(n.) A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
(2) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
(3) Mother and Sister take over with more nuanced emotional literacy.
(4) There is a gradual loosening of the adolescent's emotional dependence on her parents and a transfer of dependency ties to peers.
(5) We examined 10 life areas clustered around the general categories of "substance use," "social functioning," and "emotional and interpersonal functioning."
(6) Heart rate, blood pressure and verbal reports of emotional experience were measured.
(7) Today the physician who treats women with emotional problems during menopause cannot function solely as a psychotherapist; he must deal with both their soma and psyche.
(8) Following the hypothesis that infertile patients may present emotional conflicts with regard to the wish of having a child, psychodynamic interviews were carried out with 116 infertile couples concomitantly with their first consultation at the Sterility Department.
(9) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
(10) Early views of the Type A behaviour pattern (TABP) sought to disengage it from either neuroticism or emotional distress.
(11) I think of tattoos as art, but also, every time I look at mine, I relive the emotions I felt when I had them.
(12) 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.
(13) Substantial percentages of both physicians and medical students reported access to drugs, family histories of substance abuse, stress at work and home, emotional problems, and sensation seeking.
(14) Oscar Pistorius ‘to be released in August’ as appeal date is set for November Read more But the parole board at his prison overruled an emotional plea from the 29-year-old victim’s parents when it sat last week.
(15) In a recent study, Orr and Lanzetta (1984) showed that the excitatory properties of fear facial expressions previously described (Lanzetta & Orr, 1981; Orr & Lanzetta, 1980) do not depend on associative mechanisms; even in the absence of reinforcement, fear faces intensify the emotional reaction to a previously conditioned stimulus and disrupt extinction of an acquired fear response.
(16) A basic premise is that emotional process is not unique to homo sapiens and that human behavior might better be understood by observing this process in the broader context of all natural systems.
(17) Facial expression, EEG, and self-report of subjective emotional experience were recorded while subjects individually watched both pleasant and unpleasant films.
(18) Results offer support for the self-attribution theory of emotions.
(19) Thirty-three emotional reactions occurred in 26 patients, 44% of the reactions following right hemisphere injection and 32% after injection of the left hemisphere.
(20) Moreover, respondents indicating initially relatively high levels of emotional eating who reported a reduction in that level were found to lose significantly (p less than 0.01) more reported weight and to be significantly (p less than 0.05) more successful at approaching target weight over the period of the study than respondents who continued to report high levels of emotional eating.
Vulcan
Definition:
(n.) The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; -- answering to the Greek Hephaestus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Heat vulcanized Silastic 372 or 373 was used, and seems to be satisfactory.
(2) Accelerators, mainly of the thiuram group, antioxidants, vulcanizers, organic pigments, and, presumably, glove powder ingredients are known responsible allergens.
(3) Positive patch tests were found most frequently with antioxidants--16.6% (including IPPD--8.6%), followed by vulcanization accelerators--10.6%, and other rubber components--11.4% in all.
(4) We need to give them the space and freedom of Africa.” The unprecedented survey, carried out by Allen’s company Vulcan with £7m of funding, is the first continent-wide aerial survey of African elephants using standardised data collection and technical validation methods, involved more than 90 scientists, six NGOs and many volunteers and conservationists on the ground.
(5) Indomethacin was vulcanized in dimethylpolysiloxane, an inert silicone suitable for tissue implantation.
(6) The Vulcan, flown by the flight lieutenant who led the famous raid on Port Stanley's runway, twice passed over the memorial to commemorate those who fell during the south Atlantic campaign.
(7) The results indicate the usefulness of postmortem angiography with contrast medium vulcanizing at room temperature for postmortem diagnosis of rare causes of gastrointestinal haemorrhage.
(8) The most probable environment for the assembly of the various forms of protolife would be on mudbanks forming either at the mouth of streams draining regions of active vulcanicity, or round the edge of hot volclanic pools.
(9) They called themselves “ the Vulcans ”, not as a tribute to Spock, but to demonstrate they were as tough (or as Bush Sr might say, “iron-ass”) as the Roman god of fire.
(10) Primitive condoms were known as early as 1564, but it was not until the discovery of the vulcanization of rubber that the widespread production of condoms and diaphragms was feasible.
(11) CLF's laser, called Vulcan, is the most powerful laser in the world: it can focus 500 joules of energy (about the same required to lift 50 apples by 10m) into a laser burst just 40 femtoseconds (40 x 10-15) long - equivalent to one second in a million years.
(12) Air samples from the vulcanization process and the pressing of rubber goods showed BaP levels of up to 1.43 micrograms.m-3.
(13) The problem resulted from the physicochemical properties of the rubber, not the concentration of zinc used in the vulcanization process.
(14) We determined tissue tolerance to in situ vulcanizing silicone histologically in 30 rats by inserting prevulcanized and in situ vulcanized material in paired subcutaneous pockets.
(15) It was a lovely, short service and that Vulcan coming over was a wonderful ending."
(16) A histopathologic study was done on the larynx of a patient who had been injected 12 years before in the right vocal fold with room temperature vulcanizing silicone.
(17) During about 3 years of follow-up in 4 manufacturers contact allergic eczema was noted and polyvalent hypersensitivity to antioxidants and vulcanization accelerators without clinical manifestations of this hypersensitivity was diagnosed in 3 other subjects.
(18) A proved carcinogen, benzo[a]pyrene (BP), was incorporated into liquid silicone rubber polymer which was then vulcanized into solid form.
(19) Keen on photographing vintage aircraft, he was at Shoreham to capture one of the last flights of the Vulcan bomber.
(20) All the studied professional groups (assemblers, millers, vulcanizers) experienced a rise in osteomuscular morbidity and only vulcanizers had higher rates of respiratory, skin and subcutaneous diseases.