(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?
Heteroplastic
Definition:
(a.) Producing a different type of organism; developing into a different form of tissue, as cartilage which develops into bone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Reference is made to the possible use of cardiac valves of animal origin as heteroplastic material in cardiac valve surgery.
(2) Recipients of a heteroplastic eye recovered the reaction as frequently and to the same extent as animals with one of their own eyes reattached.
(3) In addition, teratoid medulloepithelioma, a tumor arising from the ciliary epithelium, can contain a rhabdomyoblastic component, often in combination with other heteroplastic elements.
(4) Heteroplastic bone was evaluated according to Brooker's criteria, in the investigated group only type I was found.
(5) Trypsin was used to isolate adult mouse (heteroplastic) or rat (homoplastic) pancreatic ductal epithelium and fetal rat mesenchyme.
(6) The World Health Organisation histological classification of medulloepithelioma was applied, but some problems were encountered, particularly where the presence of heteroplastic brain tissue was used as a criterion for teratoid tumour and where rosettes were used as a criterion for malignancy.
(7) Teratoid medulloepitheliomas, which we considered the most advanced and malignant lesions, consisted of heterogeneous, highly mitotic, invasive cells and contained heteroplastic elements including striated muscle, undifferentiated mesenchymal tissues, and hyaline cartilage.
(8) Their prevalence is analogous of the general population for those diseases easily detectable by US, such as cystic and heteroplastic diseases.
(9) The intention is also to demonstrate how at times symptomatology and clinical objectivity are not always enough to guide the physician to correct diagnosis; where historical data are lacking, clinical objectivity, often suggest neoformation of heteroplastic type or aspecific chronic inflammation rather than granulomatous reactions due to foreign bodies.
(10) Changes of tissue pO2 levels in chronic subcutis wounds with and without heteroplastic tumour spheroid implants in thoraco-lumbal rat skinfolds covered by transparent chambers were followed in crosscut analysis by pO2 surface electrodes as a function of post-operative age using constant normoxic, hypoxic, post-hypoxic breathing conditions and intervals for each measured area.
(11) A heteroplastic eye transplant can reinstate the latter reaction.
(12) Phenoloxidase containing cells (POZ) identified with histochemical techniques in the subcutaneous connective tissue showed a marked increase in their number in response to heteroplastic skin transplantation in the rat.
(13) The common knowledge according to which all heteroplastic structures need a large quantity of O2 and provoke the formation of new vessels with the angiogenesis factor, with particularly rapid, and tumultuous fluxes due to the presence of shunt, is the basis for the use of color doppler in research on neoplasia in the initial phase.
(14) In femoro-popliteal reconstructions proximal to the knee joint alloplastic and heteroplastic material are being used increasingly instead of the autologous vein, even though the latter is still unmatched for quality.
(15) Heteroplastic elements (brain tissue, cartilage, or rhabdomyoblasts) were observed in four benign and 17 malignant tumors; these 21 were designated teratoid medulloepitheliomas.
(16) In only two cases (since 1963) was it necessary to resort to heteroplastic material, viz.
(17) This work assesses the anatomical and infectious problems of heteroplastic transplantation from a baboon to a man.
(18) The aspect of the condition which is of particular interest is the presence in 3 of the dilated segments of heteroplastic foregut derivatives of unusual varieties.