What's the difference between evolutionism and revolutionism?
Evolutionism
Definition:
(n.) The theory of, or belief in, evolution. See Evolution, 6 and 7.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the author's opinion, the main principles were that of evolutionism and of unity (social and biological, continuous and interrupted, general and individual) in the epidemic process.
(2) To render their views intelligible, the historical origin of concepts such as evolutionism, Jacksonian, inhibition, psychological automatism, and synchrony and diachrony is briefly mentioned.
(3) There is a longstanding and ongoing controversy about whether Buffon is to be regarded as a forerunner of evolutionism in the eighteenth century, or even as one of the founders of transformistic biology.
(4) The products weighed 2,696 g; Apgar of 7.1 and 8.4 at fetal one and five minutes respectively, in average; there was one fetal death (2.4%), and one mortinate (2.4%); morbidity was 12%, and 85% of the products evolutionated satisfactorily.
(5) Above all, many medical historians even today fall victim to an unjustified cultural evolutionism, according to which ethnomedical research work in the field of "primitive medicine" may be employed to reconstruct a fictive paleopathology.
(6) The first deals with the controversy between "Creationism" on the one hand and "Evolutionism" on the other.
Revolutionism
Definition:
(n.) The state of being in revolution; revolutionary doctrines or principles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cyclosporin A is a potent immunosuppressive agent that has revolutionized the care of organ transplant recipients.
(2) In a short time the PCR techniques has revolutionized research technology in many areas of medicine.
(3) Clinical electroencephalography, which reached a zenith in the 1950s and 1960s, increased the range of diagnostic techniques available for a series of brain diseases and revolutionized the study of epilepsy.
(4) Total joint arthroplasties with metal, plastic, and acrylic materials have revolutionized the surgical treatment of arthritis.
(5) The first year's work at a new geriatric department at Northwick Park Hospital shows that active policies revolutionize the geriatric service and result in high turnover of patients and no waiting list.
(6) Recent developments in DNA-based techniques may revolutionize the study of human behavioral genetics.
(7) While primarily offering an account of the behavioural sciences as applied to this field, some attention is devoted to major biomedical findings which have revolutionized our potential for preventive action.
(8) Methods for rapid diagnosis of RSV infection and the advent of specific therapy with aerosolized ribavirin have revolutionized the management of hospitalized patients with moderate to severe disease.
(9) The increasing use of whole body computerized tomography in daily radiological routine work has revolutionized the diagnosis and treatment of several diseases.
(10) The reduction in the prevalence of dental caries, along with advances in adhesive technology, have combined to revolutionize the practice of dentistry today.
(11) Multidisciplinary studies of adulthood have revolutionized thinking about developmental processes during the second half of life.
(12) Magnetic resonance imaging has revolutionized the imaging of head and neck malignancies and is now rapidly replacing computed tomography as the study of choice in the majority of lesions in the head, neck, larynx, hypopharynx, oropharynx, paranasal sinuses, paranasopharynx, and skull base.
(13) They are convinced that a functional structure for light therapy may revolutionize psychiatry.
(14) Since all eukaryotes are characterized by genomic redundancy, these sensitive, rapid and comparatively simple techniques are revolutionizing many a field of clinical and experimental diagnostics.
(15) It is envisaged that DNA fingerprinting will revolutionize forensic biology particularly with regard to the identification of rape suspects.
(16) Spiral CT has the potential to revolutionize a well-established modality, subject to several important limitations.
(17) Computerized tomography (CT) has revolutionized the analysis of patients with orbital tumors.
(18) The use of recombinant human erythropoietin (rhuEPO) has revolutionized the treatment of renal anemia, but the dose regimens have not been established.
(19) The management of chronic sinus disease has been revolutionized by the application of computed tomographic (CT) imaging and rigid endoscopes in diagnostic evaluation and surgical treatment.
(20) New approaches may revolutionize the tactics of nerve repair in the near future.