(a.) Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
(2) Several studies have found that pollution and climate change disproportionately affect the poor , which means boosting clean energy generation and cutting pollution could also simultaneously reduce global inequality .
(3) Cardiologists were disproportionately represented among the high-cost users.
(4) Chlorine dioxide disproportionation products, chlorite and chlorate, were not active disinfectants.
(5) It’s been widely reported that black people are disproportionately harmed by the mortgage market.
(6) The infection probably affected all sex and age classes, but field surveys of live animals and mortality suggested that mature rams died disproportionately.
(7) This review indicates that abused women use a disproportionate amount of health care services including emergency rooms visits, primary care, and community mental health center visits.
(8) Unlike SI, which possesses a disproportionately large representation of the rostrum, SII has no specialized representation of the rostrum.
(9) The council offered him a tea urn | Frances Ryan Read more Government attempts to decrease the disproportionately high levels of unemployment among disabled people have had little impact, the report notes, while notorious “fit-for-work” tests were riven with flaws.
(10) In the goitres with low T3 of treated patients, T4 was also reduced but disproportionately to T3.
(11) It results from statistical disproportionation of the singly occupied complex in the gel.
(12) However, when compared to the normal growing pancreas, the level of proto-oncogene expression in the adenomas and carcinomas was disproportionate to the degree of cellular division in those tissues.
(13) The result is that, when natural selection favors increased enzyme activity so as to maximize flux, a point of diminishing returns will be attained in which any increase in flux results in a disproportionately small increase in fitness.
(14) One that sentimentality is obsessed by while funds are disproportionately siphoned away from the other 20,933 species facing extinction .
(15) Train companies are making passengers pay disproportionate penalties for having the wrong ticket and criminalising people who have no intention of dodging fares, a government watchdog has warned.
(16) T8 cells were disproportionately decreased, with a significant resultant increase in the T4:T8 ratios.
(17) In acid and alkaline solution the radicals rapidly disappear by disproportionation, but within the approximate pH range 6 to 11 they appear to be relatively stable for at least 10-20 ms, existing in transient equilibrium with parent adriamycin and the full reduced form.
(18) Oxidation of two tryptophans also leads to a disproportionately large decrease in fluorescence intensity.
(19) Excessively optimistic judgements of driving competency and accident risk have often been implicated in the disproportionate involvement of young males in traffic crashes.
(20) To date, a disproportionate amount of effort may have been spent on deciphering putative intracellular regulatory mechanisms, without knowing some essential fundamental properties of the Na+-Pi-COT.
Dissimilar
Definition:
(a.) Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features.
Example Sentences:
(1) A kinetic analysis of the 4 to 5 EBP transformation shows that it is a bimolecular reaction, the dimerization of the 4 S EBP with a second (similar or dissimilar) monomer or subunit.
(2) Renal autoregulation during decreases in renal arterial pressure (RAP) was examined in animals pretreated with a competitive antagonist of angiotensin ii, [1-sarcosine, 8-glycine] angiotensin II, or one of two chemically dissimilar inhibitors of prostaglandin synthetase, indomethacin and meclofenamate.
(3) Eighty-six adults serially recalled lists of visually presented consonant letters similar in auditory or visual features or dissimilar in both feature sets.
(4) (c) Are HbO2 distributions for tumor lines of dissimilar radiobiological hypoxic fraction affected similarly by flunarizine?
(5) The time courses of their release are dissimilar, and nordihydroguaiaretic acid fails to inhibit lysosomal enzyme release by a dose markedly inhibiting LTB release.
(6) The more dissimilar foods are, the greater the enhancement of intake by variety in a meal will be.
(7) Morphologically dissimilar colonies were isolated and identified using standard gram-positive and gram-negative identification strips (Analytab Products, Inc. [API]).
(8) Ten experiments were conducted on visually presented Serbo-Croatian words and pseudowords, comprising phonemically similar and dissimilar context-target sequences.
(9) No outstandingly high value for gametic association between the alleles of the 2 HL-A series was observed, but haplotypes formed by antigens with dissimilar frequencies in Caucasoids, Negroids and American Indian tribes have shown statistically significant D values.
(10) The presence of two dissimilar metals in the mouth acting as electrodes, with saliva serving as an electrolyte, can generate an intraoral electric current known as galvanic action.
(11) Comparisons of troponin T amino acid sequences among several species reveal striking dissimilarities, in contrast to the otherwise highly conserved contractile proteins.
(12) Immunoblocking and immunoprecipitation experiments suggested that epitopes recognised by these two antibodies are dissimilar and are expressed on different molecules.
(13) They also suggest this response may be dissimilar depending on the site and species from which the endothelial cells originate.
(14) This synchronization of dissimilar perceptions brings together disjunctive and conjunctive categories dominated by such coordinate conjunctions as "and... and", in the living diachronic discordance.
(15) Half of the subjects were led to believe that they were similar to the performer in personality and values, and half were led to believe that they were dissimilar.
(16) U.S.A. 83, 7588-7592) on the basis of lack of cross-reactivity with MI-8 and dissimilar peptide digest patterns.
(17) Moreover, the distinct dissimilarities of neural connections between rodents and primates indicate that the rodent's hippocampal formation might somehow have an undeveloped neural system of memory, or a different memory system from that of primates.
(18) These findings demonstrate differential effects of antidepressant treatments on fenfluramine-induced increases in plasma prolactin and corticosterone in rats and are consistent with several other clinical and animal studies demonstrating dissimilar actions of different antidepressant treatments on two different 5-HT-mediated neuroendocrine functions.
(19) Particularly in abnormal pregnancy, their shifting patterns were often dissimilar to one another, with implications that impaired placental function could possibly be confirmed qualitatively by reference to the predicted curve for the values of either of the marker substances.
(20) The program was subjected to a field trial among two demographically dissimilar populations of schoolchildren in the New York City area.