What's the difference between emanation and miasma?

Emanation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin.
  • (n.) That which issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a source; efflux; an effluence; as, perfume is an emanation from a flower.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At surgery, upon incision of the paravertebral muscle fascia, viscous pale fluid was encountered emanating from a foramen in the thoracic lamina.
  • (2) Distal stimuli emanating from the female or pups induce proximity by provoking orientation, attention and arousal; the meaning of these stimuli is largely learned by conditioned associations during the initial executions of the behavior, although odors may have a prepotent influence for some individuals.
  • (3) This finding of dual viral infections of the intestine and lung in patients with concomitant enteritis and pneumonia provides a basis for symptoms emanating simultaneously from these two organ systems.
  • (4) We suggest that command signals emanating from the hypothalamus provide the primary drive for changes of respiration and circulation during exercise.
  • (5) This signal, which is a function of the density of head nerve cells, emanates from the head tissue and exerts global control on the growth of the interstitial cell population in the body column.
  • (6) Subjects in the 10-year follow-up, however, demonstrated considerable psychopathology, which was hypothesized as emanating in part from unresolved fears of loss of control experienced at the time of the traumatic event.
  • (7) Prostatitis is usually employed to describe any unexplained symptom or condition that might possibly emanate from a disorder of the prostate gland.
  • (8) This disparity from testicular lymphatic drainage of the rat suggests that the immunologic privilege, if any, in mice and guinea pigs has an alternative explanation (e.g., lymphatic effect of steroidal factors emanating from the testicles or adrenal gland and altering the response to foreign graft).
  • (9) In the study area, Cu and Zn emanate from sewage and boat slips (antifouling paints), while Zn probably also originates from coolant water from an electricity power generating station and iron ore exporting facilities.
  • (10) Cautery off the midline produced asymmetries in the pattern of pupal commitment; when placed close to the midline, such cauteries prevented pupal commitment in the region "downstream" of the cautery, suggesting that a signal (diffusible or transducible) emanates from the midline.
  • (11) However, these specimens have also shown incipient cracks in the acrylic cement that emanate from and connect defects in the cement mantle and at the metal-cement interface.
  • (12) Some say the recent rush for rhino horn emanates from Vietnam, where, a few years ago, rumors circulated that a prominent politician had been cured of cancer by consuming it.
  • (13) Because of the rapidly progressing nature of the lesion, apparently emanating from the alveolar soft tissues, a diagnosis of cancrum oris was made.
  • (14) Members of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Special Interest Division on Voice were asked to rate statements which emanated from a previously conducted national survey regarding the practice of voice therapy (Larson and Mueller, 1991).
  • (15) The results demonstrated that divers are able to discriminate among signals emanating from acoustic sources at various distances underwater and to do so at levels well above chance.
  • (16) But facing more questions on the matter, Radebe said: "This press conference was called to look at issues emanating from the State of the Nation Address… So I'm issuing orders that the questions [regarding the case of] Oscar Pistorius will not be answered in this press conference."
  • (17) Samples of ash from eastern bituminous coal, western bituminous coal and mid-western bituminous coal with aerodynamic equivalent diameters of less than 15 micron were examined, and the measured emanation coefficients ranged from 0.098 down to 0.007.
  • (18) At the Sunnylands resort in California, Obama disputed the suggestion that recent disclosures had undermined his talks with premier Xi, saying US concerns over hacking alleged to be emanating from China , which the administration hoped to address at the summit, were distinct from the controversy surrounding NSA surveillance programs.
  • (19) It's worth noting that because the piece appeared on theguardian.com, many readers felt it had emanated from the Guardian .
  • (20) triseriatus and Haemagogus equinus), were used in a flight chamber in which females must fly upwind against the direction of the sound waves and around the ultrasonic devices to reach a trap downwind of a source of human breath and skin emanations.

Miasma


Definition:

  • (n.) Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So many young female tennis players look like dolls, the confusion of woman with (sex) doll is almost natural for the broadcaster swimming in the miasma of his own idiocy.
  • (2) The casual organisms were considered to be miasmas -- noxious emanations -- or "contagia" i.e.
  • (3) Nothing seems quite above board in a miasma of Windrush and Firerush nameplates , out of sight, mind and national boundary.
  • (4) Non-contagionists put forward several hypotheses to explain the origin and the spreading of cholera, mainly "miasma" theory and the Hippocratic paradigm of "epidemic constitution".
  • (5) The doctrinal differences help explain how LET has maintained a distinctive character in the miasma of Pakistani militancy.
  • (6) British Toryism, nowadays synonymous with Conservatism, has never escaped its metaphor miasma.
  • (7) If the pinnacle of urban living is refuse-clogged open drainage which, when sun warmed, emits the most noxious miasmas that mingle with generator exhaust, then get me to the countryside.
  • (8) The violence and the horror it has hosted in recent decades coats it like a sticky, stinking miasma.
  • (9) Yet the high hopes of a coherent, funded effort that would spread clean technology through the developing world, while supporting subsistence farmers to adapt new methods to improve sustainability, have been bogged down in a mess of broken promises and mistrust, and a miasma of acronyms and initials.
  • (10) When the Heat came up with promising offensive possessions in key spots, they would, more often than not, just fizzle out in a miasma of misses, turnovers and bad fouls.
  • (11) The actual culprit was sewage in drinking water (as the Soho doctor John Snow deduced in the 1850s), yet the miasma theory was nonetheless useful in developing city infrastructure, as it encouraged the authorities to clean up.
  • (12) To these concerns can be added: the shortages of qualified teachers in some subjects; the shortage of school places in some areas where local authorities have been prevented from building; baseline testing of four-year-olds; the “foul miasma of Ofsted” (as one teachers’ union general secretary recently described it); surveys showing a quarter of different age groups of children expressing a dislike of school; and the 1% cap on teachers’ salaries over the past five years.
  • (13) Without luck, some analysts foresee a mini-Iraq in the making, a new miasma of civil war, fragmentation and sectarian conflict.
  • (14) Like all other epidemics, they were thought to be attributed to a miasma transported by the air and resulting from bad vapours, and it was for two milleniums that this remained the explanation for infectiosity.
  • (15) The politics of miasma, where words matter more than facts and actions, lets the Tea Party demand the impossible – debt reduction with tax cuts, spending cuts without touching the gargantuan defence budget.
  • (16) That vacuum had to be filled in order for the status quo – the miasma of relationships between the state, organised crime, freemasonry and commerce – to remain intact.
  • (17) The event occurred before the bacteriological era, when fear of cholera caused by a miasma gripped the city.
  • (18) The early Victorians had their own theory about what caused cholera, that it was "spread by miasmas," he says, "which are basically bad smells.
  • (19) One attributed the occurrence of miasma to this component.
  • (20) The Prince of Wales's vision may be intuited from Highgrove, a miasma of upper-middle-class over-stuffing.

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