What's the difference between arousing and objectionable?

Arousing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Arouse

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All subjects showed a period of fetishistic arousal to women's clothes during adolescence.
  • (2) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
  • (3) A control experiment demonstrated that changes in general arousal could not account for the effects of task difficulty on neuronal responses.
  • (4) EEG arousal diminished as a function of distance, while arousal for direct gaze was always higher than for averted gaze, whatever the distance.
  • (5) He was held there for another eight months in conditions that aroused widespread condemnation , including being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and being made to strip naked at night.
  • (6) The average vlaues of the correlation coefficients were found to increase from arousal through slow synchronized sleep (S sleep), reaching the highest value in REM sleep.
  • (7) To produce intramodal arousal, normal subjects also had EEG recordings made during the random sounding of a loud bell.
  • (8) Noxious conditioning stimulation of a tooth led to a temporary decrease of the threshold for the jaw-opening reflex elicited from a contralateral or adjacent tooth; only conditioning stimulation at an intensity producing a marked arousal reaction was effective in this respect.
  • (9) The auditory threshold for arousal (1,500-Hz tone beginning at 30 dB) was also tested before and after UA lidocaine.
  • (10) The lower phasic reactivity in the MBD group and the effects of stimulant drugs on arousal indices confirm earlier reports.
  • (11) The data support the hypothesis that the learning decrement found among older men is not simply a manifestation of structural change in the central nervous system but is, at least in part, associated with the heightened arousal of the autonomic nervous system that accompanies the learning task.
  • (12) Distal stimuli emanating from the female or pups induce proximity by provoking orientation, attention and arousal; the meaning of these stimuli is largely learned by conditioned associations during the initial executions of the behavior, although odors may have a prepotent influence for some individuals.
  • (13) These results support the hypothesis that amphetamine-induced stereotyped behavior functions to reduce stress or arousal and additionally suggest that this effect is largely independent of underlying dopaminergic mechanisms.
  • (14) Neuroticism was found to correlate with all the premenstrual MDQ scores except the positive aspect of increased arousal, with negative affect at both menstrual and intermenstrual phases, with menstrual pain and with intermenstrual concentration.
  • (15) All the present evidence suggests that the local vaginal release of VIP induces the vaginal changes of arousal.
  • (16) Attention to the hazards of asbestos has aroused concern among many healthy persons who have been exposed at some time to one of the world's most versatile materials.
  • (17) The suspicion of a Zollinger-Ellison-syndrome is aroused by therapy-resistent ulcers, which in every third person are associated with a diarrhoea, by recidivations of ulcer after gastric operations and by a large basal secretion of acid.
  • (18) We call RSD with these properties arousal-type RSD.
  • (19) The presence of cardiovascular hyperreactivity together with the absence of noncardiovascular hyperreactivity in HT indicates heightened SNS-activity specific to the cardiovascular system and not part of generalized SNS-arousal.
  • (20) In this study, therefore, we measured hypercapnic ventilatory responsiveness (HCVR) and spirometry in 13 healthy male subjects (18 to 30 yr of age) after two consecutive nights of severe sleep fragmentation (arousal to an auditory stimulus after each minute of sleep) and compared the results with those obtained in the same subjects after normal sleep.

Objectionable


Definition:

  • (a.) Liable to objection; likely to be objected to or disapproved of; offensive; as, objectionable words.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A branch of the Labour party of Malaysia was censured for staging a concert at which "two objectionable songs were sung in spite of the fact that the police had registered their disapproval".
  • (2) GMP problems associated with microbiological environmental monitoring are among those most commonly cited as objectionable during FDA inspections of parenteral drug manufacturing facilities.
  • (3) The use of clear plastic suction curette is objectionable because the operator can see the embryonic parts and sac as it passes through the tube.
  • (4) Yates was challenged by Mark Reckless MP to explain why he was willing to use public money to pay for lawyers to threaten newspapers whose reports he found objectionable, while victims of the hacking affair had had to spend large amounts of their own money to take civil actions to uncover the truth about crimes committed against them.
  • (5) In these cases there has been evidence of large sums of cash, the possession of objectionable material and other indicators for border force officers to take the action they have taken on these occasions.” Earlier in the week the Labor opposition questioned the government’s handling of national security, pointing to two separate cases of people leaving Australia on their brothers’ passports, including the convicted terrorist Khaled Sharrouf in December.
  • (6) Some time ago it promised to make illegal the objectionable practice of restaurants paying their staff less than the minimum wage and using their tips to make up the difference.
  • (7) There is much that is deeply objectionable about this.
  • (8) The use of SVV reduces the rate of the most objectionable of the common adverse effects of influenza vaccination.
  • (9) No serious adverse reactions occurred, but objectionable taste, constipation, and nausea were seen more frequently with active medication (P = 0.04).
  • (10) He’s just one man, made objectionable by never being questioned.
  • (11) Natural water suitable for direct bottling must be clear, colourless, and free from objectionable taste and odour.
  • (12) It may be difficult to believe but Morgan wasn't always quite so objectionable.
  • (13) So high a vegetable contamination is due to objectionable location of the "Podzamcze" employees' plots of gardens in Szczytna, related to the close vicinity of the "Sudety" Glassworks, wind rose and traffic arteries.
  • (14) Discrimination against HIV-infected persons is objectionable for moral reasons and may be counterproductive to public health.
  • (15) Sporicidin at this concentration appears to demonstrate efficacy as an antimicrobial agent, but dermal irritation, sensitivity and yellowing of the skin, and its objectionable odor may preclude its routine clinical use.
  • (16) The K for eye contact was .84; refusal , .85; leaving the situation, 1.0; and specifying objectionable behavior, .90.
  • (17) Second, it is argued that the operation is not objectionably deceptive, since, if there is such a thing as our 'real sex', we do not know (ordinarily) what it is.
  • (18) He classified material likely to affect patients adversely as puzzling or unintelligible, alarming, apparently insulting or objectionable, or sensitive information from or about others.
  • (19) It constitutes highly objectionable and unethical behaviour."
  • (20) The objectionable features of Etomidate are high incidence of pain on injection and involuntary muscular activity, which account for the low anaesthetist acceptance rate.