What's the difference between fissiparous and multiparous?

Fissiparous


Definition:

  • (a.) Reproducing by spontaneous fission. See Fission.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yes, that might mean five more years of pain, though I suspect in these fissiparous times it won’t last so long.
  • (2) Groping for British emblems to bind together an ever more diverse and fissiparous society, politicians struggle to find cultural and emotional social glue.
  • (3) But Clegg must be thinking very carefully about his options – the Liberals have a terribly fissiparous history.
  • (4) The mortality and fissiparity frequency of the subjects were studied.
  • (5) At doses where an antioxidant effect prevails, fissiparity is stimulated.
  • (6) The toxicity of selenium (Na2SeO3) and mercury (HgCl2) was determined by using a freshwater planarian which is particularly sensitive to pollution, and belongs to a fissiparous breed of Dugesia gonocephala.

Multiparous


Definition:

  • (a.) Producing many, or more than one, at a birth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There were 49% primiparous and 51% multiparous women.
  • (2) The incidence of grand multiparity was only 4.7%; however, 25% were less than 30 years old.
  • (3) Ninety multiparous Holstein cows were used to determine the effect of ration energy density and bST on lactation performance and whole body chemical composition.
  • (4) The problem of a pregnancy with a prior cesarean section is an ever-increasing one and, in our practice, approximately 25% of multiparous patients have had a prior cesarean delivery.
  • (5) Fewer multiparous cows given two injections 14 d apart and inseminated after estrus conceived than did cows given two injections and a progesterone intravaginal coil inserted 8 d after the first injection (42 vs. 66%).
  • (6) An interaction was found between race and maternal age and between multiparity and type of hospital of birth.
  • (7) An MLC reaction inhibiting serum from a grand-multiparous woman (16 successful pregnancies) is described.
  • (8) The increased incidence of gallstones in multiparous women may be related to hormonal effects on the gallbladder and its contractility.
  • (9) The cessation of regular cyclicity during aging occurred significantly (p less than 0.01) earlier in virgin than multiparous rats.
  • (10) Two cytotoxic human-human hybridoma IgM antibodies to HLA were generated by EBV transformation of PBMC from multiparous women and fusion of EBV transformed cells with the human fusion partners KR4 or KR12.
  • (11) It has previously been shown that J.H., a human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-Dw2 homozygous multiparous woman, fails to respond in a mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR) to her Dw1 homozygous husband W.H., and that her T cells suppress the responses of HLA matched responders to W.H.
  • (12) The litter sizes of 8- to 10-mo-old primiparous females were not different from those of multiparous rats.
  • (13) Multiparity and twin pregnancies are predisposing factors.
  • (14) In the first-litter sows lower serum levels were found for all three Ig classes as compared to multiparous sows.
  • (15) The majority of patients are multipare between 28 and 47 years old.
  • (16) Both patients are elderly multiparous females with long-standing peripheral venous disease and a history of previous gynaecologic surgery.
  • (17) Adherence inhibition was not observed when PC from tumor-immunized or multiparous mice were exposed to antigen extracts from adult syngeneic livers or kidneys.
  • (18) Logistic regression analyses of the multiparous and nulliparous populations showed independent sets of significant (p less than or equal to 0.05) risk variables.
  • (19) Indications were multiparity, previous caesarean section and socioeconomic reasons.
  • (20) Sixty percent of the mothers smoked and 50% had other identifiable risk factors for preterm delivery; 20% of the multiparous patients had previously experienced a perinatal death, preterm delivery or had a baby with intra-uterine growth retardation.

Words possibly related to "multiparous"