(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.
Mismatch
Definition:
(v. t.) To match unsuitably.
Example Sentences:
(1) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
(2) The sensitivity of 75 non-CNS solid tumors to mismatched dsRNA was compared to the high-grade astrocytomas in the HTCA.
(3) The mismatch was incorporated into the sequence d[CGG(AP)GGC].d-(GCCACCG).
(4) One enzyme (called all-type) can nick all eight base mismatches with different efficiencies.
(5) One-year graft survival was 98% in HLA-identical grafts (n = 73), 91% in haploidentical grafts (n = 411), 89% in 2 haplotype-mismatched related grafts (n = 38), and 85% in spousal donor grafts (n = 71).
(6) Jake Schmidt, international climate policy director at the green campaigning group Natural Resources Defence Capital, said: "There's a cultural mismatch between the Qatari team and this process.
(7) Each individual hairpin forms with mismatched base pairs, one containing two GT pairs and the other containing two AC pairs.
(8) In a severe renal failure case due to obstruction, the Authors have found a great mismatch in the results between the traditional methods and the radioisotopic ones.
(9) Op72a matches the consensus sequence, whereas Op72b contains two mismatches.
(10) The relative immaturity of the lymphoid system at birth may be advantageous in decreasing the graft versus host reaction if these cells are used in a mismatched transplantation.
(11) The unusual activity of IM effector preparations against HLA-mismatched LCLs arises from fortuitous cross-recognition of allogeneic cells by immunologically specific cytotoxic T cell clones coincidentally expanded in vivo alongside the EBV-specific response.
(12) The 3 groups were comparable with respect to recipient age, duration of dialysis, prior transfusions, previous transplants, cold ischemia time, HLA AB mismatches, cytotoxic antibody profile, posttransplant ATN, and prophylactic ALG treatment.
(13) Cleavage at a total of 13 T and 21 C mismatches isolated (by at least three properly paired bases on both sides) single-base-pair mismatches was identified.
(14) It seems likely that this novel activity is involved in a broad specificity DNA repair pathway for the correction of single base mismatches in human cells.
(15) These results suggested that depressed LV function in the patients with longstanding AS was largely related to limited preload reserve due to LV enlargement and mechanical unloading of LV (correction of afterload mismatch) resulted in improvement of LV function.
(16) The above results indicate that Y-body analysis is a simple and useful tool for the demonstration of bone marrow take in sex-mismatched BMT.
(17) This finding also suggests that the Hex, Mut, and PMS systems evolved from a common ancestor and that functionally similar mismatch repair systems could be widespread among procaryotic as well as eucaryotic organisms.
(18) In contrast to rapid rejection of MHC-mismatched heart allografts, differences at non-MHC histocompatibility antigens were associated with graft survival beyond 100 days, although chronic rejection of variable severity was detected histologically.
(19) Recipients of cadaver donor transplants which were not mismatched at HLA-A,B antigens had a 10% higher graft survival rate at one year than recipients of kidneys which were completely mismatched at HLA-A,B.
(20) The transfusion effect was greater in black (8%) than white (4%) recipients; however, the 77% 1-year graft survival rate for transfused black recipients of 0 DR-mismatched kidneys did not differ from that of transfused whites.