What's the difference between terminology and vocabulary?

Terminology


Definition:

  • (n.) The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms.
  • (n.) The terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms; as, the terminology of chemistry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These included: 1) association of infectious processes with other laboratory results; 2) a feeling of integration with the patient and health care team; and 3) the introduction of medical terminology.
  • (2) Certain terminologies in vogue add further to the confusion.
  • (3) The terminology of the pericardial sinuses and recesses has been inconsistent, and the authors propose a nomenclature for standardizing the names of the recesses of the serous pericardium.
  • (4) The author states the terminology to be used in impedancemetry according to the different probe tone frequencies of the clinical impedancemeters and the different acoustic stimulations systems in order to obtain the acoustico-facial reflex.
  • (5) After a review of the bibliography on the subject of eccrine sweat gland carcinomas, the authors emphasize the confusing terminology used for the designation of these cases and the difficulties for a correct clinical and histological diagnosis of these tumors.
  • (6) All specimens were classified using the terminology of Azzopardi.
  • (7) A review of terminology is undertaken to present the reader with the distinguishing features of the personality disorder versus the anxiety disorder.
  • (8) The main problems are the lack of a uniform terminology and the fact that there is little unanimity concerning definitions and what may be included under individual syndromic rubrics.
  • (9) In this part of the chapter we have used new terminology and developed a new system for classification of sleep disorders in children.
  • (10) Terminology widely used in the nursing literature is clarified and research studies that address the quality of nursing care are reviewed.
  • (11) Because of the many disciplines involved in treatment, differences in terminology have surfaced.
  • (12) The terminology "flossing cleft" is suggested by the authors to describe linear or V-shaped interdental marginal tissue deformities that result from dental floss-induced injury.
  • (13) A desirable terminology, therefore, is one that is familiar to molecular biologists and can facilitate comparisons with other systems--immune, endocrine, nervous--where similar methods and terms are in use.
  • (14) The terminology indicates the name of the main vessel followed by the name of the recurrent vessel both combined in an adjective.
  • (15) Based on the clinical and operative findings in sixty-eight knees with acute tears of the medial compartment and cruciate ligaments, a standardized terminology and classification of knee ligament instability is presented.
  • (16) Terminological ambiguity is discussed, along with the detailed clinical, radiological, and operative presentations of this rare condition.
  • (17) The flexible design of the thesaurus facilitates frequent revision and addition of new terminology.
  • (18) A seven-word terminology quiz made up of words from the CUE form was also enclosed.
  • (19) This report agrees with Loney and Bloem (1987) that there is no consistency in the use of terminology for velopharyngeal function disorders.
  • (20) To determine mothers' level of comprehension of terminology used by health care providers when discussing the care of a newborn baby.

Vocabulary


Definition:

  • (n.) A list or collection of words arranged in alphabetical order and explained; a dictionary or lexicon, either of a whole language, a single work or author, a branch of science, or the like; a word-book.
  • (n.) A sum or stock of words employed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Subtle cognitive deficits in Inferential Reading Comprehension were detected when Reading Vocabulary was at or better than a twelfth grade level.
  • (2) Experiment 4 replicated these findings with children, indicating that the assumption of a correlation between word and visual complexity exists during the period of intense vocabulary growth.
  • (3) Crawford's own poetry was informed by contact with refugees – "I began to think seriously about what it felt like to lose your country or culture, and in my first book, there are one or two poems that are versions of Vietnamese poems" – and scientists, whose vocabulary he initially "stole because it seemed so metaphorically resonant.
  • (4) These individuals retained a mean of 83% of their comprehension vocabularies and 70% of their production vocabularies without systematic maintenance teaching on the learned symbols.
  • (5) FH+ and FH- samples did not differ on average amount of ethanol consumed per day, vocabulary, state anxiety, childhood attentional deficit disorder, and childhood learning disability.
  • (6) The proportion of paradigmatic responses varied with the grammatical class of the stimulus word and with the vocabulary level of the subject, but not with age.
  • (7) Administered four screening instruments--Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Form A (PPVT-A), Riley Preschool Developmental Screening Inventory-Designs (RPDD), Riley Make-A-Boy (RMB) and the McCarthy Scales of Children's Ability Designs (MSCD)--to 23 normal children with no evidence of neurological impairment and 23 neurologically impaired children under 6 years of age.
  • (8) The phrase "Islamic extremism" wouldn't have been in his vocabulary.
  • (9) If there is anything positive about _________ is his rich vocabulary.
  • (10) Few of the UMLS semantic relationships are applicable to the CPMC vocabulary.
  • (11) A few years back, a survey of 3,000 11-year-olds revealed that nine out of 10 parents swear in front of their children, and the average kid heard six different expletives per week (whoever said profanity was bad for your vocabulary?).
  • (12) We investigated these ideas in a sample of intellectually intact patients with idiopathic, optimally treated PD (N = 20) and in spouse controls (N = 15); the groups were divided into young (age < 60) and old subgroups, each comparable on education, vocabulary level, and Mini-Mental State scores.
  • (13) However, he retained knowledge of words introduced into the vocabulary during the retrograde period.
  • (14) Syndrome is one of the oldest terms in the medical vocabulary.
  • (15) Twenty-four male and 24 female familial righthanderds were given the BD and Vocabulary subtests of the WAIS as well as a brightness discrimination task.
  • (16) A second memory task, not dependent upon accuracy of comprehension, indicated age-related differences at all vocabulary levels.
  • (17) Much of the rich vocabulary of the fave depends on the reality that they aren’t visible to anyone who’s not involved or specifically looking.
  • (18) A clear difference is found between the oligo vocabularies of the optional and basic yeast mt sequences.
  • (19) Self-reports of impairment in everyday cognitive and perceptuomotor functioning for the 6 months that preceded treatment were investigated in 60 male, middle-aged alcoholics and for a comparable time period in 60 nonalcoholic controls matched on age, education, and Shipley Vocabulary age.
  • (20) The short term (20 parkinsonian patients on L-dopa for 22 months or less) and the long term (20 parkinsonian patients on L-dopa for 40 months or more) patients were chosen from the neurological clinic at St. Barnabas Hospital, Bronx, N.Y. Testability was assessed by the neurologis and by WAIS Vocabulary performance.