of carcinoma in situ, either by cytology or biopsy, depends upon recognizable malignant morphologic characteristics, studies of the lesion tend to be limited to the higher grade or more anaplastic examples.
  • (17) Nine individuals with intracranial soft matter were recovered and, in five of these, material recognizable as preserved or replaced brain tissue was present.
  • (18) After angioplasty, no distinct defects were recognizable in 9 of the 12 patients, and in the remaining three, a significant decrease in defects was recognized.
  • (19) Increased sensitivity to pressor agents and activation of the coagulation cascade occur early in the course of preeclampsia, often antedating clinically recognizable disease.
  • (20) Three cardiac segments are recognizable embriologically, anatomically and functionally: atria, ventricles and great arteries.