What's the difference between deceased and vigil?

Deceased


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Decease
  • (a.) Passed away; dead; gone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lord Thomson of Monifieth , the now deceased chairman of the political honours scrutiny committee, was a former Labour minister but then sat in the Lords as a Liberal Democrat peer.
  • (2) In the court of appeal, an agreement was arrived at between the widow of the deceased and the third-party insurance of the person responsible for the accident.
  • (3) When Jones was a governor, regular board meetings were held in which they could quiz management about editorial decisions ,as former chairman such as the now deceased Marmaduke Hussey regularly did.
  • (4) We describe the concurrence of severe distal osteolysis, mental retardation, short stature, and characteristic facial appearance with maxillary hypoplasia and relative exophthalmos in two adult sibs, a 57-year-old woman and her deceased brother.
  • (5) The DNA was extracted from paraffin-embedded brain tissue of two deceased patients, and from blood leukocytes of nine healthy persons at risk.
  • (6) The following cardiovascular lesions were operated: large aortopulmonary septal defects, localized just above the valvular rings in 2 patients with severe pulmonary hypertension, with very good effect in both; tetralogy of Fallot - in 2 babies, in one with good effect; congenital mitral obstruction with pulmonary hypertension in one case, with good effect; total anomalous pulmonary venous return of supracardiac type in one child, decreased 1 week following operation; type 1 complete transposition of great arteries in one baby, deceased one day following operation; large ventricular septal defects, with systemic or nearly systemic pulmonary hypertension in 5 children, in one with long-term good effect.
  • (7) She was found, deceased, after 30 days of being missing and nobody willing to take a report.” (O’Leary said she didn’t believe either case was related to trafficking.)
  • (8) The impact of early childhood loss, identification with the deceased, chronic grief, delayed grief, exaggerated or masked grief, and the death of a dream are discussed, and clinical examples are used to illustrate concepts of intervention.
  • (9) Decease (7 cases) should be explained by delay in diagnosis and therapy.
  • (10) For this kind of determination cases of deceased persons with damaged brain or cases with too high an absorbance did not prove suitable.
  • (11) When the remains were found, there was no idea who the deceased might be.
  • (12) The vast majority believe that the family should not be able to override the previously expressed wishes of their recently deceased loved one.
  • (13) Obama said he had contacted families of the deceased and indicated to them that the release was inappropriate.
  • (14) They had announced Thursday that "as a result of our public appeal for help, a courageous and compassionate individual came forward to provide the assistance needed to properly bury the deceased."
  • (15) In a story splashed across every major local newspaper, Rajab was accused of tweeting a photo that differed (albeit only slightly) from the official photo of the deceased released by the interior ministry.
  • (16) Overall mortality rates of parents of deceased diabetics were higher than those of the general population, reaching statistical significance in the age group 35-44 years (p less than 0.05).
  • (17) All the previous three patients are deceased, and this is the only known surviving patient.
  • (18) However, we have established that they were particulary numerous in the pituitary of six infants suddendly deceased.
  • (19) The disorder was, apparently, transmitted by the deceased father, who manifestly did not have an IGD deficiency nor any of the midline stigmata associated with IGD.
  • (20) Despite several attempts of cardiorespiratory resuscitation the patient deceased.

Vigil


Definition:

  • (v. i.) Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch.
  • (v. i.) Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises.
  • (v. i.) Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast.
  • (v. i.) Later, the day and the night preceding a feast.
  • (v. i.) A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, the firing of 5-HT neurons appears to relate to the state of vigilance of the animal.
  • (2) Of course the job is not done and we will continue to remain vigilant to all risks, particularly when the global economic situation is so uncertain,” the chancellor said in a statement.
  • (3) The functional properties of the auditory projections to the somatosensory zones S2 and S were studied by recording evoked potentials in anesthetized and vigil unrestrained cats.
  • (4) The low incidence of pneumonia regardless of the type of therapy may be attributable to vigorous, vigilant respiratory care in a population at high risk for developing pneumonia.
  • (5) In the midst of all the newspaper headlines and vigils you can sometimes lose sight of the man who was on death row.
  • (6) Then the question of the long term vigilance of all infants and children with AIDS should be done.
  • (7) In order to quantitate the reequency characteristics of the EEG obtained from these subcortical sites (nucleus raphé dorsalis, area postrema, as well as anatomical controls adjacent to these regions) during the different vigilance states (waking, slow-wave sleep, REM sleep) in the cat, power spectral analyses techniques were employed.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A child praying at the vigil site for Freddie Gray in Baltimore.
  • (9) Failure to check, lack of vigilance and inattention or carelessness were the most frequently associated factors with the rest of the reports.
  • (10) The effects of zopiclone on the amount of time spent at each vigilance level have been studied in freely moving rats.
  • (11) You should maintain particular vigilance during this time.
  • (12) Bilateral destruction or functional elimination of either hypnogenic region is followed by increased vigilance and insomnia.
  • (13) One hundred children referred for evaluation of attention and learning problems were administered a battery of tests including two vigilance tasks, other laboratory measures of inattention and impulsivity, and parent and teacher ratings.
  • (14) There is, of course, a place for regulatory vigilance, for forcing entire institutions to clean up after themselves by paying hefty fines, and weeding out bad practices.
  • (15) Organic cerebral lesion, disorders of activity and vigilance, longterm psychopharmacotherapy, alteration of condition by acute internal disease and perhaps disorders of the liver are considered to be risks of death by bolus.
  • (16) Vigils have been held in Cairo for the victims of EgyptAir flight 804 as a French navy ship headed to join the deep-sea search in the Mediterranean for the main wreckage and flight recorders.
  • (17) Medilog tape-recorders were used to record EEG and EOG on 5 males and 5 females during a 45 min visual vigilance test.
  • (18) In addition, habitual use increased sensitivity and reduced accuracy, and acute ingestion increased vigilance response time in the presence of white noise.
  • (19) Extra vigilance and information can be provided by numerous electronic aids that also introduce error, distraction and cost.
  • (20) a) Limbic structures contribute to the dynamic synthesis of contemporary information, by reason of their share in mechanisms: I. of modulatory central control in the production and transmission of sensory messages, 2. in the genesis of states of vigilance, especially the focussing of attention.