(n.) A peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or temperament; a characteristic belonging to, and distinguishing, an individual; characteristic susceptibility; idiocrasy; eccentricity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since 1887, winter green is claimed to have caused dermatitis and to have been responsible for "idiosyncrasy".
(2) Until now it has not been possible to define the enzymatic abnormality which could explain this metabolic type of idiosyncrasy.
(3) Factors limiting the interpretability and generalizability of these findings are discussed with particular reference to sample size and idiosyncrasies.
(4) The mechanisms involve toxicity, idiosyncrasy, allergy, or a combination.
(5) Cincophen induces hepatic necrosis through a hypersensitivity or metabolic idiosyncrasy mechanism with histologic abnormalities similar to those due to isoniazid, anticonvulsants, halothane and methyldopa.
(6) There was distinct host idiosyncrasy in the pattern of estimated counts of these five types.
(7) This method involves building a face with clay or other suitable material on to a skull or its cast, taking into account appropriate facial thickness measurements together with information provided by anthropologists such as approximate age, sex, race and other individual idiosyncrasies.
(8) To test whether this diversity was a geographic idiosyncrasy, we analyzed 25 cervical biopsy specimens from Brazil.
(9) This is further complicated by the added impact of pharmacokinetic idiosyncrasies displayed by children, coupled with the routine pitfalls of therapeutic drug monitoring seen in any patient population.
(10) In particular, caries diagnosis and restorative treatment planning are subject to considerable idiosyncrasies.
(11) In order to identify generalities and detect idiosyncrasies, analyses were carried out using RNase P RNAs from three phylogenetically diverse organisms: Bacillus subtilis, Chromatium vinosum and Escherichia coli.
(12) Review: Amazon’s Fire Phone offers new gimmicks, old platform growing pains - Ars Technica Past tablet success isn't enough to guarantee a win for Amazon in the high-end smartphone game for Andrew Cunningham for Ars Technica: The problem is that even if all of your media lives in Amazon's cloud, phones running iOS or Google-approved Android can access all of it without the third-party app gap or FireOS' idiosyncrasies (the exception is Instant Video on Android, though rumour has it that Amazon will be releasing that app soon).
(13) It is curious that no antiarrhythmic drug seems to be statistically less exposed to this type of complication which may result from phenomena of toxicity or idiosyncrasy.
(14) I write a personal blog and it often features my sons: their weird enthusiasms, their idiosyncrasies, their repeated requests that I look at a picture of a man selling advertising space on his neck goitre in the Ripley's Believe it or Not!
(15) South Africa’s idiosyncrasies, from party politics to the high crime rate, provided regular material.
(16) His descriptions – of battlefields or mushroom-picking or meals – are full of exactly the right amount of idiosyncrasy and detail.
(17) However, since the hepatotoxicity appears to involve an element of idiosyncrasy, the primary defect in some cases may be an inherited or acquired deficiency in the drug's beta-oxidation.
(18) Since inhibition of cyclo-oxygenase precipitates asthmatic attacks in patients with aspirin idiosyncrasy, we have evaluated the effects of pharmacological inhibition of the next enzyme in arachidonic acid cascade, i.e., thromboxane synthetase.
(19) Lithium discontinuation produced a significant increase in associational productivity and a demonstrable increase in associative idiosyncrasy, and restoration of lithium dose significantly reversed both effects.
(20) The variability among qualitative judgments of odors which makes it difficult to construct reliable classifications may depend on cultural or personal idiosyncrasies.
Oddity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness; peculiarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like.
(n.) That which is odd; as, a collection of oddities.
Example Sentences:
(1) He got in a cherry picker for Space Oddity, and managed to sing and dance.
(2) A curious mixture, born in South Africa and living on the Isle of Man, he draws on the oddities of both as a source for gags.
(3) The experiments do not support the attribution to pigeons of a general "oddity concept."
(4) The interest lies in the oddity of this pathology and in the unusual clinical form of dysphagia.
(5) Subjects who had acquired a conceptual oddity rule in the training had a strong tendency to sample hypotheses by the prior rule, but subjects under conditions where a perceptual-oddity rule was relevant tended to make a shift to a cue from new (conceptual oddity) rule.
(6) The cross-modal effect also shows that oddity learning is independent of a specific modality-labeled perceptual context.
(7) The goal felt like an oddity, such was the pattern of the match, with various Arsenal supporters already heading for the exits.
(8) Equalities minister Jo Swinson is right to point out that fathers who take paternity leave, or simply take their turn calling in absent because a child is sick, are often mocked or considered oddities, if not nuisances, in the workplace.
(9) Oddity performance increased over age, with the non-LD children performing consistently better than their LD peers at each age.
(10) Perhaps, suggests the Gemora Sanhedrin, facing up to the oddity of the verse about Ham seeing his father's nakedness, it means either that Ham castrated his father, or that he sodomised him.
(11) Critics feast on Hayley's straight-talking manner, her Oasis trouser suits and her neck scarves, like she's some sort of wondrous oddity.
(12) Profumo was an oddity – a randy politician à la JFK in a dry-balled, homophobic, strait-laced Tory administration.
(13) This paper reviews concept learning in Cebus monkeys, focussing on their ability to use the identity relation, oddity and natural concepts.
(14) When tests displayed identical stimuli, patterns of comparison selection suggested control by generalized identity and oddity.
(15) In 14 patients with secondary odditis, a biopsy of the papilla was studied, in one case encountering moderate peri and intrafascicular fibrosis and in another, erosion of the papillary mucosa with impaction of biliary material.
(16) Although most readers consider medical publications to be somber and somnifacient, a critical eye will discover a remarkable array of absurdities and assorted other oddities, totally unintended by the authors.
(17) Yet while he became fascinated by pomp, power and influence, he remained equally curious about oddity and the simple life.
(18) In July 1969 Bowie released Space Oddity , the song that would give him his initial commercial breakthrough.
(19) Oddity performance was evaluated with both reversal assessments and assessments with new sets of stimuli.
(20) Nineteen mildly or moderately retarded subjects were presented 32 oddity-training trials per day for 10 days with all new etimuli presented on each trial.