(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?
Heteromorphic
Definition:
(a.) Deviating from the normal, perfect, or mature form; having different forms at different stages of existence, or in different individuals of the same species; -- applied especially to insects in which there is a wide difference of form between the larva and the adult, and to plants having more than one form of flower.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unusual chromosomal heteromorphism, as rendered visible after acridine orange staining, was observed on the short arm of chromosome 14 in two cases and, after heterochromatin staining, on chromosome 19 in one family.
(2) Using chromosomal heteromorphisms, human lymphocyte antigen (HLA) and phosphoglucuromutase 1 (PGM1) polymorphisms, we established the androgenetic origin of complete mole in 84 of 91 cases.
(3) Heteromorphism, dysplasia, and cancerization were not obtained in these proliferative cells of the IM.
(4) The heteromorphous appearance of bdellovibrio flagella arose from the sequential assembly of these subunits.
(5) In seven large families with myotonic dystrophy (DM) comprising 102 individuals, linkage studies were performed employing restriction fragment length polymorphisms in the complement component 3 gene and the 19cen C banding heteromorphism as genetic markers.
(6) In addition the secretory granules varied in size and displayed a granular heteromorphic matrix.
(7) Heteromorphism of Y chromosome was studied in head and neck cancer patients and leukemia patients.
(8) An unusual nucleolar organizer region (NOR) heteromorphism was noted among 13 of 41 parents in whom nondisjunction leading to trisomy 21 was known to have occurred.
(9) GB heteromorphous forms were studied both under natural conditions and in the course of action of various factors.
(10) In the hybrids between Asian and Oceanian type rats, heteromorphic C-bands, one large and the other small, were observed.
(11) Heteromorphisms of chromosomes 3, 4, 13-15, 21-22, and Y were studied in a population of 374 mentally retarded patients from diverse ethnic groups.
(12) Eighty-four of 135 (62%) patients with epithelial malignancies were heteromorphic for C-band size compared with 38 of 107 (36%) controls (significant at the 0.1% level).
(13) These species are the first examples of the ZW type of heteromorphism in eels.
(14) The streptavidine-horseradish-peroxidase and diaminobenzidine detection system demonstrated heteromorphisms in the 1q12 heterochromatic region, not only in mitotic cells but also in mature sperm heads.
(15) The data showed an increased frequency of heteromorphisms of chromosome 1 in patients with cancer (48.39%) and severe dysplasias (40%) as compared to controls (29.8%) and lower grades of dysplastic lesions, i.e.
(16) (5) Chiasmata found in heteromorphic chromosome pairs show that crossing-over has, indeed, taken place.
(17) Cleavage-stage embryos showed no striking differences between inside and outside blastomeres, all of them displaying primitive junctional complexes, heteromorphic mitochondria, large ovoid nuclei and a few polyribosomes.
(18) G- and R-banded chromosome preparations from eight of twelve 46,XX males, with no evidence of mosaicism or a free Y chromosome, were distinguished in blind trials from preparations from normal 46,XX females by virtue of heteromorphism of the short arm of one X chromosome.
(19) Taking both the criteria together, compared to 31.43% controls, 80.28% cancer patients were C-band heteromorphic.
(20) These observations suggest the existence of an adjustment mechanism which functions to equalize the lengths of the two axes of the heteromorphic synaptonemal complex.