Capnography vs Carnography - What's the difference?
capnography | carnography |
The monitoring of the concentration or partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the respiratory gases, generally during anaesthesia and intensive care.
Any writing, films, images, or other material that contains gratuitous amounts of bloodshed or violence.
* 1995 , Linda Badley, Film, horror, and the body fantastic (page 6)
As nouns the difference between capnography and carnography
is that capnography is the monitoring of the concentration or partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the respiratory gases, generally during anaesthesia and intensive care while carnography is any writing, films, images, or other material that contains gratuitous amounts of bloodshed or violence.capnography
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(-) (wikipedia capnography)Derived terms
* capnographiccarnography
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(-)- In 1986, Philip Brophy noted in Screen magazine that the horror film defied critics' attempts to deal with it as other than plotless carnography , gore, and effects for an increasingly brutalized mass audience.
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*References
*"Carnography"] 1972 review of [[Wikipedia:First Blood (novel), First Blood]'' by ''Time' s John Skow which describes the book as "carnography" ie. "meat writing". *
A linguist traces "carnography" as far back as 1984*
Eric Raymond defining "carnography" in a book review*
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