anatomical difference

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anatomical
adjective
uk
/ˌæn.əˈtɒm.ɪ.kəl/
us
/ˌæn.əˈtɑː.mɪ.kəl/
medical
relating to the scientific study and representation of the physical body and how its parts ...
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difference
noun
uk
/ˈdɪf.ər.əns/
us
/ˈdɪf.ɚ.əns/
the way in which two or more things which you are comparing are not ...
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How thisanatomicaldifferencemight produce the differences in spatial dependence shown here is unknown.
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Thus, thisanatomicaldifferencemay be related to the executive impairment we reported earlier.
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The similarities make the data extremely interesting, but anatomical differences between mice and humans, which are probably mirrored at the molecular level, must be anticipated.
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One might consider these anatomical differences from a developmental perspective.
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The anatomical differences do not, by themselves, mandate this assumption.
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He draws on the commonly accepted belief that the primaryanatomicaldifferencebetween humans and other primates that allowed for superior intellectual abilities was the evolution of a larger neocortex.
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After dry storage, dormancy correlated with clear anatomical differences.
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In some cases we classified cells as being the same type, even though they demonstrated small anatomical differences.
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These speech difficulties are due to anatomical differences in the vocal tract and periodic hearing loss due to frequent otitis media.
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Such barriers include anatomical differences, incompatible physiology and/or geographic isolation of the species concerned.
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This hypothesis in turn raises the issue of anatomical differences between the speakers.
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Mechelli et al. (2004) examined anatomical differences in the brains of bilinguals compared to monolingual controls.
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In addition to anatomical differences, these two receptors also have distinctive functional differences.
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It has been proposed that the gender differences in memory performance reect underlying differences in the strategies used to process information, rather than anatomical differences.
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There are anatomical differences between the limbs of plantigrades, like humans, and both unguligrade and digitigrade limbs.
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Using this method she was able to demonstrate anatomical differences between the brains of people with schizophrenia compared with the normal controls.
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Other anatomical differences are not extreme; the female tends to be larger than the male, and the ooloi usually smaller than both.
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