The phrase "distinguish without" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate the ability to differentiate or recognize something without the aid of external factors. For example: - "She was able to distinguish without her glasses, relying solely on her sense of touch." - "It's impressive how he can distinguish without any prior knowledge or training." - "The artist's use of colors allowed the painting to stand out and distinguish without any words or explanation."
The device could take photographs of a painting at different wavelengths of light, from infrared to ultraviolet, allowing him to distinguish, without damaging the work, the kind of pigments an artist had used.
There are various auto-immune disorders with overlapping symptoms that are often difficult to distinguish without thorough workup and biopsies.
Assisted living facilities are expensive, and, while they're all very different, it can be tough to distinguish without visiting each and every one.
The dashboard is spare and clean, the dials are easy to read, and the knobs and buttons are intelligently placed and differently sized, which makes them easier to distinguish without having to take your eyes off the road.
We designed a stimulus set consisting of six highly similar bird shapes that are difficult to distinguish without training (Figure 1).
There is no information in this report about the source of the termite [31], but I. snyderi and I. schwarzi share an overlapping range in south Florida, and they are extremely difficult to distinguish without observing the winged stage (R. H. Scheffrahn, pers. comm)., so in a study where only one of the two species was examined, it is not hard to see how a misidentification could go undetected.
Arrows in (D) show dead cells, which can be distinguished without PI staining.
HD subjects diagnosed by traditional clinical criteria (that is, presence of movement disorder) were distinguished without overlap from the control subjects by the percentage of cells with aggregates and the amount of aggregates in the cell-free lysate assay (Figures 5b and d).
In mice, gold nanoparticles provided bright contrast enhancement that enabled clear visualization of the abdominal aorta and renal arteries, which could not be distinguished without contrast agent.
At all three time points, the difference of EGF-HPPS uptake between A549 (EGFR+) and EGFR-GFP-A549 (EGFR++) could not be distinguished without the excess of HDL which blocks secondary SR-BI targeting (Fig. 5d).
The adults of the various species now resemble each other so well, the species cannot be distinguished without close morphological observation and, in some cases, dissection or genetic analysis.
