(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.
Hernia
Definition:
(n.) A protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also rupture.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aetiological factors concerned in the production of paraumbilical and epigastric hernias have been reviewed along structural--functional lines.
(2) A paraesophageal hernia may be life-threatening and requires surgical correction when diagnosed.
(3) In all cases Richter's hernia was at the internal inguinal ring.
(4) The authors propose three regular procedures with which they are experienced: repair with a large retromuscular nonabsorbable synthetic tulle prosthesis for extensive epigastric eventrations, fillup aponeuroplasty using the sheath of the rectus abdominis associated with a premuscular patch in case of diastasis or of multiple superimposed orifices and suture associated with a small retromuscular auxiliary patch to treat small incisional hernias.
(5) Especially in the old patients (over 70 years) the incisional hernias represents an invalidating pathology whose treatment, for the high incidence of associated diseases of respiratory and cardiocirculatory apparatus in the aged, offers difficulties connected both to surgical methods and to the perioperative evaluation and preparation of patients.
(6) Four presented with diaphragmatic hernia and died in the neonatal period.
(7) Spigelian hernias continue to be misdiagnosed preoperatively, often forgotten in the differential diagnosis, as physical examination is usually of little benefit.
(8) The hernia ring, which was located medially to the suture line of previous herniorraphy, had strangulated the herniated bladder.
(9) It seems likely that diaphragmatic hernia is a non-specific consequence of several teratological processes.
(10) The majority of the scans revealed a reduction of the herniation, while 16 of the patients still had a hernia.
(11) This, in principle, is similar to creating an irreducible hernia.
(12) A horse with a parietal hernia and a horse with intestinal stragulation were treated surgically; in the latter, the involved intestine was resected.
(13) One goat anesthetized with thiamylal sodium, xylazine, and halothane for repair of an abominal hernia, and 7 of 29 goats similarly anesthetized for an experiment unrelated to considerations of anesthesia, developed signs of hepatic failure within 24 hours of anesthesia.
(14) The most frequent causes of failure of nucleolysis were lateral osseous stenosis (19 cases) and sub-ligamentous hernia (17 cases), apparently due to the ineffectiveness of the enzyme.
(15) Peritoneography was performed in 122 patients clinically suspected of hernia without definite palpation findings.
(16) The sexual adjustment of 91 married men (ranging in age from 51 to 77) who had undergone either transurethral prostatectomy or inguinal hernia repair was compared using the same measures and experimental design.
(17) Developmental A. Bochdalek hernia (pseudocavity) IV.
(18) It use will enlarge the choices of procedures best suited to the needs of a specific hernia.
(19) diastasis recti abdominis with pericardial hernia, ventral defect of the diaphragm, partial defect of the sternum, and tetralogy of Fallot.
(20) We have studied the epidemiology of inguinal hernias in preterm infants.