What's the difference between childhood and hyperkinesis?

Childhood


Definition:

  • (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.

Hyperkinesis


Definition:

  • (n.) Abnormally increased muscular movement; spasm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A case of opsoclonus, myoclonic hyperkinesis of the eyes, is described.
  • (2) Hyperkinesis refers to a combination of traits that typically include: overactivity; restlessness; short attention span; distractability; low frustration tolerance; impulsiveness.
  • (3) There was hyperkinesis of the interventricular septum in the first 24 hours after birth which continued until the end of the first week.
  • (4) A child presenting with mild psychomotor retardation, hypotonia, microcephaly and hyperkinesis is described.
  • (5) Chronic administration to rats of a diet in which all choline is replaced by NADe, an unnatural choline analog, results in a classical hypocholinergic syndrome characterized by progressive loss of learning and memory, hyperkinesis, hyperreactivity and hyperalgesia.
  • (6) In general, the results indicate: (1) that parental ratings show consistent relationships to selected interdisciplinary staff diagnoses; (2) that hyperkinesis may be related more strongly to aggressiveness than to the lack of socially responsible behavior; and (3) that parental ratings are potentially valuable in the diagnostic process.
  • (7) The radiological picture is usually marked by gall bladder hypertonia and hyperkinesis, with occasional sphincter involvement.
  • (8) Interparoxysmal intervals lengthened and hyperkinesis became less pronounced.
  • (9) Secondary prevention requires closer follow-up of potentially brain-damaged children and the education of doctors in neurological and behavioural assessment and the more efficient treatment of epilepsy and hyperkinesis.
  • (10) 3 weeks after commencing oral contraception (Ovulen) for the 1st time, a 26-year-old woman with a history of rheumatic carditis and chorea minor presented with sudden recurrence of hyperkinesis.
  • (11) Such an approach is described in which the following are stressed: 1) prevention of incarceration, 2) prevention of rejection by parents, peers and teachers, 3) active treatment of hyperkinesis and specific learning disabilities, 4) utilization of "sponsors," and 5) multiple therapist (family, group, individual) programs.
  • (12) The high levels of a-CL-IgM were observed in SLE patients with choreic hyperkinesis and migraine-like headaches.
  • (13) In 14 of these cases, reaction was transient but characteristic of a syndrome of shock and cerebral disturbance, which, in the other 65 cases, was followed by convulsions, hyperkinesis, and severe mental defect.
  • (14) Ventricular hyperkinesis is usually present and sometimes associated with outflow obstruction, the physiological role and mechanisms of which are still not fully understood.
  • (15) The problem of hyperkinesis bears many implications for nursing practice and research.
  • (16) Hyperkinesis of longitudinal segments occurred at end-diastolic lengths equal to preocclusion conditions, whereas hyperkinesis of circumferential segments was dependent on activation of the Frank-Starling mechanism.
  • (17) There were low and statistically insignificant correlations between these different measures of hyperkinesis.
  • (18) These children had a variety of clinical diagnoses but differed significantly from their peers--matched for age, IQ and diagnosis--with respect to neurological anomalies, erratic responses on the Matching Familiar Figures Test, and early onset of hyperkinesis.
  • (19) The differential effect of methylphenidate on these two neural systems suggest a possible mechanism by which it may improve attentive processes in hyperkinesis.
  • (20) There is much controversy in the literature concerning prevalence, cause, diagnosis and treatment of hyperkinesis.

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