What's the difference between occasion and subspecies?

Occasion


Definition:

  • (n.) A falling out, happening, or coming to pass; hence, that which falls out or happens; occurrence; incident.
  • (n.) A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance; convenience.
  • (n.) An occurrence or condition of affairs which brings with it some unlooked-for event; that which incidentally brings to pass an event, without being its efficient cause or sufficient reason; accidental or incidental cause.
  • (n.) Need; exigency; requirement; necessity; as, I have no occasion for firearms.
  • (n.) A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.
  • (v. t.) To give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to occasion anxiety.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The procedure was used on 71 occasions, and in each case a clinical diagnosis was made and compared with the cytological diagnosis made independently by a pathologist.
  • (2) Administration of furosemide might result, on occasion, in a false positive test for pheochromocytoma.
  • (3) Each patient contributed only once to each phase (105 in phase 1, 107 in phase 2), but some entered both phases on separate occasions.
  • (4) Therefore, we examined the relationship between the usual number of drinks consumed per occasion and the incidence of fatal injuries in a cohort of US adults.
  • (5) Other than failing to get a goal, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” From Lambert’s perspective there was an element of misfortune about the first and third goals, with Willian benefitting from handy ricochets on both occasions.
  • (6) In each of these sub-groups, 4 micropapilliform cancers discovered at the occasion of a histopathological test.
  • (7) However, self-efficacy (defined as confidence in being able to resist the urge to drink heavily) assessed at intake of treatment, was strongly associated with the level of consumption on drinking occasions at follow-up.
  • (8) Ten patients received intercostal nerve blockade on a total of 29 occasions in order to provide analgesia following liver transplantation and to facilitate weaning from artificial ventilation of the lungs.
  • (9) Even though the administration of demethylchlortetracycline did not produce significant decreases in the glomerular filtration rate or renal blood flow in our patient, it is advisable to control the renal function in individuals treated with this drug since it may on occasion determine renal insufficiency.
  • (10) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
  • (11) The second SDE was conducted on a separate occasion following the second restoration.
  • (12) These experiments represent the first occasion that the sequence specificity of a DNA damaging agent, which causes only double-strand breaks, has been determined to the exact base-pair in intact cells.
  • (13) The Met Office has had to revise its forecast on previous occasions.
  • (14) Radiographs were taken with bones placed in up to four of the common sites of impaction and assessed on two occasions independently by two previously uninvolved ENT consultants.
  • (15) These findings resolved upon cessation of timolol and reappeared on 3 occasions shortly after reinstitution of the beta blocker therapy.
  • (16) Phillips started thinking about those occasions when monoculture dominates.
  • (17) Excessive poppet wear has also been noted in the aortic position; poppet embolization has occurred on 2 occasions, and a third patient was found, at the time of reoperation for periprosthetic leak, to have opppet wear sufficient to permit embolization.
  • (18) Marie Johansson, clinical lead at Oxford University's mindfulness centre , stressed the need for proper training of at least a year until health professionals can teach meditation, partly because on rare occasions it can throw up "extremely distressing experiences".
  • (19) One to 6 needles were used on each occasion in a maximum of 3 treatments.
  • (20) GABA-IR terminals were not observed as presynaptic elements in axo-axonic synapses; however, on some occasions, GABA-IR profiles presumed to be axon terminals were observed postsynaptic to large glomerular type terminals.

Subspecies


Definition:

  • (n.) A group somewhat lessdistinct than speciesusually are, but based on characters more important than those which characterize ordinary varieties; often, a geographical variety or race.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) mycoides cluster' at a similarity level (S) of 66% and which remained undivided at up to 78% S. At higher similarity levels, these strains fell heterogeneously into mixed sub-phenons containing strains of both subspecies.
  • (2) All F. tularensis strains were found to have enzymatic activity irrespective of their subspecies, but neuraminidase activity was higher in the strains belonging to the American subspecies.
  • (3) Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies kurstaki (Btk) and subspecies berliner (Btb) both produce lepidopteran-specific larvicidal protoxins with different activities against the same insect species.
  • (4) Both effects were neutralised by an antiserum against the purified dermonecrotic toxin of P multocida subspecies multocida.
  • (5) Additionally the most strains of Salmonella subspecies I from nosocomial infections produced aerobactin, in the most cases determined by plasmids.
  • (6) The results revealed that: (1) There were few genetic variants on allelic constitutions of Chinese KM mouse colonies, and the genetic distance among KM subcolonies is 0.008-0.027 positively related with the time the colony closed; (2) The unique position of S: KM mouse was shown in phylogenetic diagram of 4 KM subcolonies, which agrees with the result from mandible analysis; (3) The allelic constitutions of KM mice differs from NIH mice a Swiss derivative colony at Es-3, Es-10, Glo-1, Gpt-1, Got-2 and Mpi-1 loci and the average genetic distance between KM and NIH colonies is 0.131 + 0.011, which indicates that Chinese KM mice is one of non-Swiss derivative subspecies.
  • (7) Second, two macaques or two African green monkey subspecies were as distanly related as the human versus chimpanzee sequences.
  • (8) The distribution of leucocyte common antigen (LCA) protein subspecies and the cellular adhesion molecules LFA-1 (CD11a), ICAM-1 (CD54) and p150,95 (CD11c) has been established within frozen sections of human foetal thymus.
  • (9) Perhaps translocation of PKC represents an extreme state of the active form of the enzyme, which may result from PMA action, and the alpha-subspecies presumably plays a key role in HL-60 cell differentiation.
  • (10) It is proposed that the subspecies of X. nematophilus be elevated to species, X. nematophilus, X. bovienii, X. poinarii and X. beddingii.
  • (11) The increased plasma LDL in the hypercholesterolemic pigs was confined to a buoyant LDL subspecies.
  • (12) Monoclonal antibodies have been produced that are specific for the reference stocks of Leishmania mexicana species and subspecies L. mexicana mexicana(L11, M379), L. mexicana amazonensis (WR303, H6, LV72), and L. mexicana pifanoi (L20).
  • (13) Analysis of different Mus subspecies indicates that TLev1 integrated into a common ancestor of the species Mus musculus.
  • (14) Negative results were found in H2S production, phosphatase and in the utilization of NH4+ and glucose as the only source of N and C. The evident differences from the species described and subspecies of Aeromonas elucidate the weakness of the existing systems of biotyping.
  • (15) The ELISA and an immunoblotting technique were used to study F38-type mycoplasmas - an important cause of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia - and a number of related mycoplasma species, subspecies, types or serogroups.
  • (16) The other one shows typical characteristics of PKC which responds to Ca2+, phosphatidylserine and diacylglycerol, but shows kinetic properties subtly different from the previously known PKC subspecies.
  • (17) One of our patients, who was infected with Lactobacillus acidophilus, was cured by medical therapy alone, and our other patient, who was infected with Lactobacillus casei subspecies rhamnosus, required surgical replacement of his aortic valve.
  • (18) A new species, Apiosoma lotae, and subspecies, Apiosoma piscicola percae, are described.
  • (19) The content of 2,3-diphosphoglycerate in the erythrocytes in this animal is the same as in the sea-level subspecies C. p. planicola, whereas the electrophoretic picture of hemoglobin in these two subspecies was found to be different.
  • (20) 17 Leishmania stocks isolated from the Andean and Amazonean region of Peru were compared isoenzymatically with reference stocks of New World Leishmania subspecies by ultra-thin-layer isoelectric focusing.