What's the difference between funds and fundus?

Funds


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
  • (2) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
  • (3) The International Monetary Fund, which has long urged Nigeria to remove the subsidy, supports the move.
  • (4) Neal’s evidence to the committee said Future Fund staff were not subject to the public service bargaining framework, which links any pay rise to productivity increases and caps rises at 1.5%.
  • (5) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
  • (6) The Department for International Development (DfID) defines funding provided under the VUP as "financial aid to government".
  • (7) Last week the WHO said the outbreak had reached a critical point, and announced a $200m (£120m) emergency fund.
  • (8) She was clearly elected on a pledge not to cut school funding and that’s exactly what is happening,” Corbyn said.
  • (9) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
  • (10) The organisation initially focused on education, funding the Indian company BYJU’s, which helps students learn maths and science, and the Nigerian company Andela, which trains African software developers.
  • (11) Similarly, I would like to see fully funded and resourced public services.
  • (12) It is anomalous that the world is equipped with global funds to finance action on infectious diseases and climate change, but not humanitarian crises.
  • (13) Two years later, Trump tweeted that “Obama’s motto” was: “If I don’t go on taxpayer funded vacations & constantly fundraise then the terrorists win.” The joke, it turns out, is on Trump.
  • (14) For further education, this would be my priority: a substantial increase in funding and an end to tinkering with the form of qualifications and bland repetition of the “parity of esteem” trope.
  • (15) The green fund contributions already announced (which include a $3bn pledge by the US and a $1.5bn pledge by Japan revealed during the G20 summit) “show very clearly that if we want the emerging countries and the more fragile countries to participate in this global growth, we have to ... support them,” Hollande said.
  • (16) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
  • (17) #kflead May 21, 2014 The King's Fund IKS (@kingsfund_lib) Hope you enjoyed @GregSearle2012 's #kflead workshop!
  • (18) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
  • (19) We know that from the rapid take up of crowd funded renewables investors are actively looking for a more secure option.
  • (20) "If necessary we will promote and encourage new laws which require future WHO funding to be provided only if the organisation accepts that all reports must be supported by the preponderance of science."

Fundus


Definition:

  • (n.) The bottom or base of any hollow organ; as, the fundus of the bladder; the fundus of the eye.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 60 rhesus monkeys with experimental renovascular malignant arterial hypertension (25 one-kidney and 35 two-kidney model animals), we studied the so-called 'hard exudates' or white retinal deposits in detail (by ophthalmoscopy, and stereoscopic color fundus photography and fluorescein fundus angiography, on long-term follow-up).
  • (2) The influence of baclofen on basal acid secretion from isolated guinea-pig gastric fundus was also evaluated.
  • (3) One species (the goldfish) has an extensive fundus circulation while the other (the rock bass) has a minimal one.
  • (4) A conclusion is made that it is important to examine the eye fundus periphery and equator in patients with central vitreoretinal edematous fibroplastic syndrome.
  • (5) Her mother had only senile pigmented modification of the fundus and her three daughters had mild macular pigmented changes, like "salt and pepper."
  • (6) The degree of the pathology of the fundus was the main factor for successful therapy.
  • (7) Gastric fundus could be observed clearly in 145 of these patients who were examined with endoscope.
  • (8) Between one-third to one-half of the vagal cells innervating the fundus and corpus were concentrated under the area postrema.
  • (9) In cases with necrosis of the fundus the extensive nature of the ischemic lesions as shown by results of histopathology strongly suggests the need for total gastrectomy in these patients.
  • (10) 9 of the injured eyes had a reduction of visual acuity to 0.5 or less as a consequence of lens or central fundus changings.
  • (11) Fundus examination disclosed a subtle cherry red spot bilaterally.
  • (12) The derivatives of these cells spread out tangentially over the entire fundus of the eye in a concentric manner.
  • (13) A double carcinoid lesion of the gastric fundus, previously misdiagnosed as carcinoma, was found in the other patient.
  • (14) Longitudinal strips of the fundus from 20 week old male and female SHR and Wistar normotensive (NW) rats were used.
  • (15) For example, in the lightly innervated fundus of the principal sulcus (area 46), labeled fibers were primarily present in layer I and layers V-VI, whereas in area 9, the most densely innervated region, TH-labeled fibers were present in all cortical layers.
  • (16) Tartaric acid-evoked contractions of the rat isolated fundus could not be antagonized by atropine sulphate or methysergide hydrogen maleate, but were partially reduced by mepyramine hydrochloride.
  • (17) Double ballooning is recommended for cases with retinal detachments with 2 ruptures up to 2 disc diameters in length, located at a distance of 2-3 disc diameters from each other within one quadrant or in different quadrants of the fundus oculi.
  • (18) It is suggested that a fundus circulation can modify the intraocular transmission of light.
  • (19) Congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium (CHRPE) is a well-circumscribed, flat, pigmented fundus lesion that is stable and generally nonprogressive.
  • (20) In control tissues there was a significant variation in vascularity according to geographic location in the following order of magnitude: fundus greater than corpus greater than cornua greater than isthmus.

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