Most people, I believe, live dichotomously--their minds separated from their bodies--and they do not fully understand the actions of their bodies. From Wordnik.com. [Why I Teach...Tai Chi] Reference
An erect, herbaceous, dichotomously branched perennial, 60-180 cm high, with large, fleshy, cylindrical, obovoid subterranean rhizomes, large lanceolate leaves and white flowers arranged in twin clusters, which very rarely produce red seeds. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
These may all continue to increase by splitting in two, and then the family tree is composed of dichotomously branching lines; or they may resolve themselves into numerous spores, and then the family tree exhibits a number of branches springing from the same point. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891] Reference
It will be noted that the bronchi divide monopodially, not dichotomously. From Wordnik.com. [Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery] Reference
In their course they divide and subdivide dichotomously, and, especially in the root, give off minute branches, which join together in loops in the matrix, or end blindly. From Wordnik.com. [XI. Splanchnology. 2a. The Mouth] Reference
We scored items dichotomously (1 = yes or 0 = no) and obtained a sum score between 1 and 6 for each dimension, with higher scores indicating more neuroticism or being more extrovert. From Wordnik.com. [BMJ Latest Articles] Reference
The artery immediately bifurcates into an upper and a lower branch, and each of these again divides into a medial or nasal and a lateral or temporal branch, which at first run between the hyaloid membrane and the nervous layer; but they soon enter the latter, and pass forward, dividing dichotomously. From Wordnik.com. [X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. 1. The Tunics of the Eye] Reference
In her article, "The Phylogenetic Tree Topples" she explains that "many biologists claim they know for sure that random mutation (purposeless chance) is the source of inherited variation that generates new species of life and that life evolved in a single-common-trunk, dichotomously branching-phylogenetic-tree pattern!". From Wordnik.com. [Evolution News & Views] Reference
Polypodium Wallichii were found; ascending a few feet, say 60, Randia microphyllum, Aneilema aspera, and pines appeared in the woods, with straight trunks and high branches, occasioned by the abortion of the lower branches, sometimes dichotomously forked, bark grey, and scaley, branches horizontal, approximated; cones inclining towards the axis. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
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