(1) The independence of the amentive syndrome is also grounded by clinico-pathological data (EEG and biochemical).
(2) It is demonstrated that the amentive syndrome in such cases has certain nozological information, which facilitates significantly a differential diagnosis.
(3) Among 97 patients studied 25 showed amentive states.
(4) They were expressed in atypical delirious, delirio-amentive and amentive conditions.
(5) Two patients were still amented and often attacked by myoclonus.
(6) Pathogenetic possibilities of uremic toxicosis, depending upon the intensity and severity of which the amentive symptomatology may develop in different ways is discussed.
(7) Out of 908 patients with sepsis treated at the Republican Antisepsis Center, 19 presented with different schizophrenia syndromes (2 with acute delirium, 3 with encephalic manifestations, 3 with the amentive-catatonic form, the remainder with the amentive-depressive form).
(8) On selected case-histories the most frequent difficulties are demonstrated--ament conditions, depressive syndrome and attempts to find an optimal preparation before hospitalisation of old people.
(9) Histological sections and impression smears (AMENT) of intestinal mucosa biopsies have been proved to be the most reliable method for detecting giardiasis.
(10) The paper concerns the results of 30 years of investigations of the Kiev Research Institute of Neurosurgery into correlations between syndromes of mental activity reduction (coma, stupor, global and lacunar dementias, Alzheimer-like and Pick-like syndromes, personality changes by the frontal type, stable neurosis-like conditions, Korsakov's syndrome, disturbed consciousness by the amentive type) in patients with organic brain lesions and objectively recordable changes in cerebral hemodynamics.
(11) The paper contains some results of a clinico-psychopathological analysis of the amentive syndrome in patients with nephrogenic psychoses.
(12) On the basis of long-term clinical observations of patients with amentive states within the framework of somatogenic, infectious, intoxicational, vascular exogenous-organic, reactive and schizophrenic psychoses the author attempts to claim the nosological independence of the amentive syndrome.
(13) The dynamical clinical picture of psychosis may include during one of the stages of its development a delirious-amentive syndrome, short-time amentive states and oniric experiences.
Catkin
Definition:
(n.) An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar, and (as to the staminate flowers) in the chestnut, oak, hickory, etc. -- so called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. See Illust. of Ament.
Example Sentences:
(1) The extracts with the broadest spectra of activity were prepared from: Alnus rubra bark and catkins, Fragaria chiloensis leaves, Moneses uniflora aerial parts, and Rhus glabra branches.
(2) Dot immunoblotting of crude extracts of various aerial parts of birch trees, using patient serum rich in birch pollen IgE, showed IgE-binding activity in leaves, buds, twigs, seeds, bark, and old male catkins.
(3) Ginger, pippali (native to India; also called dried catkins), pepper, and garlic showed the highest activity followed by asafetida, mustard, and horse-gram (native to India).
(4) The current 2012 edition maintained the changes, and instead of catkin, cauliflower, chestnut and clover, today’s edition of the dictionary, which is aimed at seven-year-olds starting Key Stage Two, features cut and paste, broadband and analogue.
(5) Hazel catkins were profuse, catching out hay fever sufferers late in the month.
(6) • Hazel catkins, which usually appear in March and April, appeared early in autumn at Washington Old Hall, Tyne and Wear, for the second year running • Mammals generally entered the winter in good condition, especially badgers, wild deer, and the wild sheep and goats in Cheddar Gorge.
(7) You can also lobby your local council to get trees planted that are bee-friendly, such as hazel and alder whose catkins provide a vital source of pollen in the spring, when the bees need this protein to feed to their young, expanding colony.
(8) Mica flecks in ancient granite shone like gold dust in caramel-coloured streams, beech trees were decorated with delicately suspended catkins and the upland breezes infused with coconut-like scent from early flowering gorse.