What's the difference between facsimile and telefax?

Facsimile


Definition:

  • (n.) A copy of anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact copy or likeness.
  • (v. t.) To make a facsimile of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Detection of estrus in mares is problematic in that it requires the presence (or at least facsimile acoustic or tactile stimuli) or a stallion.
  • (2) A facsimile of the 1-page labor chart provided by the Ministry of Health and used at all maternity clinics in Malawi is described.
  • (3) Radiologists interpreted the transferred data (12 CT images on a film) on the CRT and sent back a written report to NTH using facsimile.
  • (4) Often tubules of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) are found in apposition to the facsimile-lines; thus it appears that association of SR tubules with desmosomes is responsible for the formation of imaged-desmosomes.
  • (5) The amount of antibody in the tumor (tumor content) and the tumor:normal tissue antibody concentration ratio (uptake ratio) were calculated over 12 days from injection, using the computer program FACSIMILE to solve the stiff nonlinear differential equations describing the system.
  • (6) The Conservatives last week turned to M&C Saatchi to reinvigorate their election campaign after two much- lampooned and spoofed efforts, while the launch of a guerrilla ad campaign, positioning Labour and the Tories as failed political facsimiles, is thought to have helped the Lib Dems.
  • (7) We are not bringing back the original, but a facsimile.
  • (8) Among the problems, it has proven difficult to apply dosage forms to membranes mounted in in vitro diffusion cells in facsimile to the manner in which the dosage forms are applied clinically.
  • (9) These results indicated that cell-free transcription under these conditions was a close facsimile of NDV transcription in vivo.
  • (10) "The challenge is to get people to visit the facsimile and say: my god, I can't tell the difference – and what's more, there are things I can experience in the facsimile that I can't in the original," said Lowe.
  • (11) After extraction histologic examination of the facsimile showed that it consisted of an outer form-giving thin layer ocal bone and a system of spongious bone surrounded by marrow with haemopoetic cells.
  • (12) The facsimile epithelioid cells had considerable secretory activity for a range of macrophage enzymes.
  • (13) We can only hope the Rice family and their attorneys will use a portion of this settlement to help educate the youth of Cleveland in the dangers associated with the mishandling of both real and facsimile firearms,” Stephen Loomis, the president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association, said in a statement.
  • (14) How has any artist learned from the past other than through study and facsimile?” Another responded : “No memorising anything you see.
  • (15) Over a 30-month period, 24 portable facsimile telecopiers were placed in rural hospitals with delivery services, allowing 24-hour direct transmission of fetal heart rate tracings for consultation.
  • (16) "We want people going to both, and tweeting and blogging and saying: this is a very interesting moment in the history of conservation, we understand the problem, and the facsimile is better than the original."
  • (17) In a world that has become increasingly smaller with the aid of modern air travel, computers and facsimile machines, the European Community's efforts toward harmonization are applauded by the Animal Health Institute, representing the major U.S. manufacturers of veterinary biological products.
  • (18) In turn, the facsimile terminal can confidentially transmit a copy of a poisoned victim's emergency record to the poison center.
  • (19) In the Osaka area, a very satisfactory surveillance system of infectious diseases has been achieved with the establishment of a weekly facsimile network, and computer aided graphics and feedback system.
  • (20) Flow-phantom magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, with use of both spin-echo (SE) and gradient-echo (GRE) techniques at 1.5 T, was performed on the percutaneous Greenfield (beta-III titanium alloy [TMA wire]), Amplatz (MP32-N alloy), and Simon nitinol filters and TMA wire facsimiles of the bird's nest, Gunther, new retrievable, and Amplatz vena caval filters.

Telefax


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recipients of telefax materials who answered questions about the purpose, timeliness, and quality of the materials were generally well pleased.
  • (2) We concluded that our patient had an occupational hand contact dermatitis induced by telefax paper and possibly caused by colophony allergy.
  • (3) The patient has now been relocated, does not handle telefax paper, and is symptomless.
  • (4) The colophony content of the telefax paper was about 1%, and it was possible that colophony in the telefax paper was responsible for the weak path test reactions.
  • (5) A nonatopic female secretary developed hand dermatitis after 1 year of full-time work with telefax paper.
  • (6) One participant from Hungary has been able to participate in the network by using telefax.
  • (7) In 3 patch test sessions, her own telefax papers gave a doubtful reaction which persisted for 4 days, but it could not be determined whether the reactions were allergic or irritant.

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