(a.) Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, esp. respecting something future or unknown; being in painful suspense; -- applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle.
(a.) Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying; -- applied to things; as, anxious labor.
(a.) Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please.
Example Sentences:
(1) In many cases, physicians seek to protect themselves from involvement with these difficult, highly anxious patients by making a referral to a psychiatrist.
(2) Anxious mood and other symptoms of anxiety were commonly seen in patients with chronic low back pain.
(3) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
(4) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
(5) Disabled men also were more depressed and anxious and had lower ego strength and higher hypochondriasis scores on the MMPI, but were no different in type A behavior.
(6) From a clinical standpoint, it is clear that psychiatrists caring for anxious patients must be aware of the possibility of secondary alcohol abuse.
(7) Vladimir Putin brushed off complaints of election fixing during his annual televised live chat with the nation on Thursday , but behind the scenes his lieutenants are anxiously plotting how to quell rising discontent.
(8) Moreover, much evidence is directly contrary to a strong temperament interpretation of attachment patterns (changing attachments, differing attachments with different caregivers, prospective data on the early characteristics of infants later classified as securely or anxiously attached).
(9) While ruling that there had been improper use of Schedule 7 powers, the judge commented: "It was clear that the Security Service, for entirely understandable reasons, was anxious if possible to get information which could not be regarded as tainted by torture allegations or which might confirm the propriety of a control order."
(10) This is why a campaign , orchestrated by Ali and last week discussed in parliament, is gathering speed, and clued-up ministers grow anxious.
(11) In the course of the years, López Ibor came to the conclusion that anxious thymopathy was not an independent nosological entity, rather that vital (also called endothymic) anxiety was an element present in all forms of neurotic disorders integrated with personality and biographical factors.
(12) The data suggest that a learning approach to the origins of attentional biases in anxious subjects might be fruitful.
(13) It is argued that for Resistance veterans only the intrusive reminiscences of the stressful events discriminate this constellation of symptoms from subjects with an anxious-depressive symptomatology.
(14) A Wall Street Journal profile, published in 2000, says the Cherrys' interpreter introduced them to Deng, who was anxious to learn English, and Joyce Cherry offered her tuition.
(15) It's an anxious time for those 180,000 teenagers chasing the last university places in clearing ; nails are bitten to the quick, eyes glazed from internet searching.
(16) Sam Mugumya, an aide to the opposition leader, suggested the government might have been anxious to prevent Besigye disrupting the inauguration.
(17) But minutes after the final whistle, 76% of respondents to a Corriere della Sport online poll were blaming Lippi and in the post-match press conference the man himself was quick to take the blame, appearing to be anxiously awaiting the moment he can disappear quietly from the scene to be replaced by the Fiorentina manager, Cesare Prandelli, a switch decided with little fuss and no media debate just before the World Cup.
(18) For a while he stayed put, biding his time, anxious that when the move came (and nobody doubted there would be a move) it would be the right one.
(19) Children not only are fast learners and anxious to acquire new skills but also are at risk for the development of dental health problems.
(1) The current study examined the characteristics of overanxious disorder and social phobia by comparing children who have these disorders to matched normal controls.
(2) The taxonomic properties of overanxious disorder are reviewed using the diagnostic criteria and other features listed in the DSM-III-R manual as a template.
(3) In separation anxiety and avoidance disorders, anxiety is limited to certain settings; in overanxious disorder, anxiety is generalized.
(4) The burned children had significantly higher levels of overanxious disorder, phobias, and enuresis, but they had the same rates of present depressive disorders.
(5) Characteristic behaviors of overanxious parents include a reluctance to finish the office visit and a lack of satisfaction with treatment recommendations.
(6) Two met the criteria for dysthymia, including one of the subjects with overanxious disorder.
(7) Parents of inhibited children, compared with parents of uninhibited and normal controls, had significantly higher risks for multiple (greater than or equal to 2) anxiety disorders, continuing anxiety disorders (both a childhood and adulthood anxiety disorder in the same parent), social phobia, and childhood avoidant and overanxious disorders.
(8) Although some adjustments are needed, to alter overanxious disorder too much in DSM-IV could make past studies of doubtful relevance and could force a fresh start instead of building on current knowledge.
(9) Now, developers and architects hold modest public exhibitions in the immediate neighbourhood of their proposals and are not overanxious that they should be more widely known about.
(10) One hundred seven preadolescent children who meet criteria for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were further diagnosed by structured interview with regard to oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, and overanxious disorder (ANX).
(11) Children with a primary diagnosis of separation anxiety disorders were most likely to receive a concurrent diagnosis of overanxious disorder.
(12) Differences between a clinical sample of younger (ages 5 to 11) and older (ages 12 to 19) children meeting DSM-III criteria for overanxious disorder (OAD) were examined.
(13) As for the Axis I diagnoses, the subjects fell under the separation anxiety disorder (7 cases), avoidance disorder (13 cases), overanxious disorder (8 cases), identity disorder (5 cases), adjustment disorder (11 cases) and others.
(14) Compared to the remaining children, the depressed children endorsed significantly more symptoms of attention deficit disorder, oppositional disorder, mania, overanxious disorder, phobia, and bulimia in the interview.
(15) The data suggest that overanxious disorder is only a modestly reliable, distinct and valid taxon, and that adjustments to the diagnostic items and criteria and improved sources and methods of data capture are needed.
(16) This was true for the distinctions between attention deficit disorder with versus without hyperactivity; and between avoidant, separation anxiety, and overanxious disorders.
(17) The results provide strong support for the diagnostic validity of social phobia in children but lesser support for overanxious disorder as currently defined.
(18) The effect of the comorbidity of overanxious disorder (ANX) in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on laboratory measures of behavior, cognition, and stimulant response was examined.
(19) However, there were few variables that distinguished overanxious children.
(20) Separation-anxiety disorder was the most frequent diagnosis of anxiety, followed by overanxious disorder of childhood.