What's the difference between copula and variable?

Copula


Definition:

  • (n.) The word which unites the subject and predicate.
  • (n.) The stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals with the pedals; -- called also coupler.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ejaculation occurred frequently in the SU condition but rarely in SR tests, results suggesting that sheath retraction may normally inhibit ejaculation in ex copula tests, and perhaps during copulation as well.
  • (2) In the ex copula genital reflex test, DPAT dramatically inhibited ejaculation and the display of penile erections.
  • (3) In a second experiment, intracranial microinjection of quinelorane was followed by ex copula reflex tests.
  • (4) Purkinje cell responses in lobules I-III were equivalent at both SRIF doses, and degeneration in the copula pyramis, paraflocculus and paramedian lobule emerged at the higher SRIF dose.
  • (5) In the in copula mating test, 20 and 80 micrograms IT 8-OH-DPAT, significantly reduced ejaculation latency, intromission frequency and intercopulatory interval.
  • (6) The 8-OH-DPAT-induced increase in glucose utilization in the copula pyramis, that is putatively associated with the appearance of the 5-HT behavioural syndrome, was also blocked by BMY 7378, as was the behavioural syndrome.
  • (7) The largest increases occurred in granule cell patches in the contralateral copula pyramidis (Cop P) and pyramis (P), the hemispheric and vermal portions of the eighth cerebellar lobule, respectively.
  • (8) At 40 days of age all animals were gonadectomized, received implants of TP in silastic capsules, and were tested in subsequent weeks for masculine copulatory behavior and ex copula phallic responses.
  • (9) Such grouped receptors may function to indicate position of the worm in copula.
  • (10) There was a partial recovery of emission in copula by the fourth week of treatment, suggesting that a nonadrenergic mechanism had assumed this function.
  • (11) In Experiment 1 a D1 agonist injected into the MPOA increased the number of ex copula erections but decreased the number of seminal emissions.
  • (12) Transition of the tegumental surface from the juvenile to the adult form begins after worms are in copula and have grown to several millimeters in length.
  • (13) Paired males were found to be in copula on 20-34% of observations.
  • (14) The purpose of the study was to determine whether Black inmates could be distinguished from White inmates by their use of the present progressive, final stops, distributive be, remote aspect been, noun plurals, third person singular present tense, possessives, consonant clusters, and the copula.
  • (15) Unpaired males lacked spined tubercles and the development of the spines is considered to occur only when worms are in copula.
  • (16) Metergoline pretreatment also failed to antagonize the RDS-127-induced facilitation of ejaculatory behavior in copula.
  • (17) Both spined and unspined tubercles were found on the dorsal and dorso-lateral surfaces of sexually mature (in copula) male worms.
  • (18) In contrast to seminal emission ex copula, pimozide pretreatment failed to antagonize the RDS-127 facilitation of ejaculatory behavior in copula.
  • (19) Genital reflex ex copula tests were used in order to assess these two responses without the confounding factors of mating behavior.
  • (20) These studies indicate the need for cautious interpretation of data obtained from in vitro analyses of separated male and female mansonian schistosomes, and that such conditions may not reflect in vivo or in copula function.

Variable


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity.
  • (a.) Liable to vary; too susceptible of change; mutable; fickle; unsteady; inconstant; as, the affections of men are variable; passions are variable.
  • (n.) That which is variable; that which varies, or is subject to change.
  • (n.) A quantity which may increase or decrease; a quantity which admits of an infinite number of values in the same expression; a variable quantity; as, in the equation x2 - y2 = R2, x and y are variables.
  • (n.) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.
  • (n.) Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
  • (2) Single-case experimental designs are presented and discussed from several points of view: Historical antecedents, assessment of the dependent variable, internal and external validity and pre-experimental vs experimental single-case designs.
  • (3) We have examined overlapping octapeptides from the kappa IIIb light chain variable region and show that some framework peptides have the ability to bind aggregated IgG.
  • (4) The family comprises at least three variable (V) gene segments, three constant (C) gene segments, and three junction (J) gene segments.
  • (5) Altogether 47 variables were investigated, and of these 34 gave results which were statistically significant.
  • (6) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
  • (7) However, it is easier for them to cope with anxiety because premedication pacifies the patients, whereas each of the dependent variables, such as apprehension, is influenced differently.
  • (8) The half-life was very variable between subjects [2-8 hours], but less variable within subjects and it was unaffected by the formulation.
  • (9) Since 1979, patients started on long-term lithium treatment at the Psychiatric Hospital in Risskov have been followed systematically with recording of clinical and laboratory variables before the start of treatment, after 6 and 12 months of treatment, and thereafter at yearly intervals.
  • (10) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
  • (11) Examined specific relationships, as they occur in nature, between particular dietary variables or groups of variables and specific MMPI subscales.
  • (12) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
  • (13) Our prospective study has defined a number of important variables in patients with clinical evidence of mast cell proliferation that can predict both the presence of SMCD and the likelihood of fatal disease.
  • (14) The dilemmas faced by the genetic counsellor are discussed in this variable autosomal dominant condition.
  • (15) Regression analysis on the 21 clinical or laboratory parameters studied showed that the only variable independently associated with CSF-FN was the total protein concentration in the CSF; this, however, explained only 14% of the observed variation in the CSF-FN concentration and did not show any correlation with CNS involvement.
  • (16) A number of variables which could influence the test has been evaluated and standardized in a way suitable for the routinary use of the technique described.
  • (17) There is a considerably larger variability of the mercury levels in urine than in blood.
  • (18) Blood gas variables produced from a computed in vivo oxygen dissociation curve, PaeO2, P95 and C(a-x)O2, were introduced in the University Hospital of Wales in 1986.
  • (19) Variability (CV = 0.7%) in body volume of a 45-year-old reference man measured by SH method was very similar to variation (CV = 0.6%) in mass volume of the 60-1 prototype.
  • (20) Both demographically and clinically assessed behavioral variables were related to a number of outcome measures, including days in the community, clinical ratings, and family assessment.