(1) Until the 1960's there was great confusion, both within and between countries, on the meaning of diagnostic terms such as emphysema, asthma, and chronic brochitis.
(2) Even today, our experience of the zoo is so often interrupted by disappointment and confusion.
(3) Cloacal exstrophy, centered on the maldevelopment of the primitive streak mesoderm and cloacal membrane, results in bladder and intestinal exstrophy, omphalocele, gender confusion, and hindgut deformity.
(4) He has also been a vocal opponent of gay marriage, appearing on the Today programme in the run-up to the same-sex marriage bill to warn that it would "cause confusion" – and asking in a Spectator column, after it was passed, "if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog".
(5) A group called Campaign for Houston , which led the opposition, described the ordinance as “an attack on the traditional family” designed for “gender-confused men who … can call themselves ‘women’ on a whim”.
(6) The intracellular localization of tachyzoites facilitated diagnosis by obviating potential confusion of extracellular tachyzoites with cellular debris or platelets.
(7) But mention the words "eurozone crisis" to other Finns, and you could be rewarded with little more than a confused, albeit friendly, smile.
(8) "I am in a bad situation, psychologically so bad and confused," one father said, surrounded by his three other young sons.
(9) The differentiation between the various modes of involvement is essential as some of them may be confused with recurrence and the clinician might resort to unnecessary drastic measures like enucleation.
(10) Many characteristics of the Chinese history and society are responsible for this controversy and confusion.
(11) Two normal variants that could be confused with abnormalities were noted: (a) the featureless appearance of the duodenal bulb may be mistaken for extravasation, and (b) contrastmaterial filling of the proximal jejunal loop at an end-to-end anastomosis with retained invaginated pancreas may be mistaken for intussusception.
(12) Bilateral temporal epilepsies involving the limbic system on the one hand, bilateral frontal epilepsies on the other one, and P.M. status which may be paralleled, make these patients more susceptible to acute mental confusions, to acute thymic disorders, to delirious attacks.
(13) At present the use of the four terms to describe the common types of diabetes leads to confusion, which could readily be resolved by arriving at agreed definitions for each of these terms.
(14) The interplay of policies and principles to which Miss Nightingale subscribed, the human frailty of one of her women, Miss Nightingale's illness, and the confusion and stress which characterized the Crimean War are discussed.
(15) The features of benzodiazepine withdrawal in the elderly may differ from those seen in young patients; withdrawal symptoms include confusion and disorientation which often does not precipitate milder reactions such as anxiety, insomnia and perceptual changes.
(16) The government's civil partnership bill to sanction same-sex unions was thrown into confusion last night after a cross-party coalition of peers and bishops voted to extend the bill's benefits to a wide range of people who live together in a caring family relationship.
(17) In the ECMO patient, cardiac stun syndrome and electromechanical dissociation can be confused with low circuit volume, pneumothorax, or cardiac tamponade.
(18) Simple reperfusion of the infarcted myocardium, however, does not necessarily guarantee myocardial salvage, and preliminary studies have been somewhat confusing as to its beneficial effects.
(19) Scaf criticised the Muslim Brotherhood for its premature announcement of the results and stated it was "one of the main causes of division and confusion prevailing the political arena".
(20) I think it would have been appropriate and right and respectful of people’s feelings to have done so.” There was also confusion over Labour policy sparked by conflicting comments made by Corbyn and his new shadow work and pensions secretary, Owen Smith.
Pandemonium
Definition:
(n.) The great hall or council chamber of demons or evil spirits.
(n.) An utterly lawless, riotous place or assemblage.
Example Sentences:
(1) I remember him sinking to his knees in tears and the chicken run where I was watching erupted into pandemonium along with everyone else.
(2) Korine gifted Alien to James Franco , who immediately agreed to do it, and the director drove to Panama City to write a draft in the midst of authentic spring-break pandemonium.
(3) Dealing in the shares began on 3 December amid what was described as "pandemonium" on the London Stock Exchange, as share dealers wearing BT hardhats swarmed the floor looking to buy up the stock.
(4) At King's College London, where Jarman was a student, immersive exhibition Pandemonium includes rarely seen Super-8 films and elaborate notebooks, while Tate Modern is screening his final film, Blue.
(5) The decision sparked pandemonium in the court, as lawyers and relatives of people killed during the 2011 uprising began shouting.
(6) She “ revealed the indignities and suffering inflicted on farm animals by industrialised agriculture ”, by apparently just asking to be shown: The farmer switched on the light and there was instant pandemonium within a row of narrow, enclosed crates at one end of the shed.
(7) Apparently when they scored a last-minute equaliser against Chile, it caused such pandemonium at Ayresome Park, the strip lighting in the press box came down."
(8) "There was understandable pandemonium in the morning.
(9) In the conference halls and the streets around them, the summits tend to be sheer pandemonium: activists arrive smeared in green paint or sweating behind furry polar bear suits; peasant women from the Andes in traditional bowler hats sing songs to Mother Earth when their leaders are on camera; celebrities bring their own circus – Robert Redford is expected to come to Paris and Thom Yorke is a conference regular.
(10) 29 min: Play switches to the other end of the field, where a free-kick swung into the Manchester City penalty area by Marco Reus briefly causes pandemonium.
(11) Its reporter said there was “slight pandemonium” and that one person was killed in the rush to get out.
(12) The combination of shrinking habitat and increasing human pandemonium have produced conditions under which the channels … necessary for creature survival are being completely overloaded.
(13) As the pandemonium died down, it became clear that the strangers in black were a Swat team of police officers from the local Habersham County force – they had raided the house on the incorrect assumption that occupants were involved in drugs.
(14) Pandemonium erupted when the not guilty verdict was announced.
(15) How does she survive on a pittance in that pitiless pandemonium?
(16) With pandemonium unfolding all around them, the faces of Tawfiq, Sultan and Sa'dun were lost and forgotten in the crush.
(17) It's a small sample of the estimated 45,000 deployments that occur in the US each year (up from 1,400% from the '80s), but the report reveals a picture of law enforcement as flash-bang assault unit , with hardly an actual suspect in harm's way: pandemonium in a baby's crib; a grandfather of 12 killed by a discharged gun; Swat officers gunning down a mother as she died, child in her arms.
(18) The helicopter triggers pandemonium on the newly formed island village, a cluster of mud houses poking over the surface of the sprawling inland sea in southern Pakistan .
(19) Four Afghan brothers who said they had worked as translators for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) but had been forced to flee from the Taliban; a nine-year-old Syrian girl called Hadig, her arm decked in loom bands, and 55-year-old Shah Mohamad Tagi, whose face had been badly burnt in a bomb attack on his native home town of Herat, Afghanistan, all told similar stories that underlined the sense of pandemonium.
(20) Key changes made to the executive order mean that similar scenes of pandemonium are much less likely to be witnessed at midnight Thursday.