What's the difference between sib and sic?

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.

Sic


Definition:

  • (a.) Such.
  • (adv.) Thus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some embryos produced by sic-homozygous females differentiate the spitz phenotype, others develop normally or die early.
  • (2) Two reagents, starch-iodine complex (SIC) and a mixed pH indicator, containing bromocresol purple and BTB (2:1) used earlier for the PNC-based ELISA, were compared with BTB for utilization in the PNC-based ELISA.
  • (3) The SIC-Em relation is non-linear and reverses sign at about +15 mV.
  • (4) That cannot be right.” Fury, who was stripped of his IBF title on Tuesday night after signing up for a rematch with Klitschko, tweeted last week: “Hopefully I don’t win @BBCSPOTY as I’m not the best roll model [sic] in the world for the kids, give it to someone who would appreciate it”, but the BBC has no plans to remove him from the shortlist or make any special arrangements to avoid potential controversy in Belfast on 20 December.
  • (5) If they refuse to do so, make the least show of resistance, or attempt to run away from you, you will fire upon and compell [sic] them to surrender, breaking and destroying the Spears, Clubs, and Waddies of all those you take prisoner.
  • (6) It's pure ad hominem (in the classic sense of the logical fallacy): "who is "Cornell [ sic ] West" to think that anything he says should be even listened to by "national security professionals"?
  • (7) Crystallized chicken liver H4 lactatedehydrogenase with PCBM and DTNB, proved to have sic thiol groups per enzyme molecule.
  • (8) Based on our research results and recent published investigations, many topics, such as grain, grain boundary, interface film, grain boundary engineering, microcrack, microdomain, nanodomain, domain boundary, and phase transformation, etc., have been dealt with; and many materials, such as Si3N4, beta''-Al2O3, MgO, SiC, (Hg, Cd) Te, BNN, ZrO2, PLZT, CdSe, Ca10(PO4)6, (OH)2, etc., have been involved.
  • (9) Here's the HKEx statement: This new haircut shall be applied on a daily basis to determine the value of the US Treasuries [sic] allowed to be used as cover for the margin requirements of HKCC [Hong Kong Clearing Corporation] participants.
  • (10) His researchers, apparently seeking to understand this imbalance, visited 10 independent schools "with a strong track records [sic] of sporting excellence" and 35 state schools "where the picture was very mixed".
  • (11) In both survey populations all cancer groups had significantly elevated levels of SIC when compared to any of the control populations.
  • (12) The sale of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin was agreed upon in May,” RZA wrote, “well before Martin Skhreli’s [sic] business practices came to light.
  • (13) He stopped at a large rock and kept saying 'they are there, thy [sic] are there' and shooting.
  • (14) It said: "We decry this persecution of one of our own, one who commited [sic] no crime and is being targeted simply for his association, real or imagined, by overzealous feds who seek to cut off the head of an idea, a group which has no leader.
  • (15) "According to [the British national] a China National Petroleum Company (CNPC) security team was stopped in Basrah [sic] city by the Iraqi police in a 'clear attempt to disrupt and cause panic to the clients.'
  • (16) Manchester United will be offered £27m for his services (sic), but will only accept the bid if they switch back from a marketing machine to a football club.
  • (17) Although there were no concentration-related changes in body weight, clinical chemistry, or hematological data attributable to SiC, lung weights were increased in the high concentration exposure group at both euthanization times.
  • (18) He is understood to be Matthew Doyle, a partner at a south London-based talent and PR agency, who tweeted earlier in the day: “I confronted a Muslim women [sic] yesterday in croydon.
  • (19) They're still not very happy with what's happened … I think Wisbech really becomes [sic] a small Latvia or Lithuania, or something like that."
  • (20) The proton beam from an AN700 van de Graaff accelerator has been used to bombard solid targets of C, TiB2, SiC, SiN, Al and Au in the energy range 250-700 keV.

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