(n.) The quality or state of being dumb; muteness; silence; inability to speak.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cheers, then, to an apparent alliance of the NME, a few people in London's trendy E1 district and some dumb young musicians, because "New Rave" is upon us, and there is apparently no stopping it.
(2) Four brain smears from dogs which died of dumb rabies were positive for Negri bodies while two brain smears obtained from dogs which died of the furious form of rabies were negative.
(3) The court heard that MP responded to Nimmo's message of "Dumb blonde bitch" with the message "That's dumb Dr blonde bitch to you".
(4) At the moment, most of our electricity and gas meters are dumb, analogue devices: they record your consumption and someone comes round periodically to take a reading.
(5) We now show by immunoelectron microscopy that Fab fragments of a desmin-specific monoclonal antibody mixed with the rod lead to dumb-bell-shaped structures.
(6) On admission, a dumb-bell type huge tumor with the destruction of the orbital roof was demonstrated on CT scan and MRI.
(7) The non-solid bacilli were further classified on the basis of their morphology to the following forms:-- (a) short but evenly stained (b) indented (c) beaded (d) dumb-bell shaped (e) coccoid and (f) fragmented.
(8) In an ideal world, such findings might be interpreted as smart women making smart choices, but instead it seems that this research is just adding fuel to the argument that women who don't have children, regardless of the reason, are not just selfish losers but dumb ones as well.
(9) Large granules, 160 nm in diameter, already reported in the ITP (KEMALI 1977a), are also shown as well as tiny flat mixed with large flat dense core vesicles of dumb-bell shape.
(10) Critics accused the BBC of dumbing down when Kirsty Young replaced Sue Lawley as host of Desert Island Discs, while t he dismissal of Ed Stourton from the Today presenting team was executed shambolically , with the presenter learning his fate from a rival news organisation rather than his bosses.
(11) As in canine rabies there are furious and dumb forms of the disease.
(12) Charlie Hebdo was launched by a group of "non-conformists" who had previously run a monthly called Hara Kiri (whose subtitle read: "dumb and nasty").
(13) He might have been born with a silver spoon and declared bankruptcy four or five times but he is not dumb.
(14) A GST on fresh food is an exceptionally dumb strategy in the midst of an obesity crisis | Catherine King Read more Labor said that much of that money would go towards compensating lower income earners, leaving little money for other services.
(15) Dumb rabies and cysticerci in dogs being sold to people in rural communities pose potential public health hazards.
(16) In a blog published on Friday afternoon entitled "My teenage mistakes" , Weldon said his year-long flirtation would have remained the embarrassing stuff of his youth had he not a few years later done what he described as a "dumb thing" and boasted about his past in an Oxford student newspaper.
(17) Mitt's now trying to rebut the "Let Detroit go bankrupt" line o argument, which is dumb.
(18) The internet of things is the idea of creating a home where everything is connected to the internet, creating “swarm intelligence” from individually dumb devices.
(19) Gove launched an all-out attack on the "educational establishment", claiming it suffered from "defeatism, political correctness and the entrenched culture of dumbing down".
(20) "We will tackle head-on the defeatism, the political correctness and the entrenched culture of dumbing down that is at the heart of our educational establishment."
Mutism
Definition:
(n.) The condition, state, or habit of being mute, or without speech.
Example Sentences:
(1) In most of them there was delayed postoperative onset of the mutism.
(2) To the classical clinical syndrome of hemimotor, hemisensory, and visual field deficit has been added hemiataxia acute pseudobulbar mutism, pure motor and pure sensory syndromes and disorders of higher cortical function.
(3) Silence and immobility: mutism and catatonia, this patient gives nothing to to hear, he gives to see.
(4) The occurrence of congenital deafness, mutism and goitre unassociated with cretinism or mental retardation in euthyroid patients is known as Pendred's Syndrome.
(5) Stuttering and intermittent mutism characterize the disorder and may be valuable in the differentiation of dialysis dementia from other neuropsychiatric syndromes.
(6) A case of pure word mutism, often called "small Broca's aphasia," in a 44-year-old woman with a psychiatric history and a long history of unresolved, vague neurologic symptoms is presented.
(7) Conversion mutism is an uncommon disorder that was in the past most frequently reported during wartime.
(8) However confusion and behavioural disturbances, like preservations, transitory mutism and self neglect, seem characteristic.
(9) Persistent mutism--with normal language comprehension and orofacial motor disturbance--were the main neurological sequelae.
(10) Analysis of their personal observations leads the authors to think that there is a relationship between the length of coma and the duration of mutism.
(11) The characteristic EEG changes were found to be of great value in making an early diagnosis and, together with akinetic mutism and myoclonus, constituted an easily recognizable picture.
(12) We studied a 70-year-old woman with a unique combination of hyperkinesia and mutism.
(13) At Westfield high school, educators set up an individualised programme to help him cope with mutism.
(14) Clinical features included hemispheric focal signs (13), decrease in level of consciousness (14), or both (30), and mutism (15).
(15) In the referred cases, CNS side effects (lethargy, apathy and mutism) appeared a few hours after the second day of treatment and were spontaneously reversible in a few days.
(16) A five-year-old boy presented with an encephalitis lethargica-like illness, characterised by somnolence, mutism and Parkinsonian rigidity two weeks after an acute exanthem.
(17) All exhibited essential tremor, minimal cerebral dysfunctions, speech disorders, bradyphrenia, disorders of personality with psychasthenie and suspicious traits, restrictions, increased irritability and depressivity, one case of mutism due to abnormal reaction and one of alcohol hallucinosis.
(18) The findings suggest that infarction affecting the Broca area and its immediate environs, even deep into the brain, causes a mutism that is replaced by rapidly improving dyspraxic and effortful articulation, but that no significant distrubance in language function persists.
(19) A 7-year-old girl with a 2-year history of elective mutism was successfully treated with phenelzine.
(20) Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is inherited by an autosomal dominant mode; that occurring together with deaf-mutism is also probably inherited dominantly.