What's the difference between characteristic and organogen?
Characteristic
Definition:
(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.
Organogen
Definition:
(n.) A name given to any one of the four elements, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, which are especially characteristic ingredients of organic compounds; also, by extension, to other elements sometimes found in the same connection; as sulphur, phosphorus, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike previous studies with 13-cis-retinoic acid during the pre- and early organogenic stages of development (Hummler et al., Teratology 42:263-272, 1990), no thymic hypo- or aplasia or heart anomalies were observed, which may be attributable to the slightly longer 13-cis retinoic acid treatment period, i.e., GD 10-27.
(2) Fischer 344 rats were exposed acutely to 2,3,4,7,8-pentachlorodibenzofuran (4-PeCDF) during the organogenic period to evaluate its potential as an inducer of teratogenic and embryolethal effects.
(3) Our research used 40 animals, fed Lieber and DeCarli liquid diets, distributed into 4 groups: C, or control--non-alcoholic--, ad libitum; E, or alcoholic, fed ad libitum; F, or alcoholic, pair fed to E; and P, non-alcoholic, pair fed to E and F. Fetuses of group E were exposed to ethanol during the organogenic period, while those from group F exposed only during the last stage of pregnancy.
(4) The questionnaire is computer scored and, based on an interactional model, differentiates between organogenic and psychogenic causes for erectile dysfunction.
(5) There is no evidence that this is a peculiarly sensitive stage of development with respect to alcohol; animal studies indicate that other processes in the organogenic period are equally or more vulnerable.
(6) EEGs and other measurements showed that the diabetic men as a group exhibited significant reductions in the total amount of NPT and in the amount and frequency of full erection, thus suggesting that impotence in this cohort was organogenic.
(7) HCB was bound mainly to organogenic adsorbents with distribution coefficients between 140 (for bentonite) and 28,000 (for activated sewage sludge).
(8) A purely organogenic abnormality was found in 125 (61.3%), a mixed organogenic-psychogenic one in 39 (19.1%), and a purely psychogenic one in 40 (19.6%).
(9) To fulfil these aims, the possible teratogenic and embryotoxic effects of xylene and toluene on rat embryos during the organogenic period was investigated in vitro.
(10) The results show that in the rat cocaine is only teratogenic during the late organogenic or postorganogenic period.
(11) This diagnostic approach suggested that in 24 (39.3%) of the 61 pts the etiology was psychogenic and in the remaining 37 (60.7%) it was organogenic.
(12) Asynchronous blastocyst transfer, supposed to equalize the developmental stage of native and alien embryos during the organogenic period, was used as a tool in a teratological investigation.
(13) The historical background for the use of sleep-related erections (nocturnal penile tumescence) to distinguish organogenic from psychogenic impotence is reviewed.
(14) Also, the fetal period may be more sensitive than the organogenic period for the induction of hydrocephalus.
(15) In vitro studies in the rat indicate that, at threshold levels of exposure to isotretinoin, the development of the second arch crest represents the most sensitive process of organogenic development.
(16) USA 88, 2227-2231] and serve as the basis for a dual site model of the organogenic activity of angiogenin.
(17) Our results indicate that this is an informative test for the evaluation of visceral afferents arising from the bladder neck and, hence, in the differential diagnosis of organogenic versus psychogenic erectile impotence.
(18) Abnormalities of the bulbocavernosus reflex to stimulation of the vesicourethral junction correlated strongly with the presence of peripheral and autonomic neuropathy, diabetes and organogenic impotence.
(19) Various mitogens and certain organogenic tissue interactions have been shown to induce the appearance of transferrin receptors, signalling the onset of DNA replication.
(20) Acid phosphatase activity in particularly organogenic strain of tobacco has been localized in two kinds of tissue: the internal bud primordia and the adjacent tissues.