What's the difference between fesse and fosse?

Fesse


Definition:

  • (n.) A band drawn horizontally across the center of an escutcheon, and containing in breadth the third part of it; one of the nine honorable ordinaries.

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.

Fosse


Definition:

  • (n.) A ditch or moat.
  • (n.) See Fossa.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The method by Fosse et al, for in vivo microhardness measurements can bring good results in practice according to the investigations.
  • (2) I asked Jon Fosse how close they were, and he said, 'I don't know, but in the period of time in the play they are very close.'
  • (3) Property sources said Asda was looking at reducing the size of as many as 10 stores including Pudsey in Leeds, Fosse Park in Leicester, and Watford in Hertfordshire.
  • (4) OS Map: Explorer OL4: The Lake District: north-western area Janet's Foss & Malham Cove Yorkshire Dales Janet's Foss waterfall at Malham, North Yorkshire.
  • (5) Changes in the vasomotion waveform were studied in transverse arterioles (TAs) and their first-order side branches (FOSs) in the tenuissimus muscle of 14 young, anesthetized rabbits during stepwise arterial pressure reduction and local application of adenosine using intravital video microscopy.
  • (6) Because the onsets of dilation always occur synchronously in TAs and FOSs, but the onsets of constriction do not, vasomotion seems to be a series of rhythmic dilations.
  • (7) Householders in York were warned their homes faced flooding after pumps failed on the river Foss, and train services were disrupted in West Yorkshire.
  • (8) Females scored significantly higher on the FOSS than did males; the FOSS was positively related to Horner's projective measure of fear of success, and negatively related to Mehrabian's measure of achievement motivation; subjects (both males and females) with high scores on the FOSS (a) performed less well on an anagram test, (b) attributed success more to external factors, and (c) attributed failure more to internal factors than subjects with low scores on the FOSS.
  • (9) Another new project, I Am the Wind , is every bit as multinational – a translation of a text by Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse , shortly to be staged at the Young Vic by veteran French director Patrice Chéreau.
  • (10) One such place was a grim-looking slag heap officially called Fosse No 4 in Ferfay, Nord–Pas-de-Calais.
  • (11) The authors studied by in vivo methods (Fosse et al.
  • (12) Although air studies remain useful, angiography of vessels of the posterior foss is assuming a dominant role in diagnosis and surgical planning.
  • (13) According to Stephens: "It imagines the possibility of turning back time, but Fosse creates a rather horrifying loop, whereby no matter how many times you turn back time you find you can't change it.
  • (14) The Crown Estate is also the fifth largest owner of retail parks outside of London and is the frontrunner to spend £350m buying the Fosse shopping park in Leicester, amid a recovery in consumer spending.
  • (15) The jewel in the crown is the waterfall at Janet's Foss and its secret cave, which local legend claims is home to the Fairy Queen.
  • (16) It would be the "lightest" film to win a Palme d'Or, maybe since Bob Fosse's All That Jazz in 1980, but the skill involved and the sheer brio of the execution merit the highest recognition.
  • (17) The play he is rehearsing is I Am The Wind, a spare, concentrated two-hander written by the Norwegian Jon Fosse and adapted for its English-language premiere by Simon Stephens , who wrote Pornography and Punk Rock.
  • (18) At greatly reduced pressure levels, the CL increase was more pronounced and in both TAs and FOSs was caused by plateau formation in the dilation phase.
  • (19) The path off the Pennine Way leading to Janet's Foss is signposted off the Pennine Way, and at Malham Cove a clear path leads back to the village.
  • (20) We’re certainly not scared,” said Ray Foss, a retired engineer.

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