(a.) Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different shapes; different degrees of excellence.
Example Sentences:
(1) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(2) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
(3) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
(4) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(5) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
(6) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
(7) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
(8) Phospholipid methylation in human EGMs is distinctly different from that in rat EGMs (Hirata and Axelrod 1980) in that the human activity is not Mg++-dependent, and apparent methyltransferase I activity is located in the external membrane surface.
(9) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
(10) The outward currents are sensitive to TEA and their reversal potentials differ.
(11) During control, no significant difference between systolic fluctuation (delta Pa) and pleural swings (delta Ppl) was found.
(12) This difference was not due to ATPase activity in the assay.
(13) No differences between the two substances were observed with respect to side effects and general tolerability.
(14) Five probes of high specificity to individual chromosomes (chromosomes 3, 11, 17, 18 and X) were hybridized in situ to metaphase chromosomes of different individuals.
(15) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
(16) For male schizophrenics, all symptom differences disappeared except one; blacks were more frequently asocial.
(17) Between 22 HLA-identical siblings and 16 two-haplotype different siblings, a significant difference in concordance of reactions for the B-cell groups was noted.
(18) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
(19) Snooker, which became and remains a fixture in the BBC2 schedules, was chosen for showing because it is the sport in which different shades are most significant.
(20) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
Dimorphic
Definition:
(a.) Having the property of dimorphism; dimorphous.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sexual dimorphism in hepatic drug metabolism found in Crl:CD-1 mice is due to the normally repressive effects of testicular androgens on the activities of hepatic monooxygenases.
(2) Conclusions on phylogenetic trends of sexual dimorphism of skeletal robusticity and the effect of culture on it seem to be premature.
(3) The MA and BNST in general are involved in regulation of several sexually dimorphic functions, including aggression, sexual behavior, gonadotropin secretion and integration of olfactory information.
(4) In this study the development of the sexually dimorphic DLN was examined to test the hypothesis that early androgen action also determines the sex difference in DLN motoneuron number by regulating normally occurring motoneuron death.
(5) Taken together, the findings show that a prevalent nondeleterious dimorphism exists in the activation peptide of human coagulation factor IX.
(6) The recent demonstration that the expression of the neuropeptide cholecystokinin is activationally regulated by estrogen at the mRNA level, within a sexually dimorphic population of neurons in the medial amygdala, suggests a possible cellular mechanism for the hormonal modulation of olfactory information relayed along the vomeronasal pathway to the hypothalamus.
(7) These findings are discussed with respect to similarities and differences between marsupial and eutherian females and between male and female gray opossums in the hormonal control of sexually dimorphic behavior and morphology.
(8) Analysis proceeded by means of the analysis of covariance with the dental dimorphism indices as the dependent variables.
(9) The purpose of the present study was to identify the existence of sexual dimorphism in the dendritic field of accessory olfactory bulb mitral cells in rats and to investigate the effects of male orchidectomy and female androgenization on the day of birth upon this dendritic field.
(10) Contacts of untreated lepromatous and dimorphous (borderline) leprosy patients are at relatively high risk of disease and should be examined annually for at least 5 years.
(11) This sexual dimorphism in dopamine uptake was present in cultures of tissue removed before the perinatal rise of testosterone occurs in males, and was present even in the absence of hormonal additives to the culture medium.
(12) The sexual dimorphism emerges when a fish reaches about 110 mm total length.
(13) We conclude that intermale competition among platyrrhine species is the most important factor explaining variations in canine dimorphism.
(14) Renal gamma-GTP activity gradually increased in males with maturation, and a sexual dimorphism of renal gamma-GTP was apparent after the fourth week.
(15) These results suggest that prenatal exposure to AVP or caffeine produced sexually dimorphic effects on learning and that the effects are specific to the structure of AVP.
(16) Sexual dimorphism is well marked in both populations and among the Ainu appears to be due largely to clothing habits.
(17) At onset of puberty, the level rises again and exhibits a sexual dimorphism.
(18) The fungicidal activity of terbinafine which has been demonstrated in vitro for several strains of dermatophyte, filamentous and dimorphic fungi, has been demonstrated in vivo in model systems for dermatophytoses.
(19) Two multivariate statistical tests are presented for examining differences in sexual dimorphism between human populations.
(20) The hypothesis that patterns of sexual dimorphism in transverse dimensions of the metacarpal only reflect sex differences in body size was investigated in a sample of 324 Mexican school children 6.00-10.99 years of age.