What's the difference between angor and oppression?

Angor


Definition:

  • (n.) Great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The patients were all men with 57 years mean age, and a previous history of posteroinferior myocardial infarction, complicated in three of them with angor and severe ventricle arrythmias; chest X ray in lateral view showed a bump of the posteroinferior border of the cardiac silhouette; the echocardiography increase in the ventricular diameter below the mitral valve; the ventriculography made evident a diastolic bulging with systolic expansion of posterior and inferior segments of the left ventricle and no mitral regurgitation; selective coronary arteriography showed a dominant right pattern with 100 per cent proximal occlusion.
  • (2) The patients outliving myocardial infarction reached 69%; those surviving angor inestable, reached 79%, and the survivors of the no-coronary group, 92.5%.
  • (3) Three patients were asymptomatic, 2 with cardiac insufficiency and 1 suffering from angor.
  • (4) Observations confirmed the possibility that the onset of angor is due to reflex coronary vasoconstriction induced through the sympathetic system by stimuli arising in the gall bladder.
  • (5) A complex statistical analysis (stepwise regression analysis) of the variables presented by the patients (clinical, ECG and laboratory) showed that only 5 variables are important in the determination of the risk of RN namely: nontransmural localization of initial necrosis, atrial fibrillation, past history of angor pectoris, prolonged pain at onset and presence of idioventricular rhythm.
  • (6) Studying firstly these drugs, and afterwards its clinical use: cerebral ischemia, myocardium acute infarct, angor pectoris, revascularization coronary surgery, coronary percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, valvular prosthesis, valvulopathies, vascular prosthetic grafts, and others.
  • (7) The authors report the case of a 35 year-old man, suffering from Prinzmetal's angor and stress angor associated to a complicated esophago-gastric reflux.
  • (8) Basing on coronary arteriography results we divided patients; in the group A (10 patients with significant stenoses greater than or equal to 50%) stress ecg and scintigraphy were positive in 9 patients; Dipyridamole test induced angor and ecgraphic changes in 5 patients and in 4 left ventricle wall motion disorders, 201-Tl scan was positive in all 9 patients tested.
  • (9) 10 elderly patients suffering from chronic lithiasic cholecystitis presented sporadic attacks of angor during the digestion of rather abundant meals, associated or otherwise with biliary colic.
  • (10) During five years or until death, we had under observation 74 patients who survived the acute phase of myocardial infarction, 66 patients with angor inestable, and a third group, also of 66 patients of the coronary unit, but whose cases didn't show evidence of their illness being due to myocardial infarction.
  • (11) The other 9 patients followed-up at 1 to 8 months (mean 3.9) disclosed Canadian angor class I.
  • (12) The incidence of angor pectoris, acute myocardial infarction and heart failure was significantly greater in hypertensive patients of both types of diabetes than in the respective normotensive group.
  • (13) Three groups of electrocardiopathic manifestations have been individualised: ischemia proving angor (288 cases), anginose syndromes revealing a myocardic infarct (81 cases), acute myocardic infarcts (62 cases).
  • (14) The effect of nifedipine proved statistically significant (p less than 0.01) with respect to the parameters: double product, time of insurgence of angor and time of appearance of electrocardiographic anomalies.
  • (15) A statistical correlation with resting ECG nonspecific ST-segment and T-wave abnormalities was observed (p less than 0.05) despite the absence of angor in 8 of the 11 patients.
  • (16) Recorded complications are: 1. microangiopathy: nephropathy (25%) including 7 renal insufficiency and 2 patients under dialysis; retinopathy (29%); 2. macroangiopathy: cardiovascular accident 1 case; angor 4 cases; obliterative arteritis of inferior limbs 5 cases; 3. neuropathy 9 cases (17%); 4. high arterial tension 55%; 5. metabolic complications (20%): 4 acidocetosis; 2 hyperosmolar coma; 4 severe hypoglycemia; 6.
  • (17) Nine were male and 2 female, mean ages of 70, with Canadian angor class I (1), II (1), or IV (9) and EF ranging from 12 to 65% (mean 34%).
  • (18) Cardiac insufficiency, and a large area of infarction contribute to the non-return to work, while subsequent angor and arrhythmias do not demonstrate any significant relation.
  • (19) Through a capillary viscometer we measured venous and arterial blood viscosity (BV) in 25 patients with the diagnosis of ischemic heart disease (IHD); 10 of them with unstable angor pectoris (UA) and 15 with acute myocardial infarction (MI).
  • (20) Various aspects of the heart in hypertension, particularly ischaemic damage and its effects on angor, hypertrophy, decompensation, arrhythmias and sudden death are considered.

Oppression


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed.
  • (n.) That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny.
  • (n.) A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs.
  • (n.) Ravishment; rape.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
  • (2) Much less obvious – except in the fictional domain of the C Thomas Howell film Soul Man – is why someone would want to “pass” in the other direction and voluntarily take on the weight of racial oppression.
  • (3) But some warn that oppression of the minority is heading towards breaking point.
  • (4) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
  • (5) The terrorists know that if Iraq and Afghanistan survive their assault, come through their travails, seize the opportunity the future offers, then those countries will stand not just as nations liberated from oppression, but as a lesson to humankind everywhere and a profound antidote to the poison of religious extremism.
  • (6) But there are very oppressed people here and I have to stay with them.
  • (7) Ukip accuses Theresa May of condoning these “symbols of the oppression of women”.
  • (8) Similarly at world level, it considers the struggles and efforts by the miserable and oppressed nations for achievement of their legitimate rights and independence as their due rights, because people have the right to liberate their countries from colonialism and obtain their rights.
  • (9) He added that the producers were also seeking to educate a new generation about the system of apartheid through which South Africa's white minority oppressed the black majority for more than 40 years up to 1990.
  • (10) "This false notion of choice, which is increasingly used to justify the oppression of women," says Ellis.
  • (11) The study of 106 pregnant women engaged in microbiological synthesis production revealed the tendency to increasing genitalia contamination by Candida yeast-like fungi, including fungi-protein producers, and also oppression of immunologic reactivity in comparison with nonpregnant women and the control group.
  • (12) A statement from al-Shabaab on Monday said the latest attack – the deadliest since Westgate – was revenge for the "Kenyan government's brutal oppression of Muslims in Kenya through coercion, intimidation and extrajudicial killings of Muslim scholars".
  • (13) A 46-year-old woman occasionally experienced palpitation of short duration and chest oppression since 1977.
  • (14) "We should oppose the practices of the big bullying the small, the strong domineering over the weak and the rich oppressing the poor."
  • (15) Behind the dancing girls and schmaltzy lyrics that usually characterise pop songs, these men act as the all-oppressing eye of the industry: telling female singers that weight loss and sexual objectification are the only feasible routes to stardom; stripping down women in music videos to their underwear while leaving their male counterparts untouched.
  • (16) Choosing the example of prisoners' voting rights, which the ECHR has ordered the UK to implement, the supreme court justice observed that the issue "has nothing to do with the oppression of vulnerable minorities".
  • (17) On Sunday Assange said: "Will it [the US] return to and reaffirm the revolutionary values it was founded on, or will it lurch off the precipice, dragging us all into a dangerous and oppressive world?"
  • (18) A 62 year old man, who had underlying diseases of pneumoconiosis and hypertensive heart disease, visited Chikuho Rosai Hospital complaining of chest oppression and general fatigue on Feb. 7, 1987.
  • (19) We did not perform a sexy version of oppression or create a teasing "naughty" campaign.
  • (20) He is sexism, male domination, and oppression against women personified.

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