(n.) The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.
(n.) The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first.
Example Sentences:
(1) Interaction of viable macrophages with cationic particles at 37 degrees C resulted in their "internalization" within vesicles and coated pits and a closer apposition between many segments of plasmalemma than with neutral or anionic substances.
(2) Close apposition of macrophages and lymphocytes was observed, and cellular contact was demonstrated.
(3) The development of the first molar was examined from the dental lamina stage through apposition.
(4) We postulate that the apposition of trophotaenial epithelium to the internal ovarian epithelium constitutes a placental association equivalent to a noninvasive, epithelioform of an inverted yolk sac placenta.
(5) Histologic examination of different levels of the nutrient arteries revealed many intraosseous pathologic vascular changes in apposition to the ischemic episode of the femoral head.
(6) The tibial shafts of OVX rats compared to SHAM controls showed elevated periosteal mineral apposition rate and endocortical bone formation parameters.
(7) 1,25 (OH)2D3 was expected to stimulate mineral apposition rate of alveolar bone on the tension side.
(8) Histologic study showed that the growth of transplanted auricular cartilage is achieved jointly by two mechanisms, namely interstitial growth and appositional growth.
(9) Bone ingrowth was greatest when hydroxylapatite was in direct apposition to bone.
(10) It is an eerily apposite image from the year the outbreak of the Spanish civil war inaugurated a new age of slaughter.
(11) Furthermore, after four months of skeletal inactivity, bone mass and other parameters of osseous metabolism, including bone formation and mineral apposition rates were unchanged over summer values.
(12) Regions of severe degeneration were characterized by the complete loss of the photoreceptors and apposition of the external limiting membrane to the retinal pigment epithelium.
(13) In the present experiments, neurons were plated together in close apposition as pairs or as triads, with the tip of one Retzius cell touching the soma of another.
(14) Plasma membranes of ovarian luteal and adrenal cortical cells from "microvillar channels," a unique extracellular compartment formed by the close apposition of flattened microvillar surfaces.
(15) Appositional rates were calculated from measurements of distance between fluorescent mineralized tissue markers.
(16) The different levels of magnesium in the diets of the cows had no significant effects on the numbers of osteons which were labelled nine weeks, five weeks or one week before parturition, or on the numbers of osteons which took more than one label or on the bone apposition rate.
(17) A specific, consistent pattern of bone apposition and resorption was observed after advancement genioplasty.
(18) Thus, for implants utilizing direct bone apposition fixation, it appears that of the parameters investigated, implant surface texture is the most significant.
(19) The signal for RBC removal: in analogy with a recent model for recognition and removal of oxidant-stressed or senescent RBC, we propose removal of fava bean damaged RBC be mediated by apposition of antiband 3 antibodies and complement C3 fragments, recognized as non-self recognition signal by monocytes and macrophages.
(20) Most notably, canaliculi are often present at appositional membranes which are flanked by abundant gap and tight junctions.
Syntactic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Syntactical
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude from these six studies that: (a) BN presents a counter-example to the claim that non-fluent patients have particular difficulty with those aspects of morphology which have a syntactic function; (b) BN processes both derived and inflected words by mapping the sensory input onto the entire full-form of a complex word, but the semantic and syntactic content of the stem alone is accessed and integrated into the context.
(2) Syntactical structure of spontaneous speech was typically reduced to short, simple sentence construction.
(3) In regard to hemispheric specialization in interpreting students, no significant asymmetries were revealed in the recognition of semantic and syntactic errors.
(4) Broca's aphasia is characterized by disorders on the phonemic, syntactic and lexical level of linguistic description.
(5) The objective is to comment on some plausible mutual implications of generally attested pathologies and normal models of lexical retrieval for production, particularly with respect to the roles of semantic and syntactic categories.
(6) In addition to words drawn from the relevant lexical domains, nonsense words and words from inappropriate syntactic categories also were presented to the patients.
(7) A statistical count of the syntactic forms used in the written language sample is provided at the end of the analysis.
(8) Maybe that's why it saddens me so much to say that with every passing generation, the original syntactical structure of a language diminishes further.
(9) The second notes the differences in the involvement of semantic versus syntactic information in the tasks used in these studies.
(10) Both patients were impaired in the use of more complex syntactic structures and one, who in addition had severe generalized impairment in frontal lobe function, also had impaired judgement regarding the use and placement of functors.
(11) Ten sentences with complex syntactic structures were elicited, both orally and in writing (e.g., "Who do you think eats fries?"
(12) The purpose of the present study is to explore both the effects of age and the semantic and syntactic structures of reading materials on the omission rate of "de", the most frequently used character in Mandarin.
(13) This study assessed whether the comprehension of specific lexical items (a semantic judgment) and reversible passive sentences (a syntactic judgment) would be facilitated by preceding them with either linguistic or extralinguistic context.
(14) Results indicated that slowing facilitated language comprehension significantly only in the syntactic condition.
(15) Recent studies of aphasia and Parkinson's disease show that functional syntactic ability involves neural structures that also are involved in speech motor control and nonlinguistic cognition.
(16) There have been several attempts in recent years to include objective measures of syntactic complexity as part of an overall language assessment program.
(17) Stimuli that were syntactically structured and contained a sentencelike rhythm were spoken with shorter durations than nonsyntactic stimuli with sentential rhythm but only by 8-year-olds and adults.
(18) We found that listeners follow an answer obviousness rule, utilize their knowledge of objects and the actions they allow as context for sentence interpretation, and do sometimes evaluate the syntactically direct reading of a sentence before arriving at an indirect speech act.
(19) Measures administered included the Western Aphasia Battery, Test for Syntactic Complexity, and Chomsky Test of Syntax.
(20) Results were that parents' signed mean lengths of utterance (MLUs) were lower than those of their children although the majority of their sign utterances were syntactically intact.