What's the difference between alertness and apertness?
Alertness
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are several common clinical signs which should alert the physician to a possible diagnosis of SLE and which should condition him to look for specific clinical and laboratory findings.
(2) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(3) In view of the high mortality every clinical deterioration of patients with cirrhosis should alert the physician of the presence of SBP.
(4) Moreover, it allows the clinician to be alert towards findings which could be missed when not carefully searched for and which may be useful to raise or strengthen the suspicion of this disease.
(5) The data support a hypothesis that medial thalamic structures have alerting functions in learning mechanisms.
(6) The correlation between the spike activity and the waves of surface ECoG was studied in the visual and motor cortex of alert non-immobilized rabbits.
(7) The specific angiotensin receptor antagonist, Sar1, Thr8AII (sarthran), was infused intracerebroventricularly in alert spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), and Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) and Sprague-Dawley (SD) normotensive rat strains.
(8) Stimulation using implanted electrodes in conscious rats, within the hypothalamic and midbrain areas described above, elicited typical 'flight' and 'escape' behaviour: thus, the localized regions from which the visceral alerting response is elicited contain neurones or nerve fibres integrating the whole defence-alerting response in the rat, as in other species.
(9) These findings suggest that health professionals, particularly nurses, who work with families in their homes, must be alert and sensitive to cues and circumstances which could indicate suffering, and in so doing, take the necessary steps to ameliorate their situation.
(10) It is understood that counterterrorism police at Heathrow are urgently seeking a meeting with senior UKBA management over the missed alerts.
(11) South Korea was put on high alert a year ago amid fears that the North was about to provoke a clash in the contested waters of the Yellow Sea.
(12) This report alerts clinicians that, although helpful in some patients, clonazepam can cause behavioral disinhibition and worsening of symptoms in other patients.
(13) These indicators included temperature elevation, inability to be consoled, level of alertness, nuchal rigidity, bulging fontanel, decreased appetite, rash, referral, and febrile seizures.
(14) This brief outline of optical identification potentials alerts law enforcement agencies to the early developments in the field.
(15) Immediately after delivery the following should be checked for any possible abnormalities: 1) the patient's alertness, 2) blood pressure, 3) pulse, and 4) body temperature.
(16) The results better define the important behavioral differences existing between the two strains, Long Evans rats showing consistently a higher level of alertness and a better conditioned performance.
(17) This article is intended to alert practicing physicians to the extent of the problem and to familiarize them with the various forms of skin cancer.
(18) Albion rarely threatened, though Tim Howard was alert to Shane Long's first-time shot, but had several chances to punish Everton on the counterattack late on.
(19) Witnesses reported hearing a loud bang coming from the area, which is also close to the Belfast city centre's prime retail centre and the city's courts, hours after a security alert was declared after 9pm.
(20) It was thus found that the predictive efficacy of CASE was increased when it employed a combination of human and artificial intelligence, as exemplified by the CASE analysis of 'structural alerts.
Apertness
Definition:
(n.) Openness; frankness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The clinical study of the major cranio-facial malformations such as Apert syndrome, Treacher-Collins syndrome, Blepharophimosis and Bilateral Cleft Palate patients, lead us to note a similarity of the orbito-palpebral region.
(2) Apert-Crouzon syndrome (formerly ACS type 2; 10130) is now considered a subset of autosomal dominant Apert acrocephalosyndactyly type 1 (10120), with features of craniosynostoisis, syndactyly of all extremities, maxillary hypoplasia, "parrot-beaked" nose, hypertelorism, exophthalmos, external strabismus, and short upper lip.
(3) Furthermore, the investigation indicated that the conventional linear coronal craniectomy cannot be expected to improve the craniofacial growth pattern in patients with Apert syndrome.
(4) Several years follow up of 3 patients aged from 4 to 14 years with acrocephalosyndactyly of Apert Syndrome type is described.
(5) A detailed examination of a stillborn fetus with Apert's syndrome showed several unexpected findings, which prompted a reevaluation of the heretofore generally accepted hypotheses regarding the cause of the dysmorphic craniofacial features in this syndrome.
(6) The purpose of the paper is to describe and analyze the infant Apert skull with emphasis on the calvaria and its early postnatal development.
(7) Apert (1906) was the first to identify a syndrome characterized by the association of acrocephaly with syndactyly, acrocephalosyndactylism.
(8) We suggest that hydrocephalus should be considered as a major associated malformation, and a complete evaluation with sonogram and computed tomography scan is recommended in any newborn suspected of having Apert syndrome after routine cephalometric measurement.
(9) Ten infants and children who presented with craniofacial dysostosis are discussed; four had Apert's syndrome, four had Crouzon's syndrome, one had Pfeiffer's syndrome, and one had hypertelorism.
(10) Success in the treatment of Apert's syndrome depends not only on the quality of surgical correction but also upon its timing.
(11) Ten children with Apert's syndactyly underwent early surgical intervention (mean age 8.4 months) as part of a staged program of digital separation leading to completion of both hands by the age of 2 years.
(12) This association is apparently rare and we think that this may represent a distinct syndrome separate from Apert syndrome.
(13) The association of the esophageal deformity with the Apert-syndrome is discussed.
(14) Upper airway compromise, consisting of obstructive sleep apnea and cor pulmonale, may result from reduced nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal dimensions in the Apert craniofacial configuration.
(15) Patient diagnoses included facial clefts, hypertelorism, Treacher Collins syndrome, and craniofacial dysostosis (Crouzon's and Apert's syndromes).
(16) The Apert pituitary fossa and basi-occiput are significantly larger than normal.
(17) This report appears to represent the first known example of germinal mosaicism in Apert syndrome.
(18) One minor (hip dysplasia) and one major birth defect (Apert syndrome) were seen.
(19) The oral manifestations of Apert syndrome are compared and contrasted with those of Crouzon syndrome.
(20) In a patient of our hospital, who underwent surgery twice, a typical case of Apert-syndrome was diagnosed.