What's the difference between simultaneous and unison?

Simultaneous


Definition:

  • (a.) Existing, happening, or done, at the same time; as, simultaneous events.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
  • (2) Such an increase in antibody binding occurred simultaneously with an increase in the fluidity of surface lipid regions, as monitored by fluorescence depolarization of 1-(trimethylammoniophenyl)-6-phenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene.
  • (3) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
  • (4) In the present study, respirometric quotients, the ratio of oral air volume expended to total volume expended, were obtained using separate but simultaneous productions of oral and nasal airflow.
  • (5) These patients had undergone selective and bilateral simultaneous IPS sampling for diagnostic purposes or for neurosurgical indications.
  • (6) Inhibition of thymidine uptake is attributed to an observed decrease in thymidine kinase activity caused by growth in 1 mM dibutyryl cyclic AMP, and possibly to a simultaneous alteration in membrane permeability.
  • (7) The simultaneous administration of the yellow fever vaccine did not influence the titre of agglutinins induced by the classic cholera vaccine.
  • (8) This observation, reinforced by simultaneous determinations of cortisol levels in the internal spermatic and antecubital veins, practically excluded the validity of the theory of adrenal hormonal suppression of testicular tissues.
  • (9) Hypercalcitoninemia was the most pronounced in patients with cardiac rhythm disorders and a simultaneous reduction in total serum calcium.
  • (10) The addition of a cerebral blood volume (CBV) compartment in the [18F]2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) model produces estimates of local CBV simultaneously with glucose metabolic rates when kinetic FDG studies are performed.
  • (11) Deviations in two planes simultaneously cause less error than deviation in one plane.
  • (12) Using a monoclonal antibody against dopamine and a rabbit antiserum against serotonin, 5-methoxytryptamine or tryptamine, we were able to achieve the simultaneous localization of two amines in glutaraldehyde-fixed sections of rat dorsal raphe nuclei.
  • (13) Acute effects of insulin on protein metabolism (whole body and forearm muscle) were simultaneously assessed using doubly labelled (13C15N) leucine in post-absorptive Type I diabetic patients.
  • (14) Unfortunately more than three quantitative data cannot be judged simultaneously without help of mathematical methods.
  • (15) The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the problems which arise from simultaneously developing regulatory and competitive approaches to health care cost containment can be solved, if recognized, and that those problems deserve more systematic investigation than they have so far received.
  • (16) Simultaneously, mean arterial blood pressure (MABP), PaCO2, PaO2, and hematocrit were recorded.
  • (17) Spontaneous lipid peroxidation in washed human spermatozoa was induced by aerobic incubation at 32 C and measured by malonaldehyde production; loss of motility during the incubation was determined simultaneously.
  • (18) The cardiorespiratory effects of trichloroethylene supplementation of nitrous oxide-oxygen anesthesia, with simultaneous use of halothane at induction as needed, were studied in outpatient oral surgery patients undergoing dental extractions under general anesthesia.
  • (19) Three cases of simultaneous atrial and a-v junctional tachycardia, related to the administration of digitalis and occurring in a short period of 16 months, are reported.
  • (20) The distinguishing feature of this study is the simultaneous measurement of sympathetic firing and norepinephrine spillover in the same organ, the kidney, under conditions of intact sympathetic impulse traffic.

Unison


Definition:

  • (n.) Harmony; agreement; concord; union.
  • (n.) Identity in pitch; coincidence of sounds proceeding from an equality in the number of vibrations made in a given time by two or more sonorous bodies. Parts played or sung in octaves are also said to be in unison, or in octaves.
  • (n.) A single, unvaried.
  • (n.) Sounding alone.
  • (n.) Sounded alike in pitch; unisonant; unisonous; as, unison passages, in which two or more parts unite in coincident sound.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We have hard clinical evidence that if NHS staff feel valued that results in a positive outcome for patients," says Christina McAnea, head of health at Unison.
  • (2) Dave Prentis, Unison's general secretary Fighting talk at long last.
  • (3) Due to this aspect the ability of this activity to work in unison with DNA polymerase molecules in the process of DNA repair synthesis was investigated.
  • (4) Wearing royal blue cloaks with pointed hoods, the boys line up beside the road in a small village just outside the city of Ségou, chanting in unison.
  • (5) The YouGov poll, commissioned by the health union Unison, follows reports that three cabinet ministers supported an editorial on the influential Conservative Home website last week describing the NHS bill as "potentially fatal to the Conservative party's electoral prospects".
  • (6) But by Dave Prentis, the general secretary of Unison.
  • (7) January 6, 2014 Updated at 10.30am GMT 10.13am GMT The public services union Unison, which represents thousands of Environment Agency workers, has accused the government of putting public safety at risk by cutting the organisation's budget.
  • (8) But it's also arrogance, the idea that the world could heal itself by thinking, in unison, like Brand.
  • (9) There is the Usdaw reception in the Hilton on Sunday, the Communication Workers Union drinks on Monday and a Unison bash on Tuesday.
  • (10) "Millions of public sector workers will be left out in the cold," said Dave Prentis, leader of Unison.
  • (11) Mike Jeram, national officer at the Unison union, which represents workers at E.ON, said: "This is a devastating blow.
  • (12) Becca Kirkpatrick is a community organiser and chairs Unison’s West Midlands community branch.
  • (13) More than 1.1 million Unison workers, from healthcare assistants to paramedics and dinner ladies, could join walkouts on 30 November in a dispute over reforms to public sector pensions for health, education, local government and civil service employees.
  • (14) "Private health already has a small role in the NHS [providing 4% of services], but we don't want it to grow," said Karen Jennings a spokeswoman for Unison, the public services union.
  • (15) Around 43,000 Unison members – 28,000 as Labour party members in their own right and a further 15,000 who have signed up as registered supporters – can vote in the contest.
  • (16) Jessica Khoshooee (Unison) Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan • To complement the government’s proposed reforms, would it not be only fair for them to extend the legislation to shareholders in public companies?
  • (17) The clinical results indicated that Dispersalloy, Indiloy, a high-copper blend by Syntex, Cluster, and Unison had the least marginal failure.
  • (18) He wrote: "It is time for British politicians to say it loud and clear and in unison: we need bankers my friends.
  • (19) The only party that can win for working people is a strong and united Labour party.” The signatories to the statement included the general secretaries of Unite, Unison, the GMB and Ucatt.
  • (20) A memorandum of understanding between the college and Unison, made public at the insistence of the education committee, states that the £270 fee would be split 50-50 between the college and Unison.