(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.
Monomorphic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Monomorphous
Example Sentences:
(1) A quadripolar catheter was positioned either at the site of earliest ventricular activation during induced monomorphic ventricular tachycardia or at circumscribed areas of the left ventricle.
(2) Its lytic ability was abolished by two monoclonal antibodies against monomorphic HLA-DR determinants.
(3) Specifically discussed are mixed tumor, monomorphic adenoma, carcinoma ex-pleomorphic adenoma, clear-cell tumor, sebaceous lymphadenoma, and sebaceous carcinoma.
(4) The results of programmed stimulation were estimated to be positive when sustained or unsustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia was triggered, and negative when ventricular fibrillation, ventricular flutter unsustained polymorphic ventricular tachycardia or no arrhythmia could be induced.
(5) This arylamine NAT acetylates p-aminobenzoic acid thereby demonstrating a monomorphic pattern of acetylation.
(6) We have found that domestic dogs and dingoes are monomorphic for the same electrophoretic alleles at a further 15 loci, and polymorphic for the same alleles at a 30th locus.
(7) Cells obtained from non-malignified tissues (diffuse struma) in 83 of 100 cases formed a continuous layer consisting of monomorphous epithelioid cells possessing a high adhesive capacity.
(8) In all cases, monomorphous cutaneous nodules were found as the initial manifestation of the disease.
(9) To determine if anodal excitation during bipolar stimulation facilitates the initiation of sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia, nonsustained polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, or repetitive ventricular responses, both bipolar and cathodal unipolar programmed ventricular stimulation with one to three extrastimuli delivered during ventricular pacing at two rates from the right ventricular apex were performed in 28 patients evaluated for spontaneous sustained ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation (11 patients), nonsustained tachycardia (eight patients), or syncope (nine patients).
(10) To exclude hypertension alone as an etiology of tachycardia, five normotensive dogs without inducible monomorphic tachycardia remained unchanged during hypertension produced with low doses of phenylephrine or descending aortic occlusion.
(11) The haemoglobins revealed monomorphism in the inbred strains, while polymorphism was observed in non-inbred laboratory and wild mice.
(12) Rare variants of blood proteins occur, due to mutations (mutant alleles) in monomorphic loci encoding various proteins.
(13) Sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia is usually regular; that is, it is associated with constant R-R intervals.
(14) Histologically, these tumors revealed the typical pleomorphism of M-MSV sarcomas; in some cases, however, neoplastic tissue showed a nodular or diffuse growth of monomorphic myoblastlike cells, reminiscent of clonal aggregates.
(15) The CD4 (T4) molecule is expressed on a subset of T lymphocytes involved in class II MHC recognition, and is probably the physiological receptor for one or more monomorphic regions of class II MHC (refs 1-3).
(16) The incidence of nonsustained polymorphic VT preceding the induction of sustained polymorphic VT was significantly greater than the incidence of nonsustained polymorphic VT preceding the induction of sustained monomorphic VT (72 vs 44%, p less than 0.05).
(17) To evaluate the potential determinants of pace terminability, we analyzed 62 episodes of induced monomorphic ventricular tachycardia.
(18) Among the three enzyme loci, delta-Gpdh and G6pd were found to be monomorphic, but Pgm was polymorphic, with a total of seven different genotypes and five alleles identified in this study.
(19) Two previously proposed time-domain methods--correlation waveform analysis (CWA) and area of difference (AD)--were selected for evaluation of 29 patients with 33 distinct, sustained monomorphic VTs.
(20) Adenylate kinase, hexokinase (3 loci) and cathodal malate dehydrogenase were monomorphic.