(n.) A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite 50 years of intensive research in the field of RFs, autoimmunity and chronic inflammation, some of the serological tests used for measuring autoantibodies remain an anachronism.
(2) Miliband, as I observed some time ago in a piece for ConservativeHome , should have dismissed as a preposterous anachronism the Tory attack on the trade union link.
(3) In order to have an impact on the vast population, that kind of anachronism must be addressed.
(4) What better reason to get rid of it as an economically and ethically unjustifiable anachronism from a bygone age, exploited now only by the richest in our society so that they can get richer at cost to all the rest of us?
(5) Like its predecessors (The Tudors, Spartacus, Camelot etc) the 10-part potboiler is awash with wrecking ball exposition, window-rattling anachronisms and scenes in which heritage hardbodies have shouting backwards sex next to stupefied livestock.
(6) In the past she has gone on the attack, pointing out that the Booker criteria (Commonwealth writers yes, Americans no) might also be viewed as an anachronism.
(7) But it did have a very particular place in the Liberal Democrat heart, both because the ermine-trimmed anachronism that still co-writes Britain's law offends the party's modernity and rationalism, and because great Liberal heroes moved heaven and earth to reform the chamber a century ago.
(8) The whole thing is a mad anachronism,” Greer said.
(9) Aid projects in China and Russia will be cut, on the grounds that they have become anachronisms given the global clout of those economies.
(10) In an ere in which man is beginning to master and make his way into the various systems which surround him (atom, cosmic exploration, organ transplant, genetic manipulations...), a clinical practice which would remain centered on the various forms and apparent characteristics of psychic dysfunctioning, has become anachronical.
(11) Laboratory managers who eschew computer tools are now an anachronism; extinction of this species is imminent.
(12) American Indian tribes are seen as an anachronism by many non-Indian people.
(13) The non-dom loophole is an anachronism that should have been archived a long time ago.
(14) By the time the last club closed in the early 90s, they seemed a total anachronism.
(15) Despite truly heroic estimates of their economic value to the nation (at least $1bn a year), the red tape repeal days were mostly about removing anachronisms and correcting punctuation in the nation’s legislation.
(16) The G8 as an institution, after all, is an anachronism – a body without legitimacy or power, in the words of David Miliband last week.
(17) At the same time, the decline of the trade union movement has made many people believe that being a "worker" is something of an anachronism.
(18) Rebekah Anderson and Helen Fuller spent the month of their student elective in southern India and here reveal some of the dental anachronisms they encountered.
(19) The conclusion arrived at after a review of the relevant literature, coupled with current knowledge of the morphophysiological changes which take place in the transformation zone of the cervix, is that the term cervical erosion is an anachronism.
(20) There's a danger of anachronism here - it feels like a very modern civil partnership – as there is too with the boys' habit of saving slave girls, spoils of war, from ravishment by their fellow soldiers by claiming them chastely for themselves, and promising earnestly never to kill unarmed men.
Metachronism
Definition:
(n.) An error committed in chronology by placing an event after its real time.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nine anastomotic recurrences were detected in the 12-30 month interval; none was reoperated for cure; however, 4 metachronous colon cancers were found and resected for cure.
(2) Twenty of the lung cancers were synchronous and 47 were metachronous after head and neck cancer.
(3) Two recurrent and two metachronous carcinomas were detected.
(4) In the analysis of metachronous adenomas, 164 patients who had been followed for 1 to 11 years (mean, 3.31 years) were included.
(5) Patients with metachronous tumors were 5 years younger and more likely to have a family history of breast cancer than those patients with synchronous cancers.
(6) A special problem is iso- and metachronic multiplicity.
(7) Lateral cilia of freshwater mussel gills, which normally beat with metachronal rhythm, are arrested pointing frontally by perfusion with 6.25 to 12.5 millimolar calcium and 10(-5) molar A23187, a calcium ionophore.
(8) There were 10 synchronous and 20 metachronous cases.
(9) The paper analyses the results of a large number of patients operated for large intestine carcinoma who then underwent a postoperative endoscopic follow-up to assess the number of metachronous tumours.
(10) Metachronous liver metastasis developed less than in 5% of v0 and v1 groups, while it developed in 22% of v2 and v3 groups.
(11) The early metachronous carcinoma could be detected by fiberendoscopy during follow-up.
(12) In an eight-year, ongoing study of 120 patients, 39 with carcinomas and 81 with adenomas, no patient has produced a new carcinoma despite a high incidence of metachronous adenomas.
(13) In 4 out of 5 patients the breast tumor was the initial tumor discovered, and in 4 out of 5 the second tumor evolved metachronously.
(14) A retrospective analysis of 7605 patients with cancer treated between 1958 to 1982 revealed that the colorectum was the site of metachronous primary in 38 patients (15 males and 23 females).
(15) It had a benign course, characterized by synchronous and metachronous multicentricity, rather than local recurrence.
(16) Contralateral breast cancer was recorded in 44 cases and the incidence of further metachronous cancer to the other breast was ten times higher than expected in normal breasts.
(17) Between 1975 and 1988, 37 patients with resectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and synchronous (within 1 month, n = 10) or metachronous (n = 27) solitary brain metastasis (SBM) underwent combined excision of their lesions.
(18) No significant differences were found in ploidy and mean DNA index between index adenomas and metachronous adenomas of the Group II patients.
(19) There was no significant difference in age, locoregional stage (TN), or histologic features in patients with synchronous versus metachronous lesions.
(20) The interval between diagnosis of HD and metachronous lung cancer averaged seven years but appeared to vary inversely with age.