(n.) The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness.
(n.) The condition of being the same with something described or asserted, or of possessing a character claimed; as, to establish the identity of stolen goods.
(n.) An identical equation.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the other hand, the LAP level, identical in preterms and SDB, is lower than in full-term infants but higher than in adults.
(2) The binding properties of formalin-fixed amelanotic melanoma cells were not identical to those of endothelial or unfixed target cells.
(3) Between 22 HLA-identical siblings and 16 two-haplotype different siblings, a significant difference in concordance of reactions for the B-cell groups was noted.
(4) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
(5) Historical analysis shows that institutions and special education services spring from common, although not identical, societal and philosophical forces.
(6) Amino acid sequence analysis showed that both peaks had identical N-terminal sequences through the first 28 residues.
(7) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
(8) However, its identity requires further characterization.
(9) Examination of the SON in such animals revealed that the oxytocinergic system is already modified by day 12 of dioestrus; during suckling-induced lactation, the anatomical changes are identical to those seen during a normal post-partum lactation.
(10) In the process, HDL3 became larger and eluted in a position identical to that of HDL2.
(11) However, both were identical in size when synthesized in COS-1 cells in the presence of tunicamycin or when deglycosylated after their synthesis in Xenopus oocytes.
(12) The reduction rates of peripheral leukocytes, lung Schiff bases and lung water content were not identical in rats depleted from leukocyte after inhalation injury.
(13) In a double-blind, crossover-designed study, 9 male subjects (age range: 18-25 years) received 25 mg orally, four times per day of either S or an identically-appearing placebo (P) 2 d prior to and during HA.
(14) In these bitches, a strain of E coli identical to the strain in the infected uterus was isolated.
(15) Identical results were obtained in adult and 30 d-old male rats.
(16) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
(17) 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.
(18) This cDNA was obtained because of an identical 10 bp match with the 3' end of one of the GnRH primers.
(19) Sera from three of these patients gave a precipitin band in gel diffusion tests identical to that produced by a monospecific rabbit anti-E. granulosus antigen 5 serum, when tested against whole hydatid fluid.
(20) We previously established that the binding constant (Ka) of this receptor site for the chemically synthesized model AGE, 2-(2-furoyl)-4(5)-(2-furanyl)-1H- imidazole-butyric acid (FFI-BA), on cells of the mouse macrophagelike cell line RAW 264.7 is identical to that for AGE proteins.
Selfhood
Definition:
(n.) Existence as a separate self, or independent person; conscious personality; individuality.
Example Sentences:
(1) That impossible selfhood is particularly in evidence in 2011's The Wrong Ferrari , a "screwball tradgedy [sic]" and "ketamine-inspired movie shot entirely on iPhone" starring, among others, fellow lost boys Macaulay Culkin and Pete Doherty .
(2) Since body image is an important concept, perhaps movement can be made to other areas of self-concept, such as family, social, identity, and personal conceptions of selfhood.
(3) The romantic vision sees man as essentially striving for full selfhood, and mental suffering is the result of the thwarting influence of the environment.
(4) The vulnerability to paranoid phenomena may be seen to be a result of past experiences of subversion of "selfhood."
(5) It speaks, in the vernacular of the black church, with clarity and conviction to African Americans' historical plight and looks forward to a time when that plight will be eliminated ("We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating 'for whites only'.
(6) He even painted a portrait of a philosopher: Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer (1653), in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, makes explicit the problems of memory, history, and selfhood that haunt every Rembrandt portrait.
(7) His selfhood is cherished and sustained as best it can be.
(8) This combination of sweet and monstrous attributes in her father's nature, and again in the contrasting temperaments of the parental couple, must have been impossible to integrate for the small Virginia, who already was desperately engaged in the struggle for selfhood.
(9) In terms of ideology, the pursuit of fitness is promoted as an opportunity for individuals to avert several of the risks to selfhood thought to be present in modern social organization.
(10) Lacan's insight into the role of acquisition of language helps us to understand the formation of the subject in pursuit of a virtual selfhood, as Sartre described, but embedded within an intersubjective matrix.
(11) It is important to study in which contexts in nursing personhood and selfhood are enhanced and when they are diminished.
(12) The authors under review here all take as their topic current problems in selfhood and how they affect our relations to others.
(13) Your 'eating personality' Where once was just one personality ripe for the decoding, there are now many, and in this multiverse of selfhood falls the "eating personality".
(14) The emerging feeling of selfhood appears to be the precipitate of finely tuned interactive regulations involving mother and child.
(15) Williams, 25, is downbeat, intelligent, unimpressed by anything (least of all himself), and a writer of rare lyrical power, whether discussing sex, selfhood or BBC4's historical documentaries.
(16) Given these understandings of the relationship between paranoid phenomena and pathological narcissism, treatment will focus on reducing the threats to selfhood, refinding the self, and reestablishing ties to internal sources of affection, initiative and aspiration.
(17) The psychotherapy of a 10-year-old boy is used to demonstrate the usefulness of idealizing and mirroring transferences to help patients move from a state of lack of selfhood and self-differentiation to the development of self-structures that provide strength and self-esteem.
(18) Among the positive changes, the majority emphasized their greater autonomy, freedom, and sense of selfhood.
(19) I know that it’s quite a demanding listen, the album, so I’m amazed how well it’s done.” She says the album’s key theme, “constructing a selfhood that you can be proud of”, also informs Hold Your Own: “acknowledging all the selves that you’ve been and want to become.
(20) How can personhood and selfhood be enhanced or even restored in our hospitals, clinics, classrooms, and academic institutions?