What's the difference between conception and inurement?

Conception


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.
  • (n.) The state of being conceived; beginning.
  • (n.) The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception.
  • (n.) The formation in the mind of an image, idea, or notion, apprehension.
  • (n.) The image, idea, or notion of any action or thing which is formed in the mind; a concept; a notion; a universal; the product of a rational belief or judgment. See Concept.
  • (n.) Idea; purpose; design.
  • (n.) Conceit; affected sentiment or thought.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
  • (2) Some common eye movement deficits, and concepts such as 'the neural integrator' and the 'velocity storage mechanism', for which anatomical substrates are still sought, are introduced.
  • (3) The influence of the various concepts for the induction of lateral structure formation in lipid membranes on integral functional units like ionophores is demonstrated by analysing the single channel current fluctuations of gramicidin in bimolecular lipid membranes.
  • (4) The main clinical features pertaining to the concept of the "psycho-organic syndrome" (POS) were investigated in a sample of children who suffered from severe craniocerebral trauma.
  • (5) Further development of drug formulary concept was discussed, primarily for the drugs paid by the Health Insurance, as well as the unsatisfactory ADR reporting in Yugoslavia.
  • (6) Practical examples are given of the concepts presented using data from several drugs.
  • (7) The data also support the concept that IgE and IgG4 are not elevated in these patients.
  • (8) It is not that the concept of food miles is wrong; it is just too simplistic, say experts.
  • (9) Tables provide data for Denmark in reference to: 1) number of legal abortions and the abortion rates for 1940-1977; 2) distribution of abortions by season, 1972-1977; 3) abortion rates by maternal age, 1971-1977; 4) oral contraceptive and IUD sales for 1977-1978; and 5) number of births and estimated number of abortions and conceptions, 1960-1975.
  • (10) The durable power of attorney concept, though not free of problems, appears more likely to be of practical utility.
  • (11) Homologous insemination in 52 couples during a period of one year yields a conception rate of 38.5%.
  • (12) The distribution of conceptions after artificial insemination from a donor was studied in 259 conceptions at an artificial insemination clinic and found to be seasonal.
  • (13) The timing of the occurrence of the disease is closely related to the conceptional age of the infant rather than weeks post birth, birth weight, gestational age at birth.
  • (14) The model is based on the concept that a cell with hypothetically unlimited replicative potential--i.e.
  • (15) This developed concept of "valve only" energy loss has the potential of standardising the findings of different research groups by removing the arbitrary selection of measurement points from reported results.
  • (16) In addition, a new dosage concepts has been introduced on the basis of the effective dose on the lines of the recommendations by the IRCP; as a result, the definitions of radiation protection areas and of dosage limit values had to be revised and reworded.
  • (17) Though the concept of phase, known also as focus, is a very helpful notion, its empirical foundation is yet very weak.
  • (18) The lack of TBM prior to germinal center development and their absence in aged mice are inconsistent with the concept that TBM are required for the induction of the germinal center reaction.
  • (19) The latter findings reinforce the concept that in pathologic states associated with cerebral oedema, pinocytotic vesicles fuse to form transendothelial channels which transport plasma proteins into brain.
  • (20) The analysis is further expanded to a more general case to result in four criteria based upon the energy concepts.

Inurement


Definition:

  • (n.) Use; practice; discipline; habit; custom.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Growing up in and around war zones and in high-crime environments will inure a person to risk and violence.
  • (2) Perhaps we are beginning to become inured – thickening our skin and hardening our hearts, proofing ourselves against the pain to come.
  • (3) It and subsequent genocides could only have taken place because people had become “inured”.
  • (4) Many of us have become inured to shock at the revolving door between politicians, the civil service, high-ranking military personnel and the arms trade.
  • (5) Hours after the attack ended, US troops with sniffer dogs checked the building for undetonated explosives, as security officials inured to violence snapped pictures of the bodies and discussed the support the fighters must have received.
  • (6) The simultaneous changes of thermoregulation can be looked upon as part of the reaction of the whole body (also called inurement).
  • (7) Inurement by exposure lies at the heart of most of our leisure activities.
  • (8) All of us can help by advocating on behalf of the doctors and their patients, refusing to accept their suffering is normal, even if the world can sometimes seems inured to Syria’s pain.
  • (9) A federation whose other alumni include former president Jack Warner, the long time rogue whose scheme to cream off funds meant for Haitian earthquake victims shocked even those who ha become inured to his antics, and Chuck Blazer, who siphoned millions in consultancy fees to fund a lavish Trump Towers lifestyle for himself, his cats and his parrots.
  • (10) But when you’ve been the subject of a $250bn lawsuit at the tender age of 23, then no doubt you become inured to opposition.
  • (11) Air traffic controllers stopped work from 1000 to 1300 GMT and journalists stopped work for five hours.But the bleak weather and despondency among Greeks inured to protests against the erosion of jobs and benefits meant the marches largely fizzled, with two unions cancelling plans for a coordinated march to parliament because of the rain.
  • (12) Her public, now inured to Gaga dressed in beef, was bewildered to hear that Artpop has been heavily influenced by the performance artist Marina Abramovic and sculptor Jeff Koons.
  • (13) Churchill's "lion-hearted nation" could not have endured the last war, or the Blitz, without inurement training.
  • (14) He became inured to seeing dead people all around him: "We did not care if we died today or only tomorrow."
  • (15) If they are not inured to criticism, I don't think anybody is."
  • (16) Becoming inured to welfare, they cease to hunt for opportunities and investment projects, and lose the skills needed to do so.
  • (17) In fact, such incidents do not make news in China , for people have long been inured to them.
  • (18) I also added my name for a more practical reason,” he said, “the government of Bangladesh might be more subject to influence because of this letter than a government in the west, where letters and petitions and appeals and the like are always flying about, and politicians grown inured to them.
  • (19) I have become inured to the messages on the outside of cigarette packages.
  • (20) Studios have learned that popular franchises can effectively be inured against weakly-received instalments provided that new movies continue to roll off the production line.

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