What's the difference between class and generic?

Class


Definition:

  • (n.) A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.
  • (n.) A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.
  • (n.) A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, genera, etc.
  • (n.) A set; a kind or description, species or variety.
  • (n.) One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.
  • (n.) To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.
  • (n.) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
  • (v. i.) To grouped or classed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The interaction of the antibody with both the bacterial and the tissue derived polysialic acids suggests that the conformational epitope critical for the interaction is formed by both classes of compounds.
  • (2) In dogs, cibenzoline given i.v., had no effects on the slow response systems, probably because of sympathetic nervous system intervention since the class 4 effects of cibenzoline appeared after beta-adrenoceptor blockade.
  • (3) The populations of Asia-Oceania have some features of the class II RFLPs in common, which are distinctly different from Caucasoids.
  • (4) The strongest predictor of non-sudden cardiac death was the New York Heart Association functional class.
  • (5) This modulation results from repetitive, alternating bursts of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, which are caused at least in part by synaptic feedback to the command neurons from identified classes of neurons in the feeding network.
  • (6) Radioligand binding studies revealed the presence of a single class of high-affinity (Kd = 2-6 X 10(-10) M) binding sites for ET-1 in both cells, although the maximal binding capacity of cardiac receptor was about 6- to 12-fold greater than that of vascular receptor.
  • (7) Their contour lengths varied from 0.28 to 51 micron, but unlike in the case of maize, a large difference was not observed in the distribution of molecular classes greater than 1.0 micron between N and S cytoplasms of sugar beet.
  • (8) These sequences are also conserved in the same arrangement in minor sequence classes of minicircles from this strain.
  • (9) This suggests that Mg2+ accelerated both reactions from a single class of site.
  • (10) The sensitivity of an indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) test (screening test) for the detection of antibodies to cytomegalovirus (CMV) was examined by using 128 serum specimens and quaternary aminoethyl (QAE)-Sephadex A50 column chromatography to separate IgM from IgG class antibodies.
  • (11) The purpose of the present study was to analyze the effects of cromakalim (BRL 34915), a potent drug from a new class of drugs characterized as "K+ channel openers", on the electrical activity of human skeletal muscle.
  • (12) Antibiotics and anticonvulsants were the two most commonly used drug classes.
  • (13) The individual classes of drugs are first treated separately to highlight specific aspects of their quantification, and this is followed by an overview of those methods permitting the concomitant analysis of two or more antiepileptic compounds.
  • (14) the class- and specificity-restricted antigen-sensitive units.
  • (15) A NYHA-class greater than II was observed in 18% of patients with type-I hypertrophy, in 29% with type II, but in 61% with type III (p less than or equal to 0.05).
  • (16) Cell lines specific for class I or class II loci of the MHC produced interferon and colony-stimulating factors.
  • (17) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
  • (18) Enough with Clintonism and its prideful air of professional-class virtue.
  • (19) Participants were selected from existing classes forming a weight training, aerobic exercise and activity control group.
  • (20) This unusual insertion could affect the interaction of cat CD4 with class II molecules, or with FIV, a feline homolog of HIV.

Generic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Generical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
  • (2) For the 18-month period from January 1988, 652 awards were made, consisting of 426 (65%) brand and 226 (35%) generic drugs.
  • (3) Economic burdens for postmarketing research should be shared jointly by the research-oriented and generic drug companies.
  • (4) It is found that generic averages obscure some rather substantial differences at the species level for both Cercopithecus and Cercocebus.
  • (5) Only 16% provided information on generic name, indications, dosage, adverse effects and contraindications.
  • (6) The present classification of vasculitis has several objections, based on the following aspects: 1) It does not take into account taxonomic rules; 2) It uses criteria which helps to cover up; 3) It uses generic terms without a specific meaning; 4) Lack of clinical interest.
  • (7) Associative agnosias are traditionally regarded as perceptual, and ideational apraxia as motor, deficits, but they can be understood as amnesias for generic knowledge, caused by bilateral or unilateral left-hemispheric cortical lesions.
  • (8) Analysis of growth in terms of the generic growth curve can be a powerful technique for finding relationships which may not be apparent from qualitative consideration of the data.
  • (9) From the present studies on three calcium channel blockers of the dihydropyridine class we hypothesize that calcium channel blockers may represent a new generic class of antimetastatic agents.
  • (10) Preferred body temperatures are conservative at the generic level as follows: Ctenotus, 35 degrees C; Sphenomorphus, 30 degrees C; Eremiascincus, 25 degrees C. Contractile properties of the fast glycolytic portion of the iliofibularis muscle were measured.
  • (11) Female undergraduates (N = 50 and N = 46 in the two studies) were given cards containing the names of randomly-selected generic foods (e.g., cakes, melons) and were asked to "group the foods according to how you think about them when it comes to eating them".
  • (12) But the move to inflate the price of Daraprim, which is the brand name for the generic drug pyrimethamine and was originally developed in the 1940s by corporate elements of the pharmaceutical giant now known as GlaxoSmithKline, has set off ripples of concern across the medical community.
  • (13) In generic terms, I think people think they have a binary choice in life at the moment,” says Ryder.
  • (14) This article summarizes available information on the efficiency and effectiveness of generic occurrence screening when used in quality assessment.
  • (15) Omasal contents were collected from slaughtered cattle (n = 54), bison (n = 15), and sheep (n = 40) to determine numbers and generic distribution of ciliated protozoa.
  • (16) But the biggest problem is that Lipitor will face generic competition in the US in December 2011, and it is unlikely any of Pfizer's recent deals can make up for the billions in Lipitor sales that will quickly disappear.
  • (17) Polling suggests that people prefer the Conservatives on immigration because they expect them to be "tougher" in some vague, generic sense, rather than because they believe in their policies.
  • (18) The issue of generic equivalence of topical steroids is discussed, with particular emphasis on the vagaries of the vasoconstriction assay.
  • (19) Two generic types of collaboration were identified.
  • (20) This result implies a widespread generic occurrence of the periodic organization of chromatin seen in mammalian systems.