What's the difference between dolor and hedon?

Dolor


Definition:

  • (n.) Pain; grief; distress; anguish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The party’s dolorous condition is confirmed by every poll that places them fifth in the national rankings, behind Ukip and the Greens.
  • (2) Positive cutaneous tests with coccidioidin (33.8%) and cryptococcin (31.9%) in Villa Dolores were obtained.
  • (3) "Education widows have been failed by the education system," says Dolores Dickson, executive director of girls' education organisation Camfed in Ghana.
  • (4) The injuries are mainly caused by the dolorous contact with the boom, by stumbling on board a ship and by jumping on the landing-stage.
  • (5) By means of starch gel electrophoresis, 16-20 loci coding for enzymes and hemoglobin have been investigated in six population samples of Akodon dolores, captured in a single site of the Córdoba province (Argentina) during a 3-year period and in three samples of an Akodon azarae population.
  • (6) Dolores Dooley Clarke describes how the course in medical ethics at University College, Cork is structured, how it has changed and how it is likely to change as time goes on.
  • (7) Dolores Piperno, who led the study at the archaeobiology laboratory at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, said the work showed Neanderthals were more sophisticated diners than many academics gave them credit for.
  • (8) A 28 year old female was admitted to the hospital with dolorous postprandial swelling of the left upper epigastrium, occurring since the recent death of her husband.
  • (9) Burke referred to Bishop as Dolores Umbridge, the Harry Potter character.)
  • (10) They are coming together because they know in unity is where ultimate victory lies," said Dolores Canales, co-founder of California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement .
  • (11) X-ray mammography as well as clinical criteria and anamnestic factors should be used for the diagnosis of breast abscesses (calor, rubor, tumor, dolor) and for the diagnosis of fat necrosis (surgery, trauma).
  • (12) In 1932, during the run of the musical on Broadway, he met and married Dolores Read, a nightclub singer, with whom he remained all his life; they adopted four children.
  • (13) Spain was one of the few countries where the governing party actually won the European elections, pointed out People's party president María Dolores de Cospedal.
  • (14) We've met him a number of times, and he'll listen to you, but his office is continuously locked,” said Dolores Huerta, a veteran labour leader and civil rights activist.
  • (15) Toledo city guide: what to see plus the best restaurants, tapas bars and hotels Read more Highlights might include a picnic of the best Iberian jamón, cheese and local wine in the courtyard of the 17th-century Cardinal’s House ( lacasadelcardenal.com ), now a high-end antique shop, or a stop at La Recova (Pasaje Nuestra Señora de los Dolores de San Juan 5, la recova.es ), a ceramics and secondhand shop with a cafe where locals linger over breakfasts of bread, tomatoes, crema (delicious flavoured lard) spreads and coffee – all for €2.20.
  • (16) F1 and backcross hybrids were produced between the Dolores and Candelaria stocks.
  • (17) Spare a thought, too, for the dolorous impact of Wednesday's developments on ordinary Afghans and rank-and-file western soldiers sent to assist them.
  • (18) Expanding on this in an interminable review of the Journal, James is baffled by the way that the "weakness" of these "furious névrosés" "appears to them a source of glory or even of dolorous general interest".
  • (19) This is no doubt why María Dolores de Cospedal, general secretary of the ruling Partido Popular (PP), recently boasted that its supporters "would go hungry" rather than fail to pay their mortgage.
  • (20) The diagnosis of a wound infection is made upon the classical symptoms dolor, rubor, calor, tumor and functio laesa and depends on continuous wound care and repeated clinical judgement.

Hedon


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It may have been like punk never ‘appened, but you caught a whiff of the movement’s scorched earth puritanism in the mocking disdain with which Smash Hits addressed rock-star hedonism.
  • (2) When the amount of intake was described in terms of an hedonic index (HI), which indicates the hedonic aspect of the taste of each solution, HI's for sucrose, NaCl, HCl, and quinine were 1.17, 0.43, -0.49, and -0.89, respectively.
  • (3) These results indicate that quantification of effects of hedonic ratings on intake within subjects is possible, but that hedonic ratings may not be good discriminators of intake differences between subjects.
  • (4) Forty-two chronic schizophrenic patients were evaluated for extent of hedonic deficit and compared with a demographically matched sample of normals.
  • (5) The excitatory potential, the involvement potential, and the hedonic valence of the nonerotic and erotic stimuli were also assessed.
  • (6) To determine the contribution of sensory stimulation to the changing hedonic response to foods, the effects of consuming very low-calorie and higher calorie versions of soup and jello on the subjective pleasantness of foods were compared.
  • (7) The responses to salty, sour, and bitter solutions shared the same hedonically negative upper- and midface components but differed in the accompanying lower-face actions: lip pursing in response to sour and mouth gaping in response to bitter.
  • (8) The results suggest that the increased desire to binge in response to stressors reported by subjects higher in disordered eating cannot be accounted for by differences in cardiovascular reactivity or negative hedonic state, relative to what subjects low in disordered eating showed in response to the same stressors.
  • (9) Another was to escape into a world of desperate hedonism.
  • (10) Of course there was, and still is, wild hedonism among some of the more flamboyant and brash members of the trading community, but focusing on the outliers is no way to properly judge the majority of the industry.
  • (11) Our data include measures of: (1) psychological functioning of the parents; (2) the environment, including family functioning, marital adjustment, and parenting practices; (3) child adjustment, including peer, or teacher, parent, and self-ratings; (4) early signs or precursors to the development of schizophrenia or affective disorder, including cognitive slippage, attentional deficits, hedonic capacity, depressogenic attributional styles, and subsyndromal affective patterns.
  • (12) The inter-relationship of personality with dietary intake of salt and sugar, and with hedonic responses to saltiness and sweetness, was examined among 62 female and 38 male university students.
  • (13) Dynorphin A(1-8) activity within some brainstem structure(s) may therefore contribute prominently to the opioid mechanism whose mediation of the hedonic response to food was previously inferred from naloxone antagonism.
  • (14) Alterations in CTA learning and extinction following lesions of the lateral tegmental noradrenergic system appear to reflect alterations in the way that animals with lesions react toward the hedonic aspects of taste-related stimuli rather than alterations in associational or attentional mechanisms.
  • (15) Audio-taped interviews recorded in the Gottesman-Shields schizophrenic twin series (17 pairs of identical twins, 14 pairs of fraternal same-sex twins, and 12 unpaired twins) were rated for level of hedonic capacity.
  • (16) Mice selectively bred for sensitivity (COLD) or insensitivity (HOT) to the hypothermic effect of ethanol were tested in three tasks purported to assess ethanol's hedonic properties: place conditioning, taste conditioning, and ethanol drinking.
  • (17) Hedonic capacity was found to be genetically influenced, although it appeared to be less heritable than the global diagnosis of schizophrenia.
  • (18) Only with regard to androstenone did trend analyses reveal a significant quadratic relationship between hedonic estimates and phases of the menstrual cycle, peaking at ovulation.
  • (19) Intensity and hedonic responses were collected using an unstructured linear scale and a nine-point interval scale, respectively.
  • (20) Morphine reduced the aversive hedonic properties of both novel and familiar quinine solution (0.05% and 0.1%) but did not modify the palatability of 20% sucrose solution.

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