(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.
Trait
Definition:
(v.) A stroke; a touch.
(v.) A distinguishing or marked feature; a peculiarity; as, a trait of character.
Example Sentences:
(1) Phenotypic relationships were examined between final score and 13 type appraisal traits and first lactation milk yield from 2935 Ayrshire, 3154 Brown Swiss, 13,110 Guernsey, 50,422 Jersey, and 924 Milking Shorthorn records.
(2) These results provide evidence that trait selection can change gonadotrophin receptor concentration and the dynamics of hormone secretion during the oestrous cycle of the mouse.
(3) There was no significant heterotic effect for any trait measured.
(4) The association of these defects of teeth and bone was found to be transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait over four generations.
(5) The group studied scored within the normal range on the traits assessed by the EPQ, STAIX, and STAI.
(6) However, two methodologic factors might account for the covariation of these 'schizophrenia spectrum' personality traits and measures of brain function.
(7) The initial screening failed to detect sickle cell anemia in 4 infants, but the hemoglobinopathy in 3 of these infants was diagnosed correctly by routine retesting of those with suspected sickle cell trait.
(8) However, these proskinetic symptoms appeared to be a character trait of an infantile personality rather than a condition following as a consequence of psychosis.
(9) It thus appears to determine all the traits associated with M protein.
(10) It may be assumed that this trait in the evaluation of mimics is due to a constitutional and morbid process.
(11) The results of pathohistologic investigations are objectively demonstrated through a chart of morphological traits, thus facilitating the identification of the diagnostical morphological traits caused by different industrial dusts.
(12) The disorder illustrates the problem of variable expressivity of a trait which makes it difficult to predict the risk of having an affected child when only one feature of a syndrome is present in a relative of a fully affected patient.
(13) We interpret our results as bearing on state and trait issues in chronic schizophrenics.
(14) This gives us the foundations to consider the method of evaluation of phenetic distances between natural groups of animals for the set of non-metric threshold skeletal traits more suitable for detection of genetical differentiation of wild populations.
(15) The authors present a schema for conceptualizing psychiatric illness in terms of state and trait disorders.
(16) Genetic parameters were estimated from sire components of variance and covariance obtained from a multiple-trait restricted maximum likelihood procedure.
(17) When the effect of apo E polymorphism on serum lipid traits was estimated in boys and girls separately, variation at the apo E gene locus explained 10.4, 13.3, 13.3, and 13.5% of the phenotypic variance in serum total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, apo B, and HDL-E levels, respectively, in boys, while in girls only the effect on HDL-E levels (19.3%) reached statistical significance.
(18) We found that the mean G-6PD values were statistically reduced in G-6PD heterozygous females; on the contrary the measurement of true G-6PD activity alone is not a good tool for discriminating heterozygous subjects with and without thalassemic trait.
(19) The following sources of evidence are discussed in order to examine the component parts-in terms of primary traits-of Eysenck's psychoticism scale, which he refers to as a 'superfactor' but which is here viewed as a composite or complex of primary traits.
(20) Although the clinical students compared to preclinical students attributed more positive personality traits to psychiatrists, students interested in taking up careers in psychiatry were few in both groups.