(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.
Similar
Definition:
(a.) Exactly corresponding; resembling in all respects; precisely like.
(a.) Nearly corresponding; resembling in many respects; somewhat like; having a general likeness.
(a.) Homogenous; uniform.
(n.) That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similar experimental manipulation has yielded in vitro lines established from avian B-cell lymphomas expressing elevated levels of c-myc or v-rel.
(2) The distribution and configuration of the experimental ruptures were similar to those usually noted as complications of human myocardial infarction.
(3) The antiarrhythmic activity similar to that of quinidine (with ca.
(4) It is concluded that during exposure to simulated microgravity early signs of osteoporosis occur in the tibial spongiosa and that changes in the spongy matter of tubular bones and vertebrae are similar and systemic.
(5) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
(6) Nutritionally rehabilitated animals had similar numbers of nucleoli to control rats.
(7) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(8) As a consequence, similar response curves were obtained for urine specimens containing morphine or barbiturates.
(9) The 1989 results were compared with those of a similar survey performed in 1986.
(10) We similarly evaluated the ability of other phospholipids to form stable foam at various concentrations and ethanol volume fractions and found: bovine brain sphingomyelin greater than dipalmitoyl 3-sn-phosphatidylcholine greater than egg sphingomyelin greater than egg lecithin greater than phosphatidylglycerol.
(11) The prevalence of 24.4% among Mexican American men was similar to that among men from other ethnic backgrounds.
(12) Because cystine in medium was converted rapidly to cysteine and cysteinyl-NAC in the presence of NAC and given that cysteine has a higher affinity for uptake by EC than cystine, we conclude that the enhanced uptake of radioactivity was in the form of cysteine and at least part of the stimulatory effect of NAC on EC glutathione was due to a formation of cysteine by a mixed disulfide reaction of NAC with cystine similar to that previously reported for Chinese hamster ovarian cells (R. D. Issels et al.
(13) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
(14) Although Jeggo's Chinese hamster ovary cells were more responsive to mAMSA, novo still abrogated mAMSA toxicity in the mutant cells as well as in the parental Chinese hamster ovary cells 2,4-Dinitrophenol acted similarly to novo with respect to mAMSA killing, but neither compound reduced the ATP content of V79 cells.
(15) Methanosphaera stadtmanae reduces methanol to CH4 in a similar way as Methanosarcina barkeri.
(16) This study compared the non-invasive vascular profiles, coagulation tests, and rheological profiles of 46 consecutive cases of low-tension glaucoma with 69 similarly unselected cases of high-tension glaucoma and 47 age-matched controls.
(17) Similarly, doses of deferoxamine at the time of the study were not different.
(18) In the presence of insulin, a qualitatively similar pattern of increasing responses to albumin is observed; the enhancement of each response by insulin is, however, only slightly potentiated by higher albumin concentrations.
(19) The specific activities of extracts from cells grown under phototrophic and aerobic conditions were similar and not affected by the concentration of iron in the growth media.
(20) The thermoregulatory responses of this American marsupial were, in most aspects, similar to those of Australian marsupials.