(v. t.) To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind.
(v. i.) To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
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) Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are frequently accompanied by deteriorated renal functions and by pathological lesions in the glomeruli.
(3) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
(4) "There is … a risk that the political, trade, and gas frictions with Russia could lead to strong deterioration in economic relations between the two countries, with a significant drop in Ukraine's exports to and imports from Russia.
(5) This suggests that there was a deterioration of the vasoconstrictor response and indicated a possible effect of heat at the receptor or effector level.
(6) Four patients had previously been diverted and the other six were reconstructed because of intractable incontinence or deteriorating renal function.
(7) Finally, these cases support the existence of a therapeutic upper limit for desipramine plasma concentrations, above which clinical deterioration occurs.
(8) In view of the high mortality every clinical deterioration of patients with cirrhosis should alert the physician of the presence of SBP.
(9) The authors present a boy with a sudden onset a large intracranial hematoma causing rapid neurologic deterioration.
(10) The data suggest late hemodynamic deterioration after 48 hours of IABC.
(11) Aspartylglycosaminuria (AGU) is a hereditary metabolic disorder characterized by slowly progressive mental deterioration from infancy, urinary excretion of large amounts of aspartylglycosamine, and decreased activity of the lysosomal enzyme aspartylglcosamine amido hydrolase in various body tissues and fluids.
(12) The dilemma focuses on whether the obliteration or removal of the cystic areas will benefit or cause further deterioration of the patient's condition.
(13) Bacteriuria was not associated with deteriorating renal function determined by serial plasma creatinine estimations.
(14) The deteriorating situation would worsen if ministers pressed ahead with another controversial Lansley policy – that of abolishing the cap on the amount of income semi-independent foundation trust hospitals can make by treating private patients.
(15) During a postoperative follow-up period of 1 to 3 years, no further deterioration has been observed and magnetic resonance studies have demonstrated a space filled with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) around the lumbosacral cord.
(16) Use of sunglasses that block all ultraviolet radiation and severely attenuate high-energy visible radiation will slow the pace of ocular deterioration and delay the onset of age-related disease, thereby reducing its prevalence.
(17) Sechin warned the west earlier this week that expanding sanctions over Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region would only make the political situation deteriorate further, according to Reuters.
(18) Rates of clinical deterioration and frequencies of attacks were not significantly different between treated and control groups.
(19) In a follow-up of 17 HIV-positive subjects, nine presented deteriorated reflexes in the tests and higher IgG immune complex levels.
(20) However, these good results deteriorated on longer follow-up and were not expected to be permanent.
Primitivism
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Primitivization of emotional expressions on human faces also occurred.
(2) Lending support to this proposition, the results revealed a pattern of emotional range--value associations that challenge the prevailing view of emotionality as intimately linked with primitivism and impulsivity.
(3) The use of traditional African sculptures by cubists such as Pablo Picasso later helped change attitudes towards African art labelled "primitivism", although dubious attitudes have lingered among artistic elites.
(4) Hence, primitivization of the subjects' cognitive and linguistic functioning is assumed to have occurred.
(5) And I was part of that pact of silence: it was a condition of the treaty that gave me my equality, that I would not invoke the primitivism of the mother, her innate superiority, that voodoo in the face of which the mechanism of equal rights breaks down.
(6) Some excursi are joined relative to the conditions of discovery of pre-historic art, to the relationship between modern art and child "primitivism", and to the themes of child drawings within cartoons.
(7) We concluded that stress produced code-switching, and hence, a primitivization of the subject's cognitive and linguistic functioning is assumed to have occurred.