(n.) A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning; as the noun bear and the verb bear.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aim was to find out to what extent information from homonymous muscles of the forelimbs converge on the same CBM neurons and whether the probability of such a convergence depends on location (axial, proximal, distal) or function (flexor, extensor) of the tested muscles.
(2) Positive correlation was also observed between the amplitudes of the median mEPSPs and the maximum homonymous composite EPSPs in the cells for which both data points were available.4.
(3) Unfortunately, up to now it has not been possible to induce such a sensory-motor compensation in cases of homonymous hemianopia with normal retinal correspondence in an adult visual system.
(4) In post-spike averages of 1000-10,000 sweeps, no evidence of reflex excitation of the homonymous motoneurone pool was detected.
(5) The postoperative course was uneventful and he was discharged without any deficits except for a left upper quadrant homonymous hemianopia.
(6) All patients suffered hemiparesis, and hemisensory loss and homonymous hemianopsia were identified in 2 patients.
(7) Novel words were presented to children, half serving as potential homonyms, half as unlikely homonyms.
(8) In one, incongruous homonymous hemianopsia was accompanied by a decrease in visual acuity in one eye from chiasmal involvement.
(9) The patient was a 60-year-old female, and the initial symptoms were mild headache followed by right homonymous hemianopsia.
(10) Bilateral upper homonymous quadrantanopsias usually leave the macula more or less unimpaired, so that visual acuity is largely preserved.
(11) Neurological examination revealed slight right hemiparesis, right homonymous hemianopsia and left papilledema.
(12) Neurological examination on admission revealed memory disturbance, left homonymous hemianopsia and left hemiparesis.
(13) The experiments were carried out in incidental memory paradigms, where high and low imagery words without any homonyms were used as stimuli.
(14) Presynaptic inhibition of homonymous Ia afferent terminals to soleus, quadriceps and tibialis anterior motoneurons and of heteronymous Ia fibres from quadriceps to soleus was compared in the same subjects when standing without support and during a control situation (sitting or standing with back support).
(15) In transverse sections the axon collateral outbulgings were found not only in the classical Renshaw cell area ventromedial to the main motor nuclei but also within the homonymous motor nucleus.
(16) SLDs could be elicited in given motoneurones by stimulation of their homonymous but never of their antagonistic muscle nerves.
(17) The VERs relating to normal homonymous field quadrants were in phase in all three groups, excluding patients with cataracts.
(18) The patient remained in excellent health until 22 months after the initial ocular problem when she developed a left homonymous hemianopia.
(19) A 45-year-old man of bilateral occipital infarction with central homonymous hemianopia is reported.
(20) On admission, she had bilateral papilledema, left homonymous hemianopia, and right hearing impairment.
Namesake
Definition:
(n.) One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the Independent prepares to bring out its new daily, i, what lessons could it take from its namesake in Portugal ?
(2) Photograph: Chloe Dewe Mathews His officer namesake later recorded the proceedings in his memoirs: "There are hooks on the post; we always do things thoroughly in the Rifles.
(3) Some had tears in their eyes as they listened to Francis's call for them not to be "part-time Christians" and to build up their church like his namesake, St Francis of Assisi, was called to do.
(4) One reader chose Zoë Heller's The Believers, about the dysfunctional Litvinoff family, another plumped for Sue Miller's While I Was Gone, in which a woman is forced to confront the murder of her best friend 30 years ago, a third pointed readers towards Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake, about an Indian boy growing up in America.
(5) The current president, Benigno Aquino , is the only son and namesake of the late strongman’s political nemesis, whose assassination in 1983 led to the popular uprising three years later.
(6) Montgomery was nicknamed Rommel by some staff, after the German general in north Africa who fought against his British military namesake, on the grounds that "at least (Field Marshal) Montgomery was on our side".
(7) Asked if she has four fingers, like her namesake, a poker-faced colleague replied: "We don't know.
(8) "Back in the 1960s I broke down in the Mersey Tunnel and was towed out by Everton's ginger haired genius and his namesake dad," writes Jim Lynch, who probably shouldn't be described as a damsel.
(9) With the Australian strategist Lynton Crosby heading the Conservative party's election campaign, it is hardly surprising that Michael Howard has sought inspiration from his conservative namesake in Australia, John Howard.
(10) "I agree that Barry is a fine name for a keeper (presumably he's even more defensive than his namesake Gareth) but surely the coolest-named fellow in the respective teams is "Sunzu"!"
(11) Former Arsenal defender Scott Marshall – who worked with Lambert at both Wycombe Wanderers and Norwich – has been asked to prepare the team for Sunday’s FA Cup fifth round tie against Leicester along with his namesake Andy but it remains to be seen whether either will be considered for the role on a permanent basis.
(12) The dig director, Richard Buckley, said he would eat his hat if they found his namesake.
(13) And just like his namesake, this "Burmese Bin Laden" made a brazen call to arms: "Once we [have] won this battle, we will move on to other Muslim targets."
(14) Today's phone-in topics are annoying namesakes (a "Phil Collins" in Somerset is particularly furious), and between songs Lloyd tells me that the best song he's played so far today is Rebel Rebel, and the worst is the new Killers track.
(15) Gardner says he and his wife have no ill-feeling towards his namesake – they hold NatWest solely responsible for an “intolerable” situation that has caused them a huge amount of stress and inconvenience, as well as “significant financial loss”.
(16) In the 19th century, their namesake sent out his ragamuffin kids to pick the pockets of London gentlemen.
(17) The fast-talking 61-year-old shakes hands with one wearing a tiara and sash reading “Miss Columbus”, from a beauty pageant to celebrate its namesake’s arrival in North America.
(18) The authors' data on Salish Indian spirit sickness describes the contemporary condition as anomic depression, which is significantly different from its traditional namesake.
(19) Nowadays, while a modern Benin City has risen on the same plain, the ruins of its former, grander namesake are not mentioned in any tourist guidebook to the area.
(20) Two years later, renovations on Ralph Wilson Stadium have been completed, and its namesake, the franchise’s longtime owner, has passed away.