What's the difference between apathetic and torpor?

Apathetic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Apathetical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The following case highlights the diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas encountered in a middle-aged patient who presented with dementia and apathetic hyperthyroidism.
  • (2) Data also suggest that black dyads are represented more frequently in the positive categories, and white dyads are more likely to be categorized as "apathetic" or "hostile."
  • (3) Apathetic hyperthyroidism was first described in the medical literature by Lahey in 1931.
  • (4) the agitated type of involutional melancholy occurred twice as often in Canada as in Hungary, the apathetic cases were rarer in Canada, and the illness began earlier among Canadian women.
  • (5) Given that less than half of the Union's electorate are likely to vote at all, those figures suggest an overwhelming majority of Europeans are either apathetic towards the ongoing project of a common borderless European home or actively hostile.
  • (6) Among the psychosyndromes least well known to be associated with an endocrinopathy is apathetic hyperthyroidism.
  • (7) Several factors account for the relative ineffectiveness of family planning: some women abandon contraceptive methods for illogical reasons, especially after a traumatic event in their lives; sex education is still often insufficient; ignorance causes excessive fear of possible or imagined effects of contraceptives; part of the population is simply apathetic and irresponsible; finally, the availability of abortion may be a factor, although it is the worst method of birth control.
  • (8) Thatcher's children, selfish, materialist, apathetic?
  • (9) This generation, the younger generation, are supposed to apathetic, they are supposed to be not interested in politics and yet they are flocking out there to our meetings.
  • (10) The drug was clinically well tolerated in all except one animal that became apathetic and refused to eat.
  • (11) They tended to be solitary, unresponsive, inert or apathetic, and were not much liked by others.
  • (12) Trump has energised and galvanised the apathetic and apolitical.
  • (13) Asked for their opinions on Labour and politics in general, the most common response is apathetic: "I don't do politics, mate.
  • (14) By application of descriptive methods, integrating operationally estimated findings with clinically-impressively estimated "interactional atmosphere", we defined eight types of phenomenological constellations of persistent alterations ("residual-types") of functional disorders: "depletion syndrome", "apathetic-paranoid syndrome (resp.
  • (15) A 32-year-old woman was admitted because of an apathetic state.
  • (16) We here describe a case of apathetic thyrotoxicosis in a 16-year-old female subject who presented with a range of non-specific symptoms.
  • (17) The Church of England has launched a strongly worded attack on Britain’s political culture, criticising politicians of all parties for offering only “sterile arguments” that are likely to make voters more apathetic and cynical in the runup to the general election.
  • (18) Far from being apathetic, natural selection cares very much about these mutations.
  • (19) You might think Mohamed is an unusual case, an outlier in a nation of apathetic young people disengaged from politics and uninterested in the world around them.
  • (20) A 68-year-old man with a history of organic heart disease and marked weight loss was found to have apathetic thyrotoxicosis and hypercalcemia.

Torpor


Definition:

  • (n.) Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness.
  • (n.) Dullness; sluggishness; inactivity; as, a torpor of the mental faculties.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After arousal from torpor, within 2 h dendrites completely restored their structure.
  • (2) Bats have maximum life spans a minimum of 3 times those of nonflying eutherians--a trend resulting from neither low basal metabolic rate, the ability to enter torpor, nor large relative brain size.
  • (3) Three years of frustration at the torpor he found at the centre of the party spills out.
  • (4) Experiments with temperature and torpor and castration did not alter the annual did not alter the rhythm...
  • (5) Dietary lipids strongly influence the pattern of torpor and the body lipid composition of mammalian hibernators.
  • (6) Testosterone and 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone administration totally inhibited daily torpor in hamsters which were exposed to short days.
  • (7) At 10 wk of age, group-housed glutamate-obese mice exhibited nocturnal and early diurnal torpor, i.e., they thermoregulated at a lower than normal body temperature.
  • (8) Estradiol inhibited torpor to a greater extent in intact and ovariectomized female hamsters hibernating in long days than those in short days, suggesting an effect of photoperiod on responsiveness to estradiol.
  • (9) Selective feeding and incorporation of high amounts of unsaturated fatty acids into tissues and cell membranes may be an important preparation for hibernation of E. amoenus which lowers its body temperature during torpor to about 0 degrees C.
  • (10) Like many mammalian heterotherms, the big brown bat, Eptesicus fuscus, breathes intermittently during torpor.
  • (11) Just as Everton’s bid to snap out of their torpor was gaining momentum, however, it was curtailed by a third United goal that killed the contest.
  • (12) Water independence is achieved through efficient renal function while low rates of energy usage and torpor are further effective in reducing overall water requirements.
  • (13) The object of the present study was to investigate whether these diet-induced physiological and biochemical changes also occur in species that show shallow, daily torpor.
  • (14) Nevertheless, decreased testosterone secretion alone is not a sufficient condition for induction of daily torpor, since torpor was rarely observed in hamsters exposed to long days, even after castration.
  • (15) Hormone levels were generally lower in hibernators sampled during bouts of torpor than during bouts of spontaneous arousal from torpor.
  • (16) It is concluded that there is an inverse temperature effect that minimizes fuel usage during torpor.
  • (17) In addition, carbohydrate levels are significantly lower, whereas fatty acid and ketone levels are significantly higher during torpor.
  • (18) After the last (terminal) arousal from torpor, T levels were moderately elevated for 4 wk and maximal for the next 6 wk before they returned to basal values.
  • (19) The durations of the intervals of torpor and euthermia during mammalian hibernation were found to be dependent on body mass.
  • (20) Castration influenced certain aspects of the daily torpor display.