(n.) The act of rubbing together; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion.
(n.) The state of being worn.
(n.) Grief for sin arising only from fear of punishment or feelings of shame. See Contrition.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of this study indicate that, with all other factors held constant, a patient's attrition score tends to: increase with age, increase with bite depth, decrease initially with overjet until a critical value and then increase, and be unaffected by sex, interincisal angle, U1 to NA angle, Angle classification, posterior or anterior cross bites.
(2) The observed degree of efficacy of amoxicillin prophylaxis and of tympanostomy tube insertion must be viewed in light of the fact that study subjects proved not to have been at as high risk for acute otitis media as had been anticipated and in view of the differential attrition rates.
(3) The British financial services industry spent £92m last year lobbying politicians and regulators in an "economic war of attrition" that has secured a string of policy victories.
(4) This paper examines attrition among applicants to a methadone maintenance program before and after it began to require that applicants have a relative or close friend willing to act as a treatment sponsor.
(5) No statistically significant differences could be found between groups with respect to clinical signs, occlusal interferences, or dental attrition.
(6) Attrition of the filarial numbers occurred primarily within the midgut during the first 24 h following ingestion and was greater in Cx annulirostris than Ae.notoscriptus.
(7) By the attritional standards of the modern game, Djokovic took a relatively whizzbang three hours and 40 minutes to win 6-7, 7-6, 6-3, 6-2 and complete a hat-trick of titles here (the first to do so since Roy Emerson), to go with his first Australian championship five years ago.
(8) Two factors measured at intake, motivation and social functioning, showed statistically significant interactions between race and attrition.
(9) Diagnosis of this complication in the setting of severe joint damage is difficult as AADA and sepsis share certain characteristics--an initial, rapidly progressive, severely painful course and radiographs which show rapidly destructive changes with marked cartilage loss, bone attrition, and virtual absence of osteophyte or cyst response.
(10) As well as the risk of attrition to the Tories, the Lib Dems will be mindful that traditional Labour voters will be wary of proposed Lib Dem cuts in public spending – an issue that promises to take centre stage at the next election.
(11) Compared with gradual methadone reduction, clonidine treatment resulted in higher levels of withdrawal symptoms and side effects, earlier onset of withdrawal discomfort, earlier attrition, earlier termination of withdrawal discomfort, and a posttreatment course of drug use that was more consistent with success status during the study treatment.
(12) Attrition threatens the external validity of prevention studies because, to the extent that study dropouts are different from remaining subjects, the results of the study may not be generalizable to study dropouts.
(13) These profiles are compared to a review of the literature in higher education on fellowships, faculty attrition, faculty activities, tenure, and promotion.
(14) Over the last 11 years, the Conservative government has waged a war of attrition against First Nations.
(15) With several African leaders nearing their term limits, notably Paul Kagame in neighbouring Rwanda, the war of attrition in this vast, mineral-rich nation is being closely watched across the continent.
(16) This study examined attrition and weight loss in 235 female obese binge eaters, episodic overeaters, and nonbingers treated by a 26-week program of behavior modification and very low calorie diet.
(17) Progressive ventricular dilation and associated attrition of brain tissue was observed in SHRs of both sexes after 4 weeks of age, and was present in animals obtained from two different suppliers.
(18) This study examined the relationships among demographics, personality variables, drug use, and early attrition from substance abuse treatment.
(19) It is suggested that the observed differences in malocclusion prevalence were related to exogenous factors, primarily the pronounced dental attrition.
(20) The authors review factors affecting student attrition and retention in academic settings.
Detrition
Definition:
(n.) A wearing off or away.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arthroses and spondyloses are by no means a simple "articular detrition" but a disease in which the time factor is not always of decisive importance.
(2) Muramic acid, a component of the muramyl peptide found only in the cell walls of bacteria and blue-green algae, furnishes a measure of detrital or sedimentary procaryotic biomass.
(3) By late June, a persistent detrital or decomposition layer formed in the lower metalimnion, as well as a hypolimnetic iron layer where the Fe2+ state was predominant.
(4) The high level of bacterial activity is evidently supported by dissolved organic matter transferred from the detrital pool of eelgrass.
(5) Radioactive pulse-labeling studies showed that [14C]acetate is rapidly incorporated into muramic acid by the detrital microflora.
(6) A new pattern of osteolysis accompanied by detritic synovitis occurred in a 71-year-old woman.
(7) The large percentage of Naegleria contributing to FLA in the detrital layer suggests that Naegleria amoeboflagellates sink through the layer, flagellate, and swim back up, such migrations possibly being triggered by a reduction of nutrients below the layer or by the presence of anoxic, reducing conditions in the hypolimnion.
(8) Large-particle breakdown was measured in forage samples subjected to 48-h digestion or 48-h digestion plus detrition.
(9) The plantonic and detrital food pathways exposed fishes to potential dietary concentrations of selenium that were some 770 and 519-1395 times the waterborne exposure, respectively.
(10) Dwarfism in this species is essentially a cessation of body growth at a juvenile stage, accompanied by precocious sexual maturity, as an adaptation to persistent occupation of an interstitial detrital habitat.
(11) Densities of p-CP-degrading bacteria associated with the detrital sediment were 100 times greater than those enumerated in water.
(12) Other names for this condition are silastic detritic synovitis and silastic foreign body synovitis.
(13) The sediments consist of a conglomerate floc of bacteria, diatoms, and inorganic and detrital particles.
(14) In the water column, FLA populations consistently were highest in the detrital layer, which persisted at a depth of 3.0-3.4 m throughout the summer period.
(15) Both digestion and detrition cause a reduction in size of forage particles in vitro; this result supports conclusions drawn from in vivo studies.
(16) To determine the importance of digestion and detrition (rubbing) in the rumen on the breakdown of large particles (LP) in the leaf and stem fractions of temperate and tropical forages, a study was made using a digestion-detrition simulator.
(17) Physiological detrition is considered to be the cause for this.
(18) The only N. fowleri isolated in this study was from the detrital layer.
(19) In one patient, the prostheses broke, with silicone particles present in synovium ("detritic synovitis").
(20) Evidence is presented and reviewed which shows detrital concentration of heavy metals, radionuclides, and organochlorine insecticides.