(n.) Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.
(n.) Eager desire.
(n.) A state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium.
Example Sentences:
(1) During and after the infusion of 5HTP, none of the patients showed an increase in anxiety or depressive symptoms, despite the presence of severe side effects.
(2) Several interpretations of the results are examined including the possibility that the effects of Valium use were short-lived rather than long-term and that Valium may have been taken in anticipation of anxiety rather than after its occurrence.
(3) However, it is easier for them to cope with anxiety because premedication pacifies the patients, whereas each of the dependent variables, such as apprehension, is influenced differently.
(4) Anxious mood and other symptoms of anxiety were commonly seen in patients with chronic low back pain.
(5) Lactate-induced anxiety and symptom attacks without panic were seen more often in the groups with panic attacks, but a full-blown panic attack was provoked in only four subjects, all belonging to the groups with a history of panic attacks.
(6) Higher anxiety, depression and psychiatric morbidity scores were reported by all patients at 6 and, to a lesser extent, at 12 weeks with greater differences in women.
(7) Anxiety conditions were measured by monitoring palmar skin resistance with a psychogalvanometer.
(8) Ex-patients of a dental fear clinic were found to have significantly reduced, yet still high, dental anxiety scores in comparison with the pre-intervention scores.
(9) However, a decision-sharing approach had a significant effect on reducing anxiety levels in third-grade children.
(10) Forty five elderly patients undergoing total hip replacements were assessed one day before and two days after surgery in order to explore the relationship between pre-operative anxiety and post-operative delirium.
(11) Seventy-three percent of 90 psychiatric inpatients had a coexisting anxiety disorder.
(12) Although the general guiding principle of pharmacotherapy for anxiety disorders--the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time--remains, this rule should not interfere with the judicious use of medications as long as the benefits justify it.
(13) Ketazolam was found to be significantly better than placebo in alleviating anxiety and its concomitant symptomatology as measured by the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale, three Physician's Global Impressions, two Patient's Global Impressions, and three Target Symptoms.
(14) The following examinations could be proposed: in high risk cases determined before pregnancy, a chorionic villus sampling should be done between the 9th and 11th weeks of gestation; in low risk cases such as advanced maternal age, a first trimester chorionic villus sampling or a second trimester amniocentesis could be chosen; in the case of Down's syndrome, warning signs, for example ultrasonographic or biological parameters, a second trimester placental biopsy to relieve the parents' anxiety; in high risk cases such as ultrasonographic malformations, late placental biopsy or cordocentesis.
(15) Subjective measures of anxiety, frightening cognitions and body sensations were obtained across the phases.
(16) The focus will be on assessment of the gravid woman's anxiety levels and coping skills.
(17) Anxiety, depression, and somatization were greater in RAP mothers than well mothers.
(18) The writer Palesa Morudu told me that she sees, in the South African pride that "we did it", a troubling anxiety that we can't: "Why are we celebrating that we built stadiums on time?
(19) The encouraging pilot results warrant a controlled study of exposure for dysmorphophobic avoidance and anxiety.
(20) Study of the clinical characteristics of depressive state by hemisphere stroke with the use of symptom items of Zung scale and Hamilton scale showed that patients in depressive state with right hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items considered close to the essence of endogenous depression such as depressed mood, suicide, diurnal variation, loss of weight, and paranoid symptoms, while patients in depressive state with left hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items having a nuance of so-called neurotic depression such as psychic anxiety, hypochondriasis, and fatigue.
Cowardice
Definition:
(n.) Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bestselling Game of Thrones author George RR Martin has offered to screen The Interview in his own independent cinema, in the wake of what he described as “a stunning display of corporate cowardice” from Sony and America’s cinema chains.
(2) The failure of Liam Fox, the defence secretary, to even visit Leuchars to explain his decision is viewed as cowardice here, and Scotland's disproportionate share of the cost of the cuts to military spending is seen as choice rather than necessity.
(3) The promoters added: “We ask at this time that we all continue to support the city of Manchester and all those families affected by this cowardice and senseless violence.
(4) Former Bank of England policymaker David Blanchflower today accused the government of cowardice in planning huge cuts in public spending to tackle the budget deficit.
(5) Some might say it is a harsh assessment with which to go public, not least because Di Canio had earlier accused the South Korean of cowardice, suggesting Ji had ducked out of a first-half header when presented with a glorious opportunity to equalise after Sunderland had gone a goal down.
(6) His allies charge the prime minister with cowardice for dispatching one of his most zealously reforming ministers.
(7) Khodorkovsky's lawyers said that if Putin refused to attend – which seems probable – Russia's paramount leader would be guilty of "public cowardice".
(8) It's about cowardice and failure – at best, reconciling yourself to being an average joe.
(9) David Cameron has accused him of cowardice, his mandarins are being accused of bias and UK ministers are trying to usurp his role as Scotland's most influential ambassador.
(10) The movie expands the scope across the Atlantic, detailing the chaotic run-up to an Iraq-like war with all the bullying, incompetence, cowardice and manipulation that most likely got us into the real one.
(11) The problem with news is not a quaint moral cowardice.
(12) The moral cowardice of the Irish polity results in those women, often alone and shivery, whom you see on Ryanair flights.
(13) Joseph Thomas, policy officer for Interns Anonymous, said: "These documents show cowardice and a lack of determination to do anything.
(14) Not only because it is gross cowardice to place the weak and vulnerable in the frontline in this way.
(15) In response to a question about voluntary euthanasia, Helen Joyce, the international editor of the Economist which has written editorials in support of the policy, said “political cowardice” was the reason it was not yet legal.
(16) Collins argued in her speech that the MPs had failed to speak out about the abuse, carried out mostly by Asian men, because of political correctness, cowardice or selfishness, and were thus guilty of grave misconduct.
(17) Be vigilant against it and don’t allow hate to divide us.” Speaking outside the Didsbury mosque, Haffar sought to dispel reports that Abedi had worked at the centre, and said: “We express concern that a small section of the media are manufacturing stories and making unfounded points.” He also expressed his outrage at the attack, calling it a “horrific atrocity” and saying “this act of cowardice has no place in our religion or any other religion”.
(18) Cowardice that has continued throughout this trial.
(19) Alison Goldsworthy has accused the Liberal Democrats of 'cowardice' and said she intends to take legal action.
(20) Cameron trumped Miliband's cowardice by also pledging no revaluation.