Nidus vs Nisus - What's the difference?
nidus | nisus |
A nest for insects or small animals
A locus of infection in an organism
An originating point for a phenomenon
A mental or physical effort to attain a specific goal; a striving.
* 1833 , James O' Beirne, New Views on the Process of Defecation, and Their Application to the Pathology and Treatment of Diseasesof the Stomach, Bowels, and Other Organs'', quoted in 1833, John Johnson (editor), ''The Medico-Chirurgical Review , New Series: Volume 19 (Volume 23 of the Analytical Series),
* 1992 , J.G. Hart, The Person and the Common Life: Studies in a Husserlian Social Ethics ,
* 2006 , Errol E. Harris, Reflections on the Problem of Consciousness ,
As nouns the difference between nidus and nisus
is that nidus is a nest for insects or small animals while nisus is a mental or physical effort to attain a specific goal; a striving.nidus
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(-)page 7,
- The evacuation of the rectum and bladder being completed, immediately the nisus ceases, the rectum and the sphincters return to their former state of contraction, the diaphragm reascends, carrying with it and restoring to their proper situations the liver, the stomach, the spleen, the small intestines, the cæcum, and the ascending, tranverse and descending portions of the colon.
page 363,
- The godly personality of a higher order, as the telos'' of the nisus''' of moral categoriality, is the ''sensus plenior'' of the ' nisus to a universal communalization of perspectives.
page 158,
- The immanent nisus to completion, therefore, drives the complex to the explication of its internal relations so that they become recognizable as such.