What's the difference between vasa and visa?

Vasa


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Vas

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Histological examination of the aorta showed atherosclerosis together with characteristic perivascular lymphocytic infiltration of the aortic vasa vasorum.
  • (2) 2 When the conversion of tyrosine was allowed to proceed as far as catecholamine (brocresine absent) no significant difference was observed between the accumulation of [14C]-catecholamines (CA) in depolarized rat vasa deferentia and the accumulation in control (non-depolarized) tissues.
  • (3) An identical type of lesions was revealed: disorders of the connective tissue, destruction of elastic fibers, alterations of vasa vasorum, with cellular reactions typical of each nosological form reflecting the peculiarities of the immunological processes.
  • (4) Distinct foci of lysis were present in the media and adventitia of all vein samples corresponding to the distribution of the vasa vasorum.
  • (5) Treatment of intact vasa deferentia with increasing concentrations of BAAM resulted in a progressive rightward shift in the dose-response curve to isoprenaline or salbutamol followed by a decreased maximum response.
  • (6) An antepartum diagnosis of vasa previa was considered in a patient in whom ultrasound revealed pulsatile loops of cord overlying the cervical os.
  • (7) In both rodents, when on a low protein-high water intake diet, considerable interstitial substance was found between the vasa recta of the bundles.
  • (8) Thus, vasa vasorum were shown to elongate their intramural segments in response to the changes of microenvironment in which the medial cells are placed, meeting the demand by the cells for increased supply of oxygen and nutrients.
  • (9) In sections of rat kidney, angiotensin II receptors were detected in the glomerulus, vasa recta and ureter.
  • (10) As blood flows through the interconnecting capillary plexus and up ascending vasa recta, transcapillary oncotic and osmotic pressure differences combine to cause capillary uptake of fluid.
  • (11) Insufficient blood flow through vasa vasorum may contribute to medial necrosis of the aorta and to aortic atherosclerosis.
  • (12) The method has proved generally stable and efficient, and has given significant computational results for a variety of models: calculations on single solute models of the coupled vasa recta nephron counterflow system have shown that for large water and solute permeabilities of the exchanging membranes, behavior of the non-ideal system approaches that of the previously described ideal central core model.
  • (13) The deposits were also located within the lumina of the vasa nervorum, some of which were undergoing disintegration and rupture with release of the proteinaceous material into the endoneurium.
  • (14) A network of vasa vasorum surrounding atherosclerotic plaque was observed in five luminal casts and in two cleared specimens; the vasa vasorum originated from the superior thyroid and ascending pharyngeal arteries.
  • (15) Blood flow was threefold greater in atherosclerotic than in normal coronary arteries during adenosine-induced vasodilatation, which suggests that proliferation of new vessels, not dilatation of existing vessels, accounts for the increase in flow through vasa in intima media.
  • (16) Recently, ultrasound has been used in the detection of vasa praevia.
  • (17) In vivo studies on eight dogs demonstrated that even in the absence of intraluminal blood flow the vasa vasorum maintained endothelial integrity and also showed that the endothelium was very sensitive to the loss of the vasa vasorum blood supply.
  • (18) Low doses resulted in necrosis of interstitial cells, thin limbs of the loops of Henle and vasa recta, while collecting ducts were spared (subtotal renal papillary necrosis).
  • (19) In method 2, 72% of the balloon-denuded patent arteries with intact adventitial vasa vasorum were partially re-endothelialized at 4 weeks and 84% at 8 weeks.
  • (20) Of the 97 failures, four were recognized as due to missed vasa deferentia, and the remainder were attributed to recanalization.

Visa


Definition:

  • (n.) See Vis/.
  • (v. t.) To indorse, after examination, with the word vise, as a passport; to vise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
  • (2) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
  • (3) It is understood that Labor, the Greens and the crossbench will seek to remove many of these additional measures, leaving the bill focused on the visa issue.
  • (4) And they face the criminal penalty and administratively their visa is cancelled.
  • (5) The websites of Visa, Mastercard and PayPal were brought down; so too the Swedish government's.
  • (6) (Incidentally, Australia had just revoked Blanc’s visa).
  • (7) Shelby Quast, of Equality Now, said the gathering could be a “tipping point” and act as a catalyst for change, so that girls in the US could finally be protected: “It’s the first time that members of the government are coming around the table to meet with civil society, survivors and members of the diaspora – this is the first step towards putting together a comprehensive action plan to tackling FGM.” Campaigners are calling for the government to look at practical ways that FGM could be wiped out in the United States – such as engaging with paediatricians and other doctors, immigration officers and visa offices.
  • (8) A similar visa program for Afghans who aided troops was enacted in 2009 and offered up to 8,500 visas .
  • (9) Government ministers and officials are distressed that the home secretary's resignation has failed to stem the tide of fresh allegation and counter allegation between the protaganists and a number of potentially damaging questions still hang over the visa affair.
  • (10) And there are consequences for the more than 30,000 asylum seekers already here, whom the Coalition says will never get permanent visas and who, at the moment, are being denied any visas or work rights or certainty because of a political standoff over the Coalition’s policy to give them “temporary protection visas” instead.
  • (11) She feared her chances of being offered a place would be diminished by a Brexit vote, and the practical considerations like a visa and funding would be more of an obstacle.
  • (12) About 2,200 Syrians were granted offshore humanitarian visas to Australia in 2014-15, up from 1,007 the previous year.
  • (13) With 66,000 signatures on a petition after four days, immigration minister Peter Dutton cancelled Allen’s visa.
  • (14) Demonstrations are planned in the capitals of Spain, the Netherlands, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico and Peru to demand Assange's release, the re-establishment of the WikiLeaks domain name and the restoration of Visa and Mastercard credit services to allow supporters to donate money to the whistleblowing site.
  • (15) It is understood that some labour agents pay kafeels as much as $500 per visa, in effect a kickback from the fee the labour agent charges the worker for their visa, which the worker raises by borrowing or selling assets in their home country.
  • (16) The American photographer Alec Soth was told he could risk two years in prison if he took any photos in the UK without a work visa.
  • (17) Continuing, unauthorised US drone attacks against insurgents inside Pakistan, a source of deep public outrage, formed the backdrop to a string of ensuing tiffs over visas, reductions in the CIA presence, and the "outing" of the CIA station chief.
  • (18) Once this visa had been received, the parents took their new babies home – to Australia, Israel, the United Kingdom, Japan, the US.
  • (19) Germany and France have adopted a joint position, criticising but not rejecting the commission’s quota scheme while setting conditions such as the freezing of visa waiver schemes for the countries of the Balkans, and insisting that Italy fingerprint and register all new arrivals to keep them from travelling north to other EU countries.
  • (20) Childs said Castro told him Oswald "stormed into the embassy, demanded the visa, and when it was refused to him headed out saying, 'I'm going to kill Kennedy for this'."

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