What's the difference between absentment and withdrawal?

Absentment


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being absent; withdrawal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
  • (2) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
  • (3) Antral G cells increase in states of achlorhydria in man and animals provided atrophic antral gastritis is absent.
  • (4) The Bohr and Root effects are absent, although specific amino acid residues, considered responsible of most of these functions, are conserved in the sequence, thus posing new questions about the molecular basis of these mechanisms.
  • (5) It is widely seen as a counter to China’s economic might in Asia, and the world’s second largest economy is notably absent from the list of signatories.
  • (6) In preparations from older animals this effect was absent or there was a potentiation of the responses.
  • (7) Isoenzyme LDH4 was absent in the human pancreas in all the studied periods of embryonic development.
  • (8) Electron microscopy revealed the presence of a hitherto unreported peculiar "pilovacuolar" inclusion in numerous mitochondria, composed of an electron dense pile or rod within a vacuole, while globular or crystalline inclusions were absent.
  • (9) The region is distinctive in that the sequence is absent from the homologous domain of the erythroid alpha chain and diverges from the normal internal repeat structure observed throughout other spectrins.
  • (10) The pathway of ketogenesis in renal cortex must differ from that of the liver, as beta-hydroxy-beta-methylglutaryl-CoA synthetase is virtually absent from the kidney.
  • (11) This article presents the case of bilateral absent maxillary permanent molars with severe oligodontia and no other abnormalities.
  • (12) On the seventh day, when middle ear effusions were absent, the ciliary activity had recovered to normal.
  • (13) Allelic complementation was not observed, despite testing of a large number of allele pairs, and alleles suppressible by the ochre suppressor SUP11 were absent from a sample of 48 spontaneous mutants and occurred infrequently (7%) among a sample of ultraviolet-induced mutants.
  • (14) This phenomena is strongly marked in spastic and mixed types of drowning and is absent in aspiration and reflex types.
  • (15) For CT scans, these periventricular changes were graded according to their extent as absent, or partly involving the white matter, or extending up to the subcortical region.
  • (16) It is generally agreed upon that ERT is fruitless in the patient with severe head trauma or when vital signs were absent at the scene of the injury.
  • (17) Intact wild-type cells, or those of a mutant in which the core region of the lipopolysaccharide was absent, were equally resistant to pronase treatment.
  • (18) Following the surgery, one patient continued to exhibit PLEDs but clinical seizures were absent PLEDs recurred in the second patient due to inadequate anticonvulsant medication.
  • (19) Moreover, it was more apparent in less differentiated tumors in which the granular pattern was often absent or inconsistent.
  • (20) The characteristic heart rate deceleration shown immediately prior to the aversive stimulus by control subjects was absent in the schizophrenic group.

Withdrawal


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mice also had a decreased ability to develop delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions while being given cadmium; this abnormality also returned toward normal after withdrawal of cadmium.
  • (2) They insist this is the best way of ensuring the country does not descend into chaos before the final withdrawal of combat troops.
  • (3) When AMT administration was discontinued 40 hrs before precipitation of withdrawal the withdrawal pattern occurred with unchanged intensity.
  • (4) The clinical course was observed in 50 patients while the remaining 10 were hospitalized and submitted to esophago-gastro-duodenoscopy and colonoscopy both before and after treatment for withdrawal of duodenal secretion and fragments of duodenojejunal and colonic mucosa biopsies.
  • (5) In the total sample, PEI factors and negative nominations were more stable than positive nominations, and PEI Aggression and Withdrawal scores were more stable than negative nominations.
  • (6) The model identified the following important variables: sex (relative risk (rr) = 2.4), beta-blocker withdrawal (rr = 2.1), performance on exercise test and digitalis treatment (rr = 2.3, P less than 0.05).
  • (7) Obvious restitution of the thymic medulla was evident about 14 days after withdrawal of FK506.
  • (8) Sleep alterations in addicted newborns could be related to central nervous system (CNS) distress caused by withdrawal.
  • (9) "I did so in protest at using unethical ways to make unjust allegations, therefore I hereby withdraw my complaint against this artist."
  • (10) However, there has been a need for a way to measure withdrawal behavior quantitatively over time.
  • (11) Twelve weeks after withdrawal heart rate and blood pressure responses to mental stress were normalized.
  • (12) Scores on the "dependent smoking" subscale of the smoking motivation questionnaire correlated significantly with overall withdrawal severity, craving, and increased irritability.
  • (13) Withdrawal of the drug and application of all-trans retinoic acid ointment resulted in resolving of the keratinisation.
  • (14) In 227 smokers' clinic clients who managed at least one week of abstinence, ratings of withdrawal symptoms were used to predict subsequent return to smoking.
  • (15) Side effects of carbenoxolone therapy were observed, but they did not necessitate withdrawal of the drug and were readily controlled in every instance.
  • (16) The maximal density of [3H] 8-hydroxy-2-(di-n- propylamino)tetralin [( 3H] 8-OH-DPAT) binding (Bmax) to 5-HT1a receptors was decreased by 25 and 17% in the hippocampus during chronic ethanol intoxication and withdrawal, respectively.
  • (17) The whole body withdrawal reaction of freshwater snail Planorbarius corneus consists of two phases.
  • (18) Furthermore, patients with alcohol-related atrial fibrillation were significantly more likely to manifest alcohol withdrawal syndrome than were other inpatients with heavy alcohol use.
  • (19) Withdrawal from long-term treatment with benzodiazepines was followed in three patients by a severe delusional depression.
  • (20) A similar increase in HDL-cholesterol was observed in the E2 + NETA group, following withdrawal.

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