What's the difference between fetis and fetish?

Fetis


Definition:

  • (a.) Neat; pretty; well made; graceful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The operated embryos were allowed to hatch and develop to adulthood, and then the connections between the identified limb motorneuron Fast Extensor Tibiae (FETi) and body wall muscles on the operated side of the segment were determined electrophysiologically.
  • (2) We have also found a significant correlation between FETI and two RIA methods (r=0.97).
  • (3) The Coxsackie virus B1 has been studied for its effect on the chromosome apparatus in cells of mouse feti and newborn mice in case of intraperitoneal infection of females on the 3d week of pregnancy.
  • (4) However, while the glutamate uptake in the CI and SETi nerve endings of the slow 135cd is comparable to the high-affinity uptake of glutamate in the fast excitor tibiae (FETi) nerve endings of the fast retractor unguis muscle, a high-affinity uptake of glutamate was only demonstrated in the glia of both types of nerve endings.
  • (5) Similarly the metathoracic FETi bears a striking resemblance to the pro- and the mesothoracic SETi.
  • (6) Fibres innervated by SETi but not by FETi are of slow type ultrastructurally.
  • (7) Single SETi or FETi impulses can initiate an IR contraction, and cause altered phasing, with up to a quintupling of frequency.
  • (8) The common inhibitory neuron and the dorsal unpaired median neuron (DUMETi) follow SETi and FETi in nerves 3B2 and 5B1, respectively.
  • (9) The most distal muscle fibres are innervated by SETi but not by FETi.
  • (10) Fibres innervated by both SETi and FETi are scattered throughout the leg, but are commonest in the dorsal bundles.
  • (11) Uptake into other organs, including placentae and feti, was negligible.
  • (12) Furthermore, the association between results by FETI and by the EMIT method (a conventional enzyme immunoassay) was a linear one.
  • (13) Water and salt metabolism was studied in feti and pregnant rats with experimental venous congestion by measuring water and electrolyte content in the kidney, liver, cerebrum, skin hypodermic tissue, muscle, heart.
  • (14) In the presynaptic FETi motor neuron, raising the temperature reduces the amplitude of an antidromic spike recorded in the soma by a factor of 10 (40 mV to 4 mV), reduces the time taken to reach peak amplitude by 5 (3.5 to 0.7 ms) and decreases the duration at half maximum amplitude by 0.5.
  • (15) FETi innervated a number of foreign muscles in the ipsilateral body wall in limb-ablated locusts, showing that this neuron is not programmed to exclusively innervate its normal target muscle.
  • (16) The authors have carried out an analyzis of correlative relations of spondilometric features on the material of 403 human feti (211 male, 192 female) in morphologic age--the 4th up to the 7th month of fetal life.
  • (17) Fibres innervated by FETi but not SETi are of fast type ultrastructurally.
  • (18) Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) activity and the character of its isoenzyme distribution in pancreas of the human embryos and feti of the 5th-13th-week development were studied.
  • (19) We have evaluated the reliability of the new fluorescence energy transfer immunoassay (FETI) for determining concentrations of digoxin in serum.
  • (20) As an example of the latter, the morphology of the metathoracic slow extensor tibiae (SETi) motor neurons was similar to that of pro- and mesothoracic fast extensor tibiae (FETi) motor neurons.

Fetish


Definition:

  • (n.) A material object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to control that being.
  • (n.) Any object to which one is excessively devoted.
  • (a.) Alt. of Fetishistic

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A case is presented of a patient who was arrested along several developmental lines and had suffered from a wool fetish.
  • (2) I mean, there are balloon-popping fetishes and farting.
  • (3) Valid and reliable scales measuring the typological variables of erotic partner preference (androphilia and gynephilia), cross-gender fantasy in association with sexual arousal (cross-gender fetishism), and degree of feminine gender identity in childhood were used.
  • (4) The question which has been addressed in this paper is that of how broad or narrow our definition of fetishism should be.
  • (5) Direct observations of behavior evoked by a fetish object (wet shoe) in one patient are reported.
  • (6) The buildings appear to be an ersatz nod to the old world by a designer with a stucco fetish, and are hard to ignore due to the blitzkrieg of colour unleashed on innocent passers-by.
  • (7) Similarities and differences between male and female fetishism are discussed, with attention given to the greater complexity of the perversion as it occurs in a woman.
  • (8) The author, after giving an outline of various theories of the genesis of sexual malpractices in general and so-called fetishistic practices in particular, tries to show, by reference to the behavior shown by several normally intelligent and socially fully integrated young persons, that juvenile fetishism cannot be considered a perversion in the proper sense of the word.
  • (9) Or the noughties, when the creed of food fetishism hit Borough , bringing with it pork pies that cost as much as a pig, fruits we couldn’t name, herbs bearing the names of the people who found them?
  • (10) The author discusses the implications of using buspirone in the treatment of both inhibited sexual desire and transvestic fetishism.
  • (11) 9.05pm BST Cardinals 0 - Pirates 0, bottom of the 4th If you have a fetish for routine groundball outs, and Rule 34 suggests that someone is, this game is basically NC-17.
  • (12) Feminine behaviors during the childhood and adolescence of volunteer male transvestites who had shown a period of fetishism were investigated.
  • (13) And also, undoubtedly, because the car and the artwork are both commodity fetishes whose place in culture is more than utilitarian.
  • (14) Other entries in the book include a list of safe and dangerous vaginal stimulators ("Dil-dos and Dil-don'ts"), "Bestselling Sex Toys Of All Time" (Rubik's Pubes and Horny Horny Hippos) and an illustrated spot-the-fetish gallery.
  • (15) In the final months of their marriage, Alex developed a sinister fetish.
  • (16) Hypersexuality and fetishism appeared in a patient with multiple sclerosis whose MRI scan showed frontal and temporal lesions.
  • (17) The adoption of a fetish affords protection, as it serves to negate total psychic inner deadness.
  • (18) It is suggested that whatever the pregenital determinants of this perversion are, fetishism makes special reference to problems related to the phallic position (a concept suggested as an alternative to the notion of a developmental genetic phallic phase).
  • (19) This is, after all, a musician, actress and multimedia performance artist who as a kid attended a nursery school where there were rumoured to be satanic cults, afterwards confessing that she was pissed off that there actually weren't; who appeared in a Calvin Klein "heroin chic" ad campaign that led to dope dealers on her block in New York naming a strain of junk after her; who has been a wrestler and appeared in numerous Super 8 horror and fetish movies; who was mugged to within an inch of her life but survived; who mimes onstage fornication with a skeleton symbolising her deceased boyfriend and other such transgressive acts including cracking paint-filled eggs on her vulva; who has cavorted in the recording studio with notorious coprophiliac GG Allin; who was into body mutilation and dysmorphia and so wanted to challenge preconceived notions of female sexuality that she SEWED UP HER VAGINA.
  • (20) The clinical example confirms the existence of fetishism in women and suggests that subtle forms of the perversion may go unnoticed and be more prevalent than previously realized.

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