What's the difference between adulthood and maturity?

Adulthood


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In general, enzyme activity was less susceptible to HA during the first week after birth than at later ages, some brain areas such as the hypothalamus showing significant alterations in some enzymes throughout development, and in all enzymes at adulthood.
  • (2) After an introductory note on primary preventive intervention of breast cancer during adulthood, the author defends and extends a hypothesis that relates most of the known risk factors for this disease to the development of preneoplastic lesions in the breast.
  • (3) In order to study cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) absorption across the dural sinus wall, the effect of CSF pressure (recorded from the cisterna magna) on dural venous pressure (recorded from the transverse sinus) was investigated in groups of rats at 2, 10, 20, and 31 days after birth and in adulthood.
  • (4) In addition, Mayor Fitzgerald was one of 12 children, only three of whom survived to adulthood, an experience that marked his career by a particular commitment to bringing medical access for all.
  • (5) She consciously destroyed the workforces in places like the railways, for example, and the mines, and the steelworks … so that transition from adolescence to adulthood was destroyed, consciously, and knowingly.
  • (6) In albino rabbits aged from the 16th postconceptional day (16PCD) to adulthood, the number of axons in the optic nerves were estimated from sample areas totalling 1-12% of the cross-sectional area of the nerve.
  • (7) These high test-retest correlations were obtained both in young adulthood and again, later in middle-aged rats.
  • (8) In adolescence and adulthood (145 and 270 days), the utilization of proteins is not dependent on their quality (the decrease in NPU 13 and 12%--is nonsignificant).
  • (9) Young adulthood is also a critical period for psychological and social development.
  • (10) The course of cytological abnormalities and synaptogenesis of Purkinje cells were investigated in the culmen of cerebella from homozygous Gunn rats with hereditary hyperbilirubinemia from postnatal day 7 to adulthood (5-10 months old).
  • (11) Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder characterized by onset in young adulthood, the occurrence of hallucinations and delusions, and the development of enduring psychosocial disability.
  • (12) In vitro and in vivo optic tract bulk injections of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) were made in animals ranging in age from the day of birth (P0) to adulthood.
  • (13) In young adulthood no differences, either in symptoms or lung function were demonstrated in comparison to subjects with a negative family history.
  • (14) Empirical support is found for each stage from early childhood to adulthood.
  • (15) An increase tendency of the fibrillar apparatus beginning from the childhood to the adulthood and then a differentiated decrease or stabilization towards the old age with the appearance of senile keratosis lesions were noticed.
  • (16) Glutathione peroxidase activity increased with age in both sexes (the activity found in male and female old rats was about 162% and 149% respectively to those found in adulthood), and a marked difference was observed between sexes in young and old rats (57.8% and 45.4% higher in females in young and old rats respectively).
  • (17) Long-term psychosocial effects of malocclusion should be studied longitudinally from childhood to adulthood in orthodontically untreated populations.
  • (18) The hybridization signals obtained from adenohypophyses of hamsters of different ages increased from 36 h of age to adulthood.
  • (19) The purpose of the present report is to establish to what extent dental anxiety is expressed by young adults with a long history of regular dental care, to analyze whether expressions of dental anxiety vary during young adulthood in response to different dental care delivery programs, and to study which factors might account for existing expressions of dental anxiety.
  • (20) Through an application of Chickering's (1969) seven vectors of human development (which occur during adolescence and early adulthood), this objective was accomplished in a course entitled Drinking and Driving: Legal and Social Aspects.

Maturity


Definition:

  • (n.) The state or quality of being mature; ripeness; full development; as, the maturity of corn or of grass; maturity of judgment; the maturity of a plan.
  • (n.) Arrival of the time fixed for payment; a becoming due; termination of the period a note, etc., has to run.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
  • (2) These cells contained organelles characteristic of the maturation stage ameloblast and often extended to the enamel surface, suggesting a possible origin from the ameloblast layer.
  • (3) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
  • (4) This experimental system allows separation of three B lymphocyte developmental stages: early differentiation in vitro, progression to IgM secretion in vivo, and late differentiation dependent upon mature T lymphocytes in vivo.
  • (5) Two fully matured specimens were collected from the blood vessel of two fish, Theragra chalcogramma, which was bought at the Emun market of Seoul in May, 1985.
  • (6) [5alpha-(3)H]5alpha-Androst-16-en-3-one (5alpha-androstenone) was infused at a constant rate for 180min into the spermatic artery of a sexually mature boar.
  • (7) Synapse loss was accentuated, however, within immature and mature plaques.
  • (8) Hormonal interactions play a determining role in pulmonary maturation.
  • (9) In the mature neutrophil, the number of binding sites for WEM-G11 were found to be about 20,000 per cell.
  • (10) In addition, transitional macrophages with both positive granules and positive RER, nuclear envelope, negative Golgi apparatus (as in exudate- resident macrophages in vivo), and mature macrophages with peroxidatic activity only in the RER and nuclear envelope (as in resident macrophages in vivo) were found.
  • (11) Plasma membranes were obtained from a homogeneous population of rabbit red blood cells at different maturation periods.
  • (12) The nature, intracellular distribution, and role of proteins synthesized during meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes in vitro have been examined.
  • (13) Between the 24th and 29th day mature daughter sporocysts with fully developed cercariae ready to emerge, or already emerged, could be seen in the digestive gland of the snail.
  • (14) The objective of this study was to examine the effects of different culture media used for maturation of bovine oocytes on in vitro embryo development following in vitro fertilization.
  • (15) Special conditions apply for the scoring of a first and a last bone stage in a sequence, which will introduce less bias in the estimation of individual skeletal maturity with the MAT-method than with the TW-method.
  • (16) Furthermore, the expression of the 'mature' markers was found to be correlated with the phagocytic capacity of the cells.
  • (17) Implantation is dependent on embryonic age and is independent of endometrial maturation within this window.
  • (18) After isolation of the complex IV only gpFII and tails are required for mature phage formation in vitro.
  • (19) In males, the percentage of animals having mucous cells increased with sexual maturation and attained 100 per cent at age six months.
  • (20) In late-passage and cloned HUT102 cells, an increase in HTLV production was concordant with a decrease in constitutive interferon production and the loss of mature T lymphocyte antigens.