Sentence examples for features that are diagnostic from inspiring English sources

Definitive identification of palaeosols in the Ediacara Member is a challenge, because this unit was deposited before land plants arose and it thus lacks features that are diagnostic of ancient soils, such as traces of plant roots.

Both macroscopic examination and neutron tomography data revealed features that are diagnostic of spondarthritis.

The key morphological features that are diagnostic of PIN and invasive carcinoma cells are changes in nuclear morphology such as enlargement of the nucleus, changes in chromatin structure, and marked nucleolar enlargement [6], [7], [8], [9].

Using morphologic examination, pathologists have discovered previously unrecognized morphologic features that are diagnostic for new tumors or new clinical variants of known tumors that have characteristic molecular profiles.

Yeast can undergo cell death accompanied by features that are diagnostic of apoptosis or programmed cell death (PCD), and it is associated with characteristics of apoptosis (Galluzzi et al, 2009; Madeo et al, 2009).

By comparing the noise fields leading, respectively, to the correct recognition or to the misidentification of an object, it is possible to uncover the visual features that are diagnostic of that object's identity.

The ultrastructural features on kidney biopsy that are diagnostic of AS consist of (i) variable thickening and thinning of the glomerular basement membrane (GBM); (ii) splitting or lamellation of the GBM; (iii) 'basket weaving' of the GBM and (iv) foot process fusion in regions of an abnormal GBM [ 1, 2].

In a simultaneous lineup, witnesses compare among fillers, not because they have shifted to a non-diagnostic process, but in order to eliminate shared features that are not diagnostic and focus on those that are.

Two examples of this problem are the very bird-like Compsognathus longipes (shown at right) and Ornitholestes hermanni, small theropods known from good specimens, but whose phylogenetic affinities have not been well resolved yet, because they share some features that might closely unite them with a group, but then lack some features that are considered diagnostic for that group.

Invasion of hepatic veins by basophilic foci, first noted at 10 weeks, was prominent by 20 weeks and indicated that many of the lesions manifested this characteristic of malignancy well in advance of the anaplastic features that are also diagnostic of hepatocellular carcinoma.

Mitotic activity, vascular invasion, and necrosis are histological features that are suggestive, but not diagnostic, of malignant behavior [ 10].