(a.) Equally extensive; having equal extent; as, consciousness and knowledge are coextensive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
(2) The distribution of upper alimentary tract vagal-glossopharyngeal afferents in the medulla oblongata has two primary groups of components, i.e., a viscerotopic distribution in the NTS involved in ingestive and respiratory reflexes and a distribution coextensive with fluoride-resistant acid-phosphatase-positive regions of the PTI and spinal trigeminal nucleus presumably involved in visceral reflexes mediated by nociceptive or chemosensitive C fibers.
(3) Some neurons coextensive with this cell group also exhibit immunoreactivity for the neuropeptide galanin, express monoamine oxidase activity (MAO), or display the ability to accumulate and decarboxylate 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP).
(4) The loop-forming site of the kl-3 locus is coextensive with region h7-h9 which contains about 4300 kb of DNA and corresponds to the minimum physical size of this locus.
(5) At least a portion of urate reabsorption occurs at a site distal to or coextensive with the urate secretory site.
(6) The areas of high particle concentration were coextensive with the fluorescence due to bound toxin.
(7) The nociceptive representation did not violate the general LT somatotopy but neither was it coextensive.
(8) Alternatively, there might be two reabsorptive sites in the proximal tubule: a presecretory site accounting for the reabsorption of most filtered urate, and a site either coextensive or distal to the secretory site accounting for a major component of reabsorption of secreted urate.
(9) This region is coextensive with the pars lateralis as identified in Nissl-stained preparations.
(10) The vagina is "not only coextensive with the female brain but also is part of the female soul".
(11) The principal finding was that zones containing many retrogradely labeled neuronal somata are not completely coextensive with areas of heavy terminal labeling within the medial geniculate body, although there is a gross congruence of thalamocortical-corticothalamic projections.
(12) The nine genes retained in Epifagus encode seven tRNAs and two ribosomal proteins and are coextensive and highly conserved in sequence with homologs in photosynthetic plants.
(13) The largest geniculate receiving area is partially coextensive with Krieg's area 17, but an extension of this projection posterior and medial to the striate cortex was found.
(14) The murine cDNA spans approximately 4 kb and contains two coextensive open reading frames (ORFs) which encode deduced polypeptides of 529 (ORF-1; molecular weight, 59,802) and 502 (ORF-2; molecular weight, 56,957) amino acids, slightly smaller than the purified factor as estimated from its mobility in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels (64,000 to 66,000).
(15) Their basilar dendritic fields and initial intracortical axon collateral arborizations were coextensive with the layer defined by the distribution of corticostriatal neurons.
(16) These fibers were presumed to be parasympathetic because they were not affected by removal of the superior cervical ganglion and because their distribution was coextensive with that of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) immunoreactivity, which we have previously shown to be colocalized with NPY in the cell bodies of otic and sphenopalatine ganglion neurons.
(17) The muscle fiber damage is coextensive with capillary damage and probably results from progressive ischemia.
(18) The autoradiographic signal produced with probes to VIP and PHI created dense concentrations of silver grains over neuronal perikarya in the ventrolateral SCN, and the coextensive distribution of both VIP- and PHI-mRNAs suggests that both peptides are synthesized within the same neurons.
(19) Furthermore, where outer and inner isopter depression is not coextensive, inner isopters are always depressed more than outer isopters when the field defect is due to a lesion of the visual pathway.
(20) This could be explained if the reabsorptive site in the proximal tubule is coextensive with or distal to the secretory site.
Contemporaneous
Definition:
(a.) Living, existing, or occurring at the same time; contemporary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cancer development proceeds through sequential or contemporaneous morphological changes from normal, preneoplastic, and premalignant lesions to highly malignant neoplasms.
(2) Contemporaneous presence of HTLV-I and HIV-1 antibodies was found in five subjects.
(3) By contrast, in agreement with previously published results, amiloride-sensitive sodium uptake was increased by 30% in vesicles derived from animals with ammonium chloride-induced acidosis compared with contemporaneous controls.
(4) rats and in Long-Evans controls the contemporaneous evolution of learning and retention of active and passive avoidance responses was studied by means of the light-dark box test.
(5) The peculiarity of contemporaneous presence of FCP and the seriousness of the prognosis is pointed out.
(6) Over-response corrections for a widely used parallel plate ionization chamber were determined using contemporaneous measurement of build up for 4, 6, 10 and 18-MV photon beams utilizing a commercially available extrapolation chamber (PTW model 23392).
(7) We present the hypothesis that beta E contemporaneously modulates several membrane transduction processes, some of which may be counteracting and thereby producing the observed mixed effects on many lymphocyte functional responses.
(8) Although they bound to the BN receptor with no or very weak mitogenic activity, no one analogue inhibited BN-induced thymidine incorporation in the contemporaneous treatment; only one behaved as a weak receptor antagonist when given 24 h before BN stimulation.
(9) More contemporaneous were the comments from the boss of Sainsbury's, Justin King – one of the business leaders who launched the critique of Labour's national insurance rise during the election campaign.
(10) The results of this surgical procedure are now reported in the context of two similar, contemporaneous groups of patients who underwent either standard wide-field laryngectomy or hypopharyngeal mucosa conservation laryngectomy.
(11) IMMEDIATE EFFECTS: It is worth stating what is almost axiomatic, because it is often forgotten, that undernutrition is likely to affect only those processes which are contemporaneous with it (plus some that follow it).
(12) The following points emerged from this study: 1) spinal cord softening is a rare occurrence; 2) while formerly syphilis was the most frequent cause, recently reports of cases secondary to aortic disease or to embolism with diffuse signs of arteriosclerosis and circulatory failure pointing to a different pathogenesis have become more frequent; 3) the site of softening rarely corresponds to the vascular spinal territories as defined by the anatomists, from which it may be argued that often several arterial territories may be involved simultaneously or, alternatively, that the arterial territories are not so rigidly defined as anatomical research has led us to suppose; 4) the few cases of multiple vascular lesions show that, as happens in the brain, the cord may be damaged contemporaneously or successively in several areas.
(13) This increased secretion of PRL was contemporaneous with the onset of pubertal ovarian activity in intact females and with the escape of LH from the negative feedback of E2 in OVX + E2-treated females.
(14) For milk somatic cell count, variation between cows within pairs sampled contemporaneously was small (3 to 24%).
(15) Murrumu, however, says any act of recognition must be coupled with contemporaneous – not subsequent – treaties.
(16) He added: “By no stretch of the imagination can the evidence relied upon in support of the applications be described as corroborated, contemporaneous, persuasive, compelling or cogent.” It is not yet known if the officers will appeal against Meadows’s decision.
(17) This pattern may reflect not only the sequence of fiber ingrowth but also the displacement of cells and fibers in the elongating basilar papilla, which grows as a result of a contemporaneous mitotic activity throughout the structure rather than progressing from one end to the other.
(18) The 741 patients with high levels of psychopathology or pain were subdivided into baseline control subjects (N = 232), contemporaneous control subjects (N = 253), and an experimental consultation group (N = 256).
(19) Comparison of metric and morphological characteristics of the deciduous dentition in the prehistoric Amerindians and roughly contemporaneous European groups indicates morphological characteristics are the better means of discrimination.
(20) In medium containing serum from other species or in serum substitute, the temporal expression of myelin basic protein polypeptides in cultures from all the inbred strains was contemporaneous with that in brain.