What's the difference between multiform and uniform?
Multiform
Definition:
(a.) Having many forms, shapes, or appearances.
Example Sentences:
(1) Experience of pain is modified by intern and extern influences, and it can appear very multiformly in the chronicity.
(2) The Ig levels were within the normal range in patients with malignant astrocytoma and glioblastoma multiforme, whereas a three- and fourfold increase in the IgM level was observed in patients with astrocytoma.
(3) These exanthemas must be separated from the postherpetic erythema exsudativum multiforme because of the identified virus.
(4) The mast cell count in patients with erythema multiforme was numerically higher than in healthy controls, but the differences were not statistically significant.
(5) There is no difference in clinical course nor in the result of examination between the usual glioblastoma multiforme and these admixture tumor.
(6) Between January 1988 and October 1988, we treated 12 patients with glioblastoma multiforme with BOPP chemotherapy after surgery and radiotherapy.
(7) The periods of survival which can be obtained on patients with a primary tumor of the brain after an unique or post-operative cobalt-60-irradiation is dependent of the histology: while periods of survival of several years have been obtained in case of medulloblastoma and astrocytoma, the irradiation of the multiform glioblastoma represents only a palliative measure with a temporary amelioration for any months.
(8) We report a case of refractory erythema multiforme associated with atypical epidermal autoantibodies.
(9) Addition to hexamethylene bisacetamide (diacetyldiaminohexane) to cultures of a malignant mesenchymal cell line derived from a human glioblastoma multiforme induces morphological changes and stimulates the synthesis of procollagen.
(10) A patient with glioblastoma multiforme metastatic to the neck is presented.
(11) Granuloma multiforme also shows similarity to that of granuloma anulare or, if more of a tuberculoid nature, to that of sarcoidosis or that of granulomatosis disciformis chronica et progressiva Miescher.
(12) Nine patients had glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), and one patient had an intrinsic brain stem anaplastic astrocytoma (AA).
(13) Results of immunological experiments with various human brain tumours show differences between astrocytoma and glioblastoma multiforme when brain-specific alpha2-glycoprotein is used as an immunological marker.
(14) Eighteen patients, 15 with glioblastoma multiforme and three with anaplastic astrocytoma, were treated shortly after completion of standard radiation therapy.
(15) Survival post-implant for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), 13 patients, was 10 months whether implanted primarily or for recurrence.
(16) The prognostic importance of tumor size was studied in 510 patients with malignant glioma (80% with glioblastoma multiforme) in the Valid Study Group of Study 80-01 of the Brain Tumor Study Group (now the Brain Tumor Cooperative Group [BTCG]).
(17) An intraoperative remote afterloading endocurietherapy technique with high-activity 60Co for the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme is described.
(18) We report a patient with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) which showed stable and unstable telomeric associations involving the short arms of chromosomes 4 and 7.
(19) Electronmicroscopy is recommended to prove the astrocytic nature of a metastatic glioblastoma multiforme.
(20) Problems of defining "early diagnosis" and difficulties, arising from multiform clinical and radiological manifestations in bronchial carcinoma are discussed.
Uniform
Definition:
(a.) Having always the same form, manner, or degree; not varying or variable; unchanging; consistent; equable; homogenous; as, the dress of the Asiatics has been uniform from early ages; the temperature is uniform; a stratum of uniform clay.
(a.) Of the same form with others; agreeing with each other; conforming to one rule or mode; consonant.
(a.) A dress of a particular style or fashion worn by persons in the same service or order by means of which they have a distinctive appearance; as, the uniform of the artillery, of the police, of the Freemasons, etc.
(v. t.) To clothe with a uniform; as, to uniform a company of soldiers.
(v. t.) To make conformable.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of obtained data on the uniformity of chemical compounds of the secretion of glands belonging to different groups their common origin has been suggested.
(2) In voltage-clamp experiments the ion current flowing through the channels was homogeneous indicating a defined conformation and a uniform size.
(3) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
(4) Another, discussing public attitudes towards the police, said: "I've lost count of [the number of] people who said: 'It's only cos you've got a uniform … if you didn't have the uniform on, I'd come and fuck you and this, that and the other … I hope your wife dies of cancer and your kids die of cancer.'"
(5) The cells were taken from cultures in low-density balanced exponential growth, and the experiments were performed quickly so that the bacteria were in a uniform physiological state at the time of measurement.
(6) The age distribution was not uniform as age group 0 to 4 included more children than age groups 5 to 9 and 10 to 14.
(7) Essential characteristics of the composite bone cement included a homogeneous and uniform fiber distribution, and a minimal increase in apparent viscosity of the polymerizing cement.
(8) Ejection fraction, %deltaD, and Vcf by LAO cineangiograms and echo were uniformly higher than corresponding measurements from RAO angio, and were often normal in the presence of other indicators of significant left ventricular dysfunction.
(9) The interaction between PE and E-IgG involved the extension of micropseudopods toward adherent E-IgG, the formation of a linear uniform cap of roughly 200 A between opposing cell membranes, the ingestion of E-IgG by PE into a membrane-lined compartment, and the disintegration of the ingested ligand into membranous debris.
(10) A study of cell proliferation in different regions of axolotl embryos has shown a rather uniform distribution of the S phase and mitotic indices in the animal half of the early and midgastrulae.
(11) The absence of uniform definitions prevents meaningful intersystem comparisons, prohibits explorations of hypotheses about effective interventions, and interferes with the efforts of quality assurance.
(12) The beads enable us to examine several aspects of the adhesion process with particles having uniform properties that can be varied systematically.
(13) said Wanis Kilani, a uniformed rebel driving a pickup truck with a machine-gun mounted on the back.
(14) In contrast, sporoblasts and budding and free sporozoites in mature oocysts were labeled uniformly on the outer surfaces of their plasma membranes, indicating a uniform distribution of CS protein on these membranes.
(15) His bracelets and his hair, neatly gathered in a colourful elasticated band, contrast with his unflashy day-to-day uniform of checked shirts, jeans or cheap chinos and trainers.
(16) RCA-1, which is specific for D-galactose, showed patchy fluorescence on the basal and distal portions of the outer segments of the cones and rods, whereas neuraminidase-treated sections had uniform fluorescence throughout the tissues.
(17) Previous experiments had demonstrated that the receptors for the lectins soybean agglutinin (SBA), wheat germ agglutinin, concanavalin A and Lens culinaris agglutinin all were relatively uniformly distributed on both myoblasts and myotubes, and that SBA receptors were capable of rapid redistribution on myotubes but not myoblasts at 4 degrees C (Sawyer & Akeson, 1983).
(18) Hence the aggregation inhibition produced by amphiphilic phenylalkylamines and phenylalkanoles is not due to a uniform metabolic effect of both classes of derivatives.
(19) The colors of mixtures of dental opaque porcelains and modifiers were measured with use of the CIE L*a*b* uniform color space.
(20) Although there is no reliable symptom or sign during the latent period, abdominal pain occurs almost uniformly and Kehr's sign is quite common.