(n.) Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. want of bilateral symmetry.
(n.) Incommensurability.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eighty percent of subjects with significant asymmetry of muscle action had recent LBP history.
(2) The reported study demonstrates that performance asymmetries between normal or reflected letters presented in the right and left visual field favors the right visual field when stimulus patterns are blocked and rotated 90 degrees clockwise and favors the left visual field when they are blocked and rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.
(3) The correlation of posterior intervertebral (facet) joint tropism (asymmetry), degenerative facet disease, and intervertebral disc disease was reviewed in a retrospective study of magnetic resonance images of the lumbar spine from 100 patients with complaints of low back pain and sciatica.
(4) Breast asymmetry was significantly more common among the scoliotic than the normal girls.
(5) The asymmetry is strikingly enhanced in enzyme-bound MgAp(5)A, which has resonances at 10.5, 12.5, 18.6, 22.7, and 25.6 ppm.
(6) Suction mammaplasty can be used as a sole technique in congenital asymmetry or in post-reduction enlargement or asymmetry.
(7) Asymmetries occur less often whilst using the low-cervical-pull according to Sander, due to the reduced friction between the two plastic parts of this headgear system.
(8) Peak pressures measured with the RP probe decreased to congruent with50 mm Hg and radial pressure asymmetry vanished.
(9) Within the depressed group ear asymmetry varied according to symptomatology; withdrawal-retardation was associated with a lack of asymmetry and anxiety with a normal right ear advantage.
(10) In the present study, three known stressors, noise, cold and behavioral modification, were employed in evaluating the effects of stress on limb asymmetry.
(11) Light scattering from chicken red blood cells has been used as a model system to identify the asymmetry of cells.
(12) Failure of a previously published Silastic implant technique in the treatment of facial asymmetry has been reported.
(13) Previously reported asymmetries were not confirmed.
(14) The data on monozygotic twins further suggested that for most variables examined, the increment of environmental discordance resulting from the twinning phenomena was greater than the developmental noise that caused asymmetry within individual cotwins.
(15) Asymmetry was revealed with predominance of the amplitude increase in the right hemisphere in the phase of the rapid sleep testifying to different roles of the cerebral hemispheres in processing of emotionally significant information.
(16) The anatomic asymmetries of the axis transfer procedure may result in cast dislocations that may produce undesirable alterations in esthetic tooth positions.
(17) ), the diagnostic significance (occult carcinoma?, parenchymal asymmetry?, benign or malignant microcalcification?)
(18) The regional cerebral blood flow methods combined three markers of cerebral blood flow asymmetry (percent hemispheric difference, maximum percent probe-pair asymmetry, and number of probe-pair asymmetries) with three indexes of regional cerebral blood flow (fast compartment flow, initial slope index, and initial slope).
(19) According to X2 (Chi-square) test and asymmetry coefficient (beta 1) it was pointed out that the distribution of menarche in examined schoolgirls was normal and symmetric.
(20) After training, this abduction-adduction asymmetry was preserved in the light and dark with monocular or dichoptic viewing, indicating again that all adaptive changes were conjugate.
Dissymmetry
Definition:
(n.) Absence or defect of symmetry; asymmetry.
Example Sentences:
(1) The data obtained are considered in favour of the hypothesis of spiral contractile ring which accounts for hereditary dissymmetry of early cleavage in mollusces.
(2) Agents that had delayed fibril formation were also effective in producing an increase in degree of aggregation of fibrillar collagen, as indicated by dissymmetry changes observed in light-scattering experiments at low collagen concentrations.
(3) This procedure converts each component into a single derivative and terminal dissymmetry for each aldose is retained.
(4) At such relatively high poly C concentrations, the addition of pancreatic ribonuclease causes both the intensity and dissymmetry of scattering to rise to very high values after which time the intensity falls exponentially with time and with very little change in dissymmetry.
(5) An evaluation is made of the previously proposed scheme (polarized beta-particles leads to circularly polarized bremsstrahlung leads to optically active molecules) by which dissymmetry at the elementary particle level may be transmitted to the molecular level.
(6) This dissymmetry reveals that important postoperative changes can thus take place even in the adult animal.
(7) The concepts of molecular dissymmetry, crystallography, and chirality are therefore linked.
(8) On the ventral surface of the spinal cord both along the anterior and posterior margin of the root bases, there is a right-sided dissymmetry (with cranial shift); on the dorsal surface it is present only at the roots along the posterior margin.
(9) The dissymmetry of the scattered light is approximately 5, indicating that the scattering centers are, if spherical, about 1500 A in diameter.
(10) Concomitant squint is regarded as result of a congenital dissymmetry in the structure of the eyes or of the oculomotor apparatus and of an insufficiency of the optomotor reflexes.
(11) The signals obtained from schizophrenic and depressed patients have well defined quantitative EEG characteristics: dissymmetry of the amplitude and hypovariability of the EEG signals.
(12) PM has been shown to have ionically distinctive inner and outer surfaces while ER shows no such dissymmetry.
(13) The same as in the human being, the dissymmetry is the greatest in the thoracic part (as compared to other spinal parts).
(14) This examination showed that the differences in electrostatic behavior of deoxy- and oxyhemoglobin follow from particular dissymmetries in their configurations with respect to charge and static solvent accessibility.
(15) The dissymmetry of the dog spinal cord is quantitatively estimated along its whole extension.
(16) Increases in light-scattering and dissymmetry are attributed to unwinding of the multi-stranded polynucleotide.
(17) The smaller unwinding angle for 11 is believed to arise from its relative dissymmetry, resulting in a "wedge" effect upon intercalation.
(18) Inversion of the CD sign on formation of the external aldimine and diminution of the dissymmetry factor in the quinonoid band indicate that reorientations of the coenzyme occur in the course of the catalytic action of tryptophanase.
(19) Their possible role in the appearance of optical dissymmetry is emphasized on theoretical grounds.
(20) Regarding the geographical origin, two morphological differences are reported: the first is the presence of a "shoulder" at the spined end of the egg of the Cameroon strain and its absence in the Zaïre strain; the second is the dissymmetry of the eggs from Zaïre and the relative symmetry of the eggs from the Cameroons.