(n.) Want of proportion in form or quantity; lack of symmetry; as, the arm may be in disproportion to the body; the disproportion of the length of a building to its height.
(n.) Want of suitableness, adequacy, or due proportion to an end or use; unsuitableness; disparity; as, the disproportion of strength or means to an object.
(v. t.) To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly.
Example Sentences:
(1) The costs of achieving growth may also include cephalopelvic disproportion in girls becoming pregnant and increased risk of menorrhagia.
(2) First, it was shown that small doses of CsA produce disproportionally high blood concentrations, probably due to a better bioavailability.
(3) Light-microscopic findings revealed that osteogenesis gradually became dominant after transient osteoporosis, leading to a disproportional state of the bone remodelling.
(4) Possible associations with CHD were found for previous perinatal death, maternal diabetes, epilepsy, hydramnios and disproportion between fetus and pelvis.
(5) The results are reported of 44 consecutive Chiari innominate osteotomies performed on 39 adult patients aged between 18 and 55 years for symptoms arising from disproportion between the acetabulum and the femoral head.
(6) The costs of achieving growth may also include cephalopelvic disproportion in girls becoming pregnant.
(7) The finding of normal FD and EFC values in the presence of fibre type disproportion helped to exclude reinnervation as the cause by confirming the predominantly diffuse distribution of muscle fibres.
(8) The patient's main phenotypic features were short-limb dwarfism, craniofacial disproportion with prominent forehead, short neck and trunk with pectus carinatum, and platyspondyly, protuberant abdomen, acromesomelic shortness of limbs, bilateral palm simian crease, short feet with brachydactyly of the 2nd toe, and prominent heels.
(9) Most of the stillbirth and neonatal deaths were because of gross asphyxia, prolonged labor due to cephalopelvic disproportion and uterine dysfunction, fetal distress, and abnormal presentation.
(10) Thus, osteoarthritis can be considered to develop from a disproportion between the quality of the matrix and load to the cartilage.
(11) The most probable cause of this anomaly may be a disproportional elongation of the ascending aorta during embryonic life of this woman.
(12) As it was not possible to collect sufficient material for valid conclusions on a series of patients with similar uterine activity, fetal size, uterine volume, cervical resistance, and lower uterine segment development; only women in normal labor without disproportion and delivered of infants in the occipitoanterior vertex presentation were included in the study.
(13) Cesarean section for cephalopelvic disproportion was indicated in 60% of operations, and 13% of the fetuses weighed greater than 4000 gm.
(14) The objective of this study is to compare the efficacy of three methods used to identify the presence or absence of fetal-pelvic disproportion (the fetal-pelvic index, Colcher-Sussman x-ray pelvimetry, and estimated fetal weight greater than or equal to 4000 gm) in patients delivered of neonates weighing greater than or equal to 4000 gm after an adequate trial of labor (N = 34).
(15) These imaging modalities showed soft-tissue masses or nodules; thickened omentum ("omental cake"), peritoneum, mesentery, and bowel wall; pleural plaques; and usually disproportionally small, if any, ascites.
(16) Most cells contribute to some degree to the discrimination of any two stimuli, but a cell's contribution to the discrimination of two stimuli is usually disproportionally robust when those two stimuli produce very different responses in that cell.
(17) Competition among amino acids for uptake into brain appears to be involved in the feeding response of the rat to dietary disproportions of amino acids, but this response is not directly related to changes in brain concentrations of serotonin and 5-HIAA.
(18) The frontal protrusion is corrected by osteotomy, the vertical and anteroposterior facial disproportion by bimaxillary procedures, the nasal deformity by rhinoplasty or skull bone grafting, and the macroglossia by tongue resection.
(19) She was assessed as requiring immediate caesarean section for cephalopelvic disproportion and foetal distress.
(20) In several of our cases there was clinical evidence for cephalopelvic disproportion.
Imbalance
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The significance of minor increases in the serum creatinine level must be recognized, so that modifications of drug therapy can be made and correction of possibly life-threatening electrolyte imbalances can be undertaken.
(2) The time for 90% of this change in VelCO2 to occur (T90) was measured as an index of the rate of correction of body CO2 imbalance.
(3) imbalance between production and elimination of heat, or to fever, i.e.
(4) Imbalances of peptide and dopamine cotransmission and their modulation by neuroleptics may be relevant to the pathogenesis and pharmacotherapy of schizophrenia.
(5) We have already had the failure of House of Lords reform, the failure to change constituencies and the imbalance of MPs between England and the devolved assemblies.
(6) The power of the landed elite is often cited as a major structural flaw in Pakistani politics – an imbalance that hinders education, social equality and good governance (there is no agricultural tax in Pakistan).
(7) Selection for treatment resulted in imbalance between the groups: the treated couples had a longer mean duration of infertility (48 vs. 36 months), and were more likely to have had a laparoscopy as part of the investigation (72% vs. 48%).
(8) Diplopia and asthenopia following retinal surgery are rare, despite relatively frequent muscular imbalance, because of: (a) suppresion (which war frequently found even in orthophorics with good postoperative vision in both eyes); (b) compensation owing to fusional power, and (c) probable role of the sensory factor for the compensation of the subjective experience of cyclotropia.
(9) Preeclampsia is associated with an imbalance between thromboxane and prostacyclin.
(10) Various etiologic factors reported in the medical literature are discussed and analyzed, and an anatomicophysiologic explanation of a possible mechanism, based on sympathetic-parasympathetic neurostimulatory imbalance, is offered.
(11) Therefore, treatment should be aimed at correcting the hormonal imbalance both at hypothalamico pituitary axis level and at the ovarian level rather than simple substitution therapy.
(12) The immunomodulatory effect was associated with the initial immune deficiency and manifested itself by higher relative and absolute T-lymphocyte contents along with elimination of their subpopulation imbalance.
(13) A technique is described which has reduced our incidence of vertical muscle imbalance and ptosis following intraocular surgery.
(14) The weakening of rosette-forming function of lymphocytes, a decrease in a mitogenic response to PHA, dysimmunoglobulinemia, imbalance in antibody production, particularly hyperproduction of cardial antibodies in rheumatic fever were observed as was marked delayed-type hypersensitivity to tissue antigens, more frequently to purified cardial antigens--to myocardial cell membranes and myosin.
(15) The patient's immune deviation is consistent with a transient imbalance of lymphokine production in helper T cells.
(16) Imbalance between the needs of the cell and the needs of the organism is proposed to be the general mechanism of chronic diseases.
(17) Removal of the ribs from one side produces an imbalance in the symmetric weight transmission through the ribs on the two sides.
(18) He understands from the perspective of Asia that there is a real supply-demand imbalance,” Forgacs said.
(19) These case reports demonstrate again that thrombocytopenia in Hodgkin's disease take place in active phases as well as in periods of complete remission; in the latter thrombocytopenia may reflect a part of immunological imbalance closely related to the pathophysiological background of Hodgkin's disease.
(20) In contrast, in advanced stages of late-onset DAT, this imbalance between oxygen and glucose utilization rates in the brain became smaller and smaller, and cerebral blood flow diminished markedly; these biological brain parameters finally all settled down at between 55% and 65% of the corresponding control values.