(n.) The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.
Example Sentences:
(1) The problem of the achondroplast arises when his surroundings, right from the start, reject his disorder, connoting it with destructive anxiety: this seriously harms the subject's physical image, making him an outcast.
(2) At least five terms which connote power of muscular performances are used today.
(3) With respect to the relative case fatality rates, the complements of the relative survival rates, the eight-year rate of 19 percent for the BCDDP versus that of 35 percent for SEER connotes 46 percent fewer women dying in the BCDDP group.
(4) Such words, spoken by a German politician, have the worst possible connotations for Poles.
(5) Such plants have been used for many centuries for the pungency and flavoring value, for their medicinal properties, and, in some parts of the world, their use also has religious connotations.
(6) Using the example of the stress concept, it is suggested that it is a 'key word' with denotative and connotative meanings accessible to professional and laymen, contributing to explore the 'gray zone' between 'health' and 'disease' by linking psychological, social and biological determinants of 'well-being' and 'discomfort'.
(7) So there were no gender connotations whatsoever in the choice?
(8) Certainly, "celebrity", even though it's craved by many, has negative connotations.
(9) It now connotes much more than an economic strategy, evoking, as the phrase “winter of discontent” did for so many years, a much broader sense of unease.
(10) Two main techniques are the study of longitudinal data (where time-spaced studies on the same population are available) and of age-ranked, cross-sectional data (where the lack of declining stature with age connotes the absence of a secular trens).
(11) Descriptive, stipulative, and connotative definitions of role strain are derived, and necessary and relevant properties are proposed.
(12) Because its histologic morphology bears a striking resemblance to Brunn's nests and because the term papilloma of the urinary bladder connotes potential malignant change, we propose the designation brunnian adenoma.
(13) One of the reasons that mindfulness is really catching on is that it can be delivered in a way that is entirely secular, stripped of any religious connotations, making it entirely acceptable to the wider population.
(14) When grouped into the 6 key words, the opinions uncovered a vast somatic field, confusion couched in metonymic figures of speech, such as using the term "woman" for "mental patient," moral, genital and sexual connotations.
(15) Elevated plasma levels of CEA do not necessarily connote elevated tumor tissue levels of CEA, and conversely, normal plasma levels of CEA do not necessarily mean low levels of tumor CEA.
(16) The data obtained in the investigation indicate that the term has acquired a specific connotation within the international nursing context and that specific defined attributes distinguishes it from the broad and general definition found in standard dictionaries.
(17) Patients expecting to receive psychotropic drug gave significantly more often positive emotional connotations about the presumed modes of action of these drugs than patients without such an expectation.
(18) Traditions and customs related to the consumption of alcohol still have a strong positive connotation in France.
(19) In the introduction the author submits association, connotations, and definitions of basic ethical terms, along with a classification of ethics.
(20) It’s obviously got some racial connotations to it, we’ve got our head in the sand and we don’t think it does.
Synoptic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Synoptical
(n.) One of the first three Gospels of the New Testament. See Synoptist.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the other hand, it has become clear from our results that bile duct injury must not be considered to be an absolute histopathologic marker of acute rejection; however, it does have to be judged synoptically in connection with the other components of the diagnostic triad and the changes that the triad cause in the hepatic parenchyma.
(2) Output of power spectra, bicoherence and biphases is produced in synoptic form on a line printer.
(3) The pattern of the blood vessels (except the pulmonary veins) and their opening into the heart is presented synoptically.
(4) We attempt to interpret results of electrophysiologic testing synoptically with subjective complaints and clinical observations.
(5) The classification thus seeks to offer a compromise between the protist and protoctist kingdoms of Whittaker and Margulis and to combine a full listing of phyla with grouping of these for synoptic treatment.
(6) The equipment involved, the operational complexity, and the accuracy of the results and their interpretation are listed in a synoptic table.
(7) The interpretation of results was influenced by the biological end point used as the synoptic measurement.
(8) In disorders such as pulmonary thromboembolism, however, the correct interpretation can only be made with the help of a broad synoptic basis, formed by the treating physician, the X-ray, and the nuclear medicine specialist.
(9) This paper furnishes a synoptic overview of the anatomic pathology of trophoblastic growths, with some reference to clinical implications.
(10) Results have been grouped in a number of synoptic tables, Bacteria that would not admit of the method of preservation described, have not been found thus far.
(11) A synoptic table shows the distribution of the most important risk factors of the three investigated female cancers in the Ragusa population, reported in the present and in an accompanying paper.
(12) ERG results should be evaluated synoptically with psychophysical data, ophthalmoscopy, fluoresceinangiography and possibly with EOG and VER recordings.
(13) Although lichen planus (LP) is still considered a disease of unknown origin, we succeeded in developing a synoptic pathogenetic concept based on the various scientific studies in this field, which may supply a rational foundation for the empirically established therapy.
(14) Hours of EEG activity are compressed into a pictorial and synoptic representation that shows in real time the distribution and temporal behaviour of frequencies as well as the intensity of total electrical activity.
(15) Our problem-oriented record comprises the following parts: a) Patient-machine communication for anamnesis b) Computer-oriented medical record c) Automated synoptic presentation of problem epicrisis d) Centralized data-pool.
(16) The major difference between this approach and the more common heuristic or synoptic interpretation of "images" lies in the underlying modeling: the model "predicts" a minimal washout rate, a match between ventilation and perfusion rates in the lungs, homogeneous contraction in the left ventricle, an expected angular distribution of thallium in the myocardium, or the absence of an additional kinetic feature.
(17) Starting from a synoptic reduced representation of the data and selecting sequences for the building of histograms of averaged energy levels in limited frequency bands, the authors describe the progressive spread of a dominant alpha band all over the scalp during autogenic training.
(18) New synoptic diagrams of canine renal organization are presented.
(19) The notions which are used for the characterization of radiation within the optical region of the spectrum (quantities, units) and their temporal and geometric relations have been arranged synoptically.
(20) A synoptic table is presented of 19 reported cases of infection caused by A. actinomycetemcomitans not connected with actinomycosis, with particular regard to their clinical features, treatment, and outcome.