What's the difference between coherent and degenerate?

Coherent


Definition:

  • (a.) Sticking together; cleaving; as the parts of bodies; solid or fluid.
  • (a.) Composed of mutually dependent parts; making a logical whole; consistent; as, a coherent plan, argument, or discourse.
  • (a.) Logically consistent; -- applied to persons; as, a coherent thinker.
  • (a.) Suitable or suited; adapted; accordant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 2) Left-right PHR coherence spectra had no distinct peaks, indicating that correlations between opposite PHR discharges were now not frequency specific.
  • (2) Clearly, it is impossible to combine the diverse information briefly outlined in this review to provide a coherent model of the regulation of globin gene expression during development.
  • (3) Statistical analysis allows a more coherent approach of these problems.
  • (4) Comparison with values of the total current dipole moment obtained from neuromagnetic studies on human subjects indicates that coherent neuronal activity giving rise to long-latency sensory evoked components recorded in the human electroencephalogram or magnetoencephalogram extends over a cortical area that is typically approximately 40-400 mm2.
  • (5) He told journalists he was concerned about the risk that government departments were not acting coherently because of a lack of energy and leadership.
  • (6) For amineptine the total body clearance and mean residence time were accurate and precise with eight volunteers, but only four volunteers showed such coherent data for the slope of the elimination curve, beta, and half-life.
  • (7) The coherence values are measures of coupling between two neuronal populations.
  • (8) Lower than normal anterior interhemispheric coherence was found in all four frequency bands.
  • (9) The detection of health inequalities in the urban environment and their magnitude depends to a great extent on the internal social coherence of the geographical division used.
  • (10) Though Charter 08 mostly called for the Communist party to uphold commitments made in its own constitution it was a coherent and forthright challenge to the party’s rule, calling for peaceful democratic reform.
  • (11) Coherence discriminations were less accurate when the target transformation was added to another background transformation, indicating that these transformations are not visually independent.
  • (12) Strength of interaction was measured by the coherence between the EEGs from symmetrical contralateral locations.
  • (13) Moreover, these notions take root within a coherent cosmological matrix which emphasizes the socially ordered flow of fertility fluids.
  • (14) We found that methods of classifying responses as oscillating used in some of the studies of the cat may have led to overestimation of both the number of sites showing oscillation and the number of pairs of sites showing phase coherence.
  • (15) Complete assignments were obtained for the backbone 1H, 15N and 13C resonances, using three-dimensional heteronuclear 1H NOE 1H-15N multiple-quantum coherence spectroscopy (3D-NOESY-HMQC) and three-dimensional heteronuclear total correlation 1H-15N multiple-quantum coherence spectroscopy (3D-TOCSY-HMQC) experiments on 15N-enriched HPr and an additional three-dimensional triple-resonance 1HN-15N-13C alpha correlation spectroscopy (HNCA) experiment on 13C, 15N-enriched HPr.
  • (16) The coherence between the recordings made from the right and left legs decreased by > 10% at each contraction level.
  • (17) Velocity data employed in the analysis are taken from in vivo measurements in the dog aorta, and the results indicate that the autoregressive method improves the resolution of coherent features in disturbed flow patterns.
  • (18) Averaged power and coherence spectra (between transversally adjacent electrodes and between electrodes on homologous regions of both hemispheres) were computed.
  • (19) The Raman contribution to the third order susceptibility is shown to be complex near an electronic resonance and the resulting features of the coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectra are discussed in detail.
  • (20) The structures of the new compounds were determined by chemical and spectroscopic methods, including two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (2D NMR) techniques, especially 1H-detected heteronuclear multiple-bond multiple-quantum coherence.

Degenerate


Definition:

  • (a.) Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low.
  • (v. i.) To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate.
  • (v. i.) To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thus, our results indicate that calbindin-D28k is a useful marker for the projection system from the matrix compartment and that its expression is modified in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy and striatal degeneration.
  • (2) Achilles tendon overuse injuries exist as a spectrum of diseases ranging from inflammation of the paratendinous tissue (paratenonitis), to structural degeneration of the tendon (tendinosis), and finally tendon rupture.
  • (3) Electroretinographic (ERG), morphometric and biochemical studies on retinas from monkeys or rats reveal that moderate level developmental lead (Pb) exposure produces long-term selective rod deficits and degeneration.
  • (4) of rats resulted in cell death and terminal degeneration in entorhinal, insular, and posterior cingulate cortices, and in the CA1, CA3 and dentate gyrus sectors of hippocampus.
  • (5) Certain underlying factors in several types of retinal degeneration are first discussed, followed by characteristics of diabetic maculopathy and of other types of macular degeneration including that due to aging.
  • (6) Hyperopia was more common in younger persons, but senile cataract, macular degeneration and palpebral dermatochalasis or blepharochalasis were more common in older persons.
  • (7) Since only a few of these medium sized terminals in any one cluster degenerate after tectal lesions, and none degenerate after cortical lesions, it is suggested that the morphological arrangement of these clusters may permit the convergence of axons from several sources, some of which are unidentified, onto the same dendritic segment.
  • (8) Age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) is one of the leading causes of severe visual loss in the United States.
  • (9) Deafferentation of certain brain regions in adult animals results in (1) the disappearance of degenerating axon terminals and (2) in the temporary persistence of vacant postsynaptic sites.
  • (10) The eye of a patient with age-related macular degeneration was treated with krypton laser photocoagulation and later studied histopathologically.
  • (11) At hypothyroid patients there is an ADP excess which is degenerated to xanthine, the substrate of xanthine oxidase resulting in toxic anion superoxide and UA.
  • (12) After 7 days, various stages of sensory hair degeneration could be observed.
  • (13) I think you're probably right that the accent does degenerate along with Richard.
  • (14) Optical light, transmission, and scanning electron microscopy were used in investigations of epithelia in the glandular region of the milk cistern and greater lactiferous ducts and yielded the following findings, four and six hours from infection: degeneration and necrosis of epithelial cells, intraepithelial foreign cell infiltration (neutrophilic granulocytes, lymphocytes, macrophages), intra-epithelial oedema and locally delimited epithelial loss.
  • (15) Meanwhile, in the US, Ellen DeGeneres , who is 56 and came out in the 90s, is still flying the lesbian flag on TV.
  • (16) Key findings include a progressive degeneration of these cholinergic neurons characterized by the formation of immunoreactively atypical NFT, the loss of intraneuronal lipofuscin, a lack of senile plaque and beta-amyloid deposition within the basal forebrain, and end-stage gliosis without residual extracellular NFT.
  • (17) Differential degeneration of the lateral microvessels may account for increases in collagen nodule growth and ultimate size.
  • (18) Ultrastructurally, the atrial myocardial cells in all three patients were hypertrophied, and two patients had evidence of focal cell degeneration; the atrium was markedly dilated, but atrial arrhythmias were not noted.
  • (19) Pathological consequences of these events include inflammatory neutrophil infiltration, damage to the collagen and mucosal basement membrane, increased capillary permeability, edema, cell degeneration and necrosis.
  • (20) These tangential fibers are in part the preterminal arborizations of geniculocortical axons, since some of them have been shown to degenerate after geniculate lesions.