What's the difference between apprehension and prehension?

Apprehension


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.
  • (n.) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
  • (n.) The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.
  • (n.) Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
  • (n.) The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.
  • (n.) Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 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.
  • (2) Environmental campaigners had been apprehensive about the chances of the Senate ratifying a new international treaty – a successor to the Kyoto protocol – to combat global warming unless a consensus had already been reached on Capitol Hill.
  • (3) Family unit apprehensions are indeed at a historical high and UAC apprehensions are surging back to levels seen in 2014 .
  • (4) He was slightly apprehensive, and more than a little starstruck when he subsequently met the real Tippi Hedren.
  • (5) The surgical technique uses a local anesthetic containing a vasoconstrictor or an ultralight intravenous general anesthetic in addition to the local anesthetic for the apprehensive or acutely infected patient.
  • (6) Change in anesthesiologists may have been a factor in increasing apprehension and anesthetic dosage in later treatments.
  • (7) Apprehension mounted but Liverpool's title pursuit could not be derailed.
  • (8) The most frequent reason for closing the unit was the apprehension the patient would leave the hospital.
  • (9) The busy atmosphere and routine of a hospital is apt to induce apprehension in a patient about to have a surgical operation.
  • (10) Shine waited 18 hours before she could see her baby for the first time and reflected on how Google Glass could have been used in those initial 18 hours to ease some of her apprehensions and fears.
  • (11) To improve early diagnosis of gastric carcinoma (GC), it is recommended that every endoscopic investigation be performed with oncological apprehension, paying attention even to the minimum focal changes in the gastric mucosa and making spot biopsy of those changes.
  • (12) We felt by the end of the process we were prepared, if a bit apprehensive.
  • (13) He requires patience, understanding, and repeated explanations to allay his apprehension and anxiety.
  • (14) They have drastically reduced the number of interior deportations – those involving apprehensions that occur away from the border and usually involve individuals who have lived in the US for years – by activating a “ Priority Enforcement Program ”.
  • (15) At a media day held to mark the completion of the training and arranged before the tragedy, soldier after soldier came forward to insist that, though they were apprehensive, they were determined to do a good job, partly to make sure that their six colleagues had not died in vain.
  • (16) Because of an apprehension of an unnecessary death occurring during their treatment, healers frequently refer cases, from traditional to modern medicine and from general practitioner to hospital.
  • (17) The speaker of the House has offered an explanation for the apprehension of a suspect in a planned Capitol shooting at odds with the FBI’s description of the case.
  • (18) He decided to resign, but was strangely apprehensive, fearing that he would never get another job.
  • (19) If McCroskey's distinction between trait and situation-based state is appropriate, personality variables ordinarily associated with trait apprehension about communication should not correlate as highly with forms defined as more situation specific, such as anxiety about public speaking.
  • (20) Mumbaikars are excited, but also apprehensive: opportunities like this have been hijacked and squandered in the past.

Prehension


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with the hand or other member.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Results indicate substantial postoperative improvement in tip prehension and grasp, while performance remained essentially unchanged for lateral prehension, pinch force, and power grip.
  • (2) Our conclusion is that, although distance and type of prehension affect the transportation component, they are computed separately in programming this component.
  • (3) A left bias in the population for prehension, predicted by recent theories, was not evident in any setting.
  • (4) The third experiment had the two-fold aim of establishing (1) whether transport velocity was influenced by object velocity once the location in space at which the object had to be grasped was fixed and (2) whether the grasp kinematics differed for prehension movements directed respectively to stationary or to moving objects.
  • (5) The experiment was conducted to investigate, by using kinematic parameters, the influence of the type of prehension on the transportation component in reaching-grasping movements.
  • (6) A detailed, kinematic analysis revealed subtle deficits in midline pointing and prehension in a patient showing good clinical signs of recovery from optic ataxia associated with bilateral parietooccipital damage.
  • (7) After explaining the tertiary patterns of prehension the possibilities of restoring prehensile function in patients after high cervical spinal injury (C4-C6) by means of orthotics or operation are discussed.
  • (8) Capuchins develop postural control, prehension and locomotion later than do squirrel monkeys, baboons or macaques, presenting a pattern of motor development intermediate between these relatively more precocial genera and apes.
  • (9) The patients have continued to improve in their rehabilitation, and the Krukenberg forceps with its improved prehension and sensibility has improved the quality of life of these people.
  • (10) Three main groups of neurons were distinguished: "Precision grip neurons", "Finger prehension neurons", "Whole hand prehension neurons".
  • (11) This study examined the contribution of binocular vision to the control of human prehension.
  • (12) Nondysfunctional older subjects were observed resetting identical prehension patterns secondary to lateral pinch weakness, which contributed to increased prehension pattern frequency and performance time.
  • (13) Prehension involves processing information in two hypothesized visuomotor channels: one for extrinsic object properties (e.g., the spatial location of objects) and one for intrinsic objects properties (e.g., shape and size).
  • (14) In the case of distal neurons there was a relationship between the type of prehension coded by the cells and the size of the stimulus effective in triggering the neurons.
  • (15) By means of this Tobelbader Hand the prehension can be dosed muscularly.
  • (16) Effective prehension can usually be achieved by proper positioning, exercises, and splinting but when grasp is poor, tendon transfers are very effective in furthering the goal of independence.
  • (17) The frequency modulated feedback channel signals six levels of force developed at the finger tips during prehension activities.
  • (18) Thumb length, so important for prehension and opposition, can be restored by phalangealization, pollicization, or toe-to-thumb transfer.
  • (19) Through the development of the SAFRA, maintained prehension can be obtained without externally powered devices such as CO2 or electrically powered orthoses.
  • (20) A new technique of retrograde urethrography using a prehension cannula ("Bomelaer") is described.

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