What's the difference between vision and vison?

Vision


Definition:

  • (v.) The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.
  • (v.) The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve.
  • (v.) That which is seen; an object of sight.
  • (v.) Especially, that which is seen otherwise than by the ordinary sight, or the rational eye; a supernatural, prophetic, or imaginary sight; an apparition; a phantom; a specter; as, the visions of Isaiah.
  • (v.) Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
  • (v. t.) To see in a vision; to dream.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
  • (2) A total of 104 evaluable patients 20-90 years old treated by direct vision internal urethrotomy a.m. Sachse for urethral strictures reported retrospectively via a questionnaire their sexual potency before and after internal urethrotomy.
  • (3) In the present study, 125 oesophageal biopsies obtained under direct vision at endoscopy from 22 patients with Barrett's oesophagus were systematically studied using fluorescence and peroxidase antiperoxidase single and double-staining immunocytochemical methods employing highly specific antibodies to localize the following peptide-containing cell types in Barrett's mucosa: gastrin, somatostatin, gastric inhibitory polypeptide, motilin, neurotensin and pancreatic glucagon.
  • (4) At this threshold there was no effect on reducing the rate of visual acuity overreferrals, but ten children with abnormal binocular vision were detected who were not referred by visual acuity criteria.
  • (5) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
  • (6) Case 3 was that of a 70-year-old female with left impaired vision and frontal headache.
  • (7) While the correlations between speed and accuracy reversed over time, the abnormal vision group began and ended at the most extreme levels, having undergone a significantly more radical shift in this regard.
  • (8) Adaptation at 10 deg eccentricity yielded slightly higher threshold elevations than for central vision.
  • (9) The ceremony is the much-anticipated shop window for the Games, and Boyle was brought in to provide the creative vision.
  • (10) Acini in the parotid gland of the North American mink (Mustela vision) are composed of seromucous cells that contain secretory granules of peculiar morphology.
  • (11) Drones and helicopter strikes are not equipped with political night-vision.
  • (12) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
  • (13) A 40 year old female presented with secondary glaucoma and loss of vision due to anterior pole metastasis of breast carcinoma.
  • (14) We present a patient with unilateral progressive painless loss of vision leading to optic atrophy and blindness.
  • (15) Proposed guidelines for future research include the use of conceptual rather than operational definitions of visual spatial ability, greater attention directed at separating spatial from nonspatial task components, and studies examining basic mechanisms underlying spatial vision.
  • (16) Repeated replacements of keratoprostheses extruded or removed because of complications were possible with restoration of the vision obtained after the first implantation.
  • (17) Whatever else Scott is about, Waverley ends with a vision of Britishness and a British union.
  • (18) The external and internal rear-view mirrors of automobiles should be positioned within the binocular field of vision.
  • (19) We address this issue directly over a 5-log10-unit range of light levels covering scotopic, mesopic, and photopic vision.
  • (20) Ocular disorders had been found in 62% of the cases, commonly represented by blindness of one eye, decreased vision, papillar edema and eventually by occlusion of the retineal artery.

Vison


Definition:

  • (n.) The mink.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Skin surface lipids from mink (Mustela vison) were collected in acetone and analyzed by thin-layer chromatography and gas chromatography.
  • (2) Studies have been made on the peroxidase activity of metmyoglobins in animals from various ecological groups--the horse Equus caballus, cattle Bos taurus, beaver Castor fiber, otter Lutra lutra, mink Mustela vison and dog Canis familiaris.
  • (3) The pineal complex in the mink (Mustela vison) consists of a larger ventral and a smaller dorsal pineal.
  • (4) The endocrine testicular function in mink (Mustela vison) was investigated during the first year of life encompassing puberty, the first mating season and the phase of regression thereafter.
  • (5) Mink (Mustela vison) were inoculated with viruses: African horse sickness (AHS), African swine fever (ASF), bovine herpes virus II (BHV2), foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), goat pox (GP), hog cholera (HC), peste des petits ruminants (PPR), rinderpest (RP), swine vesicular disease (SVD), vesicular exanthema of swine (VES) and vesicular stomatitis (VS).
  • (6) The BATP gene coding for the beta-subunit of Na+,K+-ATPase has been localized on chromosome 13 of the American mink (Mustela vison) using mink-Chinese hamster somatic cell hybrids and pig cDNA clones as probes.
  • (7) Paragonimus kellicotti Ward, 1908 was recovered from 16 of 105 mink (Mustela vison), 14 of 244 striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis), 10 of 446 red foxes (Vulpes vulpes), 1 of 31 coyotes (Canis latrans), 0 of 326 raccoons (Procyon lotor) and 0 of 8 weasels (Mustela spp.)
  • (8) The C120 Magnum trap, equipped with a 66 x 69 mm pan trigger, which favored double strikes in the neck and thorax regions, successfully killed nine of nine wild mink (Mustela vison) in simulated natural conditions.
  • (9) A natural killer cell assay was developed for the mink (Mustela vison) using mink peripheral mononuclear cells as effector cells and a mouse lymphoma cell line as targets.
  • (10) In comparison with the rat, the mink (Mustela vison) has a markedly expanded nasal mucosa.
  • (11) Excretion of radioactivity by mink (Mustela vison) during 7 days after intraperitoneal injection of two different amounts of aflatoxin B1 was studied.
  • (12) During lactation, 5 female mink (Mustela vison) were given 50 mug of aflatoxin B1 orally twice, 2 weeks apart.
  • (13) Seven female mink (Mustela vison) were injected intraperitoneally with a single dose of 100 mug aflatoxin B1 (14 C-label and unabeled).
  • (14) During a 14-year period, carcinoma of the anal sac apocrine glands was found in 52 pastel and 8 sapphire mink (Mustela vison) kept for studies on slow viral diseases.
  • (15) This category includes genes species-specific for Mustela vison which make the main contribution to Lpm polymorphism.
  • (16) The epizootiological status of mink (Mustela vison) as definitive hosts and Apodemus speciosus as intermediate hosts in the transmission of Echinococcus multilocularis in Hokkaido, Japan, were evaluated by orally inoculating mink with protoscoleces, and A. speciosus with eggs of the cestode, respectively.
  • (17) DNA reassociation kinetics were studied in the European mink (Mustela lutreola), the American mink (M. vison), the marbled polecat (Vormela peregusna).
  • (18) were found in the lungs of 10 of 18 (56%) mink (Mustela vison).
  • (19) Among the investigated carnivores (dog, cat, sloth bear, American mink, gray seal, and California sea lion) the Bassariscus alpha A sequence exclusively shares two amino acid replacements with the alpha A chain of the mink, Mustela vison: 7 His----Gln and 61 Ile----Val.
  • (20) The morphology of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), Bruch's membrane (complexus basalis), choriocapillaris and tapetum lucidum has been studied in the eye of the ranch mink (Mustela vison) by light and electron microscopy.

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