What's the difference between abstinence and continence?

Abstinence


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence.
  • (n.) The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The clinical usefulness of neonatal narcotic abstinence scales is reviewed, with special reference to their application in treatment.
  • (2) Within a treatment program, the use of various kinds of assessment methods and treatment modalities did not appear to be closely associated with the endorsement of abstinence vs nonabstinence treatment goals.
  • (3) 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.
  • (4) Focus in this discussion is on the following: 1) female sterilization -- laparotomy, minilaparotomy, and colpotomy; endoscopic sterilization techniques; transcervical approaches to female sterilization; systemic nonsurgical female sterilization; and reversible techniques of female sterilization; 2) abortion -- pregnancy testing, long-term effects; and 3) systemic contraceptives -- steroidal contraception; locally active methods; vaginal foams, creams, and jellies; the diaphragm and other intravaginal barriers; IUDs; and periodic abstine nce.
  • (5) The convulsive episodes had several maxima during the abstinence period.
  • (6) The urinary HOP ratio immediately after abstinence from smoking was proportional to the mean daily number of cigarettes smoked in the past.
  • (7) Nine completed a 7-week trial, and eight maintained abstinence for at least 1 month as outpatients.
  • (8) All of these involve detection of the time of ovulation combined with abstinence during the fertile period of the cycle.
  • (9) In the light of these findings, our results suggest that the mechanism of aminoglycoside-induced inhibition of morphine abstinence may be related to the capacity of these antibiotics to block N-type calcium channels, and to decrease neuronal calcium availability.
  • (10) Infants prenatally exposed to narcotics become passively addicted in-utero and may undergo neonatal abstinence at birth.
  • (11) Each of 12 male habitual smokers with coronary artery disease was given dipyridamole (75 mg) and aspirin (324 mg), dipyridamole (75 mg) and placebo for aspirin, or a placebo for each drug 3 times daily for 1 week before each of three 20-minute periods (separated by 2 weeks) of smoking 2 cigarettes after a 12-hour period of abstinence.
  • (12) Orthostatic hypotension may also be observed in alcoholics during continuing abstinence from alcohol; in some of these patients failure of reflex noradrenaline release in response to standing may contribute to orthostatic hypotension.
  • (13) Naloxone, naltrexone, and cyclazocine precipitated abstinence syndrome which the animals generally controlled with increased morphine intake.
  • (14) From the viewpoint of behavioral biology, however, the method of periodic abstinence is not obviously natural.
  • (15) Abstinence phenomena largely disappeared within 10 days of discontinuation.
  • (16) The HDL2 mass concentration decreased significantly already during two abstinent days the decline continuing until the 8th day.
  • (17) The pharmacodynamic changes induced by smoking were generally most pronounced after the first cigarette following 10 hours' abstinence.
  • (18) Former users of alcohol, cigarettes, or illegal drugs achieved remarkable abstinence records.
  • (19) The WBC count showed only a small increase with longer abstinence periods.
  • (20) Alterations in ERP components, when they did occur, occurred under the acute influence of ethanol, as well as in abstinent chronic alcoholics.

Continence


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Continency

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This report represents the first comprehensive description of instantaneous and continous phasic blood velocity at the mitral valve during atrial arrhythmias in man.
  • (2) During sixty-six months, 145 Kock pouches were constructed: 79 for continent cutaneous diversion (44 men, 35 women), 54 bladder replacements by men, 12 ileo-rectal diversions (10 women, 2 men).
  • (3) The continence achieved in this case seems to be in contradiction to some of the accepted concepts of the mechanisms of continence.
  • (4) Piling refugees on trains in the hopes that they go far, far away brings back memories of the darkest period of our continent,” he told Der Spiegel.
  • (5) Decreased maximal voluntary squeeze pressures were less severe in continent patients with multiple sclerosis than in incontinent patients with multiple sclerosis.
  • (6) Persistence in the treatment of these patients is essential because multiple operations often are necessary to achieve continence.
  • (7) Ninety-two per cent of patients who irrigated their colostomies gained fecal continence.
  • (8) To overcome the problem of incontinence which failed to respond to standard measures, an animal model was designed for continent diversion without cystectomy.
  • (9) Stress continence depends upon three factors: proximal urethral support, vesical neck closure, and urethral contractility.
  • (10) 12 children (38%) showed modifications of bladder-sphincter equilibrium, without acquiring socially sufficient continence.
  • (11) The Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (Index of ADL) is a scale whose grades reflect profiles of behavioral levels of six sociobiological functions, namely, bathing, dressing, toileting, transfer, continence, and feeding.
  • (12) She attributes her interest in helping the continent to a "better perspective" on life derived from Kabbalah.
  • (13) By easing these huge flows of hundreds of billions across borders, the single currency played a material role in causing the continent's crisis.
  • (14) Measurements have been made continously with an electrochemical cell sensitive to oxygen.
  • (15) About 53% of the continent’s total land mass is used for agriculture.
  • (16) The potassium concentrations in erythrocytes, serum and urine were continously determined in 3 patients who had taken acetyldigoxin (45 to 100 tablets Novodigal à 0,2 mg) in order to commit suicide.
  • (17) Besides first follow-up results of patients with bladder substitution or continent urinary diversion, analysis of experimental investigations and functionally comparable clinical conditions enables an insight into potential following physiopathological interrelationships.
  • (18) We conclude that the Kock continent urostomy offers an important alternative to noncontinent forms of diversion.
  • (19) On the basis of continence results from these patients, the influence of the primary operation on postoperative anorectal continence is discussed.
  • (20) Individuals undergoing delayed bladder closure without iliac osteotomy had no notable difference in the incidence of bladder dehiscence (p greater than 0.5) but they had a statistically significant difference in the ability to gain urinary continence (p less than 0.01).