What's the difference between comprehension and prehension?
Comprehension
Definition:
(n.) The act of comprehending, containing, or comprising; inclusion.
(n.) That which is comprehended or inclosed within narrow limits; a summary; an epitome.
(n.) The capacity of the mind to perceive and understand; the power, act, or process of grasping with the intellect; perception; understanding; as, a comprehension of abstract principles.
(n.) The complement of attributes which make up the notion signified by a general term.
(n.) A figure by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for a whole, or a definite number for an indefinite.
Example Sentences:
(1) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
(2) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
(3) Further study both of the signaling events that lead to MPF activation and of the substrates for phosphorylation by MPF should lead to a comprehensive understanding of the biochemistry of cell division.
(4) A comprehensive review of the roentgenographic features of calcium pyrophosphate crystal deposition disease (pseudogout) is presented.
(5) What is striking is the comprehensive and strategic approach they have.
(6) This report represents the first comprehensive description of instantaneous and continous phasic blood velocity at the mitral valve during atrial arrhythmias in man.
(7) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
(8) This paper describes the demographic, clinical, and psychosocial characteristics of a sample of chronically mentally ill clients at a large comprehensive community mental health center.
(9) Subtle cognitive deficits in Inferential Reading Comprehension were detected when Reading Vocabulary was at or better than a twelfth grade level.
(10) Broad-based secular comprehensives that draw in families across the class, faith and ethnic spectrum, entirely free of private control, could hold a new appeal.
(11) Therefore, a comprehensive study of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 report forms was conducted from state-licensed testing laboratories in California.
(12) However, it remains clear that new and innovative techniques are necessary in the therapeutic, adjuvant, and palliative settings in the comprehensive care of the patient with hepatocellular carcinoma.
(13) They include comprehensiveness of participation and of areas for review (the review committee should represent all disciplines and programs, and should be concerned with any aspect of center functioning), a problem-review approach in which subcommittees carry out documented studies of issues or problems, and specific provision for feedback and implementation of the results.
(14) The efficient and reliable assessment of general community health requires the development of comprehensive and parsimonious measures of proven validity.
(15) Understanding pathophysiology, educating patients, and performing comprehensive nursing assessments will be of great importance to this at-risk population.
(16) And that is why we have taken bold action at home – by making historic investments in renewable energy; by putting our people to work increasing efficiency in our homes and buildings; and by pursuing comprehensive legislation to transform to a clean energy economy.
(17) In addition, we will introduce our popular content to new UK audiences and create a comprehensive offering for our commercial partners on-air and online."
(18) The postulated deficit is contrasted to the hypothesis of impairment to the lexical-semantic component, required to explain performance by brain-damaged subjects described elsewhere who make seemingly identical types of oral production errors to those of RGB and HW, but, in addition, make comparable errors in writing and comprehension tasks.
(19) The functional basis of this complex is a block controlling the information input, and it is described comprehensively.
(20) With the new federalism, nutritionists must articulate their role in comprehensive health care and market their services at the state and local levels in addition to the federal level.
Prehension
Definition:
(n.) The act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with the hand or other member.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results indicate substantial postoperative improvement in tip prehension and grasp, while performance remained essentially unchanged for lateral prehension, pinch force, and power grip.
(2) Our conclusion is that, although distance and type of prehension affect the transportation component, they are computed separately in programming this component.
(3) A left bias in the population for prehension, predicted by recent theories, was not evident in any setting.
(4) The third experiment had the two-fold aim of establishing (1) whether transport velocity was influenced by object velocity once the location in space at which the object had to be grasped was fixed and (2) whether the grasp kinematics differed for prehension movements directed respectively to stationary or to moving objects.
(5) The experiment was conducted to investigate, by using kinematic parameters, the influence of the type of prehension on the transportation component in reaching-grasping movements.
(6) A detailed, kinematic analysis revealed subtle deficits in midline pointing and prehension in a patient showing good clinical signs of recovery from optic ataxia associated with bilateral parietooccipital damage.
(7) After explaining the tertiary patterns of prehension the possibilities of restoring prehensile function in patients after high cervical spinal injury (C4-C6) by means of orthotics or operation are discussed.
(8) Capuchins develop postural control, prehension and locomotion later than do squirrel monkeys, baboons or macaques, presenting a pattern of motor development intermediate between these relatively more precocial genera and apes.
(9) The patients have continued to improve in their rehabilitation, and the Krukenberg forceps with its improved prehension and sensibility has improved the quality of life of these people.
(10) Three main groups of neurons were distinguished: "Precision grip neurons", "Finger prehension neurons", "Whole hand prehension neurons".
(11) This study examined the contribution of binocular vision to the control of human prehension.
(12) Nondysfunctional older subjects were observed resetting identical prehension patterns secondary to lateral pinch weakness, which contributed to increased prehension pattern frequency and performance time.
(13) Prehension involves processing information in two hypothesized visuomotor channels: one for extrinsic object properties (e.g., the spatial location of objects) and one for intrinsic objects properties (e.g., shape and size).
(14) In the case of distal neurons there was a relationship between the type of prehension coded by the cells and the size of the stimulus effective in triggering the neurons.
(15) By means of this Tobelbader Hand the prehension can be dosed muscularly.
(16) Effective prehension can usually be achieved by proper positioning, exercises, and splinting but when grasp is poor, tendon transfers are very effective in furthering the goal of independence.
(17) The frequency modulated feedback channel signals six levels of force developed at the finger tips during prehension activities.
(18) Thumb length, so important for prehension and opposition, can be restored by phalangealization, pollicization, or toe-to-thumb transfer.
(19) Through the development of the SAFRA, maintained prehension can be obtained without externally powered devices such as CO2 or electrically powered orthoses.
(20) A new technique of retrograde urethrography using a prehension cannula ("Bomelaer") is described.