(n.) The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.
(n.) Children, taken collectively.
(n.) The commencement; the first period.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is followed by rapid neurobehavioral deterioration in late infancy or early childhood, a developmental arrest, plateauing, and then either a course of retarded development or continued deterioration.
(2) A number of recurring chromosomal abnormalities have been identified in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
(3) The authors examined an eye obtained post-mortem from a patient with chronic granulomatous disease of childhood and clinically apparent chorioretinal scars.
(4) Subjects who reported incidents of childhood sexual exploitation had lower levels of self-esteem and higher levels of depression than the comparison group.
(5) Detailed treatment data were obtained for 23 cases and 89 matched controls from the childhood cancer cohort.
(6) This preliminary study compared the level of ego development, as measured by Loevinger's Washington University Sentence Completion Test (SCT), of 30 women with histories of childhood sexual victimization, and 30 women with no history of abuse.
(7) Her story is an incredible tale of triumph over tragedy: a tormented childhood during China's Cultural Revolution, detention and forced exile after exposing female infanticide – then glittering success as the head of a major US technology firm.
(8) The differentiation of monocytes was evaluated quantitatively by electron microscopy and was analyzed in relation to the clinical features of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL).
(9) A small number of individuals operated during adolescence had also a shorter depth of the maxilla similarly as patients operated upon during early childhood.
(10) Two cases of idiopathic myelofibrosis of childhood were treated with intravenous methylprednisolone.
(11) On the grounds of the reported paediatric cases, the erudition in childhood is compared with the more common form in the adult, and is found to be much less linked with diabetes mellitus and to have a far better prognosis, with practically no mortality.
(12) Nickname: SuperSarko the Omnipresident Quote: "What made me who I am now is the sum of all the humiliations suffered during childhood."
(13) This dose is safe and efficient in the maintenance treatment of childhood asthma.
(14) Records collected during childhood and coded prior to knowledge of adult behavior provided information about the childhood homes of 201 men.
(15) Childhood migraine is probably commoner than this study indicates.
(16) In contrast, the number of distressful childhood experiences reported was generally unrelated to empathy scores.
(17) Childhood headache attacks resulted to be less frequent, less severe and with a shorter duration than in adult patients.
(18) After the event, McCray praised the duchess on Twitter for her passion on issues of mental health and early childhood development, saying “her warmth and passion for the cause was infectious”.
(19) In the multivariate logistic analysis the most informative clinical, social, and psychosocial predictors were, in rank order: many admissions to mental hospitals, death or divorce of parent in childhood, heavy smoking, short duration of the mental disorder diagnosed as affective, not married, never economically active, and early onset of the affective disorder.
(20) A total of 5319 cases of primary cancer in childhood were followed until patient death or the end of 1980, and the number of secondary tumors were observed, specifying on diagnosis, age, sex, and time since first tumor diagnosis.
Dodder
Definition:
(n.) A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plant, as to flax, goldenrod, etc., and decaying at the root, is nourished by the plant that supports it.
(v. t. & i.) To shake, tremble, or totter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seventy-six nurses completed the Miller-Dodder Revision of the Palmore Facts on Ageing Quiz and the Kogan Attitudes Towards Old People Scale before and after participating in the CE programme.
(2) Macmillan was transformed overnight from "Supermac" into a doddering old Edwardian twit.
(3) Or do those doddering gentleman at the FA insist that we don't go higher than 50?"
(4) • 6 Nassau Street, opposite Trinity College park, kilkennyshop.com Kris Bär River rhino mystery Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Panoramio.com South Dublin’s river is the beautiful Dodder, famed for its rich and varied wildlife.
(5) (At least Riva was still able to act, which gave her a way of defending herself; by contrast Haneke cast Annie Girardot as a doddering matriarch in Hidden at a time when Alzheimer's disease had left her unsure of who she was.)
(6) Doddering up to speed, the boat dragged through the oil until the bow suddenly rose up on what, a thousand-year-old cypress stump or one of a million abandoned pipelines?
(7) "I see people aged 67 or 68 at class reunions who dodder around and are constantly going to the doctor," he said at a meeting of economists.
(8) Along its banks you can spot bats, kingfishers, otters … and, erm, the Dodder Rhino.
(9) (Layabout sibling Willow was a doddering six-year-old by the time her own acting career began).
(10) Back in 2002 he appeared overnight, without fanfare, within the Dodder’s waters.
(11) In 2008, while serving as prime minister, he described "doddering" pensioners as tax burdens who should take better care of their health.
(12) "I see people aged 67 or 68 at class reunions who dodder around and are constantly going to the doctor," he said.