(n.) Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.
(n.) Neglect of order or system; irregularity.
(n.) Breach of public order; disturbance of the peace of society; tumult.
(n.) Disturbance of the functions of the animal economy of the soul; sickness; derangement.
(v. t.) To disturb the order of; to derange or disarrange; to throw into confusion; to confuse.
(v. t.) To disturb or interrupt the regular and natural functions of (either body or mind); to produce sickness or indisposition in; to discompose; to derange; as, to disorder the head or stomach.
(v. t.) To depose from holy orders.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings are more consistent with those in studies of panic disorder.
(2) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
(3) Hypothyroidism complicated by spontaneous hyperthyroidism is an interesting but rare occurrence in the spectrum of autoimmune thyroid disorders.
(4) Diseases of the gastric musculature, including the inflammatory and endocrine myopathies, muscular dystrophies, and infiltrative disorders, can result in significant gastroparesis.
(5) The serum concentration of hyaluronan (HYA) was determined in 59 patients with various myeloproliferative disorders, including 33 patients with idiopathic myelofibrosis.
(6) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
(7) Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are frequently accompanied by deteriorated renal functions and by pathological lesions in the glomeruli.
(8) Periodontal diseases are a collection of disorders that may affect patients throughout life.
(9) The study examined the sustained effects of methylphenidate on reading performance in a sample of 42 boys, aged 8 to 11, with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
(10) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
(11) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
(12) Our findings indicate that Turner girls have a functional brain disorder more often than the controls, particularly at the occipital and parietal areas and in those with hemispheric differences most often in the right hemisphere.
(13) Infusion of sodium lactate associated with isoproterenol could be used to combat the depressent effects of betablockers in patients with cardiac disorders.
(14) The review provides an update of drug-induced pulmonary disorders, focusing on newer agents whose effects on the lung have been studied recently.
(15) Hypercalcitoninemia was the most pronounced in patients with cardiac rhythm disorders and a simultaneous reduction in total serum calcium.
(16) Damage to this innervation is often initiated by childbirth, but appears to progress during a period of many years so that the functional disorder usually presents in middle life.
(17) We present a 40-year-old woman with manifestations of all three disorders.
(18) Osteogenesis imperfecta is the common term for a heterogeneous group of heritable disorders of connective tissue with lethal and nonlethal forms.
(19) What constitutes a "mental disorder" for purposes of the insanity defense?
(20) A 68 year-old man with a history of right thalamic hemorrhage demonstrated radiologically in the pulvinar and posterior portion of the dorsomedian nucleus developed a clinical picture of severe physical sequelae associated with major affective, behavioral and psychic disorders.
Gynecology
Definition:
(n.) The science which treats of the structure and diseases of women.
Example Sentences:
(1) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
(2) On the other hand, the majority of gynecologic patients with pelvic infections are young and healthy.
(3) Mammary function and architectonics were correlated with gynecologic conditions.
(4) Data were collected on a sample of 131 women receiving treatment for gynecological cancer.
(5) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
(6) Analysis of 156 records relating to patients at the age of 15 to 85 years with extended purulent peritonitis of the surgical and gynecological genesis (the toxic phase, VI category ASA) showed that combination of programmed sanitation laparotomy and intensive antibacterial therapy performed as short-term courses before, during and after the operation with an account of the information on the nature of the microbial associations and antibioticograms was an efficient procedure in treatment of severe peritonitis.
(7) The safe motherhood initiative demands an intersectoral, collaborative approach to gynecology, family planning, and child health in which midwifery is the key element.
(8) The data indicate that hot flashes may start much earlier and continue far longer than is commonly recognized by physicians or acknowledged in textbooks of gynecology.
(9) The lack of tumor specificity of sialyl Lewis-Xi antigen limits its diagnostic value for gynecologic malignancies, but serial measurement of this antigen may be useful in evaluating therapy and monitoring patients.
(10) In 1968, nearly 60% of the malignant ovarian tumors were treated by doctors in internal medicine, surgery and radiology etc., rather than gynecology, which was partly because the primary site of the cancer was unknown during the clinical course and partly because the gynecologist gave up treatment of patients in advanced cases.
(11) At the Universitäts-Frauenklinik Heidelberg this examination procedure was used since June, 1985, to evaluate its clinical reliability in obstetrics and gynecology.
(12) The measured dose distributions at equivalent source activity and similar geometry of the applicators revealed the possibility with regard of all techniques of gynecologic irradiation utilized in our field of arriving at similar relative and absolute dose distributions by means of the Cs-137 afterloading technique.
(13) This technique may be useful for automated prescreening of gynecological specimens.
(14) It is concluded that laparoscopy is an extremely useful procedure for the clarification of pelvic pain and other gynecological symptoms.
(15) The following results were obtained during pharmacokinetic, bacteriological and clinical evaluation of the usefulness of the combination (1:1) of imipenem (MK-0787) and cilastatin sodium (MK-0791), an inhibitor of dehydropeptidase-I, in the treatment of patients with obstetric and gynecologic infections.
(16) Cis-platinum treatment is considered to be effective and useful for gynecological cancer.
(17) Endometrial carcinoma has been regarded as one of the more curable gynecologic malignancies.
(18) Management of female patients includes careful inspection of the vulva with each full-skin or gynecologic examination, followed by biopsy of any suspicious lesion.
(19) Prognostic variables (age, International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics [FIGO] stage, performance status, and others) possibly associated with high-risk subgroups could not be identified.
(20) The women, attending the Family Planning, Gynecology or Emergency Departments for termination of contraception, replacement of an IUD or for signs or symptoms of pelvic infection, work plastic or copper IUDs.