(n.) A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence; existence.
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 café 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.
Essence
Definition:
(n.) The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence.
(n.) The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence); the real being, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, virtue or quality of a thing, separated from its grosser parts.
(n.) Constituent substance.
(n.) A being; esp., a purely spiritual being.
(n.) The predominant qualities or virtues of a plant or drug, extracted and refined from grosser matter; or, more strictly, the solution in spirits of wine of a volatile or essential oil; as, the essence of mint, and the like.
(n.) Perfume; odor; scent; or the volatile matter constituting perfume.
(v. t.) To perfume; to scent.
Example Sentences:
(1) James Cameron, vice-chairman of Climate Change Capital , an environmental investment group, and a member of the prime minister's Business Advisory Group , says: "I think the UK has, in essence, become a better place for green investors.
(2) Study of the clinical characteristics of depressive state by hemisphere stroke with the use of symptom items of Zung scale and Hamilton scale showed that patients in depressive state with right hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items considered close to the essence of endogenous depression such as depressed mood, suicide, diurnal variation, loss of weight, and paranoid symptoms, while patients in depressive state with left hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items having a nuance of so-called neurotic depression such as psychic anxiety, hypochondriasis, and fatigue.
(3) In essence these functions describe a major aspect of the quality of life for surviving patients and may be useful when viewed in conjunction with the survival curves themselves.
(4) "Sunday's vote is an election in legal and constitutional terms but not in essence.
(5) But where it is not a free and fair election then we must fight for free and fair elections because that is the essence of our citizenship.” In Kampala, the spokesman for the FDC said the delays were a “deliberate attempt to frustrate” voters in urban areas, especially Kampala and the neighbouring district of Wakiso.
(6) 2) The causes of sharp differences in both, the resolving power and mechanisms of recognition of antigenic determinant by antibodies and B cell receptors, on the one hand, and of macromolecular antigens as such by antigen-recognizing receptors of T cells, on the other 3) The essence of the mechanisms by means of which the T cell receptors recognize and distinguish the macro-molecular antigens as such.
(7) Iatrogenesis, earlier considered to be an unfavorable effect of the word on the patient has acquired a new essence.
(8) "In essence it does not matter where a global company's headquarters are," he wrote.
(9) Although geropsychiatric nursing or mental health nursing with the elderly (MHNE) can be conceived of as a new subspecialty in psychiatric mental health nursing, in essence it is as old as nursing itself, for caring for people of all ages has always been within the purview of nursing.
(10) This is a review of papers on ocular manifestations of systemic diseases published, in essence, during the period from October 1, 1974 to September 30, 1975, with emphasis on papers that may contain knowledge of interest to optometrists.
(11) The essence of this hypothesis is that a competition for the available plasticity exists between the compensatory responses to ageing-induced degeneration and the processes necessary for memory trace formation.
(12) This algorithm consists of a versatile variation scheme and an innovative decision rule, the essence of which lies in a radical revision of the conventional philosophy of optimization: A number of configurations of variables with better values, instead of only a single best configuration, are selected as starting points for the next iteration.
(13) We believe positive symptoms have always been the essence of psychiatric disorder and should remain so.
(14) Speaking in the European parliament last week, Muscat warned that “unless the essence of the Turkey deal is replicated in the central Mediterranean, Europe will face a major migration crisis”.
(15) In essence, criminalisation leads to stigma, and stigma leads to harassment."
(16) In essence, the court agreed to hear oral arguments on the merits of the executive order.
(17) In essence, it was discovered that gastric ulcer patients exhibit a higher mesor and amplitude for both gastrin and pepsinogen, whereas duodenal ulcer patients and those with erosive gastroduodenopathy show only a significant increase in the pepsinogen mesor.
(18) European phenomenological psychiatry in the field of schizophrenia is introduced and its attempts to reveal the essence of autism are presented.
(19) This is the essence of the problem, and sadly, Festinger's words ring true today: the conviction of humans is all too often impervious to the very evidence in front of them.
(20) In essence, it is: “This recovery is not working for you, the everyday working people.