(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.
Consonancy
Definition:
(n.) Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth.
(n.) Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency; suitableness.
(n.) Friendship; concord.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, they were tested with dichotic listening for correct reports of consonant-vowel syllables.
(2) There is recent evidence that children naturally divide syllables into the opening consonant or consonant cluster (the onset) and the rest of the syllable (the rime).
(3) A rise in lactate dehydrogenase levels consonant with the amount of hemolysis is observed.
(4) Children in the first group were provided training by their parents that was intended to focus the child's attention on consonants in syllables or words and to teach discrimination between correctly and incorrectly articulated consonants.
(5) Test items in each of the 4 groups therefore contained different amounts of information regarding the nature of the following vowel, due to coarticulatory influences of the vowel on the preceding consonants.
(6) Eighty-six adults serially recalled lists of visually presented consonant letters similar in auditory or visual features or dissimilar in both feature sets.
(7) Coarticulatory effects of the vowel on the aperiodic portion were found to (1) occur early in the aperiodic portion, (2) vary with consonant and vowel, and (3) vary with vowel feature.
(8) Three male and 2 female subjects produced six repetitions of 12 utterances that were initiated and terminated by vowels and consonants of differing phonetic features.
(9) This repeated analysis should reassure physicians that isoniazid chemoprophylaxis for tuberculin skin test reactors is beneficial to the individual and consonant with public health policies.
(10) The perception of voicing in final velar stop consonants was investigated by systematically varying vowel duration, change in offset frequency of the final first formant (F1) transition, and rate of frequency change in the final F1 transition for several vowel contexts.
(11) Empowerment may be found through a moral economy grounded in use value appropriate to advanced industrial society that is consonant with Gramsci's new hegemony.
(12) The changes observed following exposure of HUVEC to heparin are consonant with the view that glycosaminoglycans may affect endothelial production of fibrinolytic components.
(13) Two reading passages, one with nasal consonants and one without, were tape-recorded for 72 subjects: 34 selected as having precise articulation and 38 selected as having imprecise articulation.
(14) Unlike intact acidotic and glucocorticoid-supplemented ADX acidotic rats, glutamine extraction was disassociated from the delivered glutamine load consonant with the role of glucocorticoid in coupling cellular glutamine transport to its metabolic utilization.
(15) The major findings were as follows: (1) no significant difference was found in consonant identification scores between aperiodic, aperiodic + vocalic transition, and vocalic transition segments in CV syllables compared to those in VC syllables; (2) consonant identifications from vocalic transition + vowel segments in VC syllables were significantly greater than those from vocalic transition + vowel segments in CV syllables; (3) no significant difference was found in vowel identification scores between aperiodic + vocalic transition, vocalic transition + vowel, and vocalic transition segments in CV syllables compared to those in VC syllables; and (4) vowel identifications from aperiodic segments were significantly greater in CV syllables than in VC syllables.
(16) Minimal pairs differing only in the voicing feature of the initial consonant were produced by four SLI and four language-matched NL children.
(17) Variation of the reaction rate with substrate concentration suggests a diffusion-limited process, consonant with the fact that enzyme and substrate are associated with particles of enormous sizes (the fat cell and the lipid droplet, respectively).
(18) The implant provided information about the amplitude envelope of the speech and the estimated frequency of the main spectral peak between 800 and 4000 Hz, which was useful for consonant recognition.
(19) Generalization data indicated that the child learned 16 word-initial consonants following treatment of only three sets of maximal opposition contrasts.
(20) Acoustic information about the place of articulation of a prevocalic nasal consonant is distributed over two distinct signal portions, the nasal murmur and the onset of the following vowel.