(n.) Difference of form between members of the same species, as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the partridge berry), or when there are two forms of one or both sexes of the same species of butterfly.
(n.) Crystallization in two independent forms of the same chemical compound, as of calcium carbonate as calcite and aragonite.
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.
Individual
Definition:
(a.) Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.
(a.) Of or pertaining to one only; peculiar to, or characteristic of, a single person or thing; distinctive; as, individual traits of character; individual exertions; individual peculiarities.
(n.) A single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person.
(n.) An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal.
(n.) The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
(2) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
(3) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
(4) We examined the karyotype in five individuals of roe-deer (Capreolus capreolus), coming from Southern Moravia.
(5) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(6) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
(7) 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.
(8) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
(9) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
(10) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(11) Both apertures were repaired with great caution using individual sutures without resection of the hernial sac.
(12) We have investigated the increase in the spcDNA population upon cycloheximide treatment of individual sequences, which are found to amplify differentially.
(13) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
(14) Microelectrodes were used to measure the oxygen tension (PO2) profile within individual spheroids at different stages of growth.
(15) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
(16) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
(17) These data, then, indicate that the ability to produce C3NeF autoantibody is present from the time of birth in normal individuals.
(18) A mean difference for individual patients between the first and second recording within 5 mm Hg was observed in 49.3% and 52.1% of patients for 24-hour systolic and diastolic blood pressure, respectively.
(19) Patients served as their individual control based on observations of at least 1 year before the study.
(20) However in the deciduous teeth from which the successional tooth germs were removed, the processes of tooth resorption was very different in individuals, the difference between tooth resorption in normal occlusal force and in decreased occlusal force was not clear.