(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.
Foreboding
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forebode
(n.) Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a scene of young soldiers at rest for a few minutes at the front, he takes us into their heads: one full of dire forebodings, another singing, one trying to identify a bird on a tree – soldiers dreaming of girls’ breasts, dogs, sausages and poetry.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest With foreboding I edge on to forbidden terrain.
(3) The theme here is hopeful, aspirant – but there's a foreboding sense that everyone involved may not get quite what they wished for.
(4) Paul writes: Dawn this morning in Washington DC, beneath an unusually foreboding sky.
(5) Today's professional nurse has access to current technology and possesses the assessment skills and knowledge that enable early recognition of signs and symptoms foreboding potentially disastrous complications.
(6) Its opening images – aerial shots of Tom's little car amid bare, ploughed fields – are reminiscent of the overhead photography of the Torrance family car early in The Shining , evoking the same sense of exposure, isolation and foreboding.
(7) Alencar wrote, "The preoccupation with health was frequent: either he was having the consequences of a fit or was foreboding one".
(8) Luther was my most obvious expression of this.” Osborne quoted by WJ Weatherby “The nag of disquiet and all the inescapable forebodings with which I had been born were so rooted that they couldn’t be dismissed by the pleasure, the luxuries, the companionships and liberations that I felt I should have been enjoying at this point in my life.” Osborne on life in the early 1960s in Almost a Gentleman.
(9) This means they receive no help from their local authority, or from family, neighbours or friends.” Calling for an urgent injection of cash into both services, it said: “Unless there is significant change to the funding of our health and social care system for older people as a result of decisions taken in the government’s spending review [next month], we look to the future with considerable foreboding.” The Department of Health disputed the charity’s claim that the social care budget had shrunk by £1.85bn over the last decade and would fall by another £470m this year.
(10) The developmental significance of adolescence experienced under conditions of social isolation and rejection with forebodings of the Holocaust was unrecognized in sanctioned silence and shared analytic denial.
(11) Civilians have paid a brutal price during this conflict, and we are filled with the deepest foreboding for those who remain in this last hellish corner of opposition-held eastern Aleppo,” said Rupert Colville, the UN’s human rights spokesman, before the ceasefire deal emerged.
(12) However, I am filled with great foreboding when I reflect that the said political-constitutional crisis is going to run concurrent with the sharp deterioration in economic conditions as foreshadowed in this not exactly morale-boosting effort from Mr Hammond.
(13) Although the official Franks report published the year after the Argentinian invasion concluded that it "could not have been foreseen", the newly opened documents detail the growing sense of foreboding among key figures.
(14) It’s the kind of spirit that won them the MLS Cup last year, and such continuation is somewhat foreboding for the rest of the league.
(15) But for Gabrielsson it was also heavy with foreboding.
(16) All animals are equal,” said the foreboding sign on the barn at the end of Animal Farm, “but some animals are more equal than others.” George Orwell wrote that, mockingly, as an attack on fascism.
(17) The volume went down immediately and the sense of foreboding during that part of the night was not eased by the fact that Montenegro were defending with great togetherness.
(18) The sense of foreboding that surrounded Leicester City after they sent eyebrows everywhere skywards by replacing Nigel Pearson with Claudio Ranieri during a difficult summer has been blasted away by a team whose desire to prove a point has brought them six from their first two matches.
(19) I kind of wish he had been more foreboding, but he's just very friendly."
(20) Despite these forebodings, clubs from across Europe are plotting to wrench Crocodile Rooney from his primitive existence in the English outback and plunge him straight into a concrete jungle, where he will have to fend for himself with nothing but a sharpened stick and a salary of over £250,000 per week.