What's the difference between lotion and notion?

Lotion


Definition:

  • (n.) A washing, especially of the skin for the purpose of rendering it fair.
  • (n.) A liquid preparation for bathing the skin, or an injured or diseased part, either for a medicinal purpose, or for improving its appearance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After bone-union the embracing ring device was removed in conjunction with external lotion and active exercises.
  • (2) Clindamycin lotion completely suppressed the growth of C acnes organisms, whereas erythromycin and tetracycline did not depress the C acnes counts.
  • (3) Treatments for jock itch include anti-fungal ointments and lotions, or anti-fungal pills for severe cases.
  • (4) This suggests that a surgical scrub should be used more widely in clinical practice, and that a spirit-based hand lotion might with advantage become a partial substitute for handwashing, particularly in areas where handwashing is frequent and iatrogenic coagulase-negative staphylococcal infection common.
  • (5) Tolerability of bifonazole was satisfactory in all cases but one, who interrupted treatment because of pain and local hyperemia where the lotion had been applied.
  • (6) Sixty-two patients with seborrhoeic dermatitis were treated topically with a 2% ketoconazole foaming gel or with a 0.05% betamethasone dipropionate lotion in a single-blind study for 4 months.
  • (7) As the sachets of powder, tubs of lotion, jars of jam, and bottles of juices and liqueurs that line his shelves testify, his hopes – and his money – are on a rather more niche fruit: baobab.
  • (8) From the beginning of time, man has had the instinct to pour things in wounds to kill microorganisms and enhance healing, and..... "wounds are still lathered, bathed, and sprayed with various notions, potions, and lotions".
  • (9) Like Ray, my parents are Bengali and while they had been taking me back to Kolkata during long summer holidays, I had failed to take to the city, which seemed to offer only August heat, difficult food and calamine lotion for mosquito bites.
  • (10) A 1% minoxidil lotion was used to treat 670 male patients affected by androgenetic alopecia.
  • (11) The authors draw attention to the epidemiological association with the eye lotion BSS which was used from which Proteus mirabilis and E. coli were cultivated and with the Ringer solution from which Enterobacter cloaceae and Klebsiella pneumoniae were cultivated.
  • (12) A clinical trial of the pyrethroid permethrin in 1% lotion was performed on 20 children.
  • (13) and none of the body lotions were contaminated to that extent.
  • (14) A selective bactericide for gram-positive bacteria, which is a lotion containing deoxycholic acid, was applied to the feet of the 17 volunteers.
  • (15) Groups of 38 BALB:c female mice or 16 Skh:2 hairless pigmented mice were treated with 1) lotion vehicle, 2) 0.02% L-selenomethionine (SeMet) lotion, or 3) vehicle and 1.5 ppm SeMet in the drinking water.
  • (16) The range includes products such as lip gloss (in claret red, precious gold and velvet mauve), bath crystals and body lotions.
  • (17) By using this method, typical UV absorbers in several commercial cosmetic products such as lip creams, sun oils, lotions and emulsions were able to be rapidly determined without any interference.
  • (18) Furthermore, the hair can be modified both externally and internally through the use of hair dyes, permanent waving lotions, and hair straighteners.
  • (19) During recent years, 48 patients with therapy-resistant chronic skin lesions of atopic dermatitis have been treated once a week with clobetasol propionate lotion left under Duoderm occlusive patches.
  • (20) On May Day last year millions of Britons were rubbing on sun lotion and firing up their barbecues.

Notion


Definition:

  • () Mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined; an idea; a conception; more properly, a general or universal conception, as distinguishable or definable by marks or notae.
  • () A sentiment; an opinion.
  • () Sense; mind.
  • () An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack; as, Yankee notions.
  • () Inclination; intention; disposition; as, I have a notion to do it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results support the notion that mediator lymphocytes circulate in tumor immunized rats in a noncytotoxic state, specifically recognize tumor cells at a challenge site, and mediate induction of effector cells locally.
  • (2) This procedure generated a number of VI-like effects, supporting the notion that VI behavior can be construed as a special case of an interaction between the organism's function relating reinforcement susceptibilities to chain length and the experimenter's function relating probabilities of reinforcement to chain length.
  • (3) Even if it does not always provide the solution to a particularly delicate problem, which is often of vital importance, it provides data which, modifiable and better used, should provide an adequate notion of the anatomical and physiopathological state in aortic stenosis.
  • (4) Though the concept of phase, known also as focus, is a very helpful notion, its empirical foundation is yet very weak.
  • (5) At least any notion that this tournament had meant little to the European champions can be dispelled.
  • (6) A role for cAMP in the process of LHRH release was suggested several years ago, but only recently has the validity of this notion come under close scrutiny.
  • (7) The notion of life-threatening dermatoses may seem to be a contradiction in terms, but in fact there are a number of serious dermatologic conditions that require prompt attention to prevent fatal consequences.
  • (8) Studies of E1A support the notion that small DNA tumour viruses target cellular pathways at key points that are amenable to regulation.
  • (9) If figurative language is defined as involving intentional violation of conceptual boundaries in order to highlight some correspondence, one must be sure that children credited with that competence have (1) the metacognitive and metalinguistic abilities to understand at least some of the implications of such language (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Nelson, 1974; Nelson & Nelson, 1978), (2) a conceptual organization that entails the purportedly violated conceptual boundaries (Lange, 1978), and (3) some notion of metaphoric tension as well as ground.
  • (10) These results emphasize the potential importance of LPL-mediated lipid assimilation in the metabolic events that lead to energy production in response to environmental stresses and lend support to the notion that the regulation of LPL activity is tissue specific.
  • (11) There is much conflicting immunological and viral data about the causes of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS); some findings support the notion that CFS may be due to one or more immune disorders that have resulted from exposure to an infectious agent.
  • (12) Some journalists are uneasy at this notion of keeping an audit trail of thinking, authority and pre-publication decision-making?
  • (13) These results support the notion that ACT is acting on a component of the active assembled NADPH oxidase complex.
  • (14) A formal notion of relatability is defined, specifying which physically given edges leading into discontinuities can be connected to others by interpolated edges.
  • (15) This suggests that perhaps the notion of basic emotions will not lead to significant progress in the field.
  • (16) It has been established that the structure of depressive phases in sluggish simple schizophrenia includes specific psychopathological signs heralding defect formation and united by the notion "transitory syndrome".
  • (17) The differential response of the multiple H1 variants with regard to their synthesis and turnover is consistent with this notion.
  • (18) The experimental observations, coupled with several mathematical computations, do not support the notion that botulinum toxin is an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor.
  • (19) There is initial evidence that this variable dependency of RVD on Ca2+ may reflect, in large part, a variable Ca2+ threshold of RVD processes, although this notion has not been fully investigated.
  • (20) Besides the notion of psychosomatic medicine as a way of viewing, there is need of a definition of so-called psychosomatic diseases from the aspect of demarcation against general bio-psycho-social interactions.