(n.) A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.
(n.) Want; destitution; withdrawal.
(n.) Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind.
Example Sentences:
(1) These data suggest that the hybrid is formed by the same mechanism in the absence and presence of the urea step.
(2) In the absence of atrial dilatation there was minimal stimulus for ANF secretion.
(3) This diagnosis was obscured by the absence of cutaneous, oropharyngeal, and respiratory involvement.
(4) Despite their absence, photoreceptors maintained a normal rate of OS assembly.
(5) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(6) It was concluded that the significant factors affecting outcome are tumor cell type and presence or absence or mitoses.
(7) PMN were found to be nonpermissive for HSV replication and were unable to bind virus in the absence of antibody.
(8) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
(9) The results indicate that OA-bearing macrophages primed T cells and generated helper T cells, whereas the culture of normal lymphocytes with soluble OA in the absence of macrophages generated suppressor T cells.
(10) In the absence of an authentic target for the MASH proteins, we examined their DNA binding and transcriptional regulatory activity by using a binding site (the E box) from the muscle creatine kinase (MCK) gene, a target of MyoD.
(11) The patients were classified into two groups according to the presence (n = 166) or absence (n = 176) of documented episodes of atrial fibrillation preoperatively.
(12) Because of the short detachment interval, and the absence of underlying pathology or trauma, the recovery process described here probably represents an example of optimum recovery after retinal reattachment.
(13) Names, and the absence of them, could be important Facebook Twitter Pinterest Don’t look back … Daisy Ridley’s Rey and John Boyega’s stormtrooper Finn.
(14) This observation not only provides definitive evidence for the photogeneration of O2-, but also indicates that only a fraction of this species is transformed into H2O2 in the absence of SOD.
(15) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
(16) Peptide:N-glycosidase F removed both the asparagine-linked oligosaccharide chains of ricin B-chain in the absence of lactose.
(17) When labelled long-chain fatty acids or glycerol were infused into the lactating goat, there was extensive transfer of radioactivity into milk in spite of the absence of net uptake of substrate by the mammary gland.
(18) On the other hand, if we correct for the population of HMM with degraded light chain 2, the difference in the binding constants in the presence and absence of Ca2+ may be as great as 5-fold.
(19) In fact, the distribution of [3H]oleate between plasma membranes and unilamellar vesicles of lipids extracted from these membranes was in favor of the lipids, indicating the absence of a detectable amount of binding to a putative fatty acid binding protein in plasma membranes.
(20) Patients were selected for the severity of their malnutrition and for absence of other diseases.
Disharmony
Definition:
(n.) Want of harmony; discord; incongruity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The retrospective analysis revealed the following signs of carcinoma: missing haustral folds, disharmony of interhaustral fold patterns; radiolucent filling defects; local contractions; residue-like masses and decrease of volume.
(2) Consideration should be given to the intensity of the occlusal disharmony, the level of anxiety, and the patient's adaptive response.
(3) Half (52.7%) suffered from significant mental disorders and marital disharmony.
(4) There is racial disharmony in our society,” Miller writes .
(5) Illustrations show the anatomical variant, the "length-disharmony" and its relationship to important deformities like scoliosis and funnel chest.
(6) In delusion the are: loss of tradition, incapability of dialogue, disharmony with the environment, loss of trust and independence.
(7) Regret is more likely if the sterilisation is performed (i) post-termination or in the puerperium, (ii) when there is marital disharmony and (iii) for medical rather than social reasons.
(8) Determining if head pain is related to occlusal disharmony can be a challenge.
(9) The goal of the profession is preventing occlusal deterioration or disharmony between the anterior and posterior occlusal determinants and restore compromised occlusions when necessary.
(10) Frequently facial disharmonies may be corrected with relatively simple operative procedures or with cosmetics.
(11) Inertia surrenders space to economic and political stagnation, which, in turn, makes space for international conflict and social disharmony.
(12) With recent advances of oral surgery, restoration of malocclusion and facial disharmony can be achieved by approaches other than the traditional procedure of condylectomy.
(13) But the condyle paths differed strikingly in those patients who had temporo-mandibular complaints or neuromuscular disharmonies.
(14) TMJ dysfunction had no relation to specific malocclusion but some kinds of occlusal disharmony were easy to occur in specific malocclusion and TMJ dysfunction was induced by those etiological factors.
(15) In this paper the literature on the intergenerational transmission of family disharmony is reviewed from an environmental perspective.
(16) The purpose of present study was to investigate the relationship between TMJ dysfunction and occlusal disharmony (eccentric occlusal contacts and functional shift of the mandible) in orthodontic patients.
(17) Fifty-seven families were in the disharmonious marriage group and 62 were in the harmonious marriage group.
(18) It is sure that this is the result of disharmony of overstrain (bending force or compression force) of groups of muscles on the one hand and skeletal carrying capacity, i. e. one skeletal segment on the other hand.
(19) Results showed that marital disharmony, in the form of mistrustfullness, lack of mutual friends and time together, emotional instability (in both partners), but not sexual relations, were predominant factors in incest perpetrators' profiles.
(20) Few differences could be found in the mental or physical health of the two groups of parents, but marital breakdown or severe marital disharmony was found in nine of the mongol families and in none of the controls.