What's the difference between coexistence and interaction?

Coexistence


Definition:

  • (n.) Existence at the same time with another; -- contemporary existence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Seventy-three percent of 90 psychiatric inpatients had a coexisting anxiety disorder.
  • (2) These changes coexisted with increases in appropriate polyol pathway metabolites in all tissues of both diabetic and galactosaemic rats.
  • (3) That contrasts with the findings of others who reported that most patients with severe hypertriglyceridemia associated with noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) (usually without ketosis) did have coexisting familial hypertriglyceridemia.
  • (4) On the background of this recognition it is also important to know, that prognosis too varies with age because of the coexistence of individually prognosticated disease states and moreover to realize, that elderly patients do not tolerate invasive and prolonged surgical procedures.
  • (5) These results could not be explained by the coexistence of major depression or of alcohol or drug abuse.
  • (6) Vasoactive intestinal peptide, neuropeptide Y and occasionally also substance P coexisted in the population of nerve fibers associated with blood vessels and smooth muscle.
  • (7) This technique has proved extremely useful in our hands and we suggest that it is a useful alternative in the management of coexistent lenticular and corneal opacification.
  • (8) The importance of the coexistence of both enzymes for the control of initial calcification of dental hard tissues is suggested.
  • (9) Many instances of coexistence were observed, but there were also numerous GAL-positive cell body populations displaying distributions similar to those of these markers but without apparent coexistence.
  • (10) A review of the existing literature reveals that coexistent fetal skeletal dysplasia and hydramnios have an extremely poor prognosis, especially in the nonachondroplastic patient with singleton fetus.
  • (11) (However, this association may be explained by other coexistent factors.)
  • (12) Other coexisting diagnoses included candidiasis, Kaposi's sarcoma, and malignant lymphoma.
  • (13) The neotenic urodelan amphibian species model represents actually the only model in which the coexistence of larval (or neonatal) and adult heavy chains is maintained throughout life in adults.
  • (14) The modern era of leg lengthening has therefore brought two things: new technical versatility to correct complex and coexisting deformities and new concepts of the biology of lengthening that are not device specific and can be applied with most lengthening devices.
  • (15) The contribution of psychoanalysis to a theory of subjectivity involves the formation of a concept of the subject in which neither consciousness nor unconsciousness holds a privileged position in relation to the other; the two coexist in a mutually creating, preserving and negating relationship to one another.
  • (16) Hodgkin's disease coexistent with sarcoidosis as reported in other countries, was not found in Japan.
  • (17) Four of the nine minute carcinomas coexisted with epithelial dysplasia, suggesting that carcinoma developed from dysplasia.
  • (18) Recent work has demonstrated the coexistence of depressive illness in some patients with dementing disorders.
  • (19) The unique histopathologic features of this case suggest that coexistence of sarcoidosis with autoimmune collagen vascular diseases may be more than coincidence.
  • (20) Both classes of units were located in the shell region of the caudal VPM proper; TPS units were coexistent with trigeminal nociceptive specific (NS) units and were found in the dorsomedial as well as ventromedial parts of the NS zone.

Interaction


Definition:

  • (n.) Intermediate action.
  • (n.) Mutual or reciprocal action or influence; as, the interaction of the heart and lungs on each other.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fibulin is a potential mediator of interactions between adhesion receptors and the cytoskeleton.
  • (2) 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.
  • (3) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
  • (4) Meanwhile the efficiency of muscarinic antagonists in inhibition of tremor reaction induced by arecoline administration is associated with interaction between the drugs and the M2-subtype.
  • (5) 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.
  • (6) The occupation of the high affinity calcium binding site by Ca(II) and Mn(II) does not influence the Cu(II) binding process, suggesting that there is no direct interaction between this site and the Cu(II) binding sites.
  • (7) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
  • (8) The disassembly of the synthetase complex is consistent with the structural model of a heterotypic multienzyme complex and suggests that the complex formation is due to the specific intermolecular interactions among the synthetases.
  • (9) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
  • (10) However, when conjugated to an antigen-bearing cell, a "non-antigen bearing" cell was labeled near the cell interaction area.
  • (11) They are best explained by interactions between central sympathetic activity, brainstem control of respiration and vasomotor activity, reflexes arising from around and within the respiratory tract, and the matching of ventilation to perfusion in the lungs.
  • (12) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
  • (13) This study reports the analysis of a transvestite man through focusing on his marital interaction and his wife's complementary behavior to his perversion.
  • (14) The deactivated columns had the residual silanols on the silica gel chemically inactivated to reduce the interaction with basic groups or analytes.
  • (15) This unusual insertion could affect the interaction of cat CD4 with class II molecules, or with FIV, a feline homolog of HIV.
  • (16) The presence of a few key residues in the amino-terminal alpha-helix of each ligand is sufficient to confer specificity to the interaction.
  • (17) We have investigated interactions between the erythroid transcription factor GATA-1 and factors binding two cis-acting elements commonly linked to GATA sites in erythroid control elements.
  • (18) Hormonal interactions play a determining role in pulmonary maturation.
  • (19) In contrast, the association of serum cholesterol with mortality due to causes other than coronary heart disease changed during follow-up (interaction of cholesterol with follow-up period: p = 0.004).
  • (20) Unusually high cooperativity, specificity, and multiplicity in the protein kinase C-phospholipid interaction are demonstrated by examining the lipid dependence of enzymatic activity.