What's the difference between fess and ness?

Fess


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Fesse

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These details were analysed by computer to identify common factors in the small percentage of patients who present with persistent recurring sinusitis after FESS.
  • (2) This retrospective analysis presents the management and outcome of 16 children (less than 16 years) and 47 adults who had revision FESS.
  • (3) He claimed 99.9% of the transactions were clean, although he did fess up to $14m of accidental dealings.
  • (4) Three different vasoconstricting agents were evaluated during functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) in 57 children.
  • (5) So I think it's time we atheists 'fessed up and admitted that life without God can sometimes be pretty grim.
  • (6) No one in the party will fess up to it, but it often gives the appearance of following what Australian politicians call a "small target strategy", giving away precious little about what it may or may not have planned, so as to give the Tories as little to attack as possible.
  • (7) Preoperative radiologic and intraoperative endoscopic findings of maxillary and ethmoid sinuses were compared in 75 adult patients, in whom 135 chronically inflamed maxillary sinuses were operated using functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS).
  • (8) In our institution, 0.05% oxymetazoline is the preferred vasoconstrictor for FESS in children.
  • (9) As a rule, functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) is recommended for patients with chronic sinus problems that do not respond to medical treatment.
  • (10) Functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) requires cadaver-based practice to acquire the necessary technical expertise.
  • (11) Over the past few months Michael Fallon has repeatedly told the Commons that no British servicemen would be deployed in Syria without another vote: under the pressure of a freedom of information request, Mr Airfix had last Friday been forced to fess up that a few Brits had already flown on US strikes on Syria.
  • (12) To report our experience with the radiographic evaluation of severe complications resulting from the functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) procedure.
  • (13) The other, a 13-year-old girl, with an antro-choanal polyp underwent FESS only.
  • (14) Based on the experiences of these two cases, FESS appears to be very helpful in treating children with choanal polyp and paranasal sinusitis.
  • (15) FESS provides a relatively atraumatic means of removing polyps and creating better sinus drainage.
  • (16) To enable this to be undertaken as a bench-top activity the Edinburgh FESS Training system has been developed.
  • (17) Although the ostiomeatal unit is the central feature in sinonasal inflammatory disease, obstruction of the infundibulum alone or of the sphenoethmoidal recess can cause unique inflammatory patterns of disease that require tailored FESS.
  • (18) Two hundred patients with chronic sinusitis were operated on using functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) techniques.
  • (19) The government has fessed up that four of the country's troubled lenders would need a further €24bn to withstand a worse-than-expected performance by the economy, and even that colossal sum is likely to prove an underestimate.
  • (20) For a period of 3 to 36 months, we followed the recovery of 210 children who underwent FESS between 1986 and 1989.

Ness


Definition:

  • (n.) A promontory; a cape; a headland.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I have equated nationalism with racism, xenophobia, inward-looking-ness and militarism.
  • (2) These are some of the finest Neolithic monuments in the world, and in 1999 they were given World Heritage status by Unesco, an act that led directly to the discovery of the Ness of Brodgar.
  • (3) It was a successful breeding season for avocets - black and white wading birds - at Orford Ness in Suffolk, despite a lack of mud for feeding.
  • (4) I certainly wouldn't have been able to tell you the difference between palaeontologists searching for ancient bones, and the search for the Loch Ness Monster.
  • (5) His insistence on the incomparable virtues of “Thai-ness” and traditional core values, and his self-proclaimed mission to restore “happiness to the people”, have invited open ridicule, even though the media and institutions are closely controlled.
  • (6) 7.27pm GMT “So looking at the team sheets I see Schweini is back,” observers Eirik Ness.
  • (7) This is the temple complex of the Ness of Brodgar, and its size, complexity and sophistication have left archaeologists desperately struggling to find superlatives to describe the wonders they found there.
  • (8) The next time Tobin bumped into Issing, he said cheerfully: "Here I am, the Loch Ness monster still!"
  • (9) The v-myb oncogene of the acute avian leukemia virus E26 encodes a transcription factor that directly regulates the promyelocyte-specific mim-1 gene (Ness, S.A., Marknell, A. and Graf, T. Cell, 59, 1115-1125).
  • (10) Empirical evidence suggests that exclusionary understandings of the nation, of Australia and Australian-ness as white and Christian allow for a narrow sense of belonging.
  • (11) "I find myself thinking about what is the core me-ness in me.
  • (12) Almost at John O'Groats, the beach at Ness of Duncansby sometimes has masses of shells.
  • (13) It also sets a great example – my three-year-old has now collected finisher’s medals at Ironkids and Loch Ness Marathon and loves being outside because that’s what mummy and daddy do.
  • (14) Amy Winehouse was the first name to be discussed , but not long after the singer appeared to have been dropped - mostly because of her Amy Winehouse-ness .
  • (15) She then went on to deny that her tweets about 12 Years A Slave at the Oscars were racist before concluding: "I don't want to bore you with real genuine-ness because I know that then you'll start to go online, so I'm can't really even answer any of your questions with any sort of earnestness."
  • (16) A packed schedule will see the company travelling all around the UK, from the Temple Enclosure in Epping Forest to Ness Botanic Garden in South Wirral, from Brading Roman Villa on the Isle of Wight to Crathes Castle in Aberdeenshire.
  • (17) She wears her New Yorker-ness brazenly, proudly, on her sleeve.
  • (18) On his return to the clinic, David tells me about his journey back and how strangely dislocated he felt from his surroundings, and the ordinary-ness of the world going on around him.
  • (19) In an earlier study we found that different forms of the v-myb oncogene transform myeloid cells which resemble either monoblasts [when v-myb of avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV) was used] or promyelocytes [when a point mutant in v-myb of AMV was used; Introna, M., Golay, J., Frampton J., Nakano, T., Ness, S.A. & Graf, T. (1990).
  • (20) The corporate-ness has got to such a point where we've essentially been told that we don't exist.