(n.) Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency.
Example Sentences:
(1) The statistical evaluation of the results showed a congruence between the theoretical approach and the experimental data.
(2) When the knee was in extension compared to 30 degrees flexion, the sulcus angle was greater, the lateral patellofemoral angle was smaller, there was more lateral patellar displacement, the patella tilted more laterally, and the congruence angle was directed more laterally.
(3) Merieux tests were false-negative in 15.3% of the cases, whereas congruence of the positive Mendel Mantoux and Tubergen reactions was 100%.
(4) The difficulties and opportunities offered by the long term follow-up studies as well as the congruency of the findings with current etiological hypotheses are discussed.
(5) Good congruency of the diagnosis from these two different aspects, could be established.
(6) Congruence of client and nurse perceptions is vital to mutual goal-setting as a means of achieving self-care in the elderly.
(7) These states are not always going parallel with the macroscopic pictures revealed by gastroscopy, but there are some obvious congruences.
(8) Previous university-based research has suggested that physician adaptation to patients' locus of control interferes with patient-physician congruence on expected compliance, but not with congruence on satisfaction with their relationship.
(9) The S-enantiomer was also more strongly protein bound in plasma (73.5% vs 63.4% for the R-enantiomer), which is consistent with its structural congruence to S-warfarin, S-phenprocoumon and S-glifumide.
(10) The implications of the congruence and the discrepancies in outcomes for the two approaches are discussed.
(11) The present study investigated the congruence between the factor structures of the learning environment and cognitive variables for mathematics and English courses in Grade 10.
(12) Comparison of perfused and existing capillary counts revealed high congruence when fluorescent results were compared.
(13) These results suggest that researchers who wish to observe and study the Stroop congruency and interference effects should place special emphasis on speed.
(14) Congruence between the object display and the sentence produced significantly higher recall and clustering than the incongruence or control conditions.
(15) Similarities between Kohut's empathic relatedness and Buber's I-Thou are demonstrated as well as some congruence in their clinical views.
(16) This paper reviews the development of stress, adaptation, and coping theory, and identifies congruencies and inconsistencies with the mission of nursing.
(17) Mothers' postcounseling beliefs about the causes of their children's genetic disorders were investigated by means of a Q-sort consisting of 54 statements of possible beliefs that were sorted into nine groups of six items each on the basis of congruence with the subject's beliefs.
(18) Tenured and tenure-track faculty in 21 schools of allied health in the Midwest were surveyed by a questionnaire to identify (1) the relative importance of the variety of documents allied health faculty may submit for promotion and tenure reviews and (2) the congruence between the real and ideal value of the major areas of faculty responsibility.
(19) Such congruence suggests a stable inheritance of the somatic mutation(s) that is involved in carcinogenesis and that affects ploidy.
(20) The differing measures are located in a two-dimensional space whose axes represent first, practical application and second, relevance to actual central nervous system activity as viewed from spatial and systemic congruence.
Congruity
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency.
(n.) Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another.
(n.) That, in an imperfectly good persons, which renders it suitable for God to bestow on him gifts of grace.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is the first study in which it has been possible to demonstrate a close morphological congruity between a set of idiopathic hepatic lesions in any feral population and an established series of hepatic lesions inducible in rodents by certain hepatocarcinogens under laboratory conditions.
(2) In capitate interpositional arthroplasty (Graner II) the necrotic lunate bone is removed and the congruity of the proximal carpal row is restored by interposition of the proximal half of the capitate.
(3) Advantages of the design include: congruity of the articulating surfaces; unconstrained tibiofemoral movement; preservation of all the ligaments with facility to tension them accurately from a range of bearing thicknesses; minimal bone excision; applicability to unicondylar use.
(4) Total shoulder arthroplasty is recommended for patients with inflammatory arthropathies, and hemiarthroplasty is recommended for patients with osteoarthritis, avascular necrosis, and four-part fractures with preservation of glenoid congruity and absent synovitis.
(5) If articular congruity cannot be achieved by intertrochanteric osteotomy only, an additional innominate osteotomy of the pelvis is indicated at the same stage.
(6) There is no congruity of D,L-kavain with either the tricyclic thymoleptics or the benzodiazepines regarding the profile of neurophysiological effects.
(7) Congruity effects arise because the duration of each evidence accrual is increased and the quality of the information is reduced as the distance of the stimulus representations from the instruction-activated reference point increases.
(8) These soft tissue reconstructive procedures and realignment joint congruity are essential to relieve pain and prevent traumatic arthrosis.
(9) Finally a variety of criteria that represent the performance, robustness, flexibility, predictability, validity, coverage, relevance and congruity of the knowledge base are needed for a full description of the system's worth.
(10) Even the most experienced surgeon cannot produce perfect form congruity of the whole contact surface between donor and recipient parts.
(11) Validational studies of self-critical and dependent personality dimensions as vulnerability factors for depression have been tested primarily with depressed samples, employing research designs devised to address state vs. trait and trait-situational congruity issues.
(12) Four years is the critical age, for if congruity is obtained later, the risk of producing a moderate or severely dysplastic acetabulum is more than doubled.
(13) Impaired congruity of the patellofemoral joint, increased tension in the patellar ligament, and increased pressure against the quadriceps tendon are other possible explanations.
(15) The first draws attention to the importance of congruity between the hospital environment and education about the harmfulness of smoking.
(16) The most prominent difference with respect to quadrantanopsias resulting from lesions of the optic radiation is the high degree of congruity, especially in the central portion of the field.
(17) Experiments 2, 3, and 4 were designed to test sources for this"congruity effect."
(18) The use of 5 lectins conjugated to fluorescein corroborate that lectins in congruity with group I and II, contrarily to those of group III, fasten upon the membrane and the flagella of Crithidia luciliae.
(19) Coupled with previous research, these findings converge in establishing that both failures to maintain attention on the target location and the semantic congruity of target and flankers modulate the size of the effects from irrelevant stimuli.
(20) These apparent rules of uniformity or congruity merely reflect the functional integrity of the nerve cell and the role of its parts in the nervous system.