What's the difference between significance and signification?

Significance


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Significancy

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Once treatment began, no significant changes occurred in Group 1, but both PRA and A2 rose significantly in Groups 2 and 3.
  • (2) However, patients with GGBHS were significantly older (P less than .05).
  • (3) In each sheep there was a significant negative correlation between the glucose and corticosteroid concentrations in both maternal and fetal plasma, and there were positive correlations between the maternal and fetal plasma concentrations of glucose, and between the glucose and fructose concentrations of fetal plasma.
  • (4) Such a decrease significantly biased survival (p = 0.001).
  • (5) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
  • (6) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
  • (7) However, when first trimester specimens were analyzed, the direct-product measurements were significantly larger than the corresponding 3H2O assay results.
  • (8) The Na+ ionophore, gramicidin, had a small but significant inhibitory effect on Na(+)-dependent KG uptake, demonstrating that KG uptake was not the result of an intravesicular positive Na+ diffusion potential.
  • (9) Propranolol resulted in a significantly lower mean hourly, mean 24 h and minimum heart rate.
  • (10) In some other countries the patient-to-nurse ratio was significantly smaller.
  • (11) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
  • (12) The significance of minor increases in the serum creatinine level must be recognized, so that modifications of drug therapy can be made and correction of possibly life-threatening electrolyte imbalances can be undertaken.
  • (13) The process of sequence rearrangement appears to be a significant part of the evolution of the genome and may have a much greater effect on the evolution of the phenotype than sequence alteration by base substitution.
  • (14) The low affinity of several N1-alkylpyrroleethylamines suggests that the benzene portion of the alpha-methyltryptamines is necessary for significant affinity.
  • (15) During control, no significant difference between systolic fluctuation (delta Pa) and pleural swings (delta Ppl) was found.
  • (16) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
  • (17) Both lymph flow from cannulated pancreatico-duodenal lymphatics and intralymphatic pressure in the non-transected ones increased significantly.
  • (18) We conclude that the priming effect is not a clinically significant phenomenon during natural pollen exposure in allergic rhinitis patients.
  • (19) This study examined the [3H]5-HT-releasing properties of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and related agents, all of which cause significant release of [3H]5-HT from rat brain synaptosomes.
  • (20) However, the degree of sedation caused by diphenhydramine was significantly greater than that caused by cimetidine (P = .0001).

Signification


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of signifying; a making known by signs or other means.
  • (n.) That which is signified or made known; that meaning which a sign, character, or token is intended to convey; as, the signification of words.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Insulin requirement in the treated groups was significantly lower than in control group at 6 months, this difference was no longer significative at 12 months.
  • (2) The intrinsic viscosity of hyaluronic acid in synovial fluid decreases significatively in mild and severe arthritis (24% and 37% respectively).
  • (3) Statistical analysis of regression lines obtained in both groups of patients showed significative differences between slopes and elevations.
  • (4) It was found that the nurses' knowledge of AIDS was limited: they do not understand the signification of seropositivity and they had little knowledge of the epidemiological dimensions of the illness.
  • (5) Fractional excretion of potassium did not change in the control group after nephrectomy while the ethanol-fed group displayed a significative decrease at days 7 and 14.
  • (6) At the end of the tests the development of the most significative symptomatologic parameters has been analysed according to the Wilcoxon test: quantity, kind and characteristics of nasal secretions, nasal obstruction, phlogosis of the nasal and pharyngeal mucosa, hoarseness, difficulty in catarrhal expectoration, hypoacusia, retraction of the tympanic membrane.
  • (7) In spite of a significative descent of arterial pressure, we did not find any significative change in the fetal heart rate, accelerations, variability, or in the fetal motility.
  • (8) The bentazepam treatment cut down significatively the score mean in Hamilton scale for the anxiety after 10-15 days of treatment.
  • (9) The percentage of reactors increased from 30% among healthy subjects to 45,9% among the those attending the day hospital and to 60% among those admitted to wards; this is statistically significative.
  • (10) Thus, the signification and influence of religious, metaphysical, legal, socioeconomical and certain technical factors of the autopsy practice are briefly described, followed by a synopsis of the situation of the pathologist facing the demands of medicine, science, education, and administration.
  • (11) not any other parameter had significative relation with the neurotransmitters variations.
  • (12) On 122 validated cases out of 188 analyzed patients, the study demonstrates a significative effect on the mortality and severe morbidity related to vasospasm: the reduction of the risk is appreciated to 72%.
  • (13) The author points out the transport proteins whose biological roles are not completely known and ascertains that the free hormone concept has not at the present time a biological signification well defined.
  • (14) Excepted a statistical trend to significativity of SD versus satisfactory sedation: RS 0.311 (threshold value for 20 patients: 0.377), no relation was found between SD and data recorded.
  • (15) Results indicate that concentrations of the trans-isomer are significatively higher.
  • (16) we found a significative difference (P > 0.05) between HVA and the other etiologic groups.
  • (17) A significative difference between male and female values and a decrease of CrU levels with age increasing have been evidenced in both groups.
  • (18) Three patients died from the septicemia and the overall prognosis of the intensive care patients looks significatively worsened.
  • (19) Based on observations up to 20 years, after incomplete removal postoperative irradiation significally prolonged useful life and may have lead to permanent control in some.
  • (20) A variance analysis was made and the differences were considered to be significative at p less than 0.05.