What's the difference between situation and situs?
Situation
Definition:
(n.) Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation.
(n.) Position, as regards the conditions and circumstances of the case.
(n.) Relative position; circumstances; temporary state or relation at a moment of action which excites interest, as of persons in a dramatic scene.
(n.) Permanent position or employment; place; office; as, a situation in a store; a situation under government.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of course the job is not done and we will continue to remain vigilant to all risks, particularly when the global economic situation is so uncertain,” the chancellor said in a statement.
(2) The most common reasons cited for relapse included craving, social situations, stress, and nervousness.
(3) The children's pulse, pulse rate variability, and blood pressure were then measured at rest and during a challenging situation.
(4) Utilizing a range of operative Michaelis-Menten parameters that characterize phenytoin elimination via a single capacity-limited pathway, a situation assuming instantaneous absorption (case I) is compared with the situation in which continuous constant-rate absorption occurs (case II).
(5) This situation should lead to discuss preventive rules.
(6) Other fusiform cells of the cPVN are oriented in a rostral-caudal plane and are situated more medially in this subdivision.
(7) They derive from publications of the National Insurance Institute for Occupational Accidents (INAIL) and refer to the Italian and Umbrian situation.
(8) Hamilton said it was uncanny to find themselves in another desperate emergency situation almost exactly one year on.
(9) In the case with a more distally situated VSD, the bundle branches skirted the anterior and distal walls of the defect.
(10) Being the decision-making agent, the rehabilitee must therefore be offered typical situational fragments of a possible educational and vocational future, intended on the one hand to inform him of occupational alternatives and, on the other, to provide initial experience.
(11) Why is it so surprising to people that a boy like Chol, just out of conflict, has thought through the needs of his country in such a detailed way?” While Beah’s zeal is laudable, the situation in South Sudan is dire .
(12) In clinical situations on donor sites and grafted full-thickness burn wounds, the PEU film indeed prevented fluid accumulation and induced the formation of a "red" coagulum underneath.
(13) In Paris, a foreign ministry spokesman, Romain Nadal, said the French authorities were “fully mobilised to help Serge Atlaoui, whose situation remains very worrying”.
(14) Cooper, who was briefly a social worker in Los Angeles, also suggests working hard to build a rapport with colleagues in hotdesking situations.
(15) Relaxation situations are marked by relaxation, usually after a meal.
(16) Many organisations choose not to affiliate their aid work with the UN, particularly in conflict situations, where the organisation is not always seen either as neutral or separate from the work of the UN security council.
(17) This situation highlights the potential importance of molecules with different inheritance patterns in elucidating complex cases of reticulate evolution.
(18) According to perimeter of leg, 13% of these girl students might he considered affected of second degree malnutrition, this situation prevailed from 13 to 18 years of age, but was not true in the 12--year--old group.
(19) Safety is increased through temporary discontinuation or dosage reduction of lithium in special risk situations.
(20) The relative importance of each of these growth factors in the in vivo situation will have to be elucidated by future studies using specific receptor antagonists or neutralizing antibodies.
Situs
Definition:
(n.) The method in which the parts of a plant are arranged; also, the position of the parts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Studying the bronchial tree on the chest x-ray it is possible to indicate the visceral situs with asplenia or with polysplenia.
(2) The patient had complete situs inversus and hypospadias.
(3) She was of complete situs inversus and subfertile and had chronic bronchitis and nasal polyposis.
(4) Respiratory cilia from two female patients with Kartagener's syndrome and one male patient with situs inversus and sinobronchitis were completely immotile and lacked both dynein arms.
(5) The 4 patients with pulmonary atresia and interventricular septal defect also presented with an early embryopathy: Shprinzen's velocardiofacial syndrome (n = 2), DiGeorge syndrome (n = 1) and situs inversus (n = 1).
(6) The original "root area" widens with the broadening of the back and can still be demonstrated as an homogeneous "root area" of the "intestinal bulge", after the typical adult situs has developed.
(7) Two further symptoms are situs inversus and male sterility.
(8) A case of mitral atresia with normal aortic valve, situs solitus, d-loop, ASD, VSD, DORV and atresia of the pulmonary valve is presented.
(9) Bronchial situs indicates atrial situs much more reliably and can be determined from penetrated chest radiographs or tomograms since the right and left main bronchi normally show different lengths.
(10) The hepatic veins and the intra-parenchymal branches of the portal vein and of the hepatic artery were dissected in two isolated livers form subjects with situs inversus.
(11) primary ciliary dyskinesia, as in Kartagener's syndrome (sinusitis, bronchiectasis and situs inversus) and Young's syndrome (primary male infertility), the cardinal features are related to mucociliary insufficiency.
(12) To our knowledge, this is the first case of the successful mitral valve replacement and concomitant aortocoronary saphenous vein bypass on a patient with situs inversus totalis (mirror-image dextrocardia) in Japan.
(13) The visceroatrial situs was solitus in all 14 patients.
(14) Multiple atrial rhythms or bradycardia associated with junctional escape were rare in the group of patients with congenital heart disease and situs solitus.
(15) Up to now a situs inversus in the thorax of the bovine race has not been described yet.
(16) These findings emphasise the pitfalls in predicting cardiac abnormalities from other aberrations of anatomical situs.
(17) A 12-year child had complete heart block, an abdominal situs inversus with laevocardia.
(18) A 5-years old boy, whose thoracic situs was right isomerism, was diagnosed as transposition of great arteries, common atrioventricular canal (intermediate type), severe tricuspid valve regurgitation, pulmonary valve stenosis, bilateral superior vena cava and left sided inferior vena cava.
(19) It consists of chronic infections in the respiratory system, male infertility, and, in about one-half of the cases, situs inversus.
(20) Kartagener's syndrome (KS) is a hereditary disease with typical symptoms of situs inversus, bronchiectasis, and chronic infections of the nasal mucosa.