(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.
Ramshackle
Definition:
(a.) Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.
(v. t.) To search or ransack; to rummage.
Example Sentences:
(1) As we settle down to chat in the deputy prime minister's ramshackle constituency base at 85 Netherfield Road, Sheffield, it is hard to dispel the impression that he's still a man under siege.
(2) No one else need bother to paint them as a ramshackle and rancorous rabble marooned in the past and without a plausible account of the future.
(3) In between, the small downtown area is a shell of empty, crumbling shop fronts and derelict, boarded-up houses interspersed with the odd bar, ramshackle residential street and tracts of wasteland.
(4) It takes time for Dhaka's ramshackle emergency services to arrive, so hundreds of locals clamber over and through the rubble, tearing at the concrete blocks and mangled metal with their hands.
(5) In the vast dusty fields and ramshackle towns of Shinyanga the problem is that sex education is minimal.
(6) Then he showed me another yellow building; this one was more like a ramshackle shed, with wooden props that looked like they were stopping it collapsing into the mud.
(7) The conference communique, drafts of which have been widely leaked , recognises, in effect, that the ramshackle, temporary governance arrangements in place since 2004 have not worked and are no longer sustainable.
(8) Over the last 30 years, a dense canopy of trees has grown to shade its ramshackle cluster of caravans, old buses, huts and makeshift toilets, many decorated with peace slogans and abstract murals.
(9) A few years later, Davies had his own ramshackle premises; in 2011, Tangled Parrot was named Wales's best independent record shop, just as he was expanding the business to include the Parrot Music Bar and Café .
(10) Fires regularly swept through the ramshackle huts, which remained until the local government built high-rise flats in 1970.
(11) Arcade Fire's sound is all their own, and it has become – even with its moments of ramshackle amateurishness, and its merging of the raw and the refined – one of the key rock signatures of recent times.
(12) We fled the capital almost a decade ago, swapping a rented flat in Kennington, south London, for a mortgage on a ramshackle old house in the Oxford suburbs.
(13) And Adriana spoke on her own behalf: “One of the most important changes in my path being involved in the Alex Nieto case has been to learn more about restorative practices, because as someone trained in legal systems, I know that the pain and fear that we are not safe from police in our communities will not go away until there is personal accountability by those who harm us.” Fear that we aren't safe from police in our communities won't go away until there's accountability by those who harm us Adriana Camarena Adriana, her historian husband, and their friends – including an Aids activist and a choreographer – who live nearby in a ramshackle old building, had faced their own eviction battle last year, and won it.
(14) There were two: a ramshackle center housing a combined pharmacy, city hall and police station, and a Payday Loans outlet decorated with neon lights, promising $10,000 on the spot.
(15) That conflict has deeply divided Lebanon along sectarian lines, and paralysed the country's ramshackle political system to the point that it has been stuck with a weak and ineffectual caretaker government since April.
(16) The city’s walls have become complex documents, authored and re-authored like ramshackle Wikipedia pages.
(17) Layali was born on 7 October 1998 on the open deck of a ramshackle fishing boat crammed with 74 migrants.
(18) Voted for by approximately 90 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Golden Globes have faced criticism for what is perceived as their ramshackle structure and lowbrow sensibility.
(19) The family has been working on farmland to cover rent for two ramshackle tents on the edge of a field since February 2012.
(20) Casas da Comporta, Alentejo Don't be fooled by the sleepy, slightly ramshackle air: Comporta is where Lisbon's fashion and media set come to get some sand between their perfectly manicured toes.