(n.) A state of difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness.
(n.) Multiplicity of difference; multiformity; variety.
(n.) Variegation.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, the fact that microheterogeneity may occur without limit in the mannans of the strains suggests that antibodies with unlimited diverse specificities are produced directed against these antigenic varieties as well.
(2) The results may help to explain the diversity in the multidrug-resistant phenotype.
(3) Digestion is initiated in the gastric region by secretion of acid and pepsin; however, diversity of digestive enzymes is highest in the post-gastric alimentary canal with the greatest proteolytic activity in the spiral valve.
(4) Nonvibrissa sensitive cells had diverse morphologies.
(5) While the reduced form of the "derived" polyphenolic compounds, generated during tissue homogenization, appeared to enhance dye binding with bovine serum albumin, their influence on the protein assay directly in crude homogenates was extremely diverse.
(6) Neuromuscular disorders in small animals include a diverse group of congenital and acquired diseases.
(7) Thus, the previously described ubiquity of "82H" human centromeric sequences reflects the existence of diverse alpha satellite subsets located at the centromeric region of each human chromosome.
(8) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
(9) During sixty-six months, 145 Kock pouches were constructed: 79 for continent cutaneous diversion (44 men, 35 women), 54 bladder replacements by men, 12 ileo-rectal diversions (10 women, 2 men).
(10) It recognises the diverse needs of the affected populations”, said Scott DiPretoro, who works in the IFRC’s Panama hub.
(11) The diversity of the non-Hodgkin's groups, the continued evolution of histopathologic classifications, and the great frequency of advanced disease in the lymphocytic subgroups make the Ann Arbor classification of only limited value for the non-Hodgkin's lymphomas.
(12) Photograph: David Grayson David Grayson, director, The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University David became professor of corporate responsibility and director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield School of Management, in April 2007, after a 30 year career as a social entrepreneur and campaigner for responsible business, diversity, and small business development.
(13) A diversity of serogroups and toxigenicity was a general finding, however, strains found in the proximal gut were also cultured from the rectum, indicating that faecal specimens would be a valid tool in investigating the role of these organisms in SIDS cases compared with healthy controls.
(14) While it is important not to overstate the case from the relatively small number of people consulted, they do represent a diverse range of adult social care service users from different areas in England .
(15) Clearly, it is impossible to combine the diverse information briefly outlined in this review to provide a coherent model of the regulation of globin gene expression during development.
(16) Members of the genera Rickettsia, Coxiella and Rochalimaea show considerable diversity in host cell range (in vivo vs. in vitro), kind of association with host cell (pericellular, intracellular), mode of entry, interactions with various host cell membranes, intracellular localization (intraphagosomal, free in cytoplasm, intranuclear), adaptation to preferred microhabitat (e.g., optimal pH for enzymes), details of growth cycle, mechanisms of host cell damage.
(17) Finally, from the published manuals, the common components of these diverse, multi-component treatment packages of different family-intervention studies are identified."
(18) The olfactory organs of fishes are diversely developed.
(19) A unified hypothesis for the neuropathologic effect of the diverse spectrum of toxic chemicals known to induce giant axonopathies is presented, based on recently published data on the structure of NF protein.
(20) Experimental diversion of the bile flow from the lumen of the duodenum has little effect on the relative percentage of methadone vs. metabolites circulating in the blood.
Heteromorphism
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Heteromorphy
Example Sentences:
(1) Unusual chromosomal heteromorphism, as rendered visible after acridine orange staining, was observed on the short arm of chromosome 14 in two cases and, after heterochromatin staining, on chromosome 19 in one family.
(2) Using chromosomal heteromorphisms, human lymphocyte antigen (HLA) and phosphoglucuromutase 1 (PGM1) polymorphisms, we established the androgenetic origin of complete mole in 84 of 91 cases.
(3) Heteromorphism, dysplasia, and cancerization were not obtained in these proliferative cells of the IM.
(4) The heteromorphous appearance of bdellovibrio flagella arose from the sequential assembly of these subunits.
(5) In seven large families with myotonic dystrophy (DM) comprising 102 individuals, linkage studies were performed employing restriction fragment length polymorphisms in the complement component 3 gene and the 19cen C banding heteromorphism as genetic markers.
(6) In addition the secretory granules varied in size and displayed a granular heteromorphic matrix.
(7) Heteromorphism of Y chromosome was studied in head and neck cancer patients and leukemia patients.
(8) An unusual nucleolar organizer region (NOR) heteromorphism was noted among 13 of 41 parents in whom nondisjunction leading to trisomy 21 was known to have occurred.
(9) GB heteromorphous forms were studied both under natural conditions and in the course of action of various factors.
(10) In the hybrids between Asian and Oceanian type rats, heteromorphic C-bands, one large and the other small, were observed.
(11) Heteromorphisms of chromosomes 3, 4, 13-15, 21-22, and Y were studied in a population of 374 mentally retarded patients from diverse ethnic groups.
(12) Eighty-four of 135 (62%) patients with epithelial malignancies were heteromorphic for C-band size compared with 38 of 107 (36%) controls (significant at the 0.1% level).
(13) These species are the first examples of the ZW type of heteromorphism in eels.
(14) The streptavidine-horseradish-peroxidase and diaminobenzidine detection system demonstrated heteromorphisms in the 1q12 heterochromatic region, not only in mitotic cells but also in mature sperm heads.
(15) The data showed an increased frequency of heteromorphisms of chromosome 1 in patients with cancer (48.39%) and severe dysplasias (40%) as compared to controls (29.8%) and lower grades of dysplastic lesions, i.e.
(16) (5) Chiasmata found in heteromorphic chromosome pairs show that crossing-over has, indeed, taken place.
(17) Cleavage-stage embryos showed no striking differences between inside and outside blastomeres, all of them displaying primitive junctional complexes, heteromorphic mitochondria, large ovoid nuclei and a few polyribosomes.
(18) G- and R-banded chromosome preparations from eight of twelve 46,XX males, with no evidence of mosaicism or a free Y chromosome, were distinguished in blind trials from preparations from normal 46,XX females by virtue of heteromorphism of the short arm of one X chromosome.
(19) Taking both the criteria together, compared to 31.43% controls, 80.28% cancer patients were C-band heteromorphic.
(20) These observations suggest the existence of an adjustment mechanism which functions to equalize the lengths of the two axes of the heteromorphic synaptonemal complex.