What's the difference between entities and individual?

Entities


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Entity

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In our opinion, a carcinologically "malignant" metastatic myxoma remains a questionable pathological entity.
  • (2) Sinus lining cells give rise to a well defined entity of neoplasia which is proposed to be termed sinus lining cell reticulosarcoma.
  • (3) Epidermolytic PPK is a well delineated autosomal dominant entity, but no recessive form is known.
  • (4) Doctors, who once treated human body as an entity, are so specialized that none seems to know any more that the head bone is still indirectly connected to the great toe.
  • (5) Pancreatic ascites is a distinct clinical entity which should be differentiated from cirrhotic, tuberculous or malignant ascites.
  • (6) Purulent bronchitis appears to be a distinct, treatable entity in patients with HIV infection and may accompany bacterial pneumonia, bronchiectasis, and P carinii pneumonia.
  • (7) The recent identification among non-Hodgkin's malignant lymphomas of a high-grade malignancy entity of possible thymic origin and defined as lymphoblastic convoluted-cell lymphoma allowed the morphologic and radiological diagnosis of nine cases of this disease.
  • (8) There is no reason to describe deafness and deafmutism in an area with severe endemic goitre as a separate entity.
  • (9) This finding is consistent with the hypothesis that the majority of deaths attributed to presenile dementia and the majority of deaths from senile dementia are the result of the same disease entity.
  • (10) This condition is a clearly defined radiological and clinical entity.
  • (11) On radiographs, this entity usually presented as clusters of 1- to 3-mm plaques raised above the smooth and featureless duodenal mucosa; this was seen in 17 (68%) of 25 patients.
  • (12) Although these two destructive entities are completely different in many respects, they share a common denominator: the initial lesions are brought about by an aggregate of bacteria known as plaque.
  • (13) The literature on this uncommon syndrome was reviewed and it was found that there are an open prevalence of this entity in children younger than 15 years, as well as severe respiratory complications in affected patients.
  • (14) Autism is a heterogeneous disease entity containing different clinical subgroups, which do not manifest similar radiologic pictures.
  • (15) This appears to be a newly described entity, although it resembles a Becker's nevus without hypertrichosis or an typical cafĂ© au lait spot.
  • (16) The familial association of epilepsy and cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL (P)) is analyzed assuming both entities share common genetic predisposing factors.
  • (17) Data in the literature reveal that two distinct entities do not exist, but that there is instead a continuous transition from low to normal values.
  • (18) Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy is a distinct clinical entity, with ophthalmic involvement in 10% of patients.
  • (19) The histological examination of the biopsies taken during colonoscopy differentiated less clearly between these two entities than the macroscopic judgement by the endoscopist.
  • (20) The different entity of reversibility of bronchial obstruction is due to the various mechanisms intervening in different patients.

Individual


Definition:

  • (a.) Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to one only; peculiar to, or characteristic of, a single person or thing; distinctive; as, individual traits of character; individual exertions; individual peculiarities.
  • (n.) A single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person.
  • (n.) An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal.
  • (n.) The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
  • (2) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
  • (3) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
  • (4) We examined the karyotype in five individuals of roe-deer (Capreolus capreolus), coming from Southern Moravia.
  • (5) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
  • (6) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
  • (7) Five probes of high specificity to individual chromosomes (chromosomes 3, 11, 17, 18 and X) were hybridized in situ to metaphase chromosomes of different individuals.
  • (8) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
  • (9) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
  • (10) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
  • (11) Both apertures were repaired with great caution using individual sutures without resection of the hernial sac.
  • (12) We have investigated the increase in the spcDNA population upon cycloheximide treatment of individual sequences, which are found to amplify differentially.
  • (13) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
  • (14) Microelectrodes were used to measure the oxygen tension (PO2) profile within individual spheroids at different stages of growth.
  • (15) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
  • (16) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
  • (17) These data, then, indicate that the ability to produce C3NeF autoantibody is present from the time of birth in normal individuals.
  • (18) A mean difference for individual patients between the first and second recording within 5 mm Hg was observed in 49.3% and 52.1% of patients for 24-hour systolic and diastolic blood pressure, respectively.
  • (19) Patients served as their individual control based on observations of at least 1 year before the study.
  • (20) However in the deciduous teeth from which the successional tooth germs were removed, the processes of tooth resorption was very different in individuals, the difference between tooth resorption in normal occlusal force and in decreased occlusal force was not clear.

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