What's the difference between ambiguously and homonymously?
Ambiguously
Definition:
(adv.) In an ambiguous manner; with doubtful meaning.
Example Sentences:
(1) Along the spectrum of loyalties lie multiple loyalties and ambiguous loyalties, and the latter, if unresolved, create moral ambiguities.
(2) This examination has proved an important help in the diagnosis of all the cases of sexual ambiguity.
(3) Exogenous activators of PKC stimulate insulin secretion from B cells, but attempts to define a physiological role for PKC by using inhibitors of this enzyme have produced ambiguous results.
(4) The aza analogue (RS)-3-hydroxy-2,5-pyrrolidinedione-3-acetic acid (6) of the five-membered citric anhydride (2) was prepared in the sequence citric acid----2-phenyl-1,3-dioxolan-4-one-5,5-diacetic acid (1)----citric acid beta-amide (3)----6 and used to resolve ambiguities in the mechanism of the citrate synthase reaction.
(5) Results obtained with this analog can be ambiguous, since 2-DOG can be phosphorylated by hexokinases of animal cells.
(6) Ultrasound has also proven useful in evaluating patients with ambiguous genitalia, amenorrhea and suspected PID and also is an effective means of localizing intrauterine contraceptive devices.
(7) Authors have previously published April 1988 a lecture where they criticize the bad denomination "passed coma" full of ambiguity for public mind, to which "brain death" ought to be preferred.
(8) There were, though, large omissions and ambiguities that will need to be filled in and clarified as polling day nears.
(9) "Prostatic acid phosphatase" is a term that has been used widely and ambiguously to refer to acid phosphatase, which 1) is elevated in the sera of patients with various diseases of the prostate, 2) is inhibited by one or more specific inhibitors, 3) attacks one or more specific substrates, 4) has certain unique antigenic properties, 5) is extracted from homogenates of prostate, and 6) is obtained from prostate secretions, etc.
(10) We have Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris coming to those platforms this December, and Tomb Raider: The Definitive Edition is available on PS4.” However, there is still some slight ambiguity about whether the deal is for Winter 2015 only.
(11) This ambiguity was resolved by using resealed ghosts, which are unable to incorporate oleic acid into phospholipids.
(12) This report describes a minicomputer-based translation system (TRANSOFT) that employs word order rearrangement followed by word-for-word translation and resolution of ambiguities based on context.
(13) Authors report a ring chromosome 18 (18 r) in a four year old boy, with low birth weight, retarded growth and development, microcephaly and plagiocephaly, horizontal nystagmus, ambiguous genitalia, clinodactyly of the fifth finger, distal axial triradius, whorls pattern in 8 fingers in dermatoglyphic.
(14) Membrane potential trajectories of 68 bulbar respiratory neurones from the peri-solitary and peri-ambigual areas of the brain-stem were recorded in anaesthetized cats to explore the synaptic influences of post-inspiratory neurones upon the medullary inspiratory network.
(15) As well, two-dimensional 15N-1H heteronuclear spectroscopy was used to resolve a number of ambiguities present in the homonuclear spectra due to resonance redundancies.
(16) The axon of the labeled bulbospinal neuron had axonal collaterals which were distributed within the region of the nucleus ambiguous of the ipsilateral medulla.
(17) Of the 406 tests there have been 85 positive, 296 negative and 25 ambiguous reports.
(18) In a second experiment schizophrenics were significantly different from the depressives in showing less inclination to select a metaphorical meaning to an ambiguous adjective in a sentence.
(19) Three-quarters of the sample was impaired on at least one of four discourse tests (knowing the alternate meanings of ambiguous words in context; getting the point of figurative or metaphoric expressions; bridging the inferential gaps between events in stereotyped social situations; and producing speech acts that express the apparent intentions of others).
(20) Yet, the apparent ambiguities of science confuse the courts, the juries, and the public.
Homonymously
Definition:
(adv.) In an homonymous manner; so as to have the same name or relation.
(adv.) Equivocally; ambiguously.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aim was to find out to what extent information from homonymous muscles of the forelimbs converge on the same CBM neurons and whether the probability of such a convergence depends on location (axial, proximal, distal) or function (flexor, extensor) of the tested muscles.
(2) Positive correlation was also observed between the amplitudes of the median mEPSPs and the maximum homonymous composite EPSPs in the cells for which both data points were available.4.
(3) Unfortunately, up to now it has not been possible to induce such a sensory-motor compensation in cases of homonymous hemianopia with normal retinal correspondence in an adult visual system.
(4) In post-spike averages of 1000-10,000 sweeps, no evidence of reflex excitation of the homonymous motoneurone pool was detected.
(5) The postoperative course was uneventful and he was discharged without any deficits except for a left upper quadrant homonymous hemianopia.
(6) All patients suffered hemiparesis, and hemisensory loss and homonymous hemianopsia were identified in 2 patients.
(7) Novel words were presented to children, half serving as potential homonyms, half as unlikely homonyms.
(8) In one, incongruous homonymous hemianopsia was accompanied by a decrease in visual acuity in one eye from chiasmal involvement.
(9) The patient was a 60-year-old female, and the initial symptoms were mild headache followed by right homonymous hemianopsia.
(10) Bilateral upper homonymous quadrantanopsias usually leave the macula more or less unimpaired, so that visual acuity is largely preserved.
(11) Neurological examination revealed slight right hemiparesis, right homonymous hemianopsia and left papilledema.
(12) Neurological examination on admission revealed memory disturbance, left homonymous hemianopsia and left hemiparesis.
(13) The experiments were carried out in incidental memory paradigms, where high and low imagery words without any homonyms were used as stimuli.
(14) Presynaptic inhibition of homonymous Ia afferent terminals to soleus, quadriceps and tibialis anterior motoneurons and of heteronymous Ia fibres from quadriceps to soleus was compared in the same subjects when standing without support and during a control situation (sitting or standing with back support).
(15) In transverse sections the axon collateral outbulgings were found not only in the classical Renshaw cell area ventromedial to the main motor nuclei but also within the homonymous motor nucleus.
(16) SLDs could be elicited in given motoneurones by stimulation of their homonymous but never of their antagonistic muscle nerves.
(17) The VERs relating to normal homonymous field quadrants were in phase in all three groups, excluding patients with cataracts.
(18) The patient remained in excellent health until 22 months after the initial ocular problem when she developed a left homonymous hemianopia.
(19) A 45-year-old man of bilateral occipital infarction with central homonymous hemianopia is reported.
(20) On admission, she had bilateral papilledema, left homonymous hemianopia, and right hearing impairment.