What's the difference between antisocial and dissocial?

Antisocial


Definition:

  • (a.) Tending to interrupt or destroy social intercourse; averse to society, or hostile to its existence; as, antisocial principles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) High morbidity of such persons is often contributed to their antisocial way of life, and alcohol and drug addiction.
  • (2) Data from the National Longitudinal Youth Survey (NLSY) were analyzed to study interrelationships between antisocial behaviors in early adolescence (ages 14-15) and late adolescent alcohol and drug use 4 years later (when adolescents were 18-19).
  • (3) This violent potential was reflected by the presence among the alcoholics involved of more past and present antisocial traits, a higher rating on the Nicol's scale of violence, more offences committed against the person and homicidal behaviour.
  • (4) severe psychological distress ('disassuagement') when support-givers cannot be induced to act effectively, with a propensity to devise defensive strategies, supplemented by psychological defence mechanisms; when maladaptive, these strategies are the source of neurotic symptoms and antisocial traits.
  • (5) Previous analyses of adoptees from Lutheran Social Services of Iowa developed a multifactorial model of adoptee alcohol abuse that related abuse to three factors: biologic background of alcohol-related problems, biologic background of antisocial problems and exposure to an adoptive family where family members had alcohol-related problems.
  • (6) Firesetting in children and adolescents is commonly associated with other antisocial acts that comprise conduct disorders.
  • (7) In addition, significant adults, such as group therapists, filled out pre- and posttest inventories to measure antisocial behavior.
  • (8) It screens for the DSM-III criterion-based diagnostic categories of neurosis (dysphoric, compulsive, anxious), somatization, conduct disorder (antisocial, violent), and hyperactivity.
  • (9) But for older children, Teather gave the examples of preventing teenage pregnancies, reducing drug-taking or tackling antisocial behaviour.
  • (10) Starting with a critique of the DSM-III-R description of the antisocial personality disorder, the author reviews some salient contributions to the concept of the antisocial personality disorder derived from descriptive, sociologic, and psychoanalytic viewpoints.
  • (11) With standardized ages, the group of subjects with antisocial personality had a clearly lower mean level of serum cholesterol than the group with other personality disorders which was used as a control group.
  • (12) The antisocial alcoholic is at high risk of behavioral complications, including aggressive, violent behavior and accidental injury.
  • (13) The authors compared female adoptees of antisocial parentage with male and female controls, male adoptees of antisocial parentage, and male and female adoptees whose biological parents had other psychiatric conditions.
  • (14) At the scale level, an analysis of variance (ANOVA) demonstrated that the scores obtained by the Black and White groups were significantly different in 9 of the 20 scales (Histrionic, Narcissistic, Antisocial, Paraphrenia, Hypomania, Dysthymia, Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse, and Psychotic Delusion).
  • (15) We report on our analysis of a patient who developed personality changes which strongly resembled an antisocial personality disorder after surgical resection of a pituitary tumor.
  • (16) Among the 73 ADD probands, 33 (45%) met criteria for OPD, 24 (33%) met criteria for CD, and 16 (22%) had no antisocial diagnosis.
  • (17) Subjects with partial seizures were rated as slightly more aggressive and antisocial than those with generalized seizures.
  • (18) Abedi, too, smoked cannabis, drank and, according to at least one source, was known to the authorities for antisocial behaviour.
  • (19) Police in Newcastle have launched a task force specifically to tackle the problem after they received 96 calls for antisocial behaviour linked to use of legal highs in just two weeks.
  • (20) The arachidonic acid metabolites PGE2 and TxB2 were elevated in violent antisocial personality.

Dissocial


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Unfriendly to society; contracted; selfish; as, dissocial feelings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results show that the pathogenic phenotypes of MCF viruses are dissociable from the thymotropic phenotype and depend, at least in part, upon the enhancer sequences.
  • (2) Structure assignment of the isomeric immonium ions 5 and 6, generated via FAB from N-isobutyl glycine and N-methyl valine, can be achieved by their collision induced dissociation characteristics.
  • (3) It has recently been suggested that procaine penicillin existed in solution in vitro and in vivo as a "procaine - penicillin" complex rather than as dissociated ions.
  • (4) Elongation of existing RNA primers by the human polymerase-primase was semi-processive; following primer binding the DNA polymerase continuously incorporated 20 to 50 nucleotides, then it dissociated from the template DNA.
  • (5) Blood gas variables produced from a computed in vivo oxygen dissociation curve, PaeO2, P95 and C(a-x)O2, were introduced in the University Hospital of Wales in 1986.
  • (6) The data shows a dissociation between ferritin synthesis, cellular accumulation and secretion for which the mechanisms have still to be elucidated.
  • (7) Electromechanic dissociation, sinus bradycardia, nodal rhythm followed by idioventricular rhythm and asystole, were observed following myocardial rupture.
  • (8) Transcription studies in vitro on repression of the tryptophan operon of Escherichia coli show that partially purified trp repressor binds specifically to DNA containing the trp operator with a repressor-operator dissociation constant of about 0.2 nM in 0.12 M salt at 37 degrees , a value consistent with the extent of trp operon regulation in vivo.
  • (9) These differences in central connectivity mirror the reports on behavioral dissociation of the facial and vagal gustatory systems.
  • (10) In contrast, the enzymic domain of the colicin (T2) remained in the aqueous phase and was recovered in a highly active form as a consequence of its dissociation from the immunity protein.
  • (11) Predominantly observed defects included neural crest cells in ectopic locations, both within and external to the neural tube, and mildly deformed neural tubes containing some dissociating cells.
  • (12) Inhibition assays indicate an apparent dissociation constant (Kd) corresponding to 4 x 10(-9) M and an affinity constant (Ka) to 2.5 x 10(8)M-1 to K562 erythroleukemia cells.
  • (13) When CO was photolytically dissociated from the reduced protein two recombination processes were observed with rates almost identical with those observed in the stopped-flow experiments (k+1 = 3.3 X 10(3)M-1-S-1 and k+2 = 6.0 X 10(2)M-1-S-1).
  • (14) On the other hand, ultraviolet (320-nm) light, absorbed by 3-hydroxy-pyridinium cross-links which were rapidly photolyzed, partially dissociated polymeric collagen aggregates from bovine Achilles tendon after subsequent heating.
  • (15) The corresponding dissociation constants range from 2.8 nM for the native enzyme and 8.5 nM for the 96K fragment to approximately 15 nM for the 68K and 90K fragments [0.20 N KCl, 50 mM 3-(N-morpholino)propanesulfonic acid, and 1 mM CaCl2, pH 7.3, 25 degrees C].
  • (16) Addition of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate to slow dissociating, high affinity 5S R[3H]E2 dimers free in cytosol induced rapid [3H]E2 dissociation, although the receptor remained unaltered in the transformed dimerized state.
  • (17) If VF persisted or if countershock resulted in asystole or a nonperfusing rhythm (electrical-mechanical dissociation [EMD]), the alternate drug (naloxone or epinephrine) was then given.
  • (18) Addition of albumin or GTP to the incubation medium enhanced the specific binding of PGE2 by decreasing the dissociation constant of the low affinity-high capacity binding sites.
  • (19) Dissociated cerebral hemisphere cells from 4- to 7-day-old chick embryos were cultured either on a collagen or a polylysine substrate in a serum-containing medium.
  • (20) Incubation of the enzyme-inhibitor complex with the sulfhydryl reagent caused dissociation into active ribonuclease and inactive inhibitor.

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