heterogonous

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het·er·og·o·nous

 (hĕt′ə-rŏg′ə-nəs)
adj.
Characterized by the alternation of sexual and parthenogenic generations.


het′er·og′o·ny n.
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het•er•og•o•nous

(ˌhɛt əˈrɒg ə nəs)

adj.
1. of or pertaining to monoclinous flowers of two or more kinds occurring on different individuals of the same species, the kinds differing in the relative length of stamens and pistils.
2. of, pertaining to, or characterized by heterogony.
[1865–70]
het`er•og′o•nous•ly, adv.
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EUS features of the lesions EUS features Number Percent % Layer of origin All Layers 69 75.0 3rd Layer 17 18.5 4th Layer 5 5.4 5th Layer 1 1.1 Texture Homogenous 50 54.3 Heterogonous 42 45.7 Number of passes 1 14 15.2 2 71 77.2 3 6 6.5 4 1 1.1 Needle size 19 12 13.0 22 79 85.9 25 1 1.1 EUS diagnosis Benign 17 18.5 Malignant 75 81.5 EUS-FNA Benign 32 34.8 Malignant 60 65.2 Total 92 100 EUS: endoscopic ultrasound; EUS-FNA: endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration Table 5.
Moral claims are heterogonous and interact in complex ways.
One way for us to predict how to extract oil or to develop an optimum production strategy is to develop a model with the accurate physics and material properties that would mimic the accurate flow of hydrocarbons at the highly heterogonous subsurface" Dr Abushaikha said.
"One way for us to predict how to extract oil, or to develop an optimum production strategy, is to develop a model with the accurate physics and material properties that would mimic the accurate flow of hydrocarbons at the highly heterogonous subsurface" he explained.
Hence obtaining the MDR from the ratio of the apparent partial [R.sub.g]/[R.sub.gx] is no longer a simple matter in heterogonous layered systems.
Durian, blueberries and steak were categorized by the interviewees as the products that can easily go bad and each of them varied a lot in favor and quality, so these three products were categorized as perishable and heterogonous products.
The present study is, of course, limited by common biases that are mainly due to the retrospective character of this analysis and the heterogonous time specification concerning long-term longevity.
Although we considered various potential confounding factors in our analysis, the aetiology of the MetS and occurrence of the CM risk in the population is heterogonous and yet to be fully understood.
Caption: Figure 3: Presurgical images of a 53-year old GBM patient show a heterogonous contrast enhancement on the T1 postcontrast image (a), disrupted blood brain barrier and increased vessel density on leakage [[lambda].sup.tr] (b) and [V.sub.p] (c) maps overlaid on the T1-weighted image, and high cellularity on DWI (d).
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