What's the difference between mutation and mutism?

Mutation


Definition:

  • (n.) Change; alteration, either in form or qualities.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Neutrons induced a dose-dependent cytotoxicity and mutation frequency in the AL cells.
  • (2) The hprt T-cell cloning assay allows the detection of mutations occurring in vivo in the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (hprt) gene of T-lymphocytes.
  • (3) The pathology resulting from a missense mutation at residue 403 further suggests that a critical function of myosin is disrupted by this mutation.
  • (4) Mutational mosaicism was used as a developmental model to analyze 1,500 sporadic and 179 familial cases of retinoblastoma from the world literature.
  • (5) Substances with a leaving group at the C-3 position form unsaturated conjugated cyclic adducts and are mutagenic only in the His D3052 frameshift strains with an intact excision repair system (no urvA mutation).
  • (6) The results are consistent with our previous suggestion that lethality for virulent SFV infection results from a lethal threshold of damage to neurons in the CNS and that attenuating mutations may reduce neuronal damage below this threshold level.
  • (7) It is concluded that selection against insertional mutations is unlikely to be the major factor involved in the containment of element abundance.
  • (8) Combination of domain substitutions to generate the [Glu107,123]bFGF and [Arg19,Lys123,126]bFGF mutants did not show any additivity of the mutations on biological activity.
  • (9) The plasmid pMucAMucB, constructed from the Haemophilus influenzae vector pDM2, and a similar plasmid, constructed from pBR322, increased the survival after UV irradiation of Escherichia coli AB1157 with the umu-36 mutation and also caused UV-induced mutation in the E. coli strain.
  • (10) Peptidoglycan synthesis is unaffected by the mutations affecting the core glycosyltransferases.
  • (11) The v-erb A oncogene of avian erythroblastosis virus is a mutated and virally transduced copy of a host cell gene encoding a thyroid hormone receptor.
  • (12) Genetical analysis revealed that resistance to trimethoprim resulted from forward mutations at separate loci rather than back mutations of rad 6 or rad 18 alleles.
  • (13) Studies on asparagine synthetase indicate that resistance to albizziin may be due to altered regulation of asparagine synthetase, structural mutations of the enzyme, and gene amplification.
  • (14) Mice with mutations in four nonreceptor tyrosine kinase genes, fyn, src, yes, and abl, were used to study the role of these kinases in long-term potentiation (LTP) and in the relation of LTP to spatial learning and memory.
  • (15) The apparent sensitivity of Escherichia coli K12 to mild heat was increased by recA (def), recB and polA, but not by uvrA, uvrB or recF mutations.
  • (16) Tumorigenesis is a multistep process involving mutations of dominantly acting proto-oncogenes and mutations and loss-of-function mutations of tumor suppressor genes.
  • (17) Appropriate mutations in this pre-early gene allowed a productive infection in ColIb+ cells.
  • (18) Technically speaking, this modality of brief psychotherapy is based on the nonuse of transferential interpretations, on impeding the regression od the patient, on facilitating a cognitice-affective development of his conflicts and thus obtain an internal object mutation which allows the transformation of the "past" into true history, and the "present" into vital perspectives.
  • (19) Mutant alleles of rutabaga act in the germ line cells to partially suppress the developmental defects caused by dunce mutations.
  • (20) The extensive conversion of anti-BPDE to B[a]PT-10-sulfonate under conditions where sulfite enhances diolepoxide mutagenicity, when coupled with this enhancement of diolepoxide mutagenicity by B[a]PT-10-sulfonate in the reverse mutation assay, supports this novel B[a]P derivative as a mediator of the sulfite-dependent enhancement of B[a]P genotoxicity.

Mutism


Definition:

  • (n.) The condition, state, or habit of being mute, or without speech.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In most of them there was delayed postoperative onset of the mutism.
  • (2) To the classical clinical syndrome of hemimotor, hemisensory, and visual field deficit has been added hemiataxia acute pseudobulbar mutism, pure motor and pure sensory syndromes and disorders of higher cortical function.
  • (3) Silence and immobility: mutism and catatonia, this patient gives nothing to to hear, he gives to see.
  • (4) The occurrence of congenital deafness, mutism and goitre unassociated with cretinism or mental retardation in euthyroid patients is known as Pendred's Syndrome.
  • (5) Stuttering and intermittent mutism characterize the disorder and may be valuable in the differentiation of dialysis dementia from other neuropsychiatric syndromes.
  • (6) A case of pure word mutism, often called "small Broca's aphasia," in a 44-year-old woman with a psychiatric history and a long history of unresolved, vague neurologic symptoms is presented.
  • (7) Conversion mutism is an uncommon disorder that was in the past most frequently reported during wartime.
  • (8) However confusion and behavioural disturbances, like preservations, transitory mutism and self neglect, seem characteristic.
  • (9) Persistent mutism--with normal language comprehension and orofacial motor disturbance--were the main neurological sequelae.
  • (10) Analysis of their personal observations leads the authors to think that there is a relationship between the length of coma and the duration of mutism.
  • (11) The characteristic EEG changes were found to be of great value in making an early diagnosis and, together with akinetic mutism and myoclonus, constituted an easily recognizable picture.
  • (12) We studied a 70-year-old woman with a unique combination of hyperkinesia and mutism.
  • (13) At Westfield high school, educators set up an individualised programme to help him cope with mutism.
  • (14) Clinical features included hemispheric focal signs (13), decrease in level of consciousness (14), or both (30), and mutism (15).
  • (15) In the referred cases, CNS side effects (lethargy, apathy and mutism) appeared a few hours after the second day of treatment and were spontaneously reversible in a few days.
  • (16) A five-year-old boy presented with an encephalitis lethargica-like illness, characterised by somnolence, mutism and Parkinsonian rigidity two weeks after an acute exanthem.
  • (17) All exhibited essential tremor, minimal cerebral dysfunctions, speech disorders, bradyphrenia, disorders of personality with psychasthenie and suspicious traits, restrictions, increased irritability and depressivity, one case of mutism due to abnormal reaction and one of alcohol hallucinosis.
  • (18) The findings suggest that infarction affecting the Broca area and its immediate environs, even deep into the brain, causes a mutism that is replaced by rapidly improving dyspraxic and effortful articulation, but that no significant distrubance in language function persists.
  • (19) A 7-year-old girl with a 2-year history of elective mutism was successfully treated with phenelzine.
  • (20) Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is inherited by an autosomal dominant mode; that occurring together with deaf-mutism is also probably inherited dominantly.

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