What's the difference between evanesce and mist?

Evanesce


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To vanish away; to become dissipated and disappear, like vapor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is based on the selective evanescent field excitation of ligands adsorbed to supported planar bilayers on argon-sputtered glass plates.
  • (2) The reproducibility of findings on repeated examinations must mean that there is a local anatomical basis for the muscular impressions seen and that such contractions do not represent evanescent peristaltic type activity.
  • (3) Adult-onset Still's disease is characterized by high spiking fever, evanescent maculopapular rash and arthritis.
  • (4) As a follow-up of a preliminary trial, the therapeutic results obtained in 40 cases of acute and chronic dermatitis by the topical application of 10-undecen-1-yl-pseudothiourea hydroiodide (AHR-1911) in an evanescent vehicle containing triethanolamine stearate are presented.
  • (5) Digital ischaemia in the presence of an otherwise well-perfused foot in the non-diabetic patient presents diagnostic problems especially as the manifestations are frequently evanescent.
  • (6) Recently, we saw a patient with bilateral uveitis, evanescent cranial nerve palsies, and other clinical manifestations suggesting central nervous system and ocular sarcoidosis.
  • (7) The appropriate diagnosis of this syndrome may be overlooked because its presentation is frequently delayed, and its symptoms and signs are varied and frequently evanescent.
  • (8) Another young woman developed unilateral multiple evanescent white dot syndrome and central macular lesions typical of acute macular neuroretinopathy that appeared soon after the peripheral macular and juxtapapillary white lesions resolved.
  • (9) A combination of fluorescence excitation in the evanescent field and fluorescence recovery after photobleaching allowed us to measure the amount of adsorbed fluorescent lysozyme and the equilibrium exchange kinetics with molecules in solution.
  • (10) This aspect is usually described as "multiple evanescent white dot syndrome".
  • (11) That is, any water or choline group structure may be evanescent on this time scale.
  • (12) Lesions in the stomach generally disappeared in several days despite the continuation of stress; some duodenal lesions were equally evanescent, but in 2 monkeys, lesions lasted over a week.
  • (13) In contrast to these evanescent developmental sites, oxytocin receptors in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus only appeared in adulthood, presumably in response to the surge of gonadal steroids at puberty.
  • (14) The contention of the author is that--instead-sound bio-social principles, easily available from child psychiatry as a field, would provide a dynamic substructure that would not be voguish and evanescent.
  • (15) Multiple evanescent white-dot syndrome recurred in two men (23 and 44 years of age, respectively).
  • (16) The depression improved only evanescently after 17 ECT sessions but the hypothalamic-pituitary suppression cleared completely and permanently, based on responses to four metyrapone stress tests in a 2-year follow-up period.
  • (17) The clinical picture of these cases is differentiated from acute inflammatory diseases primarily involving the retinal pigment epithelium and photoreceptors, and conforms to the multiple evanescent white dot syndrome that has recently been found in residents of the midwest region of the United States of America.
  • (18) Shifts in extracellular calcium either from high to low concentrations or vice versa elicited similar evanescent increases in expression of mRNA with a peak at 1 h. Synthesis of the peptide seems to be controlled by mRNA expression, and peptide in the medium appears to be continuously degraded or taken up by cells because its concentration in the medium showed a time course similar to that of mRNA expression.
  • (19) Thus, late potentials were both common and evanescent in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus.
  • (20) The derived intensity profiles are used to develop expressions for the shapes of fluorescence photobleaching recovery curves when evanescent interference patterns are used for fluorescence excitation and bleaching.

Mist


Definition:

  • (n.) Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.
  • (n.) Coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible particles, approaching the form of rain; as, Scotch mist.
  • (n.) Hence, anything which dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.
  • (v. t.) To cloud; to cover with mist; to dim.
  • (v. i.) To rain in very fine drops; as, it mists.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
  • (2) Follow-up of a cohort of 1,165 steelworkers exposed to acid mists has been extended from 1981 to early 1986 for most cohort members, and information on smoking has also been collected.
  • (3) The sensitivity and specificity of cold air, ultrasonically nebulized distilled water mist (USM), and standard methacholine (MCH) challenges were studied in 21 children with asthma (mean age 11.5 years) and 12 normal children (mean age 14.2 years).
  • (4) Physicians and investigators should be aware of the striking effects of this compound, now widely used as a street drug "angel's mist" of "angel's dust", on neurophysiological functions.
  • (5) Migraine is the commonest form among the so-called primary headaches and the description of its clinical picture is lost in the mists of time.
  • (6) It appears that aerosol and mist treatments designed as epidemic control measures can be adapted to long-term preventive control of A. aegypti.
  • (7) Calves were exposed twice to aerosol mists of viable P haemolytica, using a treatment regimen previously shown to induce a resistant state.
  • (8) The patient herself associated the respiratory disease with a cool-mist humidifier sometimes used at work.
  • (9) Pregnant Myotis lucifugus were captured in mist nets set outside a large maternity colony and, in most cases, were examined 12-15 hours later.
  • (10) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
  • (11) For long periods of life he travelled in the mist of depression.
  • (12) In adult men the left half of the head was covered with thick heat insulation, and the right hemiface was cooled by spraying a mist of water, and vigorous fanning.
  • (13) At one point, he and his fellow militias set up base in Virunga national park, famed for its gorillas in the mist , where they survived by eating monkeys and sometimes even elephants.
  • (14) Wilmshurst's remarks concerned a trial which he himself designed, called MIST, to find out whether closing small holes in the heart with one of NMT's medical devices could stop migraines – there is evidence of a link.
  • (15) Secondly, these patients' anecdotal experiences are entirely misleading: the MIST trial was negative (though I can find no mention of the MIST trial's final results anywhere on the NMT site, which is odd, because it's the only published trial I'm aware of that tests whether NMT's device prevents migraine).
  • (16) Data collected on various types of filters (dust and mist; dust, fume, and mist; paint, lacquer, and enamel mist; and high efficiency) challenged with a worst case-type sodium chloride (NaCl) and dioctyl phthalate (DOP) aerosol are presented.
  • (17) How many other "invisible" stories are out there, shrouded by thick legal mist?
  • (18) The lens was adhered to the eye for 35 min by periodically misting the eye with distilled water; during this time the records of eye position showed that the lens remained firmly attached to the eye.
  • (19) In conclusion, the finding that adenomas and adenocarcinomas were observed in mice exposed to chromic acid mist suggests the need to give careful attention to the possibility of respiratory cancers in chromium electroplating workers.
  • (20) Snare describes the portrait quite clearly: the young Charles with his large liquid eyes and pale face, appearing in three-quarter view without rigidity or outline, the painting as airy as mist (and the prince too young for Van Dyck, who only portrayed Charles in his 30s).

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