What's the difference between photophobia and sensitivity?

Photophobia


Definition:

  • (n.) A dread or intolerance of light.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was found that medrysone (1%) significantly improved the symptoms of itching, watering, photophobia and hyperaemia, while sodium cromoglycate (2%) was found to be ineffective.
  • (2) Cryptococcal pneumonia meningitis appears in 63-84% of AIDS patients with symptoms of fever, headache, meningism, and photophobia.
  • (3) Mild corneal dystrophy without photophobia was observed in one female carrier.
  • (4) We report on a 16-month-old infant with severe photophobia and failure to thrive.
  • (5) A mother and daugher had a life-long history of poor vision and photophobia, bilateral macular colobomata, and retinal pigment epithelial abnormalities; psychoelectrophysiological testing indicated extensive loss of cone or cone-rod function.
  • (6) Dazzle glare resulting from the accumulation of cystine crystals in ocular tissue may account for glare disability seen in these patients and contribute to their complaints of photophobia.
  • (7) All complained of severe photophobia and difficulty in reading.
  • (8) Sumatriptan also reduced nausea and photophobia significantly better than placebo.
  • (9) Nausea, photophobia and phonophobia tended to be more pronounced at the clinical interview.
  • (10) All had photophobia, nystagmus of fixation, extremely low visual acuity and extreme loss of colour sense with shortened red spectrum.
  • (11) It induced photophobia, which appeared between three and four years when a superficial punctate keratopathy appeared.
  • (12) Reduction of photophobia, burning, dryness and foreign-body sensation were achieved by local administration of the drug 2 to 5 times a day.
  • (13) An incomplete form of rod monochromatism is described in a young man with normal visual acuity and absence of nystagmus or photophobia.
  • (14) Symptoms of VIMS may include photophobia, an inability to read in a moving auto, and nausea, dizziness, headache, eye strain and anxiety following provocative visual stimuli.
  • (15) A case of empty sella complicated with bilateral quadrantanopsia, poliosis and photophobia is reported.
  • (16) Ocular symptoms (eye burning, tearing, photophobia) often occurred largely before the development of chronic conjunctivitis (predictive value = 61.5%).
  • (17) Patients with symptoms (photophobia, pain, itching, burning sensation, foreign-body sensation, and tearing) were treated with topically administered indomethacin 1% or placebo and monitored for eight weeks.
  • (18) Band keratopathy, caused by a variety of chronic ocular or systemic diseases, produces pain, photophobia, and decreased vision.
  • (19) A clinically significant reduction in the incidence of nausea, vomiting and photophobia was observed in the sumatriptan group compared with the placebo group, and sumatriptan was also more effective at reducing the functional disability of the patients.
  • (20) We should accept Solomon's and Cappa's attitude who suggest at least two of the following five criteria: 1. nausea with or without vomiting, 2. unilaterality, 3. pulsating pain, 4. photophobia or phonophobia, and 5. provocation by menstruation or positive family history.

Sensitivity


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Our results suggest that the peripheral sensitivity to hypoxia declined more than that to CO2, implying a peripheral chemoreceptor origin for hypoxic ventilatory decline.
  • (2) "Zayani reportedly cited the political sensitivity of naturalising Sunni expatriates and wanted to avoid provoking the opposition," the embassy said.
  • (3) The outward currents are sensitive to TEA and their reversal potentials differ.
  • (4) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
  • (5) At the early phase of the sensitization a T-cell response was seen in vitro, characterized by an increased spleen but no peripheral blood lymphocyte reactivity to T-cell mitogens at the same time as increased reactivity to the sensitizing antigen was detected.
  • (6) The presence of O-glycosidic linkages between carbohydrate and protein in the DF3 antigenic site was further supported by the presence of NaBH4-sensitive sites.
  • (7) This induction is sensitive to actinomycin D but not to protein synthesis inhibitor puromycin, indicating an effect of estradiol at the transcriptional level, possibly mediated by the estrogen receptor.
  • (8) A total of 13 ascertainments of folate sensitive autosomal fragile sites is observed, of which 10q23 fragility appears to be the most frequent.
  • (9) Rapid overgrowth of all cultures with the E. coli necessitated the use of selective media containing antimicrobial agents to which the E. coli was sensitive.
  • (10) The fluctuations in [Ca2+]i measured with fura-2 were synchronized among the population of cells observed and were sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o).
  • (11) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
  • (12) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
  • (13) A significant correlation was found between the amplitude ratio of the R2 and the sensitivity ratio of the rapid off-response at short and long wavelengths.
  • (14) When compared with self-reported exposures, the sensitivity of both job-exposure matrices was low (on average, below 0.51), while the specificity was generally high (on average, above 0.90).
  • (15) The dog and the pig also have an endoperoxide-sensitive constrictor system activated by the 11,9-(epoxymethano) analogue of PGH2 and, of particular note, ICI 79939 and its 11-oxo analogue.
  • (16) It is concluded the decrease in cellular volume associated with substitution of serosal gluconate for Cl results in a loss of highly specific Ba2+-sensitive K+ conductance channels from the basolateral plasma membrane.
  • (17) This Mr 20,000 inhibitory activity was acid and heat stable and sensitive to dithiothreitol and trypsin.
  • (18) Beta-galactosidase, beta-n-acetyl-hexosaminidase, and alpha-fucosidase were sensitive indicators and were significantly elevated above control values by day 3 at both doses (P < 0.01).
  • (19) The sensitivity of an indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) test (screening test) for the detection of antibodies to cytomegalovirus (CMV) was examined by using 128 serum specimens and quaternary aminoethyl (QAE)-Sephadex A50 column chromatography to separate IgM from IgG class antibodies.
  • (20) The third route was quantitated by its sensitivity to probenecid and its activity was increased in saline buffers and upon addition of glucose and was inhibited by oligomycin.

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