What's the difference between dissimilarity and inconsistency?

Dissimilarity


Definition:

  • (n.) Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilitude; variety; as, the dissimilarity of human faces and forms.

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.

Inconsistency


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility.
  • (n.) Absurdity in argument ore narration; incoherence or irreconcilability in the parts of a statement, argument, or narration; that which is inconsistent.
  • (n.) Want of stability or uniformity; unsteadiness; changeableness; variableness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These data are inconsistent with an involvement of A-current reduction in LTP.
  • (2) Results were inconsistent with both the feature detector fatigue and response bias hypothesis.
  • (3) The lack of TBM prior to germinal center development and their absence in aged mice are inconsistent with the concept that TBM are required for the induction of the germinal center reaction.
  • (4) Moreover, it was more apparent in less differentiated tumors in which the granular pattern was often absent or inconsistent.
  • (5) Many governments try to protect their tax base through national blacklists based on criteria that are often unclear and inconsistently applied.
  • (6) Richard now is presented, albeit somewhat inconsistently, as evil in response to social ostracism because of his ugly deformities.
  • (7) It was concluded that 1) late ejection was quantitatively important to LV pumping, 2) behavior during late ejection was inconsistent with E(t)-R, and 3) ad hoc modification of E(t)-R models was not likely to yield LV pumping models that could satisfactorily reproduce instantaneous P(t) and Q(t) behavior over the entire ejection period.
  • (8) In these conditions the changes of the phrenic activity were weak and inconsistent.
  • (9) The only inconsistency in the mariner gene phylogeny is in the placement of the Zaprionus mariner sequence, which clusters with mariner from Drosophila teissieri and Drosophila yakuba in the melanogaster species subgroup.
  • (10) Meningococcal antisera raised against LPS from MGC A, B, and C also provided good protection against endotoxemia from the homologous capsular groups, but it was inconsistent against the heterologous serogroups.
  • (11) Twenty-three percent employed no birth control and 27 percent used diaphragms, the majority either inconsistently or incorrectly.
  • (12) Physicians are urged to reject involvement in rationing as inconsistent with their role as patient advocates and to support technology assessment, fee revisions, and more stringent self regulation as ways to discourage malpractice suits.
  • (13) The multiple reasons for an inconsistency of the epidemiological data are discussed.
  • (14) A 22 year old female-to-male half-Aboriginal transsexual had been exposed to gross neglect and violence, separation and inconsistent cultural supports during childhood.
  • (15) An algorithm is implemented to determine the form and phase shift for inconsistent type II quadrupoles for any space group having glide or screw-axis translations which are not a consequence of lattice centering.
  • (16) Defence lawyers contended that Saiful's testimony about the alleged sodomy, at a Kuala Lumpur condominium in 2008, was riddled with inconsistencies and the DNA evidence mishandled by investigators.
  • (17) In other words, absolute levels of these brain substances were inconsistent with respect to obesity across experiments.
  • (18) TGF-beta 1 regulated those differentiation markers of osteoblast phenotypes, although the effects were inconsistent depending on serum concentrations.
  • (19) These results are inconsistent with predictions of wavelength dependence inherent in recent theories of ocular scatter.
  • (20) The terminology of the pericardial sinuses and recesses has been inconsistent, and the authors propose a nomenclature for standardizing the names of the recesses of the serous pericardium.