(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.
Ratio
Definition:
(n.) The relation which one quantity or magnitude has to another of the same kind. It is expressed by the quotient of the division of the first by the second; thus, the ratio of 3 to 6 is expressed by / or /; of a to b by a/b; or (less commonly) the second term is made the dividend; as, a:b = b/a.
(n.) Hence, fixed relation of number, quantity, or degree; rate; proportion; as, the ratio of representation in Congress.
Example Sentences:
(1) In some other countries the patient-to-nurse ratio was significantly smaller.
(2) Increased dietary protein intake led to increased MDA per nephron, increased urinary excretion of MDA, and increased MDA per milligram protein in subtotally nephrectomized animals, and markedly increased the glutathione redox ratio.
(3) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
(4) In X-irradiated litters, almost invariably, the incidence of anophthalmia was higher in exencephalic than in nonexencephalic embryos and the ratio of these incidences (relative risk) decreased toward 1 with increasing dose.
(5) Fluorination with [18F]acetylhypofluorite yields 6-[18F]fluoro-L-dopa with 95% radiochemical purity; fluorination of the same substrate with [18F]F2 yields a mixture of all three structural isomers in a ratio of 70:16:14 for 6-, 5-, and 2-fluoro compounds.
(6) A significant correlation was found between the amplitude ratio of the R2 and the sensitivity ratio of the rapid off-response at short and long wavelengths.
(7) In the present study, respirometric quotients, the ratio of oral air volume expended to total volume expended, were obtained using separate but simultaneous productions of oral and nasal airflow.
(8) Twitch-tetanus ratios were calculated and found not to be related to unit contraction time.6.
(9) For each temporal position of the independent noise, discriminability was a function of the ratio of the duration of the independent noise (tau) to the total burst duration.
(10) The estimated DNA compaction ratio (approximately 3-fold) is consistent with a significant degree of nucleosome unfolding in the hyperstimulated BR genes.
(11) This study was designed to examine the effect of the storage configuration of skin and the ratio of tissue-to-storage medium on the viability of skin stored under refrigeration.
(12) The ratios in both groups were also compared with the ratios of a large group of normal subjects evaluated in a population survey.
(13) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
(14) Men who ever farmed were at slightly elevated risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (odds ratio = 1.2, 95% confidence interval = 1.0-1.5) that was not linked to specific crops or particular animals.
(15) Three effector: target ratios (6.2:1, 25:1, and 50:1) were studied in quadruplicate using 3, 4 and 5-h incubations.
(16) The prevalence of diabetes was 36% higher among San Antonio Mexican Americans than among Mexicans in Mexico City; this difference was highly statistically significant (age- and sex-adjusted prevalence ratio 1.36, P = 0.006).
(17) Cytosolic-to-mitochondrial ratios from maximal initial rates after correction for mitochondrial breakage were increased above controls in diabetic hearts for nucleoside diphosphokinase and aspartate aminotransferase.
(18) The distance of nucleoid sedimentation increased as a function of exposure temperature and exposure time, and was proportional to an increased protein to DNA ratio in the nucleoids.
(19) We have used a modification of the rotating-frame imaging technique to measure PCr-to-ATP ratio non-invasively in human heart.
(20) Odds ratios were computed by multiple logistic regression analysis and revealed no additional relationships; however, there were suggested dose-response gradients for height, weight at age 20, and body surface area in the Japanese women and for breast size in the Caucasian women.