(v. t.) To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled.
(v. t.) To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission; as, to reconcile one's self to affictions.
(v. t.) To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or suitableness; -- followed by with or to.
(v. t.) To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences.
(v. i.) To become reconciled.
Example Sentences:
(1) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
(2) The reports of rod-dominated psychophysical spectral sensitivity from the deprived eye of monocularly lid-sutured (MD) monkeys are intriguing but difficult to reconcile with the absence of any reported deprivation effects in retina.
(3) We suggest a model for transcription that involves the participation of a nucleoskeleton at the active site and reconcile the contradictory results obtained using different salt concentrations.
(4) Describing his blueprint for Parliament 2.0, Bercow says in a speech to the Hansard Society on Wednesday that parliament needs to "reconcile traditional concepts and institutions of representative democracy with the technological revolution witnessed over the past decade or two, which has created both a demand for and an opportunity to establish a digital democracy".
(5) His achilles heel would be reconciling disparate sections of the grassroots party and restoring the fissures in the parliamentary party.
(6) This review considers the biophysics of penetrating missile wounds, highlights some of the more common misconceptions and seeks to reconcile the conflicting and confusing management doctrines that are promulgated in the literature-differences that arise not only from two scenarios, peace and war, but also from misapprehensions of the wounding process.
(7) The difficulty in reconciling these results with the preeminent role assigned to the hypothalamus in the organization of predatory aggressive behavior was considered.
(8) In an attempt to reconcile these opposite amphetamine effects on rotation in terms of dopaminergic mechanisms, a series of 4 experiments were conducted.
(9) The current model of the Na+-dependent high-affinity acidic amino acid transport carrier allows the observations to be explained and reconciled with previous seemingly conflicting reports on stimulation of acidic amino acid uptake by low concentrations of K+.
(10) Glitzy online lectures, or fancy learning technologies, are difficult to reconcile with this fundamental scepticism.
(11) The present study reconciles this conflict by showing that the major form of gastrin in the pyloric antrum is the heptadecpeptide form, while the duodenum contains mainly "big" and almost no heptadecapeptide gastrin.
(12) It is difficult to reconcile the properties of this mutant with the chemiosmotic hypothesis.
(13) But the space was created by another reconcilation between competing Democrats earlier in the evening.
(14) Using a self-paced manual, 8 participants in two groups were taught to write checks, complete deposit slips, and reconcile monthly bank statements.
(15) Our results reconcile some apparently conflicting published data and suggest that the mode of antigen association with liposomes considerably influences the pathways by which stimulation occurs.
(16) After the Scot sued Rooney over allegations in a biography the pair reconciled but whether Moyes would want him to stay at United is not yet clear, though he will have the final say on the striker's future.
(17) This article examines alternative ways of resolving an apparent paradox that has emerged from neuropsychological studies of language development: How can the developmentally stable functional asymmetry ("hemispheric specialization") observed in neurologically intact children be reconciled with the dramatic recovery of function often displayed following unilateral brain damage?
(18) It is a means of reconciling yourself with the past.
(19) The premature senescence noted in cells from subjects with cystic fibrosis reconciles controversial observations of cell doubling reported in the literature.
(20) However, intense investigative efforts over the last several years using pharmacological, biochemical and behavioral approaches have produced results that are increasingly difficult to reconcile with the existence of only two dopamine receptor subtypes.
Sib
Definition:
(n.) A blood relation.
(a.) Related by blood; akin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sexual attitudes and beliefs of 20 children who have been present at the labor and delivery of sibs and have observed the birth process are compared with 20 children who have not been present at delivery.
(2) We document four patients, including two sibs, with asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy and mild congenital hydrocephalus.
(3) However the study does not permit to reach any valid conclusions; further elaborate investigations alone could prove the useful role of genetic influence in the propagation of lepromin sensitivity to the subsequent sibs.
(4) The residual values were positively correlated in parent-offspring pairs and among sibs, both those presumed to be living together and those presumed to be living apart.
(5) A case of fragile-X syndrome (the Martin-Bell syndrome) in two male half-sibs from different marriages of their mother was described.
(6) No evidence was found of sex ratio anomalies in other classes of relative of pyloric stenosis index cases, whether or not the index cases had affected sibs.
(7) The ibd for grandparent-grandchild pairs is least affected by recombination, followed by sibs, half-sib, uncle-nephew, and first-cousin pairs.
(8) Nonagouti rats were significantly easier to approach, capture, and handle than their agouti sibs.
(9) This sib risk was apparent for probands with only a single hemivertebrum in addition to probands with more extensive vertebral defects and would support an etiological relationship between neural tube defects and other vertebral malformations.
(10) None of the sibs had BRA when the index case had BRA as part of a multiple malformation complex.
(11) probands and the estimated, future prevalence was found to be the same in sibs and children.
(12) The concept of LPC can also be used to interpret two factors which have been proposed to select for the Hamiltonian sex ratios: local mate competition is LPC acting through sons; and sib mating is LPC acting through daughters.
(13) We describe the concurrence of severe distal osteolysis, mental retardation, short stature, and characteristic facial appearance with maxillary hypoplasia and relative exophthalmos in two adult sibs, a 57-year-old woman and her deceased brother.
(14) To determine the relationship between so-called "diastrophic variant" and diastrophic dysplasia, four patients considered to have the variant condition were studied in detail and compared to 67 patients (including 17 sets of affected sibs) considered to have classical diastrophic dysplasia.
(15) The affected sib pair method revealed that in asthmatic families chi 2 = 4.9 (no significance) and in DF-specific IgE positive families chi 2 = 6.2 (p less than 0.05).
(16) CP proband frequencies of .004 for maternal half sibs and .009 for the paternal counterparts were also found.
(17) There is an early-onset form (with onset of symptoms under 2 years of age) where the illness is milder but more persistent, and where there is frequent occurrence of myasthenia in sibs.
(18) The increase is found with estimates of h2 based both on offspring mid-parent regression and on half sib analyses, but may be more marked with the former.
(19) Cumulative risk estimates were 26% for sibs born after the proband and 11% for sibs born before the proband (p less than 0.001).
(20) The one in three risk of spondylolysis to near relatives of patients with the dysplastic form of spondylolisthesis is emphasised in order that the deformity in their sibs and children can be recognised at any early age.