(n.) A curve generated by a point in the plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plane.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Cycloidei.
(n.) One of the Cycloidei.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, they seem to suggest that most cases of cycloid psychosis are not variants of either schizophrenia or major affective disorders.
(2) A subsample of untreated cycloid psychoses satisfying the requirements for major affective disorder according to DSM-III was compared with a subsample of cycloid psychoses getting other DSM-III diagnoses.
(3) It seems also reasonable to include the ideational apraxia within the symptoms to be sought in those cycloid psychotic states including confusional psychosis.
(4) For this reason we consider that the concept of the cycloid psychoses is appropriate for the characterization of a large proportion of childbed psychoses.
(5) The most striking difference between cycloids and affectives was the lack of manic episodes during the follow-up period in the former group.
(6) Of the parents of the systematic schizophrenics 2.3% were ill, of the parents of the unsystematic schizophrenics 11.6%, of the parents of the cycloid psychotics 5.0%.
(7) They observed that the individual variations of this ratio are of the same magnitude in "cycloid psychosis" and in chronic schizophrenia.
(8) Cases with PPP onset within 3 weeks of delivery (mostly affective or cycloid psychoses) evidenced more frequent tension-anxiety and excitement at interviews during pregnancy than did diagnostically comparable cases not developing PPPs.
(9) The cycloid test system is easy and fast to use, and the estimate is truely unbiased.
(10) Marital fertility was within the expected interval in cycloid probands.
(11) Across the entire first year, the Cycloid and Schizophrenic mothers deviated most frequently from controls, while the Affectives' interaction was more negative than controls' for the first time at the 1-year observation.
(12) Happiness-ecstacy and global altruism were exclusively recorded in cycloid psychosis.
(13) Besides, the transferrin serum values are decreased in cycloid psychoses (p less than 0.001).
(14) The course and outcome of cycloid psychotic disorder was explored by means of a prospective three-year follow-up of a sample of patients fulfilling the diagnostic criteria for the disorder provided by Perris & Brockington, compared to patients with a diagnosis of affective or schizoaffective disorder.
(15) Several prognostically favorable factors found in the Bonn Study are identical to criteria used to classify schizo-affective, schizophreniform and cycloid psychoses, e.g., acute onset, endogenomorph-depressive symptoms, and psychoreactivity.
(16) No such differences could be statistically verified; no symptom profile specifically indicating cycloid psychosis could be found.
(17) Frequencies of HLA antigens, blood groups, serum groups and red cell enzyme types in patients with cycloid psychosis were compared with those in patients with bipolar psychosis and in normal controls.
(18) With the systematic schizophrenics the average period spent in hospital amounted to 16.9 years, with the unsystematic schizophrenics 13.8 years, with the cycloid psychotics 8.2 years.
(19) The circle of the marked personality types according to the analyzed indices are limited both from representatives of the normal population and representatives of other personality types ("model", "deficient", cycloids).
(20) A subcohort of 64 patients, satisfying at least 5 items of the rating protocol, was then analysed by Q-factor analysis to test whether nuclear cases of cycloid psychosis differ from symptomatically related syndromes.
Roulette
Definition:
(n.) A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game.
(n.) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots.
(n.) A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
(n.) the curve traced by any point in the plane of a given curve when the latter rolls, without sliding, over another fixed curve. See Cycloid, and Epycycloid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Read Rachel’s full story Facebook Twitter Pinterest Chris Owen: ‘I’ve been sober for six years now, and I don’t miss alcohol.’ Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian I spent my 20s playing Russian roulette with alcohol The NHS has been there time and time again for Chris Owen, who battled alcoholism throughout his 20s.
(2) Recent use of cocaine, the most common drug found at autopsy, was detected in 64% of Russian roulette fatalities and in 35% of the control group (P less than .05).
(3) The sound of chips landing on the tables chimes with house music filling the room and the roll of the ball along the roulette wheel.
(4) Severe restriction of the stakes on FOBTs or, better still, banishing roulette back to the casinos altogether would focus the minds of both CEOs and shareholders on getting their slice of the action from of the best betting medium ever devised.
(5) Until now the controversial electronic FOBTs - which account for half of betting shop profits - allowed players to lose £100 of their own money every 20 seconds on casino games such as roulette.
(6) Meanwhile in Britain, the game of Russian roulette played out by young drug users every night continues apace, with the risks continually heightened by the introduction of ever more dangerous drugs, such as PMA, which killed 23 people last year .
(7) He naively thought the roulette wheel in the City would keep turning and the house price bubble keep floating, forever.
(8) Labour accuses the government of playing Russian roulette with homes and businesses by cutting flood protection, but McIntosh said: "Be in no doubt, a Labour government would have cut flood defences.
(9) The waiting goes on to discover what, if anything, the Government proposes to do next about the addictive, high-stakes roulette and gaming machines which have created several thousand mini-casinos on our high streets.
(10) Unite has accused the company of playing "Russian roulette" with the future of Grangemouth, the biggest industrial site in Scotland, and is backing any efforts by the Scottish Government to find a new buyer for the oil refinery and petrochemical complex.
(11) The terminals allow bets of up to £100 every 20 seconds on casino games such as roulette, leading to the machines being dubbed the "crack cocaine of gambling".
(12) Because people buying advance tickets get seat reservations, for regular commuters it's like Russian roulette.
(13) If he is playing electoral roulette with the one-time bankable constituency of students, he is also hopeful of picking up voters "abandoned" by Labour in the north, where the Lib Dems are second to Labour in 52 constituencies.
(14) Britain’s hardworking taxpayers will pay the price for the economic chaos.” Where the parties stand on the economy Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, said: “Ed Miliband and Ed Balls are intent on playing Russian roulette with Britain’s economy … The fact is, Labour want a return to reckless and excessive borrowing.” The Labour leadership is aiming to wrong-foot Osborne, who hopes to portray Labour as fiscally irresponsible, by placing the elimination of the budget deficit at the centre of its manifesto.
(15) "Banks should be safe places for people's savings, not huge roulette wheels," Cable said.
(16) There were only four accidents, two of which were the results of 'Russian roulette'.
(17) Nicknamed ‘Casino Jimmy’ by the Danish press after skipping curfew to go play roulette while on international duty with the Under-21 team, Nielsen would go on to become a hardened gambling addict.
(18) William Hill , Ladbrokes and Coral, together with the smaller competitor Paddy Power, have promised from next month to remove all adverts for touch-screen roulette machines from their windows and to dedicate a fifth of the space to responsible gambling messages.
(19) A reply is offered to an article likening the use of condoms to Russian roulette in its vaunted protection against AIDS.
(20) In the caloric test especially the patients show canal paresis (CP) on the more impaired side, but none of them appeared to be nonresponsive to the test; lumbar air insufflation is often an effective treatment for this disease; pneumoencephalo-roulette tomography is very useful for diagnosing pathological changes in the posterior fossa.