What's the difference between monad and pentad?

Monad


Definition:

  • (n.) An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
  • (n.) The elementary and indestructible units which were conceived of as endowed with the power to produce all the changes they undergo, and thus determine all physical and spiritual phenomena.
  • (n.) One of the smallest flangellate Infusoria; esp., the species of the genus Monas, and allied genera.
  • (n.) A simple, minute organism; a primary cell, germ, or plastid.
  • (n.) An atom or radical whose valence is one, or which can combine with, be replaced by, or exchanged for, one atom of hydrogen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During the years, clinical methodology has evolved from monadically designed, subjective investigator reports to present-day, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials employing stimuli that are quantifiable in physical units.
  • (2) The first crisis of cytology resulted from barren discussions of the so-called preformation hypothesis and the monadism of Leibniz.
  • (3) These included failure of the usual degree of condensation at pachytene, failure of synapsis, and most strikingly the ability of sister centromeres to interact with the spindle on schedule with the normal dyads at anaphase I, so that monads were commonly distributed to the poles for telophase I and then often lagged at anaphase II.
  • (4) The sites are, moreover, monadic, with T1 now the sole post-synaptic partner.
  • (5) In this study monadic speech samples obtained from 20 psychoneurotic and 20 psychosomatic patients, using selected thematic apperception test (TAT) cards, were examined using different methods of content analysis.
  • (6) However, when the learning of the compactness theorem is followed by learning about monads and galaxies instead of internal and external sets, the understanding of the consistency of the existence of the infinite or infinitesimal numbers was found to be related to the dominance of the right cerebral hemisphere over the left one.
  • (7) Monad-type synaptic complexes, a sign of immaturity, were common in bipolar cell processes.
  • (8) Our 3-fix-point-splint is a ideal device for simple and complexe valgus- and varus-instabilities at the quantitative stage of a monad and duad A.
  • (9) Little or no cross-linking of relatively abundant alpha- and gamma-chain monads into hybrid alpha gamma-dydads accompanies formation of the alpha gamma 2-triads.
  • (10) Dyadic Mini Code summary ratings compared to mean coherence values computed from Monadic Phase Scale (Tronick, Als, & Brazelton, 1980) scores on the same data yielded moderate concurrent validity; point bi-serial analysis, rpb = .488, p less than .01; and chi 2 = 4.878, df = 1, Fisher's exact test (1-tail) = p less than .05.
  • (11) The theory of monad has given a new structure to the concepts of unity and multiplicity in the history of European philosophy.
  • (12) It is characterized in the yin-yang mode of the monad of the East and the Western concept of masculine and feminine.
  • (13) The three-fixed-point splint (Mann, 1971) is considered to be an ideal device to cope with simple and complex valgus and varus instabilities at the quantitative stages of monad and duad A.
  • (14) Amacrine cell synapses and immature, monad bipolar cell synapses were common within the IPL.
  • (15) A psychoanalytical study of Leibniz by F. Eckstein from the year 1931 serves as starting point to confront the theory of monad with the concept of self of Winnicott.
  • (16) At the ultrastructural level, gap junctions, monad ribbon synapses, and conventional synapses, like those present in the intact retina, were observed in sibling cultures.
  • (17) The heart rates of 16 subjects playing in monad, dyad, and tetrad group sizes, in two playroom configurations, were monitored and spectral analysis used to locate significant biorhythms.
  • (18) The midget ganglion cells receive most of their input from their associated midget bipolar cells in the form of ribbon synapses at dyads or monads (55-81 ribbons total), although ribbonless synapses are seen occasionally.

Pentad


Definition:

  • (n.) Any element, atom, or radical, having a valence of five, or which can be combined with, substituted for, or compared with, five atoms of hydrogen or other monad; as, nitrogen is a pentad in the ammonium compounds.
  • (a.) Having the valence of a pentad.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is characterized by the pentad of fever, thrombocytopenia, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, fluctuating neurologic symptoms, and renal dysfunction.
  • (2) This case supports the associational of thoracoabdominal ectopia cordis (Cantrell's pentad) with chromosomal errors, specifically trisomy 18.
  • (3) Of the 41 botulinal toxin-positive persons, 38 (93%) had at least three of the commonly recognized pentad of signs or symptoms--nausea and vomiting, dysphagia, diplopia, dilated and fixed pupils, or dry mouth and throat--and 20 (49%) required respiratory assistance.
  • (4) Review of the reported literature of the Pentalogy of Cantrell and various combinations of the anomalies within the spectrum of this pentad suggests that the PC defines a specific midline ventral developmental field.
  • (5) There was an increase in the numbers of 'bare' T-tubules and an increased occurrence of diadic, pentadic and heptadic junctions between the membranes of the T-tubules and terminal cisternae.
  • (6) It is characterized by a pentad of clinical findings: fever, neurological abnormalities, renal dysfunction, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia and thrombocytopenia.
  • (7) Clinical signs and symptoms of nausea and vomiting, dysphagia, diplopia, dilated pupils, and dry throat occurred with great frequency, forming a diagnostic pentad.
  • (8) Other clinical features were present inconsistently, and only 34% of "TTP" episodes involved the classic pentad of hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, neurologic disorders, noninfectious fever, and renal impairment.
  • (9) Common bile duct lithiasis was responsible in 80% of cases presenting with Reynolds' pentad and in 66% of postoperative mortality.
  • (10) The presence of renal impairment, occurring as frequently as any of the pentad of features that characterize the syndrome, has important implications for the prognosis and long term management of these patients.
  • (11) By using more specific criteria than the classical clinical pentad, the diagnosis of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura during pregnancy can be made with greater accuracy.
  • (12) It is characterized by a pentad of clinical findings, including microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenic purpura, neurologic and renal abnormalities, and fever.
  • (13) Information from out patients with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura implicates respiratory dysfunction as a component of this disease as well as the classically described pentad.
  • (14) Nuclear chain fibers, in contrast, possess an unusually well-developed SR and T system and a variety of multiple junctional couplings (dyads, triads, quatrads, pentads, septads).
  • (15) 23% of the 17 patients with pus in the bile duct showed Reynolds' pentad, which was observed in 10% of patients with nonsuppurative acute cholangitis.
  • (16) During anaphase I the pentad sex chromosomes lie freely between the two sister cells.
  • (17) It is of prognostic significance, and should be considered as important as the clinical findings of Reynold's pentad.
  • (18) Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a rare disorder of unknown etiology, clinically characterized by a diagnostic pentad (thrombocytopenia, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, neurologic signs and symptoms, fever and renal damage).
  • (19) Diagnosis of TTP is usually made on the basis of the pentad of anemia, thrombocytopenia, renal disease, neurologic abnormalities, and fever.
  • (20) The tetrade "REST syndrome" becomes in these cases the pentade "CREST syndrome".

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