(n.) The science which treats of the earth's exterior physical features, climate, life, etc., and of the physical movements or changes on the earth's surface, as the currents of the atmosphere and ocean, the secular variations in heat, moisture, magnetism, etc.; physical geography.
Example Sentences:
(1) Features of barrier island physiography and ecology were studied relative to selective bait deployment and site biosecurity.
(2) That presentation and this review provide a bird's eye view of the country, its peoples, physiography, climate, natural resources, agriculture and animal population, highlights the activities of pioneers in parasitology, and provides some information about current research.
(3) It is concluded that the physiography, agricultural pattern are such that the Thai Tabanus species are concentrated in the north and northeastern parts of Thailand.
(4) The extent of subregional variation revealed by this analysis indicates how differences in physiography, climate, history, and economy continue to be reflected in settlement trends which are obscured when larger regional groupings are used.
Topography
Definition:
(n.) The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation and description in minute detail of any place or region.
Example Sentences:
(1) The data for the eubacterial ribosomes are in full agreement with the model of the 50S protein topography derived from immunological data.
(2) VS had a crude topography, and receptive fields of neurons in VS were relatively large.
(3) Among the epileptic patients investigated by the stereotactic E. E. G. (Talairach) whose electrodes were introduced at or around the auditory cortex (Area 41, 42), the topography of the auditory responses by the electrical bipolar stimulation and that of the auditory evoked potential by the bilateral click sound stimulation were studied in relation to the ac--pc line (Talairach).
(4) These topographies enabled us to observe serial changes in epileptic discharge dynamically by 1 msec.
(5) The topography of the expression on the trophectoderm is striking and novel.
(6) Nevertheless, a wide clinical spectrum was found varying from pictures correlating with the topography and extent of the MRI-detected anomaly to conditions indicating wider cerebral involvement.
(7) Twenty monoclonal antibodies (MAb) against human growth hormone (hGH) were used to establish the antigenic topography of this protein.
(8) To investigate the topography of the clear zone, we performed four- and eight-incision radial keratotomy in eight cadaver eyes.
(9) We have mapped cochlear nerve terminations in the cochlear nucleus with DiI and, using three-dimensional reconstructions, have demonstrated the topography and geometry of the cochlear input.
(10) The classification, when considered together with improved angiographic technique and microsurgery, allows exact preoperative and peroperative definition of topography which in turn enables the avoidance of injury to functionally important typical and atypical central branches of the posterior cerebral artery.
(11) This study showed that digital computerised tomography indicates the extent and topography of the necrosis and provides true histo-radiological sections.
(12) Fibreoptic bronchoscopy enabled the topography to be established more precisely including the degree of compression (in 14 cases) and showed evidence of associated tracheomalacia in 7 cases.
(13) Comparison of the predicted amino acid sequences from HKB3 and MEB3 reveals a high degree of sequence homology (71%) and conservation of the overall topography of the transmembrane domain.
(14) The proximal topography of the left common carotid artery ostium is a useful sign in the diagnosis of this kind of abnormality.
(15) At the same time the data are obtained on variations in topography of the chorda tympani at various form of the intratemporal fossa.
(16) Afferents to the nucleus accumbens have been studied with the retrograde transport of unconjugated wheatgerm agglutinin as detected by immunohistochemistry using the peroxidase-antiperoxidase method, in order to define precisely afferent topography from the cortex, thalamus, midbrain and amygdala.
(17) The topographies of key-pressing and magazine behavior differed; the food tray was not illuminated.
(18) The particularities of the topography and the histological structure of the wall are presented and the diagnostical delimination compared with cysts of other pathogenesis are discussed.
(19) Our computer-based corneal topography analysis system was used to study the keratoscope photographs (keratograms) from two patients with classic pellucid marginal degeneration and a third patient with no inferior corneal thinning, whose keratoscope mire pattern was suggestive of the condition.
(20) These differ in RNA contents, in the distribution pattern of RNA in the cytoplasm, in the intensity of the Feulgen reaction and the topography of DNA in the nucleus, and in the contents and distribution of both the nucleic acids in the kinetoplast.