(a.) To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal.
Example Sentences:
(1) An injury to one of the small joints of the hand may have a major impact on hand function and thus have major implications for career and avocation.
(2) The level of physical activity was determined according to a scale (score, 0-18) that considered vocational and avocational activities.
(3) These risk elements are present in all parts of our society, including home and occupational, avocational, and medical situations.
(4) Physical activity was determined by a graded questionnaire and varied from sedentary to heavy vocational and avocational activity levels.
(5) Since then, shifts have been noted in the animal transmission cycles, the occupational groups at risk, and an increasing recognition of cases associated with avocational exposure.
(6) The study concludes that elective colostomy may be an appropriate alternative for some SCI patients, particularly those who have failed in self-care or for whom their vocation or avocation is impaired by prolonged bowel routines.
(7) Childhood milk consumption, current dietary calcium intake, level of avocational physical activity and lifestyle variables such as cigarette smoking and coffee consumption, considered separately, did not reach statistically significant levels as determinants of bone density.
(8) Finally, despite similar medical and physical findings, the Japanese low back pain patients were significantly less impaired in psychological, social, vocational, and avocational functioning than the American low back pain patients.
(9) Such insights should be rewarding to anyone who enjoys pictorial art as an avocation--and especially to those whose vocation involves food.
(10) Lead analyses were performed by atomic absorption spectrometry of semen and blood specimens from 21 medical students and technicians (ages 19 to 41 years) who had no occupational or avocational exposure to lead (Pb).
(11) Their capacity for exertion as defined by treadmill test was compared with the physical and social avocational activities they carried out in their daily routine, as reported by them.
(12) A functional upper extremity means that the goal must be to return patients to their preburn vocations and avocations.
(13) The ratings of the 175 respondents who stated that they had changed specialties indicated that time for avocational pursuits and time for family activities were the most important reasons for change.
(14) In addition, a detailed questionnaire was administered to each person to obtain information about his exposure to noise vocationally and avocationally, family history of hearing loss, etc.
(15) Vocational and avocational requirements for active, voluntary ankle motions should be considered preoperatively in selected patients.
(16) Many patients develop a pattern of abnormal illness behavior, manifesting loss of interest in work or avocations, social withdrawal, and disturbance of family roles.
(17) The current study sought to determine whether there were any significant cross-cultural differences in medical-physical findings, or in psychosocial, behavioral, vocational, and avocational functioning, for chronic low back pain patients.
(18) The patterns delineated suggested the need for improved avocational training programs, particularly in the cognitive and social spheres.
(19) Organic pathology, age, socioeconomic class, types of significant relationships, meaning given menses, coitus, childbearing, children, and vocational and avocational involvements are variables affecting every woman's attitudes toward, decision to have, and reactions to a hysterectomy.
(20) In the process of reorganizing her gender identity, other interests (vocational and avocational) and intimate interpersonal relationships will assume new significance.
Evocate
Definition:
(v. t.) To call out or forth; to summon; to evoke.
Example Sentences:
(1) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(2) A response evocation program, some principles underlying its development and administration, and a review of some clinical experiences with the program are presented.
(3) Love Streams, his new album of beat-free, long-form compositions, is complex, evocative, arrestingly beautiful and disquietingly intense.
(4) In this atmosphere, Richardson's evocation of Rwanda, while extreme, is not entirely ludicrous.
(5) The results confirment the involvement of some neurologic structures and show up how the Evocated Potentials can disclose a damage in the a.m. structures even lacking clinical features.
(6) Evocation is defined by the ways in which individuals unintentionally elicit predictable reactions from others in their social environments.
(7) Attenuation of the vestibular response to rotary acceleration in free-fall causes sensory-motor mismatches during natural head movements in orbital flight that may be important factors in the evocation of space motion sickness.
(8) Headaches, bouts of tachycardia and excessive inappropriate diuresis are the most evocative clinical signs of a pheochromocytoma.
(9) Acute hemolysis and the clinical signs evocative of disseminated intravascular coagulation (cutaneous signs) are more rare.
(10) In Experiment 1, substantially different behaviors to light and tone CSs were observed; further, these differences were found to be dependent on specific learning experience rather than on the mere presence of different stimulation at the time of response evocation.
(11) Photograph: Rex Features Colourful and evocative, beach huts hold a special place in our hearts.
(12) Based around the meeting point of the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers and renowned for its huge number of bridges and evocatively named neighbourhoods such as Shadyside and the Mexican War Streets, Pittsburgh is consistently ranked in surveys as a desirable place to live; the Economist Intelligence Unit this year called it America's most "livable" city.
(13) A fittingly memorable evocation of a defining chapter in the island’s history.
(14) They include the definition of determinants of transference in the immediate analytic interaction, the role of projection in transference and its evocation by the analyst, its basis in actual traits of the analyst which are exaggerated, and its expression as an effort to elicit confirmatory responses.
(15) Although many sensory and cognitive cues can elicit flashback phenomena, smell has distinctive characteristics that make evocation of vivid olfactory memories particularly likely.
(16) The cover art for the Cranberries' Bury the Hatchet (1999) was an evocation of paranoia – a giant eye bearing down on a crouching figure – that did neither band nor artist many favours; his image for Muse's Black Holes and Revelations (2006) amounted to a thin revival of his work for the Floyd that, if you were being generous, suggested a wry comment on that band's unconvincing attempts to revive the excesses of 1970s progressive rock.
(17) This result can be rationalized by a catalytic mechanism or by indirect action of nerve growth factor through a hypothetical cell which produces a neurite evocator on contact with the molecule of nerve growth factor.
(18) We have an escalation of chaos as a consequence of White House decision-making, made without consultation with the federal bureaucracy, that has no precedent in modern history and now has people taking to the streets in numbers and ways that is evocative of the 1960s,” Rothkopf said.
(19) To evaluate the predictive value of the evocative test (E.T.)
(20) Both are products of our current cultural moment, as we collectively salivate on the ideal of the Mad Men housewife, with its attractive evocations of easier times and simpler (less equal) roles.