(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.
Nonentity
Definition:
(n.) A thing not existing.
(n.) Nonexistence; the negation of being.
(n.) A person or thing of little or no account.
Example Sentences:
(1) A nonentity introduces me to a moderately talented guitarist named Johnny Marr who is friends with a useless drummer called Mike Joyce and a bassist whose name I can't remember.
(2) But then personne turned out to be called Joseph Laniel, a nonentity who was prime minister from June 1953 to June 1954.
(3) As well as providing an excuse for Corbyn to promote nonentities, refusal denies senior MPs a ready-made platform from which to express their dissent.” The party reported that a further 15,000 people had joined the party since Corbyn’s election on Saturday.
(4) "The prime minister is a nonentity, except as the appointee of Asif Ali Zardari."
(5) As merely the king-in-waiting he is a constitutional nonentity.
(6) Apple once held 18 per cent of the computing market, but years of clumsy marketing, bungled relationships with developers, and unruly product lines left it almost a nonentity: a mere 3 per cent of the computing population used Macs prior to the iMac.
(7) Crushing the rival bids of political nonentities like Dmitry Medvedev is child's play for him.
(8) In the span of a year he burnt bridges with both the Los Angeles Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks, while becoming something of a nonentity on the court.
(9) Yet again, this spoiled nonentity is cosseted by his party: though he stands as an “independent”, the Conservatives will try to save his bacon by setting no candidate against him, to avoid splitting their vote.
(10) Unlike in France or Germany, engineers are a bit of a nonentity here.
(11) In Stamford Way, he repeatedly attacks Clegg as a nonentity whose only claim to fame is his U-turn over student tuition fees – " a protoplasmic, amoebic, vacillating, jelly of indecision".
(12) He said the victims were informed that their new employer was a nonentity and that they had been ripped off on arrival at what they expected to be their first day of work.
(13) Vice-president Abd al-Rab Mansur al-Hadi, a Saleh appointee and a former military man from the south who is something of a nonentity, has temporarily taken charge as required by the constitution .
(14) The word "spasm" has been purposefully omitted as it is essentially a nonentity in vascular trauma.
(15) As well as providing an excuse for Corbyn to promote nonentities, refusal denies senior MPs a ready-made platform from which to express their dissent.
(16) A nervous nation, unsure what it has done to itself, is subject to the tedious, vituperative comments from one Conservative nonentity about another.
(17) Its outrage was directed at the bland evil of war, the US Army Air Force (USAAF), and the bureaucratic scheming of military nonentities.