(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.
Rickets
Definition:
(n. pl.) A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. Called also rachitis.
Example Sentences:
(1) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
(2) Phenobarbital did not retard growth nor impede the response to vitamin D therapy of concomitant rickets.
(3) Where UV radiation is restricted, individual propensity to rickets within a given Asian community is mainly determined by dietary factors.
(4) In a large commercial goat farm rickets-like symptoms were diagnosed in goat kids.
(5) One of the metabolites proved to be as active as the parent vitamin in curing rickets and was found in large amounts in liver, blood, and bone.
(6) The influence of extra phosphorus (P) and calcium (Ca) on the incidence of rickets was studied in 40 infants with a birthweight below 1.5 kg.
(7) The healing of rickets, the stimulation of intestinal Ca and P transport, the effect on bone mineral, and the induction of renal calcifications have been examined.
(8) It has been confirmed that the foetal parathyroid glands are important in development and that thyroparathyroidectomy (TXPTX) of the ovine foetus with thyroxine (T4) replacement leads to hypocalcaemia, retarded skeletal development, depressed calcification and rickets, relative to thyroidectomy plus T4 replacement.
(9) A boy with Lowe syndrome who manifested renal Fanconi syndrome by severe hypophosphatemic rickets, failure to thrive, and metabolic acidosis failed to improve with conventional bolus therapy of phosphate and bicarbonate.
(10) Some of the factors predisposing to rickets were assessed in the rachitic children and in age-matched controls.
(11) Vitamin D deficiency contributes to bone demineralization and rickets.
(12) Lymphocyte cell lines were established from five patients with vitamin D-dependent rickets, type II (VDDR-II).
(13) Clinical signs of rickets are still absent at this time, while an increased activity of the serum alkaline phosphatase signals the beginning of the illness.
(14) The majority of this thickening was due to an increase in the zone of proliferation, identical to that which occurs in calcium-deficiency rickets.
(15) A 22-month-old girl with cystinotic rickets was given 1 microgram 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol (1,25-DHCC) daily in addition to standard treatment.
(16) The patients were divided into 5 groups, 1) Osteomalacia and rickets 42 cases, showing typical changes of bone in X-ray films.
(17) In addition, the improved growth and healing of rickets further attest to the efficacy of the new treatment.
(18) In contrast, it appears that doses of either drug that are curative in D deficiency rickets are only partly active in PDR.
(19) During the latter half of an infant's first year, adequate mineral and vitamin D intakes may be important not only for the prevention of rickets but also for the attainment of optimal adult peak bone mass.
(20) Renal tubular dysfunctions with secondary rickets may be lacking altogether, even in chronic patients.