(n.) An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercises; a disturbance of the galvanic current.
(n.) Confusion of the mind; agitation of the feelings; perplexity; uneasiness.
(n.) Violent agitation in the body politic; public commotion; tumult.
(n.) The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
(2) The judge, Mr Justice John Royce, told George she was "cold" and "calculating", as further disturbing details of her relationship with the co-accused, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, emerged.
(3) 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.
(4) More disturbing than his ideas was Malema's style and tone.
(5) There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance, impaired gall bladder contraction, and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes.
(6) Knapman concluded that the 40-year-old designer, whose full name was Lee Alexander McQueen, "killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed".
(7) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
(8) Only one part of the theory of Alajouanine and colleagues has been confirmed by our experiments for our results have shown that there is a very close correlation between semantic paraphasias and disorders of semantic differentiation whilst no correlation can be found between phonemic paraphasias and disturbances in auditory phonemic discrimination.
(9) This method avoids disturbance of the cellular metabolism.
(10) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
(11) This quantitative characterization of the properties of conduction and refractoriness of both the accessory pathway and ventriculoatrial conduction system and the relation between these characteristics and the accessory pathway location in ART patients provides additional insight into the prerequisites for the initiation and maintenance of this rhythm disturbance.
(12) A 68-year-old male was hospitalized because of headache, nausea, and disturbance of consciousness.
(13) Bereaved individuals were significantly more likely to report heightened dysphoria, dissatisfaction, and somatic disturbances typical of depression, even when variations in age, sex, number of years married, and educational and occupational status were taken into account.
(14) Although not common, the disorder is the most frequently diagnosed disturbance of porphyrin metabolism in many countries, and further insight into its unusual pathogenesis may clarify the hepatotoxic effects of the 4 etiologic agents.
(15) Dysplasia epiphysealis hemimelica - an epiphyseal developmental disturbance of the skeleton - is combined with exostose-like, tumor-simulating cartilaginous hypertrophy of bone tissue, mainly located at the epiphyses of the lower extremities and at the tarsal bones.
(16) Following an encephalopathic illness, a 13-year-old Chinese boy had a partial form of Klüver-Bucy syndrome with emotional disturbance, recent memory loss, hypersexuality, and polyphagia.
(17) Moreover, complete absence of rhythm disturbances right up to the beginning of cardiac arrest was as frequent in the patient groups as in the control series (around 20%).
(18) In short term clinical studies, the beneficial effects of transdermal estradiol on plasma gonadotrophins, maturation of the vaginal epithelium, metabolic parameters of bone resorption and menopausal symptoms (hot flushes, sleep disturbance, genitourinary discomfort and mood alteration) appear to be comparable to those of oral and subcutaneous estrogens, while the undesirable effects of oral estrogens on hepatic metabolism are avoided.
(19) That is why in the patients with disturbances it is necessary to carry out adequate conservative therapy directed at improvement of the metabolism of the neuromuscular structures both before the operation and during the postoperative period, e.g.
(20) Then, all had eye movements disturbances and ataxia.
Rumpus
Definition:
(n.) A disturbance; noise and confusion; a quarrel.
Example Sentences:
(1) His full-time appointment would quell this wearisome rumpus.
(2) She left Rodríguez Lozano to live with Dr Atl in La Merced, causing a public scandal second in rumpus only to the scandal caused by their separation, two years later, which included loud public screaming, buckets of cold water thrown at each other, death threats, and defamatory pamphlets pasted on the doors of the ex-convent.
(3) Miliband's remarks last week triggered a diplomatic rumpus.
(4) Which brings us to the other big rumpus of the week, caused by the new old bore on the block, Nick Kyrgios – old because his antics are also a throwback to the 1970s, to the behaviour that posed a justified threat to institutional sleepiness.
(5) Also responsible for two of the broadcaster’s biggest hits of 2014, The Jump and The Island with Bear Grylls (not without a rumpus of its own), Humphreys can expect another kerfuffle with Sex in Class, in which Belgian sex therapist Goedele Liekens takes her campaign to establish a GCSE in sex education into the homes and schools of Britain.
(6) He was a banker, deeply in the closet, when he stumbled on a rumpus outside the Stonewall Inn 40 years ago.
(7) And she enjoyed the rumpus when her 50,000-word New Yorker article, Raising Kane, reprinted in The Citizen Kane Book (1971), challenged Orson Welles's one-man view of his masterpiece.
(8) It would take the War Room in Dr Strangelove, Goldfinger's rumpus room and the interior of Fort Knox to thrust Adam into the limelight.
(9) Almost a year on from the televised press conference at Rotherham football club that made her name, Jay still can’t believe the rumpus her report caused.
(10) 3 John Terry The captaincy rumpus, the revolt and defensive fraility The mutterings from some within the squad as they departed the Free State Stadium last night were that things were simply not right behind the scenes, with discontent welling up within the set-up.
(11) Paul Evans, the managing director of Rumpus PR, where Martyn worked, said: “We are all distraught at the tragic loss of our much-loved, larger than life, colourful and charismatic colleague, Martyn Hett.
(12) "I was never ever found to have done anything wrong, even in the rumpus over the Soon and Baliunas paper.
(13) There was another call, “telling me off about the rumpus I caused at the conference.
(14) In 2003, he headbutted a policeman in a Paris casino rumpus and was subsequently fined and given a suspended jail term, tactlessly telling the press that to assault a cop was “the dream of every Frenchman”.
(15) There might still have been dry retching, and it might have mainly come from me, but any rumpus would have been nothing to do with their ages.
(16) The atheists were set to create even more rumpus this year after snaffling most booths in a first-come first-served lottery system, prompting the city council to ban all displays.
(17) Martyn loved life, he celebrated it every day and packed it to the brim with his passions,” his employer, the PR company Rumpus, said.
(18) It has also acknowledged the limits of its own research, noting the work of, for example, Roxane Gay, who undertook a similar tally last summer for writers of colour, which she published in The Rumpus .