What's the difference between recognition and recognizance?

Recognition


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recognition of the distinctive morphology of MH and the performance of ancillary studies on cytologic preparations should facilitate the rapid diagnosis and early treatment of this aggressive disease.
  • (2) Early recognition is facilitated by monitoring of arterial blood gas levels for hypoxemia.
  • (3) Osteoporosis and its treatment have attracted much attention in recent years, especially since the widespread recognition of its association with the menopause.
  • (4) In subsequent experiments, both components were found to be significant and additive predictors of face recognition with no residual effect of typicality.
  • (5) A key component of a career program should be recognition of a nurse's needs and the program should be evaluated to determine if these needs are met.
  • (6) Recognition of this deficiency in our knowledge spurred a belated explosion of research that began with an exploration of the fine structure of the mesothelium.
  • (7) The results suggest that AH5183 does not bind to the ACh transporter recognition site on the outside of the vesicle membrane, and thus it might inhibit allosterically.
  • (8) These studies show that females develop significantly more cell-mediated immune responses to some chemical haptenes than men and the data also points to an overall higher rate of haptene recognition.
  • (9) In contrast, insertion of a pre-S(1) sequence between HBcAg residues 75 and 83 abrogated recognition of HBcAg by 5 of 6 anti-HBc monoclonal antibodies and diminished recognition by human polyclonal anti-HBc.
  • (10) Recognition and prompt treatment of this potentially fatal dermatological crisis is stressed.
  • (11) Earlier recognition of foul-smelling mucoid discharge on the IUD tail, or abnormal bleeding, or both, as a sign of early pelvic infection, followed by removal of the IUD and institution of appropriate antibiotic therapy, might prevent the more serious sequelae of pelvic inflammation.
  • (12) One radio critic described Jacobs' late night Sunday show as a "tidying-up time, a time for wistfulness, melancholy, a recognition that there were once great things and great feelings in this world.
  • (13) A developing sophistication on the part of both children and parents, coupled with a rapidly expanding recognition of the need to minimize the amount of physical and psychological trauma that a child has to experience, has led to a growing use of premedication agents for children.
  • (14) Determination of the T-cell recognition profile of Mb by the overlapping peptide strategy revealed that the protein has six T sites.
  • (15) This paper reports two experiments concerned with verbal representation in the test stage of recognition memory for naturalistic sounds.
  • (16) Because all differences were found only in this region of the molecule, and because DR alpha-chains seem to be relatively non-polymorphic, these positions in the DR beta-chain must have a major role in influencing T-cell recognition of the DR molecule.
  • (17) His dedication and professionalism is world class and he deserves all the recognition he has received to date.
  • (18) These trends include an increase in the number of elderly who need the benefits of home care, the recognition that long-term chronic illnesses require appropriate management at home, and concern that patients have access to care at the level most appropriate to their illnesses.
  • (19) Four tested TLC display strikingly different antigen recognition patterns when tested against a number of other mycobacterial antigens; one TLC so far recognizes only M. leprae antigens.
  • (20) With recognition that any mass that appears in a woman using oral contraceptives must be studied by biopsy, combined clinical and mammographic study in primenopausal women should minimize diagnostic error.

Recognizance


Definition:

  • (n.) An obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, as to appear at the same or some other court, to keep the peace, or pay a debt. A recognizance differs from a bond, being witnessed by the record only, and not by the party's seal.
  • (n.) The verdict of a jury impaneled upon assize.
  • (n.) A token; a symbol; a pledge; a badge.
  • (n.) Acknowledgment of a person or thing; avowal; profession; recognition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
  • (2) Using an oil painting by G.F. Watts displayed in the National Portrait Gallery of London, we made an attempt to diagnose the dermatological alterations recognizable.
  • (3) A clearly recognizable relationship of SEH to gestational age and clinical status exists in that all SEH occur in premature infants under 2500 g birthweight (although only 56% of all premature infants have SEH) and 95% of SEH occur in infants with the respiratory distress syndrome (although only 60% of infants with the respiratory distress syndrome have SEH).
  • (4) Of the 188 males, 19 were found to have the fragile X syndrome, while the remaining 169 males had no recognizable cause of their mental retardation, including normal chromosomes.
  • (5) Newborn animals already exhibited clearly recognizable crypts of Lieberkühn.
  • (6) All manipulations were carried out from birth (P0), when no LGN cell layers are evident, to or past the point when layers are recognizable (i.e., 1-2 weeks).
  • (7) His stencils, skewed perspective and wit are recognizable enough to be mocked in the New Yorker .
  • (8) If purified nuclei were heated for 45 min at 37 degrees C, the final matrix exhibited well-recognizable nucleolar remnants, an inner network and a peripheral lamina.
  • (9) From the review of 56 published reports they conclude that triploidy syndrome has a characteristic and recognizable array of phenotype abnormalities.
  • (10) At medium concentrations (ED50 = 10 ppm) in Mucor mucedor several alterations of ultrastructure are recognizable even after short incubation periods.
  • (11) Another authentically "abnormal" DNA structure recognizable on transverse pore gradient gels is supercoiled DNA derived from the reaction of topoisomerase with a plasmid.
  • (12) In contrast, recognizable sensory neurons never exhibited adrenergic properties and did not divide.
  • (13) This unusual, distinctive synovial neoplasm presents readily recognizable pathological features (Fig.
  • (14) A corresponding effect after treatment with 5 mg Carazolol was not recognizable (p greater than 0.05).
  • (15) This study demonstrated that there are appreciable differences in mental and physical status within sibships of daughters of male carriers, as well as recognizable physical alterations and intellectual impairment in the transmitting males.
  • (16) Because detection of carcinoma in situ, either by cytology or biopsy, depends upon recognizable malignant morphologic characteristics, studies of the lesion tend to be limited to the higher grade or more anaplastic examples.
  • (17) Nine individuals with intracranial soft matter were recovered and, in five of these, material recognizable as preserved or replaced brain tissue was present.
  • (18) After angioplasty, no distinct defects were recognizable in 9 of the 12 patients, and in the remaining three, a significant decrease in defects was recognized.
  • (19) Increased sensitivity to pressor agents and activation of the coagulation cascade occur early in the course of preeclampsia, often antedating clinically recognizable disease.
  • (20) Three cardiac segments are recognizable embriologically, anatomically and functionally: atria, ventricles and great arteries.