(v. t.) To take up into or under, as individual under species, species under genus, or particular under universal; to place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include under something else.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dawson argued that the health profession has a history of thinking that social care can be "subsumed by medical decisions" when in reality they are two different cultures.
(2) The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf) made clear that it would stick to an ultimatum it gave Morsi on Monday that urged the embattled president to respond to a wave of mass protests within 48 hours or face an intervention which would in effect subsume his government.
(3) The paper sets out the arguments in favour of utilising both a 'strict' definition corresponding to the 'nuclear' concept of schizophrenia and a 'broader' definition that also subsumes 'atypical' schizophreniform and related syndromes.
(4) "On the one hand, it is strengthening authors' rights, such as by extending the concept of communication to the public, which subsumes the old broadcasting right, to encompass the activities of those who, like TVC, intervene in the distribution of broadcast services.
(5) Over time, this first wave of dating sites began to be subsumed and crushed by the behemoths: Udate, match.com, datingdirect.com , offering simple functionality, instant messaging features and lots of room for photographs.
(6) There are multiple entities subsumed under this title that have in common the primary destruction of central nervous system myelin with relative sparing of axons.
(7) Then the recession hit and austerity became the narrative that subsumed all debates about freedom.
(8) Severance said I was starting to understand just how much of my life was subsumed by these companies.
(9) All the problems which arose when the test sheet was filled out were recorded and subsumed into one of the following categories: comprehension problems, problems with the answer categories, answer tendency, problems with layout.
(10) Although Muslim societies today can be described as generally homophobic, it’s a mistake to view homophobia as a self-contained problem: it’s part of a syndrome in which the rights of individuals are subsumed in the perceived interests of the community and – often – maintaining an “Islamic” ethos.
(11) The working class is redivided into the hard-working taxpayer and the slothful undeserving poor, with the former subsumed into the "people", the latter into its other.
(12) However, the rich diversity of problems that are subsumed under insomnia or sleep disturbance often remain unappreciated.
(13) Changing the term "DNR" to "No ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support)" should discourage health-care providers from subsuming other limitations under the directive to withhold resuscitation.
(14) This study pinpoints one dysfunction that could subsume the severe verbal comprehension defect in autistic and aphasic children.
(15) Subsuming the news from Paris into their extremist platforms, Republican hopefuls moulded their usual anti-immigrant stances into positions against allowing any Syrian refugees into the country – on the rare occasion that they could demonstrate any knowledge of the specifics of Obama’s plan to settle 10,000 Syrian refugees in the US.
(16) Essentially, any small party in coalition is in danger of seeing its identity subsumed by its larger partner.
(17) The Wisconsin Card Sorting Test was then used to verify the hypothesis that a selective impairment of cognitive functions subsumed by the integrity of frontal lobes could be demonstrated in Parkinsonian patients.
(18) The results show that the glucocorticoid response element-specific DNA binding domain is essential, and that only the sequence including the amino acids that subsume the first zinc finger through about half of the second zinc finger are absolutely necessary.
(19) A number of behaviors often subsumed under the label "quadrumanous climbing" were distinguished in this study.
(20) A range of different dysphoric symptomologies are subsumed under the general diagnostic label of depression.
Subsumption
Definition:
(n.) The act of subsuming, or of including under another.
(n.) That which is subsumed, as the minor clause or premise of a syllogism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subsumption techniques proved superior for compacting a large rule set based on risk factors.
(2) They have even allowed, like lambs, the subsumption of their commitment to electoral reform.
(3) A detailed description of the individual clinical picture seems to be more informatives than the subsumption under the global term of 'Minor epileptic status'.
(4) 4) Adler's theory of social interest permits subsumption of narcissism under lack of social interest rather than acceptance of it as an expression of innate socially negative tendencies.
(5) The interaction of unresolvable neurotic phenomena and ideological bias in individual psychoanalysts reflect the increasing subsumption of psychoanalysis under the dominating interests of society--a dependency, which characterizes the actual psychoanalytic practice and theories in our time as basically affirmative.
(6) Although the underlying mechanism for these behaviors is not clear, possibilities include the subsumption of both addictive and other preventive behaviors under a more generalized risk taking (or risk avoidance) dimension.
(7) Alternatively, we examined the semantic relationships among risk factors in hypercholesterolemia and applied a subsumption technique to reduce the rule set.
(8) Because parent-child relationships are often subsumptive (or categorical) in nature, it might be expected that siblings usually share the same semantic types.