What's the difference between geomalism and tendency?

Geomalism


Definition:

  • (n.) The tendency of an organism to respond, during its growth, to the force of gravitation.

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Tendency


Definition:

  • (n.) Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The technique is facilitated by an amazingly low tendency to bleeding.
  • (2) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
  • (3) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
  • (4) EI showed a tendency to drop from week 20 to week 40 in the men and a tendency to increase from week 20 to week 40 in the women.
  • (5) They presented their clinical observations on 4 brothers from the 'G Family' who shared a constellation of findings with a generalised tendency to midline defects.
  • (6) A tendency of reduced forepaw grasping ability was seen in lead-treated rats during the end of the lead exposure.
  • (7) It seams rational to proceed to an earlier total correction in these cases when well defined criteria are fullfilled, as the mortality figures of the palliative and corrective procedures have a tendency to reach each other: (3,2 versus 5,7%).
  • (8) Subjects with high ocular-dominance scores (right- or left-dominant subjects) showed for the green stimulus asymmetric behavior, while subjects with low ocular-dominance scores showed a tendency toward symmetry in perception.
  • (9) The general tendency of gradual CBF reduction from the pedicle to the distal end of all the flaps was observed.
  • (10) There was a remarkable tendency to newborns weighting more than 2000 g and a duration of pregnancy longer than 35 weeks.
  • (11) Radiographically the bone cyst distinguishes itself by its central localisation in the metaphysis, where as the giant cell tumor has an excentric position in the epiphysis with a tendency of extending into the metaphysis.
  • (12) The use of the first oversulfation method provides slightly oversulfated derivatives which exhibit strong anticoagulant properties and may constitute effective antithrombotic drugs with no bleeding tendency, a side effect perhaps related to a high rate of sulfation.
  • (13) The debate certainly hit upon a larger issue: the tendency for people in positions of social and cultural power to tell the stories of minorities for them, rather than allowing minority communities to speak for themselves.
  • (14) The results may be due to stronger social reinstatement tendencies in females than in males: Higher levels of social motivation facilitate behavioral performance when the task is easy (straight runway) and inhibit it when the task is difficult (V-shaped runway).
  • (15) The ideal prophylaxis should compensate for the undesired effects of an operation or injury on the coagulation system, without subjecting the patient to the danger of elevated tendency to bleed.
  • (16) The transient shortening of WBCLT was succeeded by a tendency to prolongation of the lysis time.
  • (17) As in the protein sample, a tendency for the cis-proline residues to have the DOWN pucker was observed, but the effect was less pronounced.
  • (18) These data suggest that, in addition to platelet activation, abnormalities of blood clotting, and particularly reduction of antithrombin III, may play a role in the thrombotic tendency associated with homocystinuria.
  • (19) Mitomycin C extravasation produces a painful indolent ulcer that does not have any tendency to heal.
  • (20) There has been a tendency to portray Russians as aggressively imperialistic at heart, a homogeneous bloc thirsty for military adventures.

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