(n.) The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.
(n.) That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
(n.) A comparison; a simile.
(n.) Probability; verisimilitude.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
(2) As a group, the three mammalian proteins resemble bovine serum conglutinin and behave as lectins with rather broad sugar specificities directed at certain non-reducing terminal N-acetylglucosamine, mannose, glucose and fucose residues, but with subtle differences in fine specificities.
(3) The above results indicate that the psychopharmacological profile of SAM resembles that of antidepressants in only some tests.
(4) The blastocyst antiluteolytic protein therefore closely resembles the interferon-alpha family of antiviral proteins.
(5) The younger patients more often experienced an acute arthritis with sacroiliitis resembling a reactive disease.
(6) Because the mitogenic action of IL 2 resembles that of some growth factors, the possible role of phosphatidylinositol breakdown in the activation of T cells by IL 2 was examined.
(7) The absolute level of ventilatory capacity resembles that of Nepalese children and differs from that of some other groups.
(8) Initiation of the alternative pathway by the cryptococcal capsule is characterized by a lag in C3 accumulation and the appearance of a limited number of focal initiation sites which resemble those observed when the alternative pathway is activated by zymosan and nonencapsulated cryptococci.
(9) It was recently demonstrated that MRL-lpr lymphoid cells transferred into lethally irradiated MRL- +mice unexpectedly failed to induce the early onset of lupus syndrome and massive lymphadenopathy of the donor, instead they caused a severe wasting syndrome resembling graft-vs-host (GvH) disease.
(10) The new trabecular bone closely resembled that typically seen at electrically active implants.
(11) A nonspecific reaction of the marrow against extramedullary lymphogranulomatosis closely resembling to the so-called tumor myeopathy has to be distinguished from the localized marrow changes due to the tumor itself.
(12) The effect upon ethanol responding was found not to resemble a pattern of extinction, but rather was best described as a general overall reduction in responding.
(13) The clinical and roentgenographic features of xanthogranulomatosis bear a close resemblance to those seen in two fibrosclerosing syndromes: sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy and retroperitoneal fibrosis.
(14) Based on similarities in elution time, the metabolites of [35S]PTU in urine closely resembled those in bile of rats.
(15) The observed staining indicated that the epithelium of the external auditory meatus has a pattern of keratin expression typical of epidermis in general and the epithelium of the middle ear resembles simple columnar epithelia.
(16) The structure of L-carnitine resembles the chemical structure of other substances that have been described as being able to protect living cells against osmotic stress.
(17) The antimicrobial activity of mederrhodin A resembled that of medermycin.
(18) A temperature-sensitive mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was identified which at the restrictive temperature of 37 degrees C is unable to secrete a number of cell wall-associated proteins and thus resembles previously reported sec mutants.
(19) The dose response initially resembled that described by Scholer (1959) in which one million spores killed the majority of mice.
(20) Electron microscopy revealed a well-developed rough endoplasmic reticulum, an enlarged Golgi apparatus and many highly electron-dense secretory granules resembling those of Clara cells.
Similitude
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being similar or like; resemblance; likeness; similarity; as, similitude of substance.
(n.) The act of likening, or that which likens, one thing to another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a simile.
(n.) That which is like or similar; a representation, semblance, or copy; a facsimile.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison between the germs found in germ carrier donors and those found in recipients with sepsis showed a similitude in three cases (2.2%).
(2) Traditionally it has been assumed that hydric anademia explains, for the most part, the paths taken by the disease and its varying intensity, but the importance of direct interhuman contamination is demonstrated by the similitude between the ways gone along by the propagation and these of the circulation of men and goods.
(3) Electrophoretic comparison with glutelins extracted by acetic acid and with hordeins, all reduced and alkylated, discloses a great similitude between this fraction, the glutelins and some hordein fast components alpha, beta and gamma.
(4) Due to major the and microscopic similitude between low degree transitional cell carcinoma and the localized inflammatory changes (papillary cystitis) the criteria to establish a correct diagnosis are discussed.
(5) Burundanga intoxication is related to other toxic phenomena found in different countries and similitudes with transient global amnesia are emphasized.
(6) A clinical study has been done and we have established a similitude with Axenfeld's primary calcareal degeneration, which was described by this author in 1917.
(7) Calbindin D-27 kDa (previously named vitamin D-CaBP or cholecalcin) and visinin present similitude both for their purification procedure and histochemical localization.
(8) Allometry of resting VO2 among cockroach species is similar to that in vertebrates, and is consistent with models based on both "elastic similarity" and "biological similitude."
(9) 54 patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD), 26 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 18 control subjects, all over 55, have performed neuropsychological tests, evaluating global intellectual function (Rosen's cognitive scale, WAIS digit symbol, WAIS similitude and WMS logical memory tests) and visuospatial functions (Rey lacunar pictures, Poppelreuter and Benton line orientation tests).
(10) Taking into account the studies of cortical maps in Bradypus and the notable similitude of the pattern of neocortical sulci between Bradypus and H. indifferens, the possible representation of the primary sensitive and motor somatic areas, secondary sensitive somatic area, visual and auditory areas are inferred.
(11) The history of particle clearance was studied in lungs of mice serially sacrificed at intervals up to 14 months following single exposures to an aerosol of submicronic, particulate, iron oxide used as a similitude for atmospheric dust.
(12) This similitude brings further support to the notion that subcortical damage of the lenticular nuclei can induce a frontal-like syndrome.
(13) These similitudes proved to be critical sites (according to Critic).
(14) Since similitudes between oncogene products and growth factors have been observed, it was of interest to compare the inhibitory effect of IDF45 upon the stimulation of DNA synthesis induced either by serum or by pp60-src.
(15) Cross reactions obtained are rather equal to the degree of similitude between these mycoplasma species.
(16) The similitude with some of the behavioural aspects or depressive of hebephrenic states is emphasized.
(17) Their similitude with other reported intracellular calcareous bodies occurring in malakoplakia, infectious orchitis (Michaelis-Guttman' bodies or calcosphaerites), in beryllium granulomas (conchoid bodies) and sarcoidosis (Schaumann bodies) is discussed.
(18) The similitude between ageing and hypertension, the contraposition that is seen in youngsters, and other metabolic alterations test this model of winkessel.
(19) We show that attempts based on mechanical similitude to set a dosage that would be equivalent across species (for example, from mouse to humans) lead to ambiguous results.
(20) Similitudes with solitary cyst of long bones have even been underlined, but no reports exist in the literature of the double localization: maxillary and extra-maxillary.