(n.) Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance.
(n.) The object of dislike or repugnance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Consequently, the present data indicate that training-induced changes in the CS-evoked activity of PFCm cells are significantly related to aversively conditioned bradycardia in rabbits.
(2) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
(3) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
(4) 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.
(5) Fish were trained monocularly via the compressed or the normal visual field using an aversive classical conditioning model.
(6) A sequence of seven pairings of chili-flavored diet with prompt recovery from thiamine deficiency did significantly attenuate the innate aversion and may have induced a chili preference in at least one case.
(7) Testing of CGRP (ICV) in both single bottle conditioned-aversion and differential starvation paradigms was done.
(8) The differential results obtained in the present series of experiments with vagotomy and NaCl-induced short-term and long-term aversion learning suggest that the vagal system plays a decisive role in tasks requiring the rapid detection of an aversive substance in the gastrointestinal tract (short-term tasks).
(9) An experimental investigation of acupuncture's analgesic potency, separated from suggestion effects, is described, in which judgments of shock-elicited pain of the forearm were recorded along two separate scales: intensity and aversiveness.
(10) It was possible to achieve this very clear result although a strong aversion to animal experiments and a critical attitude toward biological research exist in Switzerland, as well as in other European countries.
(11) The characteristic heart rate deceleration shown immediately prior to the aversive stimulus by control subjects was absent in the schizophrenic group.
(12) The threshold for stimulation-produced analgesia or aversion, whichever was lowest, was determined before and after drug administration.
(13) However, they do indicate that cocaine is only a weak aversion-inducing agent.
(14) Insecure infant attachment at 16 months was associated with maternal perception of overcontrol, depressed mood state, and aversive conditioning to the impending cry in the laboratory task at the 5-month period.
(15) When the rats were given the two-bottle taste aversion test neither compound was found to be aversive.
(16) These results suggest that pharmacological doses of CCK-8 can act as an aversive stimulus during conditioning.
(17) In contrast, periadolescent animals demonstrated a marked resistance to amphetamine's taste aversion inducing properties when compared with either infant or young adult animals.
(18) In the first experiment operated rats were compared with control rats in the acquisition of a learned alcohol aversion.
(19) In the WikiLeaks cables, the US ambassador in Berlin characterised the chancellor as "risk-averse and seldom creative".
(20) In the 2 hr condition, weaker aversions were exhibited and again the 35% EDC group showed the least aversion.
Eversion
Definition:
(n.) The act of eversing; destruction.
(n.) The state of being turned back or outward; as, eversion of eyelids; ectropium.
Example Sentences:
(1) The eversion technique was unreliable and probably injurious to endothelial cells.
(2) One valve displayed a fixed outward eversion of the free margin of two leaflets.
(3) This eversion persisted in affected embryos through the time that the posterior neuropore should normally close.
(4) A small bladder stone developed in only 1 (3%) of the patients, who was completely dependent on intermittent catheterization, while 4 (13%) required reoperation due to eversion of the nipple.
(5) The first case was a premature female infant who developed involuntary twist movements of the left arm, persistent plantar flexion and eversion of the left foot at age of 7 months.
(6) Various parts, differing in a number of morphological signs, have been distinguished: coronary sinus, subepicardial veins, paired sinusoid veins, sinusoids of the myocardium and endocardial eversions.
(7) A technique of stapled low colorectal or coloanal anastomosis is described, which follows eversion through the anus and stapled closure of the anorectal or anal remnant.
(8) Polyethylene glycol (PEG) and sucrose inhibited germination, first by preventing eversion of the filament, and then at higher concentrations by preventing stimulation.
(9) Their localization is predominantly in the area of venular, vein, sinusoid bifurcations and endocardial eversions.
(10) In normal bowel segment this may not pose a problem, but forceful attempts at eversion in diseased, thickened, and friable bowel may result in damage to the bowel segment.
(11) A case of bilateral primary congenital eversion of lids in a newborn black male is described.
(12) A muscle, not found in North American cervids, but well developed in muntjacs, is probably responsible for the eversion of muntjacs' preorbital glands.
(13) This traditionally has been managed by cup forceps excision or by eversion through the tracheostoma with a skin hook and blind resection.
(14) Serine protease inhibitors block disc eversion and inhibit activity of disc proteases.
(15) According to the proposed model the myoepithelial cells are the driving force in papillary eversion.
(16) The speed of anastomosis is at least as rapid as the posterior wall technique on which it is based, and it has the advantage of having fewer unused penetrations of the vessel wall and better eversion of the edges.
(17) Accurate diagnosis requires a thorough physical examination, which should include careful skin inspection underneath all clothing, palpation of all large bones, fluorescein staining of the cornea, eversion of eyelids, rectal examination, retinal examination, and thorough neurologic examination.
(18) single inversion (continuous Connell), double inversion (two rows of continuous Cushing), single eversion (continuous everted mattress), double eversion (single eversion reinforced with simple continuous) were used.
(19) The punctal stenosis, which is almost always secondary to punctal eversion, is treated by dilatation and a punctal inversion procedure.
(20) The results of this form of treatment were highly satisfactory in ten cases of eversion or inversion; there was no loss of function.