What's the difference between allograph and variant?
Allograph
Definition:
(n.) A writing or signature made by some person other than any of the parties thereto; -- opposed to autograph.
Example Sentences:
(1) Allographic cardiac transplantation in one patient whose sleep study remained unchanged after medical therapy was associated with resolution of breathing pattern abnormalities and severe desaturation during sleep.
(2) graphemic buffer and allographic conversion system syndromes, is given.
(3) After surgery all patients, with the exception of those who received a porcine allograph, were given coumarin drugs for 1 year for thrombosis prophylaxis.
(4) A total of eight baboons were studied: three with heterotopic (cervical) xenographs, three with orthotopic allographs and two control animals.
(5) Although these physiologic alterations in immunoregulation may help support the fetoplacental allograph, detrimental conditions may exist regarding susceptibility to various pathogens such as HSV.
Variant
Definition:
(a.) Varying in from, character, or the like; variable; different; diverse.
(a.) Changeable; changing; fickle.
(n.) Something which differs in form from another thing, though really the same; as, a variant from a type in natural history; a variant of a story or a word.
Example Sentences:
(1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
(2) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
(3) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
(4) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
(5) In this study, the role of psychological make-up was assessed as a risk factor in the etiology of vasospasm in variant angina (VA) using the Cornell Medical Index (CMI).
(6) Moreover, homozygous deletion of the FMS gene may be an important event in the genesis of the MDS variant 5q- syndrome.
(7) The diagnosis of variant- or Prizmetal-angina is difficult because if insufficient specificity of the tests.
(8) A variant t-PA (G K1 K2 P), which contained only one of the two fibrin binding sites, i.e.
(9) In the DAUDI cell system, the acquired capability of tumor cell variants to grow in the presence of a relatively high concentration of vinblastine (VBL) is associated with a marked increase to NK and LAK susceptibility.
(10) An infant with a Sturge-Weber variant syndrome developed progressive megalencephaly and eventual hydrocephalus, which required shunting.
(11) Three distinct antigenic regions of bovine somatotropin (bST) were identified on the basis of the ability of a set of monoclonal antibodies to bind to proteolytic fragments and deletion variants of recombinant bST (rbST) in Western blot analyses.
(12) Furthermore, they seem to suggest that most cases of cycloid psychosis are not variants of either schizophrenia or major affective disorders.
(13) Structurally altered polymorphic variants with reduced activity, such as tetrameric interface mutant Ile-58 to Thr, may produce not only an early selective advantage, through enhanced cytotoxicity of tumor necrosis factor for virus-infected cells, but also detrimental effects from increased mitochondrial oxidative damage, contributing to degenerative conditions, including diabetes, aging, and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
(14) A variant of the FitzHugh-Nagumo model is proposed in order to fully make use of the computational properties of intraneuronal dynamics.
(15) All four human MBP variants were identical except for the insertion of deletion of two peptide fragments corresponding to those encoded by exons 2 and 5 of the MBP gene.
(16) Proliferation of untransformed FDC-PI cells and the emergence of variants with improved adaptation to in vivo conditions appear to be important and possibly necessary steps in the pathogenesis of the disease.
(17) The results are discussed with respect to Q phase variants and receptor binding properties.
(18) In small cell line NCI-H69 the growth inhibitory effect of VRP alone is greater in the resistant variant than in the parent line.
(19) A deficient G-6PD variant was discovered in 4 males of one family from northwestern Germany.
(20) Methods of analysis for some deterministic and stochastic variants of the integrate-to-threshold neural coding scheme are presented.