(a.) Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive.
(n.) A distinguishing trait, quality, or property; an element of character; that which characterized.
(n.) The integral part (whether positive or negative) of a logarithm.
Example Sentences:
(1) The assembly reaction is accompanied by characteristic changes in fluorescence emission and dichroic absorption.
(2) The angiographic appearances are highly characteristic and equal in value to a histological diagnosis.
(3) The femoral component, made of Tivanium with titanium mesh attached to it by a new process called diffusion bonding, retains superalloy fatigue strength characteristics.
(4) Structure assignment of the isomeric immonium ions 5 and 6, generated via FAB from N-isobutyl glycine and N-methyl valine, can be achieved by their collision induced dissociation characteristics.
(5) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(6) It is quite interesting to analyse which gene of the virus determines the characteristics of the virus.
(7) In this paper, we show representative experiments illustrating some characteristics of the procedure which may have wide application in clinical microbiology.
(8) The clinical and radiologic characteristics of this unusual tumor are discussed.
(9) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
(10) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.
(11) These cells contained organelles characteristic of the maturation stage ameloblast and often extended to the enamel surface, suggesting a possible origin from the ameloblast layer.
(12) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
(13) The performance characteristics of the CCD are well documented and understood, having been quantified by many experimenters, especially in the physical sciences.
(14) The obtained results are used to study the relation between the acoustic characteristics of these vowels and the corresponding articulatory dimensions.
(15) Importantly, these characteristics were strong predictors of subsequent mortality.
(16) These same molecules may be equally responsible for the pathologic characteristics of the immune response seen, for example, in inflammatory bowel diseases.
(17) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
(18) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
(19) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
(20) These two types of transfer functions are appropriate to explain the transition to anaerobic metabolism (anaerobic threshold), with a hyperbolic transfer characteristic representing a graded transition; and a sigmoid transfer characteristic representing an abrupt transition.
Facies
Definition:
(n.) The anterior part of the head; the face.
(n.) The general aspect or habit of a species, or group of species, esp. with reference to its adaptation to its environment.
(n.) The face of a bird, or the front of the head, excluding the bill.
Example Sentences:
(1) The observed clinical findings include scarring of the face and hands (83.7%), hyperpigmentation (65%), hypertrichosis (44.8%), pinched facies (40.1%), painless arthritis (70.2%), small hands (66.6%), sensory shading (60.6%), myotonia (37.9%), cogwheeling (41.9%), enlarged thyroid (34.9%), and enlarged liver (4.8%).
(2) His maternal uncle is severely retarded and has similar dysmorphic facies.
(3) The presence of flat feet and excessive laxity of the joints, associated with the characteristic facies, macro-orchidism, and behavior, justifies a referral for developmental and genetic evaluation.
(4) Alagille syndrome is characterized by the association of chronic cholestasis with a paucity of interlobular bile ducts and a distinctive facies together with cardiovascular, skeletal and eye abnormalities.
(5) "There is a prima facie case for charging Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, William Hague and David Cameron with waging aggressive war against Iraq," Griffin said.
(6) On five occasions, over a period of four years, she became severely depressed and had acne, amenorrhea, hirsuties and moon facies.
(7) Trisomy C is documented in a 17-hour-old full-term male infant with bilateral diffuse renal dysplasia, Potter facies, pulmonary hypoplasia and other congenital anomalies.
(8) A female infant with the "femoral hypoplasia-unusual facies" syndrome is presented.
(9) The essential signs are a dysmorphic facies with flattening of the central region of the face, humeroradial synostosis with flexed attitude of the upper limbs and swelling of the distal interphalangeal and metacarpophalangeal articulations.
(10) Review of the reported cases of ring chromosome 15 defines a malformation syndrome with a characteristic facies related to deletion of the 15q26.2----qter region.
(11) Homogenates of cultured skin fibroblasts from a non-ambulatory, 20-year-old male with cherry-red spots, corneal clouding, seizures, mental retardation, dysostosis multiplex, dwarfism, coarse facies and loss of vision, originally described by Goldberg et al.
(12) In the initial descriptions of the elfin-facies-syndrome by Williams and Beuren, supravalvular aortic stenosis was considered to be a constant feature of the syndrome, combined with retardation of mental and physical development, dentition anomalies and the peculiar face.
(13) A mother and son are described with unusual facies, patent ductus arteriosus, fusion of distal interphalangeal joints and mild learning difficulties.
(14) The female infant presented a malformation syndrome with coarse facies including cleft lip and palate, distal limb hypoplasia, a diaphragmatic defect, and excessive body hair, most pronounced on the face.
(15) Three types were considered: type A = calcanei with two articular facets for the talar head, with four subtypes; type B = calcanei with one articular facet for the talar head, and two subtypes, and type C = unique articular facies in the superior surface of the calcaneus for the talus.
(16) The clinical findings included microcephaly, growth retardation, retarded bone age and an unusual facies.
(17) Two brothers, aged 40 and 38 years, suffered from dysplastic features, coarse facies, bone and skeletal abnormalities, deformities of spine, and joint impairments.
(18) This is characterized by a distinctive coarse facies and dysostosis multiplex.
(19) The concept of lipid and peptide association would suggest prima facie differential molecular weights as a factor in the observed electrophoretic and chromatographic heterogeneity.
(20) SLOS is a syndrome of multiple congenital anomalies with mental and growth retardation, unusual facies, genito-urinary and hand and foot abnormalities inherited as an autosomal recessive trait.