(n.) A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) But sanctions and mismanagement took their toll, and the scale of the long-awaited economic catharsis won’t be grand,” he says.
(2) We conclude that routine use of Golytely is preferable to methods involving catharsis and standard tap water enemas for barium enema examination, on the grounds that it is equally effective, yet more convenient for patients and for the radiology department, and reduces total costs.
(3) They functioned as role models and provided opportunities for catharsis.
(4) "We have no reason to hope now that the Serbs will go through catharsis and acknowledge that the non-Serbs in Prijedor had been killed, tortured, exterminated, raped."
(5) Purification and verbal catharsis under hypnosis are described, along with abreaction as a therapeutic instrument.
(6) But it does seem that Russia's rich are experiencing a moment of historical catharsis.
(7) Three films in, and already we know what an Andrea Arnold film might entail: visual poetry blooming in the harshest terrain; brutalised souls achieving emotional catharsis; and animals, lots of animals, the better to point up the underlying savagery of human experience.
(8) Looking back on the bloodiest century of human existence as some kind of fruitful catharsis feels profoundly dangerous.
(9) When children's adiposity and gender were considered as interacting factors, differences were also found for the attitude dimensions of health and fitness, and catharsis.
(10) Her catharsis came when she visited Chile in 1990 for celebrations marking the return to democracy.
(11) We know from many ethnological field research reports that the medicine man employs in his healing procedures - among other things - dream interpretation, (auto-) hynosis, and healing suggestion, advises the sick, uses imaginative techniques, and initiates group catharsis, i.e.
(12) Each of the common methods available--emesis, gastric lavage, activated charcoal, catharsis, and whole bowel irrigation--is discussed.
(13) A goal like that is a once in a generation thing, impossible to beat for a moment of joy and catharsis, and surely worth more than a mere place in the Premier League.
(14) This consisted of counseling and education, initial bowel catharsis, a supportive maintenance program to potentiate optimum evacuation, retraining, and careful monitoring and follow-up.
(15) It was hypothesized that viewing an aggressive film would lead to a decrease in hostile responses (catharsis) and an increase in aggressive responses (stimulation) when compared with a neutral film condition.
(16) The discussion suggests situations in which catharsis would be likely to prove useful, and indicates potential risks.
(17) Contemporary research on pornography reveals an impasse between the models of catharsis and learning.
(18) The US for their freescoring overwhelming of the opposition en route to the final (they’ve outscored the opposition 19 goals to 4), and Panama fro being in the half of the draw containing pre-tournament favorites to make the final, Mexico, and beating them in both the group stages and the semi-finals to ensure that this game is neither an opportunity for a Mexican “threepeat” or US catharsis for their defeats to Mexico in the last two finals.
(19) The results suggest that both inhibition of water absorption and reduced circular smooth muscle activity may be important factors in castor oil- and magnesium sulfate-induced catharsis.
(20) Contrary to popular notions, neither women nor hysterics experienced more catharsis or improved more in cathartic therapy.
Vicarious
Definition:
(prep.) Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority.
(prep.) Acting of suffering for another; as, a vicarious agent or officer.
(prep.) Performed of suffered in the place of another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice; vicarious punishment.
(prep.) Acting as a substitute; -- said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation.
Example Sentences:
(1) A second objective was to compare responses to two different passive film tasks, which differed in outcome uncertainty and the degree of vicarious active coping achieved through identification with the role portrayed by the actors.
(2) Recommendations are made in the areas of confidentiality, informed consent, standards of care and vicarious liability.
(3) Physiological substances (Mg, taurine) increase ionic transfer and there is a vicarious effect between Mg and taurine.
(4) But sometimes I know he's living it vicariously through me."
(5) Various EMG measures were obtained in order to determine the occurrence of vicarious instigation and conditioning.
(6) Recent evidence has underscored the importance of parental models and vicarious learning in the etiology of pain behavior.
(7) Fear-relevant (snakes, spiders, and rats) and fear-irrelevant (flowers, mushrooms, and berries) pictures were compared as conditioned and instigating stimuli in a vicarious classical conditioning paradigm with skin conductance responses as the dependent variable.
(8) Although two cases studied proved the notable acceleration of vicarious excretion in dialysis patients, this acceleration appeared only with high total blood iodine content.
(9) Adult phobics were administered treatments based upon either performance mastery experiences, vicarious experiences., or they received no treatment.
(10) chief executive, Peter Vicary-Smith, said: "A huge opportunity has been missed to inject some much needed competition into retail banking.
(11) Negative emotional states were induced in second-grade children by one of four processes, all of which involved social rejection content: cognition that focused on (a) the self (thinking about oneself being rejected by a peer) or (b) another person (thinking about a peer being rejected); or experience that related to (c) oneself (actually being socially rejected) or (d) observing another (vicarious: seeing a peer be socially rejected).
(12) Sequential single replacement of nucleosides within the decanucleotide d[GGGAATTCCC] (7) by means of a butanediol-1,3 residue allowed us to obtain a set of ten decanucleotides containing 'vicarious' (V) carbon-phosphate fragments.
(13) The mechanisms and pathophysiology of vicarious contrast excretion are discussed.
(14) Kevin and Perry Go Large is an excuse to wallow vicariously in the misery of adolescence.
(15) This dysphonia can occur as a compensation for anatomic or physiologic alterations within the larynx (vicarious type) or as isolated ventricular fold hypertrophy unaccompanied by other obvious laryngeal disorders (usurpative type).
(16) Most of us, however, are arm-chair adventurers: we enjoy the thrills vicariously, and these days they often come with the help of modern science and technology, through television and home video games.
(17) Whether it is vicarious liability or otherwise, they are liable.
(18) Similarly, senior staff at the Havens [centres for victims] suggested that the lack of occupational health support available to SOIT [sexual offences investigative techniques] officers leaves them susceptible to ‘vicarious trauma’.
(19) This concordance of mtDNA phylogenetic pattern across independently evolving species provides strong evidence for vicariant biogeographic processes in initiating intraspecific population structure.
(20) Musk is one of the high-profile investors, alongside Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and the actor Ashton Kutcher, in Vicarious, a company aiming to build a computer that can think like a person, with a neural network capable of replicating the part of the brain that controls vision, body movement and language.