(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.
Vista
Definition:
(n.) A view; especially, a view through or between intervening objects, as trees; a view or prospect through an avenue, or the like; hence, the trees or other objects that form the avenue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those along the Atlantic coast fear their relatively untouched vistas will be next.
(2) One response to the Isla Vista rampage is a California law, AB 1014, that allows family members and law enforcement to petition a court to remove guns from the possession of someone who may be a risk to others.
(3) Such a comprehensive treatment of TIN opens up new vistas in the prophylaxis and therapy of this illness.
(4) Over the years he has played with famous musicians including John Williams, Robert Mitchell and Jools Holland, and been asked to jam with Ruben Gonzalez, the Cuban pianist who was a member of the Buena Vista Social Club.
(5) The Nobel Laureate and ex-director of Fermilab, Leon Lederman, described superconductivity as "the elixir to rejuvenate accelerators and open new vistas to the future".
(6) Hollywood studios and TV producers have long been pleading for the right to use drones, which are seen as opening up vast new vistas for dramatic filming at relatively cheap cost.
(7) From her eighth-floor corner-flat above Jarrow town centre, Lynda Rand has a stunning river vista from North Shields to Byker.
(8) May wasn’t emeralds; it was the massacre of six people in Isla Vista , California, by a young misogynist and the birth of #YesAllWomen, perhaps the most catalytic in a year of powerful protests online about women and violence.
(9) These two pieces of knowledge about basic viral architecture appear to open new vistas for reasoned synthesis of antiviral drugs, and some promising compounds are now under investigation.
(10) It’s an eerie setting in many ways, a limitless vista of futuristic visions and broken dreams, of soaring ambition and once-modern flying machines brought sadly back down to earth.
(11) He created his own title sequence for the new series of Doctor Who , complete with Peter Capaldi, a spinning Tardis, intergalactic vistas, and an eye-catching swoop through the gears of a clock.
(12) For the best vista, request a room on a higher floor overlooking the back of the city’s Metropolitan Cathedral , or simply have a drink on the top-floor roof deck.
(13) The enormous advances in understanding brought forth by the extensive research and writings of Professor Brodal and his colleagues have expanded our horizons to avail us of an enormous range of new vistas into cerebellar functional morphology.
(14) Walk straight up the hill to Summit Avenue, which clings to the ridgeline of the Hudson Palisades, however, and the vista of the Manhattan skyline is totally brilliant, gorgeous and huge.
(15) "We are living a very important moment in Brazilian democracy, with the growth of female participation in politics and other types of power, which is a fundamental move forward to equal rights," said Teresa Surita, whose win in Boa Vista has made her the first Brazilian women to win a fourth term as mayor.
(16) Learning the state fire agency had designated their area of Meadow Vista as a high-risk area, because of the drought and a thick brush cover that could easily catch fire from a stray spark, brought those fears to life.
(17) The vistas that greet travellers are quite the opposite: Robinson Crusoe islands of swaying palms and snow-soft sand, shimmering azure waters and coral reefs teeming with tropical life.
(18) New vistas are opened by the modulation of immunological reactivity by cyclic nucleotides.
(19) The 22-year-old student killed six people and injured 13 more when he went on a gun and knife rampage in the college town of Isla Vista, southern California, and he detailed his rage and murderous plans in the 141-page document.
(20) Joana Moura, the head of the union of Roraima penal workers, told the Folha de Boa Vista newspaper that the incident was “a reflection of the lack of interest from the state government” towards the prison system.