What's the difference between indistinct and muzzy?

Indistinct


Definition:

  • (a.) Not distinct or distinguishable; not separate in such a manner as to be perceptible by itself; as, the indistinct parts of a substance.
  • (a.) Obscure to the mind or senses; not clear; not definite; confused; imperfect; faint; as, indistinct vision; an indistinct sound; an indistinct idea or recollection.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The main lesions of the tegument included indistinct of the matrix, vacuolization and peeling, while vacuolization of perinuclear cytoplasma in tegumental cells, focus lysis in muscle bundles, and destruction in collection ducts and flame cells were also seen.
  • (2) Importantly, although not pathognomonic, the high-resolution CT finding of centrilobular, peribronchiolar, indistinct nodules should suggest the diagnosis of chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis.
  • (3) Radiologically it appeared as an osteolytic lesion with marginally indistinct borders in the epimetaphyseal region of the proximal tibia.
  • (4) The infantile fibrosarcoma affected children below the age of seven years in this series and was characterized by proliferation of immature fibroblasts forming indistinct bundles, frequently exhibiting areas of an angiosarcoma-like pattern and cavernous blood vessels.
  • (5) Indistinctness of risk factors, especially workplace factors, is the principal reason for the poor results of intervention epidemiology: very few primary prevention programs and no educational programs ("low back school") have been shown to be really effective.
  • (6) It is proposed that all indistinct hyponatremias be thoroughly analysed and that urinary ADH be tentatively considered as a tumor marker for colon carcinoma.
  • (7) In an indistinct room, with a blurred painting in the background, the US-educated politician pledged to continue street actions alongside the Venezuelan people, while acknowledging he faces the risk of being jailed.
  • (8) were found and they had no embryos and indistinct opercula.
  • (9) Collagen occurs in the extracellular matrix of the bovine vitreous as fibers which have a fairly uniform diameter of approximately 195 A and exhibit an indistinct axial periodicity.
  • (10) All seven neoplasms were histologically similar, being composed of large cells with large nuclei, a moderate amount of cytoplasm, and indistinct cell borders.
  • (11) While this is all well and good, a counter-narrative could easily be presented: "I watched in quiet horror as the ultrasound flickered, showing the still-indistinct at 14-week mass focusing in and out on the screen.
  • (12) This may lead t o prominence and indistinct borders of the optic disc.
  • (13) The sonograms showed a small peripheral malformation that was indistinct on selective renal angiography.
  • (14) The above results suggests that in high myopia the optic disc was tilted and the rim-cup border was indistinct and there are some problems in the estimation of the morphometric parameters.
  • (15) Bronchial brushing smears contained clusters of cells exhibiting abundant diffusely granular cytoplasm with indistinct borders.
  • (16) Records of responses obtained from the DOC-treated sugar receptor showed long response latencies that gradually became indistinct with recovery.
  • (17) Follicles also were classified as clear or cloudy; cloudy was associated with flocculent material in the follicular fluid or with an indistinct follicular wall.
  • (18) Probably as a consequence of depressed structural-protein synthesis, very few progeny virions are released and the mutant makes tiny or indistinct plaques even after prolonged incubation.
  • (19) The usually indistinctive and unspecified liquor syndrome requires a subtly differentiated diagnostic distinguishing between vascular brain stem syndromes and brain stem gliomas.
  • (20) In cross-sections of the SOL muscle one group of fibres showed indistinct M-bridges, whereas distinct M-bridges were seen in the other fibres and in all observed EDL muscle fibres.

Muzzy


Definition:

  • (a.) Absent-minded; dazed; muddled; stupid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ethanol impaired performance in most objective tests and produced clumsiness, muzziness, and mental slowness, but little drowsiness.
  • (2) Lunch had an effect on mood, with subjects feeling more lethargic, feeble, clumsy, muzzy, dreamy, bored and mentally slow after the meal.
  • (3) Subjects reported feelings of drowsiness, muzziness, lethargy and mental slowness.
  • (4) It rendered the subjects elated, muzzy, mentally slow and calm.
  • (5) It was about inert on Day 8, yet exophoria and subjective muzziness increased after the last dose; the subjects did not experience their performance as impaired.
  • (6) Said keeper had just moved to Milan after a successful spell with Schalke, but during one game of his five-match spell with the Rossoneri (in October 1998), he managed to upend Cagliari forward Roberto Muzzi and concede a penalty.
  • (7) Muzziness, clumsiness, tremor, chills and nausea were common after both YOH and CAF.
  • (8) Subjects rated themselves significantly more feeble, clumsy, lethargic, and incompetent following sublingual as compared to oral prazepam while a trend in the same direction was noted for the adjectives muzzy and mentally slow.
  • (9) Subjective feelings of drowsiness and muzziness were found with sotalol and both sotalol and propranolol caused subjects to feel more troubled.
  • (10) Rossi saved Muzzi's ensuing spot-kick, but couldn't stop Cagliari winning the game 1-0.
  • (11) By the time he was in his early 20s Dilla's music – full of rich, utterly unique drum sounds, warm, muzzy instrumentation and endlessly inventive melodies – was so popular he was getting called at home by A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul and Busta Rhymes.
  • (12) On the Free Republic forum, a poster called salamander wrote: "The commie muzzie usurper in chief had better release photos and videos toot sweet.
  • (13) Both BUP and acute AMI 50 mg each alone impaired various measures of performance and rendered the subjects drowsy, feeble, mentally slow and muzzy but subchronic AMI did not enhance BUP effects.
  • (14) The subjects assessed themselves mentally slow, muzzy and impaired by performance on visual analogue scales still 3 hr after injection.
  • (15) Subjects rated themselves as more drowsy, dizzy, abnormal, drunk, and muzzy on nitrous oxide than on oxygen.
  • (16) VAS showed that subjects felt more interested (P less than 0.05), drowsy (P less than 0.01), dizzy, tense, abnormal, drunk and muzzy (P less than 0.001) with lignocaine than with placebo.
  • (17) The psychomotor effects of PZ were clearest at 1.5 h, and those of AMI at 3.5 h. Both drugs rendered the subjects drowsy, clumsy, and muzzy on visual analogue scales, but PZ also induced positive feelings, like contentedness and friendliness.

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