(n.) The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult.
(n.) The state of being abashed or disconcerted; loss self-possession; perturbation; shame.
(n.) Overthrow; defeat; ruin.
(n.) One who confuses; a confounder.
Example Sentences:
(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.
Disarrangement
Definition:
(n.) The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged; confusion; disorder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Abnormal Z bands and disarrangement of myofibrils were often observed.
(2) the sphenoid, ethmoid, and occipital bones) and to abnormal spatial relationships between the cribriform plate and the crista galli, resulting in a positional disarrangement of the points of basal attachment of the dura matter.
(3) The degree of aneuploidy indicates how far tumour cells have progressed in their cellular disarrangement, and information about a tumour's proliferative capacity is given by the S phase measurements.
(4) Changes of the hair bundles, such as disarrangement of cilia, increased fragility of cilia and formation of giant cilia, have also been observed in aged individuals.
(5) The distribution of ferritin particles was somewhat disarranged on the surface of unfixed platelets incubated with TM60 compared to that in the fixed platelets.
(6) The left ventricular wall thickness, the diameters of myocytes and the percentage of fibrosis in the HCM group were significantly greater; and the eccentricity e was significantly less, suggesting that myocardial disarrangement was significantly more severe than that in the controls.
(7) Deviation from the norm of architecture at the ureteropelvic junction was disclosed: Reduced muscles with increased connective tissues in four cases and disarrangement of bundles in eight cases, including two with predominantly longitudinal element, three with circular element and another three with irregular orientation.
(8) This disarranged symbiosis may be regenerated under light cultivation by adding different species of Chlorophyceae (Chlorella, Dunaliella) and chrysophyceae (Ochromonas, Cyclotella), but not of Cyanophyceae (Anabaena, Nostoc, Oscillatoria, Anacystis).
(9) In the dentinal tubules after 120 days, reticular degeneration and empty in Bis-GMA group, and disarrangement of microfilaments and microtubules was seen in EDMA, Tri-EDMA and UDMA groups.
(10) Addition of delta 12-PGJ2 to confluent HSC-1 cells resulted in the disappearance of actin filaments and the disarrangement of keratin filaments, as visualized with fluorescent-labeled phallacidine or immunofluorescence.
(11) This is reflected in a still remaining slight disarrangement of the subepithelial collagenous fibres at the 20 postoperative day.
(12) We conclude that diastolic dysfunction in HT-ASH can be attributed to the percentage of fibrosis, and to disarrangement of myocytes in HCM.
(13) Most frequent were colonies or aggregates of amebae in the crypts between the epithelium and basement membrane, causing either no evident necrosis or changes ranging from necrosis and disarrangement of adjacent cells to complete destruction of the epithelium and reduction of the cells to pyknotic bodies.
(14) The ependymal disarrangement involved disruption and flattening of the ependymal cells, which were often devoid of microvilli, cilia and intercellular junctional complexes.
(15) A flat two-dimensional pattern is seen when these same lines are disarranged.
(16) Histological examination of testes in thallium-treated animals revealed disarrangement of the tubular epithelium and ultrastructural changes in the Sertoli cells with cytoplasmic vacuolation and distension of the smooth endoplasmic reticulum.
(17) Morphology of right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy specimens was evaluated in terms of hypertrophy, disarrangement, fibrosis, degeneration, endocardial thickening, interstitial changes, and types of fibrosis.
(18) At the 16-day stage, the corneal epithelium became irregular in thickness and the corneal stroma was discontinuous, having disarranged collagenous fibrils.
(19) 4) Thickening of the tunica intima, obstruction, disarrangement of the elastic fibers and distruption of the vessels were observed in the inferior alveolar artery, the arterioles, and also occlusion, which gave various appearances, in the vessels within the Haversian canal and the canal of Volkmann was seen.
(20) The latter is possible because, according to the presented data, the condensation of chromatin into chromosomes is associated with a decrease in accessibility of N-3 in adenine (the protection of the minor groove of DNA) to modifications, and with an increased methylation of N-1 in adenine (the disarrangement of the secondary structure of DNA).