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Unicity


Definition:

  • (n.) The condition of being united; quality of the unique; unification.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Study of the familial cases and analysis of the different localisations demonstrate the unicity of the so-called diffuse forms with visceral involvement and of the so-called generalized forms without visceral involvement congenital fibromatosis is characterized by several fibromas at birth: in two-thirds of the cases, it is a purely cutaneous or osteocutaneous form, which disappears spontaneously; in one third of the cases, it is a cutaneous or osteo-cutaneous form with lethal visceral involvement.
  • (2) In the present family, some clinical, biological and electrophysiological arguments suggest the unicity of the disease.
  • (3) The discriminant power (smokers vs nonsmokers) rank in the following order: ucot approximately pcot approximately unic greater than pSCN approximately COHb approximately pnic greater than COex approximately uSCN.
  • (4) The little particles of Teflon are surrounded by conjective tissue wheras the Silicon is enclosed in an unic membrane.
  • (5) There is a unical Bgl II site on pLD728 is front of the beginning of a Km gene structural part.
  • (6) On the other hand, the morphological and functional unicity of the vascular wall in different species is such that observations made in animals are relevant.
  • (7) Neither anatomical (presence or absence of pyloric hypertrophy) nor clinical variants (obstructive and diarrheic forms) challenge the nosologic unicity of this syndrome, whose genetic character is unquestionable in most cases.
  • (8) In a cross-sectional study on 236 individuals in Japan (174 males, 62 females; 149 smokers, 87 non-smokers) plasma nicotine (pnic), cotinine (pcot) and thiocyanate (pSCN), urinary creatinine ratios of nicotine (unic), cotinine (ucot) and thiocyanate (uSCN) as well as carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) and expired carbon monoxide (COex) were determined.
  • (9) This concept enables us to treat information in its unicity taking into account its reception, its analysis and its emission all together.
  • (10) The use of ajmaline as a unic pharmacologic test for the differential diagnosis of symptomatic bradycardia in patients with atrioventricular associated conduction defects is discussed.
  • (11) We demonstrated the unicity of the SMA model, their convergence in a p-cycle and, in this case, the SELFREFERENCE of a stabilised SMA (it then generates its own program), their adaptability when connected to a deterministic world.
  • (12) To evaluate the result of the operations (basal and total iridencleisis, trepanotrabeculectomy) the authors estimate that is not enough to take the intraocular tension as the unic parameter, one should take in consideration also the visual field, visual acuity and also the state of the optic disc in the follow-up period (see Tbl.
  • (13) This result lends further support to the cellular unicity of LCH, but also suggests some degree of heterogeneity among LCH cells.
  • (14) It does by one unic, well characterized artery, the polar artery.

Unique


Definition:

  • (a.) Being without a like or equal; unmatched; unequaled; unparalleled; single in kind or excellence; sole.
  • (n.) A thing without a like; something unequaled or unparalleled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
  • (2) Chromatographic maps of DNA adducts demonstrated unique patterns of DNA adducts for each of the regions.
  • (3) A sperm whale myoglobin gene containing multiple unique restriction sites has been constructed in pUC 18 by sequential assembly of chemically synthesized oligonucleotide fragments.
  • (4) The temporary loss of a family member through deployment brings unique stresses to a family in three different stages: predeployment, survival, and reunion.
  • (5) This is a report concerning a unique combination of Alzheimer's disease with the following refluxes: buccosalivary, gastroesophageal, vesicoureteral, urethroprostatic and urethrovesicular, along with neurogenic bowel and neuropathic bladder.
  • (6) A constellation of histologic lesions was identified in brain (diffuse meningoencephalitis with bilaterally symmetrical thalamic necrosis), liver (pericholangiohepatitis), lung (pneumonitis), and spleen (lymphoid hyperplasia); this tetrad is apparently unique to this model system.
  • (7) Monoclonal antibodies to human thyroglobulin may offer a unique opportunity to confirm the tissue origin of cutaneous metastasis.
  • (8) The presence of a previously unreported dipeptide transport mechanism within blood leukocytes and the selective enrichment of the granule enzyme, DPPI, within cytotoxic effector cells of lymphoid or myeloid lineage appear to afford a unique mechanism for the targeting of immunotherapeutic reagents composed of simple dipeptide esters or amides.
  • (9) The problem-based system provides a unique integration of acquiring theoretical knowledge in the basic sciences through clinical problem solving which was highly rated in all analysed phases.
  • (10) Radio-immunoprecipitation and partial proteolytic digest mapping showed that the monoclonal antibodies each recognized a unique epitope.
  • (11) Structural studies indicate that caveolae are decorated on their cytoplasmic surface by a unique array of filaments or strands that form striated coatings.
  • (12) Silicon, a relatively unknown trace element in nutritional research, has been uniquely localized in active calcification sites in young bone.
  • (13) These neurons can be identified uniquely by 3H-thymidine exposure during the week preceding the neurogenesis of cortical layer 6.
  • (14) But it is a huge logistical problem – unique in the world.
  • (15) A basic premise is that emotional process is not unique to homo sapiens and that human behavior might better be understood by observing this process in the broader context of all natural systems.
  • (16) Although GD1a was also found in the lung, heart, kidney, and spleen, its expression within the murine immune cells under investigation was unique to TH2 lymphocytes.
  • (17) "Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous."
  • (18) The unique case of an elderly man presenting with right L2-3 radiculopathy is described.
  • (19) Because each linkage project is different, the modular nature of the software allows for better control of the programming process and development of unique strategies.
  • (20) The testing of this program with HSIRPR cDNA release (EMBL data bank) indicated the presence of unique features in the signal peptide coding region.

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