What's the difference between cohesion and noncohesion?

Cohesion


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or state of sticking together; close union.
  • (n.) That from of attraction by which the particles of a body are united throughout the mass, whether like or unlike; -- distinguished from adhesion, which unites bodies by their adjacent surfaces.
  • (n.) Logical agreement and dependence; as, the cohesion of ideas.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What's to become of Tibetan stability and cohesion then is anyone's guess.
  • (2) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
  • (3) Analysis of bond values of glass ionomer added to glass ionomer indicate bond variability and low cohesive bond strength of the material.
  • (4) A comparison of two different restriction enzymes, which cleave the plasmid with blunt or cohesive-ended double-strand breaks, did not reveal differences in repair fidelity.
  • (5) Indeed, with the pageantry already knocked off the top of the news by reports from Old Trafford, the very idea of a cohesive coalition programme about anything other than cuts looks that bit harder to sustain.
  • (6) Cells with a mutation in their social motility system were 5- to 10-fold less cohesive and tended to glide as single cells.
  • (7) "It causes a great deal of concern and is very problematic for social cohesion when people find they aren't provided with any preference when they are actually in the area they have lived in for a very long time," he told the Sunday Times.
  • (8) It found some pressure on primary school places and housing similar to the effect of immigration from other countries but "little hard evidence regarding problems with community cohesion".
  • (9) Japan has chosen social cohesion over the quick-fix cures popular among Anglo-American economists.
  • (10) Since DG I belongs to the group of transmembrane desmosomal proteins that is believed to constitute the link between the intracellular parts of desmosomes of opposing cells, it is concluded that desmosomes may play an important role in plantar stratum corneum cell cohesion, and that degradation of desmosomes may be an important step in desquamation in plantar epidermis.
  • (11) A factor analysis of the family questionnaire indeed yielded three more evaluative constructs: conflict, cohesion, and disorganization.
  • (12) Cytologic preparations from patients with OTLMP contained large, cohesive papillary fragments with smooth borders.
  • (13) Terminase, the DNA packaging enzyme of phage lambda, binds to lambda DNA at a site called cosB, and introduces staggered nicks at an adjacent site, cosN, to generate the cohesive ends of virion lambda DNA molecules.
  • (14) This study was designed to test the circumplex model of family systems that hypothesizes moderate family cohesion and moderate adaptability to be more functional than either extreme.
  • (15) The paper ends by citing the advantages Infancy as a developmental period has in providing reference points for the understanding of cohesion within development.
  • (16) Extensive interdigitation of cytoplasmic extensions and extended villi was present in mucinous and serous clusters which appeared to strengthen cluster cohesiveness.
  • (17) Once more the opportunity arose from a lack of cohesion down City’s left, Victor Wanyama breaking up play in midfield and feeding Tadic, who advanced and slipped a precise ball between Kolarov and Eliaquim Mangala to Mané, who emphatically finished past Hart.
  • (18) The findings indicate that the Children's Report of Parental Behavior Inventory (except the hostile control subscale), the Parent-Adolescent Communication Scale (open communication subscale only), and the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales II appear to have sufficient cross-ethnic equivalence for English-speaking Hispanic samples.
  • (19) They do not operate as a cohesive gang or a whipped party-within-a-party – not yet, anyway.
  • (20) They had also told of a lack of community cohesion and a loss of faith and connectedness to the Catholic church communities.

Noncohesion


Definition:

  • (n.) Want of cohesion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These cells appeared either as noncohesive round and oval cells or as clusters.
  • (2) Histological findings revealed diffuse and noncohesive proliferation of cytologically atypical cells and benign-appearing histiocytes in the splenic red pulp, where the erythrophagocytosis was frequently found.
  • (3) Noncohesive blast-like cells observed in bone marrow and lymph node biopsy specimens stained with the monoclonal antibodies Leu-M1 and OKIa1 and were also positive for nonspecific esterase and acid phosphatase.
  • (4) Starting from a low level in noncohesive (vegetative) cells, there is a rapid accumulation of gp150 on the surfaces of aggregating cells.
  • (5) In contrast, the cells of small-cell carcinoma are pleomorphic and arranged in noncohesive loose aggregates, their cytoplasm is scanty, and they show nuclear molding.
  • (6) Five Chinese patients with malignant histiocytosis are described, the diagnosis being based on microscopic evidence of infiltration of at least three different tissues by noncohesive atypical phagocytic histiocytes, without total obliteration of normal architecture of those tissues.
  • (7) Vegetative (noncohesive) D. discoideum cells and cells at several stages during the development of cohesiveness were fixed with glutaraldehyde, and their agglutinability by purified carbohydrate-binding proteins (lectins) from slime molds and plants was determined.
  • (8) The pathological features of IML characteristically include multiple small foci of necrosis of the whole brain, caused by occlusion of small vessels by noncohesive neoplastic cells and secondary changes of the vascular wall.
  • (9) FNAs from ILC had some overlapping features with ALH and LCIS but were generally more cellular and had a higher proportion of noncohesive single cells with more nuclear atypia and pleomorphism.
  • (10) S- mutants are generally nondevelopmental and noncohesive.
  • (11) Evidence has been presented that cell surface lectins and complementary receptors appear on the surface of slime molds cells of 2 species, D. discoideum and P. pallidum, as they differentiate from a noncohesive to a cohesive form.
  • (12) Lymphoma cells were noncohesive, with scant cytoplasm.
  • (13) The lungs at autopsy demonstrated tumor microemboli in the form of noncohesive, individual cells within the capillaries of approximately 40% of the pulmonary alveolar septae.
  • (14) Examination of a muscle biopsy revealed numerous, noncohesive atypical mononuclear cells within small vessels.
  • (15) It is postulated that pleomorphic MFH is a noncohesive heterogeneous group of poorly differentiated neoplasms, a term that has become a meaningless diagnosis of convenience.
  • (16) Further biopsies showed numerous monomorphic, hyperchromatic, noncohesive cells, arranged in compact sheets, throughout the dermis, the fat, and the underlying muscle.
  • (17) Populations of Spp+ bacteria (strain Challis) on sucrose media switch to a soft noncohesive phenotype (designated Spp-) at a frequency of 10(-4) to 10(-3).
  • (18) The tumors in the other group, however, had lower levels of GM3 hematosides, noticeable amounts of oligosialogangliosides and grew as soft noncohesive tissues.
  • (19) Both lesions were characterized histologically by noncohesive aggregates of large neoplastic cells with abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm and conspicuous nucleoli.

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