(v. t.) Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic.
(v. t.) To separate by definition of terms or logical division of a subject with regard to difference; as, to distinguish sounds into high and low.
(v. t.) To recognize or discern by marks, signs, or characteristic quality or qualities; to know and discriminate (anything) from other things with which it might be confounded; as, to distinguish the sound of a drum.
(v. t.) To constitute a difference; to make to differ.
(v. t.) To separate from others by a mark of honor; to make eminent or known; to confer distinction upon; -- with by or for.
(v. i.) To make distinctions; to perceive the difference; to exercise discrimination; -- with between; as, a judge distinguishes between cases apparently similar, but differing in principle.
(v. i.) To become distinguished or distinctive; to make one's self or itself discernible.
Example Sentences:
(1) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
(2) The secondary leukemia that occurred in these patients could be distinguished from the secondary leukemia that occurs after treatment with alkylating agents by the following: a shorter latency period; a predominance of monocytic or myelomonocytic features; and frequent cytogenetic abnormalities involving 11q23.
(3) The "rehabilitation" and "institutional" meanings of the patient's admission to the clinic have been distinguished.
(4) In addition, lightly immunostained cells were distinguished in the caudal portion of the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus, area of tuber cinereum, retrochiasmatic area, and rostral portion of the paraventricular thalamic nucleus after colchicine treatment.
(5) This novel mechanism of receptor regulation, named transmodulation, should be distinguished from the reduction in total receptor number caused by the homologous ligand (downregulation) and from the change in affinity produced by the binding of agonists or antagonists to the same receptor site.
(6) This light microscopic comparison of viable FDA- and nonviable PI-stained cysts of G. muris demonstrates that 2 types of cysts can be distinguished and implies that structural differences can be used to identify these subpopulations of cysts.
(7) To distinguish the various types, we designated the 90 kd types from CBA and AKR mice C6A1 and C6A2, respectively, and the corresponding 100 kd types C6B1 and C6B2, respectively.
(8) Transient intermediates were distinguished from dead-end metabolites by the rapid formation and disappearance of the former.
(9) A nonspecific reaction of the marrow against extramedullary lymphogranulomatosis closely resembling to the so-called tumor myeopathy has to be distinguished from the localized marrow changes due to the tumor itself.
(10) Distant ischemia was distinguished from peri-infarctional ischemia by the presence of transient thallium defects in, or slow thallium washout from myocardium not supplied by the infarct-related coronary artery.
(11) MAb Q-1 distinguishes between Sendai virus-coated and uncoated lymphocytes only cells with low-affinity binding.
(12) Three types of plasminogen activator could be distinguished in extracts from human uterine tissue.
(13) When power-transformed scores are used to eliminate skewness, there is evidence for one distribution and it is not possible to distinguish single gene from multifactorial (polygenic or cultural) inheritance.
(14) Our studies have shown that infarcted dogs which exhibit inducible sustained ventricular tachycardia had late potentials and could be distinguished from those with no arrhythmias by the following QRS characteristics.
(15) Plasmid profiling was used to distinguish strains of lactobacilli inhabiting the digestive tract of piglets and the feces of sows.
(16) The 3C protease of poliovirus is distinguished from that of all other picornaviruses in that it only cleaves at Gln-Gly amino acid pairs within the viral polyprotein.
(17) The distinguishing feature of this study is the simultaneous measurement of sympathetic firing and norepinephrine spillover in the same organ, the kidney, under conditions of intact sympathetic impulse traffic.
(18) 4 types of differentiated cells are distinguished and changes connected with the processes of structural-functional restructuration are described.
(19) The "Mg(2+)-Sarkosyl crystals" (M band) technique distinguishes between membrane-bound and free intracellular DNA.
(20) With the use of these proteins as markers, phenotypes could be constructed that distinguished unstimulated, LPS-treated, primed, and fully activated macrophages.
Indiscernible
Definition:
(a.) Not to be discerned; imperceptible; not discoverable or visible.
Example Sentences:
(1) When tumor overlaps adjacent bone structures, the bone margins can be indiscernible on a regular bone scan.
(2) An associated displaced malleolar fracture in tibial shaft fractures, sometimes even indiscernible in the anteroposterior view, may be overlooked unless roentgenograms are focused on the ankle joint.
(3) We have examined whether the thick (50-70 nm) fibrous lamina of human synovial cells from patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis indeed contains the lamins found in the indiscernible lamina structures present in most normal cells.
(4) By higher positioning of the transducer, the diastolic slope became slower or upward and the 'a' wave became indiscernible, giving the pattern of pulmonary hypertension even in the normotensives.
(5) 5) A technique for locating the SSC when the arcuate eminence is indiscernible is presented.
(6) However, it remains indiscernible whether the pineal stress reaction signals a general activation of the gland or a change in it's temporal activity patterns.
(7) At high degrees of stretch, the M line became fainter or indiscernible.
(8) But they hope the facsimile, which is indiscernible from the original, will give visitors a better understanding of the tomb.
(9) The CT appearance of E. alveolaris lesions may be indiscernible from malignant tumors.
(10) The shape of the cells became sludgy and almost indiscernible by strong accessibility of parasites only for an hour of mid-S phase.
(11) An intense reaction of HRP also appeared in the distal extracellular spaces beyond the distal junctional complexes of ameloblasts cultured without colchicine, whereas it became almost indiscernible in the tooth germs cultured with colchicine.
(12) Horizontal trabeculae in Plane A became indiscernible and the ring pattern in Planes B widened more significantly.
(13) The two species were indiscernable in all aspects of their behavior.
(14) The existence of thousands of fixed combinations makes the drug market indiscernible and useless.
(15) Surface--volume parameters of intercellular spaces and basal infolded channels were unexpectedly higher than the relation to active ion transport as well as indiscernible permeability of the distal tubular basement membrane.
(16) Crystal-free steroid cell tumors located in the hilus are in most cases true leydigoma of the ovary whose features are indiscernible from LBCT's.
(17) Whereas, decrease of the surviving fractions was almost indiscernible in both FR cells and FRtk- cells at the whole ranges of drug-concentrations tested.
(18) In most patients, during exposure of one forearm to warmth the skin temperature of the contralateral forearm remained unchanged or decreased slightly, whereas exposure to cold induced either a slight rise in skin temperature or an almost indiscernible decrease.
(19) However, the subepithelial elastic system fibers of the OMF were composed of relatively thin elastic fibers with a few microfibrils, and elaunin and oxytalan fibers which were almost indiscernible.
(20) The temptation to extrapolate the results of licitly pure drug lots administered at precisely measured doses to represent the pharmacodynamics of illegally prepared drug lots administered at indiscernible doses must be avoided in drug educational resources.