What's the difference between eyesight and vision?

Eyesight


Definition:

  • (n.) Sight of the eye; the sense of seeing; view; observation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 2001 Sorensen suffered a stroke, which seriously damaged his eyesight, but he continued to be involved in a number of organisations, including the Council on Foreign Relations and other charitable and public bodies, until a second stroke in October 2010.
  • (2) And the question of his eyesight and how it has affected him has dogged him ever since.
  • (3) Major or complete loss of eyesight is a serious interference with the activity and life of the affected subject.
  • (4) The average person uses three mechanisms to control their balance; their feet, the inner ear and eyesight.
  • (5) Many serious disorders that threaten eyesight can now be treated with vitreoretinal surgery.
  • (6) The child regained her eyesight and had no further neurological problems.
  • (7) Deterioration of eyesight after the operation is ascribed to the duration of the high intraocular pressure and gradual progression of the proliferative diabetic retinopathy.
  • (8) Either he was rejected for poor eyesight; or he failed to enlist and instead joined up as an ambulance driver.
  • (9) Rhian Kelly, head of climate change at the CBI , said: "When we talk to members, the majority of them say the government has climate change firmly within its eyesight, and in that sense, national policy is a far larger driver."
  • (10) "There has been absolutely no deterioration in my eyesight ….
  • (11) "It could affect a few organs, his eyesight, his hearing, and it can attack muscles too.
  • (12) These discoveries led to the use of the seed of the species as an eye medicine for improving the eyesight, and as a tonic for the increase of strength and the elevation of spirit.
  • (13) Old Man Trump’s eyesight is failing, and he can’t stop trying to nonconsensually force his tongue into his nurse’s mouth.
  • (14) Members of two Leber families previously published in 1944 (Lundsgård) and 1968 (Seedorff), were traced during the years 1968-1980 and questioned in 1981 about their eyesight.
  • (15) A study in the Lancet, published in 2014, also claimed to have established a “clear cause–effect relationship” between the use of poppers and eyesight damage since the product’s main ingredient isobutyl nitrite was substituted for isopropyl nitrite following changes to legislation in 2006.
  • (16) By the end of his career, his poor eyesight meant he conducted entirely from memory.
  • (17) "My father is traumatised and depressed with the loss of his eyesight.
  • (18) (2) Last week, Bolshoi dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko was found guilty of ordering an acid attack that damaged the eyesight of the company's artistic director, Sergei Filin.
  • (19) Time losses for a curative and diagnostic consultation and provision of medical care to invalids of the Ist group with eyesight disorders exceeded the time necessary for rendering care to those who could see by 31-34%.
  • (20) Brown's allies thought the attack unreasonable because the prime minister's handwriting is affected by his poor eyesight.

Vision


Definition:

  • (v.) The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.
  • (v.) The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve.
  • (v.) That which is seen; an object of sight.
  • (v.) Especially, that which is seen otherwise than by the ordinary sight, or the rational eye; a supernatural, prophetic, or imaginary sight; an apparition; a phantom; a specter; as, the visions of Isaiah.
  • (v.) Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
  • (v. t.) To see in a vision; to dream.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
  • (2) A total of 104 evaluable patients 20-90 years old treated by direct vision internal urethrotomy a.m. Sachse for urethral strictures reported retrospectively via a questionnaire their sexual potency before and after internal urethrotomy.
  • (3) In the present study, 125 oesophageal biopsies obtained under direct vision at endoscopy from 22 patients with Barrett's oesophagus were systematically studied using fluorescence and peroxidase antiperoxidase single and double-staining immunocytochemical methods employing highly specific antibodies to localize the following peptide-containing cell types in Barrett's mucosa: gastrin, somatostatin, gastric inhibitory polypeptide, motilin, neurotensin and pancreatic glucagon.
  • (4) At this threshold there was no effect on reducing the rate of visual acuity overreferrals, but ten children with abnormal binocular vision were detected who were not referred by visual acuity criteria.
  • (5) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
  • (6) Case 3 was that of a 70-year-old female with left impaired vision and frontal headache.
  • (7) While the correlations between speed and accuracy reversed over time, the abnormal vision group began and ended at the most extreme levels, having undergone a significantly more radical shift in this regard.
  • (8) Adaptation at 10 deg eccentricity yielded slightly higher threshold elevations than for central vision.
  • (9) The ceremony is the much-anticipated shop window for the Games, and Boyle was brought in to provide the creative vision.
  • (10) Acini in the parotid gland of the North American mink (Mustela vision) are composed of seromucous cells that contain secretory granules of peculiar morphology.
  • (11) Drones and helicopter strikes are not equipped with political night-vision.
  • (12) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
  • (13) A 40 year old female presented with secondary glaucoma and loss of vision due to anterior pole metastasis of breast carcinoma.
  • (14) We present a patient with unilateral progressive painless loss of vision leading to optic atrophy and blindness.
  • (15) Proposed guidelines for future research include the use of conceptual rather than operational definitions of visual spatial ability, greater attention directed at separating spatial from nonspatial task components, and studies examining basic mechanisms underlying spatial vision.
  • (16) Repeated replacements of keratoprostheses extruded or removed because of complications were possible with restoration of the vision obtained after the first implantation.
  • (17) Whatever else Scott is about, Waverley ends with a vision of Britishness and a British union.
  • (18) The external and internal rear-view mirrors of automobiles should be positioned within the binocular field of vision.
  • (19) We address this issue directly over a 5-log10-unit range of light levels covering scotopic, mesopic, and photopic vision.
  • (20) Ocular disorders had been found in 62% of the cases, commonly represented by blindness of one eye, decreased vision, papillar edema and eventually by occlusion of the retineal artery.