(v. t.) To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of.
(v. t.) To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil.
(n.) Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
(2) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
(3) Others seek shelter wherever they can – on rented farmland, and in empty houses and disused garages.
(4) Hope was living in a disused council building in Tower Hamlets, east London, and, by maintaining a physical presence on site, providing services for a property guardian company called Newbould Guardians.
(5) To reduce the risks posed by the hazard, the report recommends that a management plan be created to determine the level of soil contamination and for managing excavated soil, and to decommission disused septic tanks to prevent the spread of contamination.
(6) Bone plates allow early weight-bearing, but substitute the problem of stress protection for disuse atrophy.
(7) In this study, we test the hypothesis that monosynaptic connections between la afferents and spinal motoneurons are strengthened by chronic disuse.
(8) In net-curtained rooms above a disused kebab shop on Cricklewood Broadway, a small group of middle-aged men were at work as usual when they found themselves at the centre of a national terror warning.
(9) Two weeks of disuse resulted in 40% muscle weight loss.
(10) In this study, by use of technique that was modified from Morey method, we discussed the histological influence on the soleus muscle of the rats caused by disuse.
(11) A scramble is on to find suitable empty properties, from rooms in private homes, to sports halls and disused school buildings to derelict soldiers’ barracks, even inflatable circus tents.
(12) With the advent of binding assays for vitamin B12 in blood, the Schilling test, which involves administration of radioactive B12 to a patient and subsequent urine collection for 24 to 48 h, fell into disuse in many laboratories.
(13) The results were analyzed with references to the different muscle functions in disuse atrophy.
(14) However, at this time, rates of protein synthesis (measured in vitro) and nucleic acid concentrations were also higher in the denervated tissue, changes more usually associated with an active muscle rather than a disused one.
(15) Chronic muscle disuse decreases the sensitivity of skeletal muscle to nondepolarizing relaxants, such as metocurine (MTC).
(16) This concept has been substantiated by the study of standard fatigue tests performed in control, trained, and disused human muscles, as reviewed in this paper.
(17) Disuse was caused by diverting the flow of urine from the lower urinary tract.
(18) A female juvenile rhesus monkey experienced a 3-wk period of vague lameness and limb disuse, followed by a severe attack of acute polyarthritis resulting in marked radiographic changes.
(19) Before effective countermeasures can be devised, a thorough knowledge of the extent, location, and rate of bone loss during weightlessness is needed from actual space flight data or ground-based disuse models.
(20) In animals, nigrostriatal neurons respond to the blockade of DA synapses by treatment with antipsychotic agents in several ways, including acute and transient increases in the turnover of DA, and more slowly evolving "disuse" supersensitivity, possibly of postsynaptic receptors.
Misuse
Definition:
(v. t.) To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents.
(v. t.) To abuse; to treat ill.
(n.) Wrong use; misapplication; erroneous or improper use.
(n.) Violence, or its effects.
Example Sentences:
(1) A thorough nursing assessment is essential to detect and correct drug misuse and to diagnose drug abuse.
(2) Eleven per cent of the courses that responded provided no formal substance misuse training.
(3) Buckingham Palace was drawn into the dispute when it was revealed that Pownall had sought advice from the Lord Chamberlain, a key officer in the royal household, on the potential misuse of the portcullis emblem due to it being the property of the Queen.
(4) In some areas veterans are waiting up to 42 weeks for certain psychology services.” He added: “We also welcome the call for the Ministry of Defence to publish a comprehensive strategy on alcohol misuse.
(5) The implications of qualitative and quantitative differences among love, sex and commitment are discussed in relation to (1) the concept of "multiple selves," (2) "individual variations in threshold levels," and (3) the misuse of "ideal types."
(6) Benzodiazepine (BD) misuse and dependence in 80 patients, 1974-1983 undergoing withdrawal treatment, were investigated by means of case histories and catamnestic inquiries.
(7) These accusations seek to make her an accomplice to a misuse of public funds through her parliamentary assistant’s contract.
(8) During the period October, 1970, to October, 1972, a sample of 295 patients attending Special Clinics in the City of Glasgow participated in an investigation into drug misuse.
(9) Methods to prevent polypharmacy and drug misuse have not been well studied.
(10) Professor David Nutt, director of the neuropsychopharmacology unit at Imperial College, London, and former chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs , said the report provided strong evidence "that the costs of the current punitive approaches to cannabis control are massively disproportionate to the harms of the drug, and shows that more sensible approaches would provide significant financial benefits to the UK as well as reducing social exclusion and injustice".
(11) A simple one clause Abolition of Privacy Bill: "The tort of misuse of private information is hereby abolished" might be thought to be sufficient.
(12) It is “almost too late” to stop a global superbug crisis caused by the misuse of antibiotics, a leading expert has warned.
(13) Results are discussed in light of the finding that not much time is devoted to substance misuse in the professional preparation of these health care providers.
(14) Newspapers have been lobbying hard to stave off a Leveson law of any kind, arguing that the press is already subject to laws ranging from libel to data protection and computer misuse acts to guard against illegal activities.
(15) Scotland Yard said the 15-year-old was questioned on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act, but freed on bail on Tuesday morning pending further inquiries.
(16) However, 38.7% of these subjects were not alcohol misusers.
(17) Drug-taking was, in effect, decriminalised by the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 , ever since when the authorities have deployed the rhetoric of toughness to conceal the truth that we are free to take drugs with impunity, knowing our crime will probably be ignored, or at worst not punished but "treated".
(18) The prevalence of alcohol misuse is similar for all exercise categories.
(19) Some psychiatrists misuse theoretical concepts beyond their generally accepted dimensions in an attempt to support a conclusion favorable to a litigant or defendant.
(20) AT as well as RFB may be considered "misused" in having them replace the therapeutical and understanding conversation between doctor and patients, in a mechanistic way.