What's the difference between connection and connexion?
Connection
Definition:
(n.) The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship.
(n.) That which connects or joins together; bond; tie.
(n.) A relation; esp. a person connected with another by marriage rather than by blood; -- used in a loose and indefinite, and sometimes a comprehensive, sense.
(n.) The persons or things that are connected; as, a business connection; the Methodist connection.
Example Sentences:
(1) If ascorbic acid was omitted from the culture medium, the extensive new connective tissue matrix was not produced.
(2) Future Brown have connections in the fashion industry, last year soundtracking a surreal film for the brand Telfar.
(3) This computer is connected to a fileserver via a local area network and is used exclusively for data acquisition.
(4) Some of those drugs are able to stimulate the macrophages, even in an aspecific way, via the gut associated lymphatic tissue (GALT), that is in connection with the bronchial associated lymphatic tissue (BALT).
(5) Histological studies of nerves 2 years following irradiation demonstrated loss of axons and myelin, with a corresponding increase in endoneurial, perineurial, and epineurial connective tissue.
(6) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
(7) In these liposomes, the amounts and molecular states of SL-MDP were determined from ESR spectra and are discussed in connection with its immunopotentiating property.
(8) I felt a much stronger connection with the kids on my home block, who I rode bikes with nightly.
(9) The method used in connection with the well known autoplastic reimplantation not only presents an alternative to the traditional apicoectomy but also provides additional stabilization of the tooth by lengthing the root with cocotostabile and biocompatible A1203 ceramic.
(10) Osteogenesis imperfecta is the common term for a heterogeneous group of heritable disorders of connective tissue with lethal and nonlethal forms.
(11) More needs to be known about the direct and indirect modulation of cytokine production by cyclosporin A in connective tissues, in order to understand its potential value in clinical disorders.
(12) Each L subunit contains 127 residues arranged into 10 beta-strands connected by turns.
(13) Furthermore, the local interneurons make extensive efferent synaptic connections with unidentified neurons in the terminal medulla.
(14) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
(15) These differences in central connectivity mirror the reports on behavioral dissociation of the facial and vagal gustatory systems.
(16) There was a negative connection between the measure of total induced abortions in 1986 and the relative increase of abortions in the districts during 1986-87.
(17) Attention is paid to the set of problems connected with the nonthrombotic insufficiency of the conducting veins of the leg.
(18) In the case of unilateral blockade at the groin or pelvis, the grafts connect the lymphatics of the thigh of the affected leg with lymphatics in the contralateral healthy groin.
(19) In France, there is still a meaningful connection between earnings, social contributions paid in, and benefit paid out.
(20) In view of many ethical and legal problems, connected in some countries with obtaining human fetal tissue for transplantation, cross-species transplants would be an attractive alternative.
Connexion
Definition:
(n.) Connection. See Connection.
Example Sentences:
(1) No monosynaptic connexions were found between anterodorsal and posteroventral muscles except between the muscles innervated by the peroneal and the tibial nerve.
(2) Four patients with acute brucellosis are described, none of whom had any connexion with farming or milk industry, the source of infection being different in each case.
(3) For Kohut, interpretation depends on the prior establishment of a stable, sustaining transference; human connexion is a lifelong necessity and full understanding an achievable aim.
(4) The experiments were performed in connexion with intestinal perfusion studies, and the disaccharidase activities were measured in unperfused intestinal segments as well as in intestinal loops which had previously been perfused with a sucrose-containing solution.
(5) Subdividing the A and A+C responsive neurones according to their mono- (M) or polysynaptic (P) connexions yielded the following sub-samples: MC, 39%; PC, 15%; MA, 13%; PA, 33%.
(6) The case of a male infant suffering from clinical manifest galactosemia in connexion with a disease of only about 70% in uridyltransferase activity is characterized as atypical galactosemia.
(7) The other had left isomerism (quasi solitus) with an ambiguous atrioventricular connexion (quasi discordant).
(8) First impressions suggested that the ventriculo-arterial connexion was concordant, but sectioning the heart showed it to be double outlet from the right ventricle.
(9) It is mainly characterized by the appearance in the paracortical area of numerous immunoblasts which are in close connexions with'dendritic' macrophages showing multiple long cytoplasmic expansions.
(10) This showed that connexions of C-RSNs with dorsal neck motoneurones were muscle specific.
(11) The right connexion of the patient, who should inhale in a closed system is important for an effective treatment.
(12) It is suggested that the segmental reflex connexions play a role in controlling bladder and rectal continence.
(13) Monosynaptic connexions were sought between bulbospinal inspiratory neurones and inspiratory motoneurones of the C5 phrenic nerve or the intercostal nerves of up to six segments in the anaesthetized cat; they were identified by the presence of narrow peaks in cross-correlation histograms constructed from the spontaneous discharges of these neurones.
(14) Some of the functional implications of these vascular connexions are discussed, particularly the influence of the islet hormones insulin, glucagon and somatostatin upon the exocrine cells.
(15) The try of validation of the clinical characters in comparison with the etiology has shown that Chemosis was an indicator of a bacterial conjunctivitis (OR = 2.4) and that the lack of purulent discharge was in connexion with the presence of a keratitis (OR = 7.7).
(16) We describe a case with supero-inferior relations of the ventricles in which the atrio-ventricular and the ventriculo-arterial connexions were concordant and the interventricular septum was intact.
(17) Thus, cross-sectional echocardiography coupled with a range-gated Doppler system provide accurate anatomical details of the atrioventricular junction and reliable assessment of atrioventricular valvar regurgitation in patients with univentricular atrioventricular connexion.
(18) In 10 out of 31 cases of tricuspid atresia (absent atrioventricular connexion), gross examination of the morphologically right ventricle suggested the presence of a tiny inlet portion in addition to the trabecular portion.
(19) No fatal complications occurred in connexion with prosthesis implantation.
(20) The second case showed usual atrial arrangement, a discordant atrioventricular connexion with an imperforate left atrioventricular orifice and double outlet right ventricle with the aorta in the right-sided position.