(n.) A compulsory enrollment of men for military or naval service; a draft.
(a.) Belonging to, or of the nature of, a conspiration.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 2, 178 tattooed male conscripts in ages of 19-24 years, the most frequent tattoo was a heart mark or a mark of heart and arrow.
(2) The role of social, behavioral, and psychological characteristics and other risk indicators for high alcohol consumption in young men was analyzed using a survey of 49,464 Swedish conscripts.
(3) The predictive value of the Cattell 16-factor personality test on the occurrence of automobile accidents among conscripts during their 11-month military service in a transportation section of Finnish Defense Forces was examined.
(4) A study of plantar flexion strength and calf circumference in 30 conscripts is submitted.
(5) Conscripts are posted where the government orders them, and remain there for months and often years without being allowed home.
(6) Sera and demographic data were prospectively collected from 2,000 male conscripts and 2,000 pregnant women from urban and rural parts of Sweden during 1988-1989.
(7) Dan Heymann, a reluctant army conscript, wrote the brutally satirical Weeping for His Band Bright Blue .
(8) In this pilot study clinical, electrocardiographic, chemical and immunological findings have been studied during a six weeks' follow-up after routine immunisation (mumps, polio, tetanus, smallpox, diphtheria and type A meningococcal disease) among 234 Finnish conscripts at the beginning of their military service.
(9) Young male students like him were prime targets for snipers or forced conscription, he told me.
(10) In 15 conscripts, venous plasma potassium was followed during exercise on a training bicycle before and after 10 weeks of moderate physical training and a putative relationship with skeletal muscle Na,K-ATPase was evaluated.
(11) In order to investigate the association between the haptoglobin (Hp) and ABO groups described by others, Hp types and ABO blood groups were studied in 4,370 conscripts and blood donors from the counties of Västerbotten and Norrbotten in Northern Sweden.
(12) First catch early morning urine samples were compared to urethral swabs for detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in 405 male military conscripts, using 2 enzyme immunoassays, Syva Microtrak EIA (SME) and ABBOTT Chlamydiazyme (AC).
(13) Human Rights Watch argued that “this authoritative report rightly condemns the horrific patterns of torture, arbitrary detention, and indefinite conscription that are prompting so many Eritreans to flee their country”.
(14) The secular shift was more pronounced among the short-stature segments of the populations; percentages of conscripts below a height of 160.0 cm dropped in a striking manner throughout the period under investigation.
(15) Risk factors for mortality from motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) were examined in all Australian former National Service conscripts of the Vietnam conflict era, by comparing all those who had died from MVAs since the end of their basic training up until 1982 with a random sample of survivors, using data available from service records.
(16) Two sets of sera were taken at an interval of 3 wk from 12 healthy male conscripts, and the samples were tested with regard to their ability to support proliferation of cultured human aortic smooth muscle cells (HSMC).
(17) The prevalence of smokeless tobacco use, on the other hand, was higher than among civilians and similar to that of conscripted soldiers.
(18) Clinical characteristics and course of disease of 19 pneumococcal, 11 adenoviral, 15 mycoplasmal and 10 mixed pneumonias, diagnosed in 55 military conscripts, were compared.
(19) We have investigated the association between place of upbringing and the incidence of schizophrenia with data from a cohort of 49,191 male Swedish conscripts linked to the Swedish National Register of Psychiatric Care.
(20) The lawmakers in Kiev approved a text "to recommend to the acting president to restart conscription into the Ukraine armed forces without delay" in order to "bolster Ukraine's defence capabilities in connection with aggression from the Russian Federation".
Involuntary
Definition:
(a.) Not having will or the power of choice.
(a.) Not under the influence or control of the will; not voluntary; as, the involuntary movements of the body; involuntary muscle fibers.
(a.) Not proceeding from choice; done unwillingly; reluctant; compulsory; as, involuntary submission.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aggressive behavior during acute involuntary admission was related to ratings on the Brief Psychopathological Rating Scale, age, sex and global assessment in 38 patients.
(2) 93% (non-smokers 99%, smokers 84%) felt that involuntary smoking should be restricted in the workplace and 99% (non-smokers 99%, smokers 97%) felt that it should be restricted in the canteens.
(3) Hemimasticatory spasm is a rare disorder of the trigeminal nerve that produces involuntary jaw closure due to paroxysmal unilateral contraction of jaw-closing muscles.
(4) and involuntary fetal wastage, HLA-A, B compatibility between husband and wife was studied in a group of 77 couples with known obstetric histories.
(5) Urodynamic study of the ileal neobladder showed a low pressure (mean 15.3 cm water) and no involuntary pressure spikes in the neobladder.
(6) About 15% of patients fail to respond to initial antibiotic therapy, 20% experience recurrences, 20% develop involuntary infertility, and 8% of post-PID patients who conceive have an ectopic pregnancy.
(7) Idiopathic torsion dystonia (ITD) is characterized by sustained, involuntary muscle contractions, frequently causing twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures.
(8) "Enuresis risoria" or "giggle incontinence" is a particular condition characterized by a sudden, involuntary, uncontrollable and complete emptying of the bladder during giggling or hearty laughter.
(9) Phenytoin-induced involuntary movements have not been described previously in a case with such a small parasaggital tumour treated with phenytoin at a serum concentration of therapeutic range.
(10) Tremor refers to an involuntary, rhythmic, oscillatory movement of a body part.
(11) Although little change in either mental status or involuntary movements was observed within the 3 weeks following the withdrawal of haloperidol, marked deterioration in mental status and involuntary movements occurred within 1 week of withdrawal of clozapine.
(12) The occurrence of this and related syndromes suggests that inherited, slowly progressive myoclonus, chorea, and dystonia, alone or in combination, should be viewed as a spectrum of hyperkinetic involuntary movements, and that each motor component may represent variable expression of the same genetic defect.
(13) Muscle atrophy, involuntary movements or associated movements in the facial muscles on the side of the anastomosis, which are frequent during spontaneous regeneration, were never observed.
(14) The level of involuntary dehydration is approximately proportional to the degree of total stress imposed on the body.
(15) In the elderly, there are two main types of abnormal involuntary movements: tremors on one hand and dyskinesias on the other.
(16) This paper describes this unexpected, involuntary intervention in patient care in the Department of Geriatric Medicine.
(17) The first case was a premature female infant who developed involuntary twist movements of the left arm, persistent plantar flexion and eversion of the left foot at age of 7 months.
(18) The pharmacokinetics of tetrabenazine and a metabolite, hydroxytetrabenazine, have been investigated in seven patients being treated for involuntary movement disorders.
(19) This involuntary muscle activity was attributed to fusimotor and postural reflexes.
(20) Tardive dyskinesia is a potentially irreversible syndrome of involuntary hyperkinetic movements that occur in predisposed persons receiving extended neuroleptic (antipsychotic) drug therapy.