What's the difference between assumption and preconception?

Assumption


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.
  • (n.) The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; supposition; unwarrantable claim.
  • (n.) The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
  • (n.) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
  • (n.) The taking of a person up into heaven.
  • (n.) A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The assumption was also corroborated using reagents from a family in which DR3 and DQw2 were not found in the usually described linkage.
  • (2) On the assumption of a distribution in properties of the suspension according to the theory of Bruggeman, the capacitance is calculated to have a value of about one half this.5.
  • (3) It argues that much of the support of for-profits derives from American market ideology and the assumption that the search for profits leads to efficiency in production.
  • (4) The findings support the assumption that changes in tubular Na+ transport probably participate in the changes of tubular amino acid transport in elderly individuals.
  • (5) Thus neither the presence of changes in RS-T segment or T wave nor the absence of QRS changes are mandatory for the diagnosis of SEMI; this invalidates the common assumption that the diagnosis is not justified unless these conditions are met.
  • (6) The rationale for this assumption seems logical because using all of the available accommodation is not sustainable without discomfort.
  • (7) It requires the assumption that there is no isotopic exchange between lactate and other compounds, yet experimental evidence indicates that lactate and pyruvate are in rapid equilibrium.
  • (8) Retrograde extrapolation is applicable in the forensic setting with scientific reliability when reasonable and justifiable assumptions are utilized.
  • (9) The neo-Nazi murder trial revealing Germany's darkest secrets – podcast Read more From the very start, the investigation was riddled with basic errors and faulty assumptions.
  • (10) These findings lend new support to the assumption of the bifunctional property of IGFBP-3, which would have an effect outside the cell (binding of IGF in the medium) and another effect within cells or on the surface.
  • (11) The absence of proliferation control violates the general assumption that idiotypic interactions play an important role in immune regulation.
  • (12) Experiment 4 replicated these findings with children, indicating that the assumption of a correlation between word and visual complexity exists during the period of intense vocabulary growth.
  • (13) Mean open-loop gains calculated under this assumption were 1.64 for the CS system alone, 0.89 for the V system alone, and 6.59 for the interacting component between them.
  • (14) Yet the OBR’s list of basic assumptions in its 260-page report on the economic and fiscal outlook this week are not exactly controversial: the UK to leave the EU in 2019; slower import and export growth in the transitional period; a tighter migration regime.
  • (15) In conclusion, shape analysis and pattern recognition techniques can be used to forego dependence on the numerous assumptions and approximations required by traditional wall motion techniques, while providing performance characteristics that are similar to, and in some instances better than, traditional approaches.
  • (16) Published estimates of radiation dose to the gonads from 131I therapy of Graves' disease vary widely, largely because of differences in assumptions regarding the details of iodine kinetics.
  • (17) This reconstruction only requires very general assumptions, such as tracer-tracee indistinguishability and mass conservation; in particular it is independent of the glucose model structure, i.e., number of compartments and their interconnections.
  • (18) The authors expressed in 1984 the assumption that lithium is the drug of the phenomenon of suicidal action in affective disorders.
  • (19) Estimates of the number of eventual TA-AIDS cases to be seen are considerably more uncertain and require additional assumptions about the incubation distribution.
  • (20) Although epistatic selection cannot be completely ruled out, our results are better explained under the assumption of neutrality.

Preconception


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of preconceiving; conception or opinion previously formed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sixty-four per cent were infants of gestational diabetic (IGDM) and 36% of preconceptional diabetic mothers (IPDM).
  • (2) A sensitive evaluation of nutritional status in preconceptional period seems to be a positive strategy for prevention of at risk pregnancies.
  • (3) This would suggest the probable advantage of breast-feeding promotion based on woman-to-woman contact during preconception and antepartum periods; such a program might be particularly effective with women of lower educational levels.
  • (4) Thus, the preconceptional counseling is indispensable, and it should ensure that an epileptic embark upon a pregnancy with her epilepsy well controlled by a minimal dose of AEDs, and adequate answers to the questions raised by the patient should be given to prevent a poor compliance.
  • (5) Information about preconceptional sexual habits and contraceptive measures was obtained from 83 selected primigravid patients.
  • (6) Patients suffer irrational fears of damage and death because of erroneous preconceptions of radiation which doctors fail to correct.
  • (7) It was an isolated show of anti-World Cup sentiment at a tournament that left many European visitors ashamed of their preconceptions about crime and social disorder.
  • (8) Exercise therapy should be explored as an additional means to maintain normoglycemia, preconceptionally as well as throughout pregnancy.
  • (9) Our data suggests that subjects with any degree of glucose intolerance in pregnancy should be managed as carefully as established diabetics and preconception counselling for high risk groups may be beneficial.
  • (10) The infants of women with total gestational weight gain below 9 kg have the mean birth weight always lower than those of women with weight gain more than 9 kg in all three categories of preconceptional relative weight (i.e.
  • (11) In 1949, Saul Bellow went to a cocktail party hosted by Cyril Connolly, and found his preconceptions of literary England being undermined: “Although I don’t judge the inverted with harshness, still it is rather difficult to go to London thinking of Dickens and Hardy to say nothing of Milton and Marx and land in the midst of fairies.” Most of the people I’ve mentioned were living their lives more or less openly.
  • (12) The acquisition of data by this verbal process is a clinically sophisticated and difficult medical procedure and a major source of error is the bias or preconception that a clinician brings to his observations.
  • (13) In families with the risk of cleft lip and palate at the Clinic of Plastic Surgery in Prague a preconception and prenatal protective regime (planned conception) is ensured.
  • (14) Restriction of rats to 50% of preconception feed intake during the first 2 wk of gestation was associated with higher body weight of the progeny at 21 wk postpartum than was ad libitum feeding throughout gestation.
  • (15) Data collected preconception and from those who did not conceive within 1 yr were used for control subjects.
  • (16) Doing the research from the point of view of Latvia and Lithuania (our countries) has blown away my student's preconceptions of the subject.
  • (17) During the preconception period almost one third did not attend any medical examination.
  • (18) In acquiring psychoanalytic ideas, psychotherapy trainees are often hampered by preconceptions about what constitutes a psychoanalytic perspective.
  • (19) A matched case-control study of retinoblastoma was conducted by the Children's Cancer Study Group (CCSG) to investigate the hypotheses that postconception exposures affect the risk of the nonheritable (post-zygotic origin) form of this disease and that preconception exposures affect the risk of the sporadic heritable (prezygotic origin) form.
  • (20) Five IDD patients achieved strict preconception glycemic control and then underwent nine IVF-ET cycles.