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Inconsistent (medicine)


inconsistent


1. Not consistent; showing inconsistency; irreconcilable; discordant; at variance, especially. As regards character, sentiment, or action; incompatible; incongruous; contradictory. "Compositions of this Nature . . . Show that wisdom and virtue are far from being inconsistent with politeness and good Humor." (Addison)

2. Not exhibiting uniformity of sentiment, steadiness to principle, etc.; unequal; fickle; changeable. "Ah, how unjust to Nature, and himself, Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man." (Young)

Synonym: Incompatible, incongruous, irreconcilable, discordant, repugnant, contradictory.

Inconsistent, Incongruous, Incompatible. Things are incongruous when they are not suited to each Other, so that their union is unbecoming; inconsistent when they are opposed to each Other, so as render it improper or wrong; incompatible when they can not coexist, and it is therefore impossible to unite them. Habitual levity of mind is incongruous with the profession of a clergyman; it is inconsistent with his ordination vows; it is incompatible with his permanent usefulness. Incongruity attaches to the modes and qualities of things; incompatibility attaches to their essential attributes; inconsistency attaches to the actions, sentiments, etc, of men.

Origin: Pref. In- not + consistent: cf. F. Inconsistant.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Bowman's capsule (iou)



Bowman's capsule noun phr. L19.
[Sir William Bowman (1816-92), English surgeon.]
Anatomy & Zoology. A cup-shaped dilatation of the end of a uriniferous tubule, surrounding each glomerulus in the vertebrate kidney.