What's the difference between habitus and species?

Habitus


Definition:

  • (n.) Habitude; mode of life; general appearance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A subgroup of patients who do not have the same genetic inheritance pattern have in addition a Marfanoid habitus and multiple mucosal neuromas.
  • (2) The situations that required nonstandard positioning techniques included stones in the distal or mid ureter, renal transplant, gallbladder or common bile duct, and unusual body habitus, such as myelomenigocele, bilateral lower extremity amputations and children with stones.
  • (3) The only other patient or treatment factor associated with SM was a possible direct correlation with the appearance of a cushingoid body habitus.
  • (4) The boy showed a significant deviation in behaviour pattern and development of body habitus already from early infancy.
  • (5) Predisposing factors in the progression of radiation injury include excessive radiation, underlying cardiovascular disease, fixation of the bowel, and an asthenic habitus.
  • (6) When the volume of electrically participating tissue was estimated from the actual measurement of the height of the thorax and the circumference at the base of the thorax, the variation in SV differences decreased substantially (Sramek equation), although still considerable for clinical use, and there was no relationship between SV thus obtained and body habitus.
  • (7) Chest-wall deformity or Marfanoid habitus were common clinical findings.
  • (8) In 95 fresh and fixed anatomical preparations, peculiarities of topographic-anatomical relations and morphometric indices of magistral arteries and their large branches have been studied in the pelvic girdle and a free hind extremity in mongrel dogs according to the type of their habitus.
  • (9) The phenotype was distinctive in that the habitus was female in character, but partial fusion of the labioscrotal folds, testes, and male wolffian duct structures that terminated in the vagina were present.
  • (10) A 28-year-old male pseudohermaphrodite with gynaecomastia was raised as a female until the age of 17 years, at which time he developed masculine features (deepening of the voice, development of facial hair, male distribution of body hair and male body habitus) and assumed a male gender role.
  • (11) Fourteen obese subjects (mean body weight, 124 kg; percent of ideal body weight [IBW], 178%) and ten control subjects of normal body habitus (mean body weight, 67 kg; 92% IBW) received 300 mg of phenytoin sodium by ten-minute intravenous infusion.
  • (12) These patients presented features similar to others reported with this syndrome as regards age, sex, habitus, menstrual irregularities, treatment, and prognosis.
  • (13) The DWEM, which is based on body habitus and height, was more accurate than other methods (P less than 0.01).
  • (14) Multiple endocrine neoplasia, type II B (MEN II B) includes thyroid carcinoma, pheochromocytoma, ganglioneuromatosis and marfanoid habitus.
  • (15) The patient's habitus was masculine despite the presence of a small phallus, pseudo-vaginal perineal hypospadias, bifid scrotum, gynecomastia, and diminished virilization.
  • (16) They have a short obese habitus distinct from that of their unaffected siblings and parents.
  • (17) With menstrual irregularity, visual field loss, growth abnormality, or changes in body habitus or appearance, however, further investigation is needed.
  • (18) The coloanal anastomosis should be strongly considered in any patient with a low-lying rectal lesion in whom body habitus precludes the possibility of conventional low anterior resection.
  • (19) In our referral population of ACB, this tendency among women for carotid bruit without stenosis does not seem to be related to lower hematocrit, higher prevalence of heart murmur, constitutionally smaller carotid arteries, or differences in pulse rate or body habitus.
  • (20) Three patients with male habitus, short stature and testicular differentiation are described.

Species


Definition:

  • (n.) Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.
  • (n.) A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, and extending to fewer individuals. Thus, man is a species, under animal as a genus; and man, in its turn, may be regarded as a genus with respect to European, American, or the like, as species.
  • (n.) In science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation.
  • (n.) A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth.
  • (n.) Coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.
  • (n.) A public spectacle or exhibition.
  • (n.) A component part of compound medicine; a simple.
  • (n.) An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; esp., one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture.
  • (n.) The form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The variation in thickness of the LLFL may modulate the species causing damage to the cells below it.
  • (2) Comparison of the S100 alpha-binding protein profiles in fast- and slow-twitch fibers of various species revealed few, if any, species- or fiber type-specific S100 binding proteins.
  • (3) The data indicate that ebselen is likely to be useful in the therapy of inflammatory conditions in which reactive oxygen species, such as peroxides, play an aetiological role.
  • (4) These membrane perturbation effects not observed with bleomycin-iron in the presence of a hydroxyl radical scavenger, dimethyl thiourea, or a chelating agent, desferrioxamine, were correlated with the ability of the complex to generate highly reactive oxygen species.
  • (5) When compared with lissencephalic species, a great horizontal fibrillary system (which is vertically arranged in gyral regions) was observed in convoluted brains.
  • (6) The TxA2 antagonistic effects of KW-3635 were compared with that of daltroban in PRP from various animals species.
  • (7) Only the approximately 2.7 kb mRNA species was visualized in Northern blots of total cellular and poly(A+) RNA isolated from cardiac ventricular muscle.
  • (8) Comparison of developmental series of D. merriami and T. bottae revealed that the decline of the artery in the latter species is preceded by a greater degree of arterial coarctation, or narrowing, as it passes though the developing stapes.
  • (9) The immunological methods based on the use of a flagellum-specific serum have confirmed the presence of a common flagellum antigen for all Legionella species described to date.
  • (10) This observation not only provides definitive evidence for the photogeneration of O2-, but also indicates that only a fraction of this species is transformed into H2O2 in the absence of SOD.
  • (11) To further characterize the molecular forms of GnRH in each species, the extracts were injected into a high pressure liquid chromatograph (HPLC).
  • (12) Each species has approximately 500 core histones cluster repeats per haploid genome.
  • (13) After immunoadsorbent purification, the final step in a purification procedure similar to that adopted for colon cancer CEA, two main molecular species were identified: 1) Material identical with colon cancer CEA with respect to molecular size, PCA solubility, ability to bind to Con A, and most important the ability to bind to specific monkey anti-CEA serum.
  • (14) Both of these species belong to the serotype B. MCAs T11 and T15, the first recorded with a specificity for only sub-serotype A2 EF, were tested further against 28 sub-serotype A2 and three sub-serotype A2B2EFs from L. tropica strains.
  • (15) The results suggest that involucrin-like proteins have a wider species distribution than originally appreciated.
  • (16) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
  • (17) The genome characterization of the typing strains for all 13 species of the genus Staphylococcus, included into the Approval List of the Names of Bacterial (1980), is presented.
  • (18) Two lectins, wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) and peanut agglutinin (PNA), were used to compare domains within the interphotoreceptor matrices (IPM) of the cat and monkey, two species where the morphological relationship between the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and photoreceptors is distinctly different.
  • (19) The regional distribution of the receptor showed insignificant species differences.
  • (20) Temelastine produces these species-specific changes by enhancing thyroxine clearance from the circulation in the rat, but not in the dog or mouse.

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