What's the difference between category and superorder?
Category
Definition:
(n.) One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament.
(n.) Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three categories of UV response have been identified.
(2) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
(3) In 76 patients (73%) radionuclide and hemodynamic data fell in the same category.
(4) Evidence of fetal alcohol effects may be found for each outcome category.
(5) For related pairs, both the primes (first pictures) and targets (second pictures) varied in rated "typicality" (Rosch, 1975), being either typical or relatively atypical members of their primary superordinate category.
(6) Formerly, many patients in this category were considered either inoperable or candidates for total or partial nephrectomy.
(7) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
(8) Older subjects in all diagnostic categories, including normal subjects, had higher postdexamethasone plasma cortisol levels.
(9) Another Guardian podcast, Days in the Life, won silver in the same category.
(10) We examined 10 life areas clustered around the general categories of "substance use," "social functioning," and "emotional and interpersonal functioning."
(11) Analysis of 156 records relating to patients at the age of 15 to 85 years with extended purulent peritonitis of the surgical and gynecological genesis (the toxic phase, VI category ASA) showed that combination of programmed sanitation laparotomy and intensive antibacterial therapy performed as short-term courses before, during and after the operation with an account of the information on the nature of the microbial associations and antibioticograms was an efficient procedure in treatment of severe peritonitis.
(12) In the univariate life-table analysis, recurrence-free survival was significantly related to age, pTNM category, tumour size, presence of certain growth patterns, tumour necrosis, tumour infiltration in surrounding thyroid tissue and thyroid gland capsule, lymph node metastases, presence of extra-nodal tumour growth and number of positive lymph nodes, whereas only tumour diameter, thyroid gland capsular infiltration and presence of extra-nodal tumour growth remained as significant prognostic factors in the multivariate analysis.
(13) Treatment was divided into two categories named arbitrarily "no therapy" (general supportive measures) or "therapy" (causal treatment based on active drugs or measures aimed at affecting the cause of the disease).
(14) Each setting was compared with the other two settings in each of the 18 ICHPPC categories.
(15) For the different age categories the best prediction formula for the FFM from body impedance, sex, age and anthropometric variables was calculated.
(16) On the other hand, when the global results were gathered according to male and female categories, the first one proved to be predominant.
(17) Classification into hazard categories depends on the overall strength of evidence that an agent may cause mutations in humans.
(18) Both categories frequently showed pellagrous pigmentation and mucocutaneous signs of B-vitamin deficiency.
(19) Healthbars such as Nakd fit this category and promise to deliver one of your five a day, based on the quantity of freeze-dried date paste used.
(20) Alternatives for the selection of substantive clinical attributes, the overall structural format into which categories are organized, and construction procedures used in developing a psychopathologic taxonomy are elaborated, as are a number of criteria for evaluating the taxonomy's utility and efficacy.
Superorder
Definition:
(n.) A group intermediate in importance between an order and a subclass.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chromatin of 14 species of fish referring to nine families of the percoid fish superorder includes protamines similar to salmin, a typical protamine of salmon.
(2) The usage as well as some of the known family chemical characteristics of Xhosa and Zulu traditional medicinal plants belonging to various families of the superorder Liliiflorae are related to some of the clinical effects of Xhosa medicine observed by Solleder in 1972.
(3) The superorder Archonta has been hypothesized to include primates, tree shrews, bats, and flying lemurs as descendants of a common ancestor.
(4) Also in congruence with other recent molecular evidence, IRBP sequences do not support the view of a superorder Archonta that includes Chiroptera along with Dermoptera (flying lemur), Scandentia (tree shrew), and Primates.
(5) The hemoglobin of Trichechus inunguis is compared with those of Elephas maximus, Loxodonta africana, and Procavia habessinica and the monophyletic origin of the superorder Paenungulata is discussed.
(6) The relationships between the squalomorphs and other superorders of sharks and the relationships between the different orders within the squalomorphs are a matter of debate.
(7) This is particularly true for the superorder Squalomorphii.
(8) Here, we report a molecular phylogeny for a little known member of this superorder, the genus Echinorhinus.
(9) Alpha = 0.56 for the class of cartilaginous fishes, and for the superorder of sharks and skates alpha = 0.54 and 0.61, accordingly.
(10) Sequence comparison of the northern pike growth hormone gene to other known growth hormone genes revealed similarities closest to other members of the superorder Protacanthopterygii, which includes the Salmonidae family (i.e., salmon and trout).
(11) The superorder Elopomorpha (orders Anguilliformes, Elopiformes and Notacanthiformes) is characterized by the presence of a unique larval stage termed the leptocephalus.
(12) Chromatin of three species from squid superorder referring to Cephalopoda includes gametones -- proteins differing from histones and protamines both in the electrophoretic mobility and amino acidic composition (75% mol.
(13) Hesslerella shermani is described as the oldest representative of the crustacean superorder Peracarida, order Isopoda, suborder Phreatoicidea.
(14) Results obtained by parsimony analysis provide evidence for this grouping--and thus support for the genealogical validity of Simpson's superorder Paenungulata, which contains as the extant orders Proboscidea, Sirenia, and Hyracoidea.