What's the difference between inspection and physiognomy?

Inspection


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
  • (2) No disorganization of the muscle structure was detected by polarized light and electron microscopic inspection.
  • (3) On visual inspection the nephrograms showed no focal changes.
  • (4) The letter praised the company's progress in responding to the inspection.
  • (5) After distribution, 81% of foxes inspected were positive for tetracycline, a biomarker included in the vaccine bait and, other than one rabid fox detected close to the periphery of the treated area, no case of rabies, either in foxes or in domestic livestock, has been reported in the area.
  • (6) It paves the way for Iran to get nuclear weapons.” Under the deal, Iran committed to reducing the number of its centrifuges by two-thirds, capping its level of uranium enrichment well below the level needed for bomb-grade material, reducing its enriched uranium stockpile from around 10,000kg to 300kg for 15 years, and submitting to international inspections to verify its compliance.
  • (7) Cable says that institutional investors would have been inspecting Royal Mail for some time, adding that it's a standard length document for an IPO of this type.
  • (8) Management of female patients includes careful inspection of the vulva with each full-skin or gynecologic examination, followed by biopsy of any suspicious lesion.
  • (9) Inspection of the individual concentration time profiles in the other subjects provided additional evidence that the 5-OH-metabolite also contributes to this effect.
  • (10) Over the years he has been through 20 Ofsted inspections, with all the anxiety – and sometimes satisfaction – that entails.
  • (11) This would end time-limited visits and introduce an inspection regime.
  • (12) Ofsted said at the time that it had not received any complaints about any of the inspections.
  • (13) The plates were viewed directly in an inverted UV microscope or were inspected and photographed bottoms up with a conventional UV microscope mounted with an old-fashioned uncorrected objective (20 X) which, because of its shorter length, permitted proper focussing.
  • (14) The inspections have already led to complaints and demands that the rules be revoked.
  • (15) Laparoscopy with artificial ascites creates a larger space between organs and makes an accurate inspection of the entire intra-peritoneal abdomen possible.
  • (16) In a number of bacteriological drinking water analyses, this property was confirmed insofar as aquatic myxobacteria could regularly be demonstrated when inspecting hygienically deficient wells or springs.
  • (17) McMillan wrote in the decision : “I am satisfied from my own inspection of the documents (particularly the watch logs) that the claims, taken together, are reasonably based and genuine.
  • (18) The inspectors were also told that the day before their August inspection a patient with a known heart problem had a cardiac arrest in a corridor while waiting for a first clinical assessment.
  • (19) Moreover, veterinary help, the necessary use of drugs, the supervision and control of AID (Agricultural Inspection Services) and RVV (Inspection Service for Meat and Meat Products) add to the already substantial costs of modern animal husbandry.
  • (20) The geometry of the elbow joint limits intra-articular inspection and the use of instruments.

Physiognomy


Definition:

  • (n.) The art and science of discovering the predominant temper, and other characteristic qualities of the mind, by the outward appearance, especially by the features of the face.
  • (n.) The face or countenance, with respect to the temper of the mind; particular configuration, cast, or expression of countenance, as denoting character.
  • (n.) The art telling fortunes by inspection of the features.
  • (n.) The general appearance or aspect of a thing, without reference to its scientific characteristics; as, the physiognomy of a plant, or of a meteor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is a case report of 2-month-old boy who had a peculiar physiognomy with a microcephalus and an undeveloped forehead.
  • (2) The important variability between investigators in the rating of the clinical profile of fluoxetine suggests that more experience is needed in order to define better its physiognomy.
  • (3) After a brief philologic introduction on some correlated concepts of pathogenesis we suggest the concept of pathological physiognomy of the organs.
  • (4) These results support the priority of innate and perceptual processes in physiognomy over those of learning and memory, although some ambiguities still remain.
  • (5) In the thirties of our century, patient physiognomy has undergone a renaissance (Killian, Fervers, Risak, Lange and others) which was repeated in the sixties.
  • (6) The disruption of the normal functional development mechanism causes the formation of the characteristic physiognomy of a child with a cleft.
  • (7) Altering the typical mongoloid physiognomy facilitates the integration of these children into the community.
  • (8) In this study of 13 HED families with 16 affected males, 12 carriers, and 12 normal individuals, affected individuals had at least 3 of the following 4 clinical signs and symptoms: a) hypodontia, b) hypohidrosis, c) hypotrichosis, and d) clinically distinct facial physiognomy.
  • (9) Physiognomy found acceptance in the medicine of modern times, particularly through the publications of Johann Caspar Lavater (1741-1801), Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) and then, after 1838, of Karl Heinrich Baumgärtner (1798-1886) who took advantage of lithography, which had just come into use, to reproduce pictures of patients.
  • (10) The findings are suggestive of a differing facial physiognomy in isolated cleft palate.
  • (11) He asserts the rightfulness of the treatment and the hypotheses of unlawfulness; he mentions aspects of personal identification of a patient surgically treated whose physiognomy is modified, in the light of identification regulations.
  • (12) West Greenlanders with a predominantly Eskimoan physiognomy showed smaller anterior chambers than unmixed East Greenland Eskimos and Eskimo-Caucasian hybrids.
  • (13) A characteristic physiognomy, variable ophthalmologic anomalies and relatively specific dental and digital defects provide the diagnostic features.
  • (14) The characteristic physiognomy, shortness of stature with thin extremities, and large trophic ulcers are the key signs for the diagnosis.
  • (15) Low temperatures induce drastic changes in plant physiognomy and leaf anatomy, but dry matter allocation to the different plant compartments does not show a uniform trend.
  • (16) They stress the very particular physiognomy of this type of meningo-radiculitis, its seasonal occurrence and the uncertain nature of its pathogenesis.
  • (17) In 1864, one critic, J Hain Friswell, wrote: "One cannot readily imagine our essentially English Shakespeare to have been a dark, heavy man, with a foreign expression, of decidedly Jewish physiognomy, thin curly hair [and] a somewhat lubricious mouth" - an unpleasant xenophobic fantasy, but revealing, perhaps, of an ancestral urge for the national poet not only to have an identifiable face, but look the part.
  • (18) Outstanding features are early onset occurring during childhood or adolescence, unlike the idiopatic sporadic form of the disease, and the association with a peculiar physiognomy that reminds one of the facial expression found in Modigliani's paintings.
  • (19) Among the various types of hepatic ductular atresias, there is a group of patients with a definable syndrome of malformations: typical physiognomy, malformation of pulmonary arteries, mental retardation and disturbed growth of body and genitals.
  • (20) Study of clinical features observed during two separate periods of 10 years shows a modification in the physiognomy of this cancer, with, notably, a larger frequence of lower stages (45% of stage II in 1984 vs 20% in 1974) and a slight tendancy towards the discovery of smaller non - or early - infiltrating tumors (4% in 1984 vs 0% in 1974).