What's the difference between coeval and contemporary?

Coeval


Definition:

  • (n.) Of the same age; existing during the same period of time, especially time long and remote; -- usually followed by with.
  • (n.) One of the same age; a contemporary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bone mineral density was statistically significantly lower in both sexes compared with coeval healthy subjects.
  • (2) We present morphological and biochemical studies on muscle obtained from ten patients with Alzheimer's disease and coeval controls.
  • (3) The physical working capacity of young ice-hockey players considerably exceeded that of their non-training coevals and older children.
  • (4) Levels of various G protein subunits were assayed by immunoblot and densitometry, using specific antibodies, in anterior pituitaries and striata of female rats exposed to physiological or pharmacological modifications of ovarian hormone levels and, for comparison, in the same tissues of coeval male rats.
  • (5) It has been found that dogs raised up to one year with their coevals differ considerably less from the control dogs by the speed of elaboration and stability of complex conditioned reflexes than those raised in complete isolation beginning with the age of three months.
  • (6) Children belonging to lower and lower-middle socio-economic classes are significantly lighter in body weight and smaller in height than their coevals of higher groups.
  • (7) Compared with Freud, Reich and his coevals prove to be the more limited, if not conservative, concentrating on too small a notion of human need and fulfilment.
  • (8) Wide variation is found: from data collected during 1955--1972, urban children and youths in Costa Rica, Finland, Jamaica, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and South Africa are larger than their rural coevals by more than 3.0 cm in standing height, and 2.0 kg in body weight; while from measures taken during 1889--1910, urban children and youths in East Germany and England are smaller than their rural peers by 1.2 cm to 2.3 cm in standing height, and 0.6 kg to 0.8 kg in body weight.
  • (9) Coevally with these changes, the thin-walled septal vessels, intertubular veins and capillaries, and finally, arteries and arterioles, in that order, were damaged.
  • (10) Results show that nutrition in schools is not adjusted to RDA and that children fed in schools are worse nourished, in lesser percent obese and have lower level of BP than the coevals fed only at home.
  • (11) Fertility performance tests were conducted and the animals were mated to coeval female of proven fertility.
  • (12) These rats were mated with virgin and coeval females.
  • (13) In contrast, effective prevention requires the sharing of values, space, and time: coevality in the broadest sense.
  • (14) Infanticide, like most other species of homicide, is probably coeval with the human race itself.
  • (15) A small group of glaucoma patients with scotomata were compared with normal coevals.
  • (16) But this attitude, at first glance anti-Hellene, traditionalistic, and critical of his coevals, arises from more deeply rooted notions: a specific conception of nature which can be shown to be the basis of Pliny's critique of medicine and his own times.
  • (17) Compared with tissue copper concentration in coeval saline-treated mice, lipopolysaccharide W treatment significantly increased copper concentration in thymus at 5 d of age (p less than 0.05) and significantly decreased concentration of this metal in liver at 7 d of age (p less than 0.05) and in spleen at 14 d of age (p less than 0.05).

Contemporary


Definition:

  • (a.) Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.
  • (a.) Of the same age; coeval.
  • (n.) One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
  • (2) Since it was established, it has stoked controversy about contemporary art, though in recent years it has been more notable for its lack of sensationalism.
  • (3) It doesn’t matter when art was made; it’s all contemporary.
  • (4) As part of a series of articles on various aspects of image conservation, practical advice is given on how best to ensure image permanence of contemporary photographs.
  • (5) The three rooms are plush and contemporary with tartan trim.
  • (6) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
  • (7) The first-floor lounge is decorated in plush deep pink, with a mix of contemporary and neoclassical decor, and an antique dining table and chandelier.
  • (8) Concerning the etio-pathogenic study, as we tried to show, the authors agree in simultaneous and contemporary appearance, between the 4th and the 6th month of the intra-uterine life of oculo-cerebro-renal troubles of Lowe's Syndrom and in the existence of a common factor, probably a genetic one.
  • (9) Contemporary biological psychiatry is in a seemingly inchoate state.
  • (10) Five particular precedents stand out as instructive for informing contemporary policy responses in Europe and globally.
  • (11) The same evaluation in 76 nonrandom contemporary controls matched for risk factors, maternal age, and parity has shown that more than 50% had a cervix dilated more than 2 cm, 38% had a cervix shorter than 0.5 cm, and 24% had rupture of the fetal membranes.
  • (12) Patients with hyperdiploid (47 to 50) ALL treated in a contemporary program of multiagent chemotherapy had a significantly better outcome than did those in an earlier study using less intensive therapy (4-year EFS = 75% [95% confidence interval, 55% to 86%] v 41% [22% to 59%]; P = .006 by the logrank test).
  • (13) This article elucidates: the poor relationship that exists between contemporary psychotherapy and the lower class clients; various efforts that have been attempted to solve this problem; the basic elements of Goldstein's 'structured learning therapy'; activities and results of the Dutch 'Goldsteinproject'.
  • (14) Contemporary songs - by Adele, Lady Gaga, La Roux - are simulacra of those produced in the 60s, 70s and 80s.)
  • (15) The report’s concluding chapters raised dire warning that the operations of contemporary child protection agencies were replicating many of the destructive dynamics of the Stolen Generations era.
  • (16) New noninvasive contemporary indices for assessment of left ventricular diastolic function are presented.
  • (17) As one example, certain aspects of Gawain's situation seem oddly redolent of a more contemporary predicament, namely our complex and delicate relationship with the natural world.
  • (18) In this article the results of studies on the relationship between anaphylaxis and CNS, performed by both pioneers and contemporary investigators, are briefly reviewed.
  • (19) (Personally, I think a perfect contemporary drama would highlight the quiet, fraught, human, ongoing battle between those who want to live life and those who want to live life electronically.
  • (20) Many of these low molecular-weight effectors now play a different role, that of antagonists, by interacting with the original receptor sites in macromolecular structures; this explains their contemporary activity as antibiotics.

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