(n.) The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.
Example Sentences:
(1) The administration of para-chloro-D, L-phenylalanine (PCPA) produces a high incidence of aggressive (filicidal) behavior in pre-, postpartum, and nulliparious rodents.
(2) Neither the parturition process nor severe food deprivation are strong causative factors in the precipitation of filicidal behavior.
(3) After briefly summarizing the allegorical implications of the various forgotten Oedipus myths and the father's fateful role within the Theban tragedy, this paper elaborates on those pederastic and filicidal inclinations that I believe to be universal among fathers.
(4) The retrospective nature of filicide research and the small sample size of cases exacerbated difficulties in carrying out such research, the inquest heard.
(5) A number of significant issues are dealt with including consequences of failure to elicit positive family history of affective disorder, suicide and filicide.
(6) Types of filicide were compared on a number of social and psychiatric characteristics and on their offence patterns and court disposals.
(7) The authors point to problems in differential diagnosis in the framework of other subjects like 'non-accidental poisoning', 'doctor-shopping' and 'filicide'.
(8) No one person or agency could have reasonably been expected to foresee that Mr Anderson would be that rare perpetrator, and Luke the rare victim, of a violent filicide.” Rosie Batty, named Australian of the year for 2015 because of her advocacy on family violence, said that this was a “monumental day” and it did bring a degree of closure for her.
(9) I would most definitely want them to know what filicide is and what the risks are so that every professional recognises those risk factors and they are incorporated into family violence education frameworks.” On Wednesday, a detective who questioned Luke last year was asked about the way she assessed his risk of harm, and why she concluded he was safe.
(10) Indeed, a history of familial double filicide raises the question of possible hereditary influences.
(11) Deaths were classified based on the total information available into group A: poor prognosis (n = 7), group B: treatable disease (n = 45), group C: minor disease (n = 32), group D: no disease (n = 19), group E: probably accidental (n = 4), and group F: probably filicide (n = 8).
(12) Most of the filicidal acts committed by these chronically impaired men resulted from isolated explosive behavior.
(13) Six types of maternal filicide were distinguished: battering mothers (36 cases), mentally ill mothers (24 cases), neonaticides (11 cases), retaliating mothers (9 cases), women who killed unwanted children (8 cases) and mercy killing (1 case).
(14) Latency of attack, intensity phases, and characteristics of the filicidal behavior were found to vary inversely with brain serotonin content, and be reversed or eliminated by replacement of serotonin i.e., via 5-hydroxytryptophan, serotonin's immediate precursor.
(15) The authors analysed the autopsic material of the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Belgrade related to a sixty-year period (1920-1980) and found 26 cases of filicide.
(16) Filicide is the term denoting murder of a child by one of his (her) parents.
(17) It lies solely on Greg Anderson.” But filicide, the act of a parent deliberately killing their child, was rare and there were no good risk assessment tools to determine the likelihood a parent might commit the crime, Gray said.
(18) On the basis of this finding, the authors concluded that filicide was not very frequent in this area.
(19) Compared with filicides, matricides were significantly older, were single, and more often suffered from mental illness and substance abuse.
(20) A survey of twelve families with 2 or more cot deaths showed that in two families the deaths were completely unexplained; in three the babies had a probably familial developmental disorder; in two the care of the infants was seriously at fault and could have contributed to death; and in five filicide was probable.
Suicide
Definition:
(adv.) The act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically (Law), the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind.
(adv.) One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.
(adv.) Ruin of one's own interests.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(2) Male sex, age under 19 or over 45, few social supports, and a history of previous suicide attempts are all factors associated with increased suicide rates.
(3) But becoming that person in a traditional society can be nothing short of social suicide.
(4) In addition, pathological dexamethasone-tests may indicate an increased suicide-risk in these patients.
(5) The inhibition was irreversible, as well as time and concentration dependent, which indicates a suicide-inhibition type of metabolism.
(6) Murder-suicide occurs with an annual incidence of 0.2 to 0.3 per 100,000 person-years and accounts for approximately 1000 to 1500 deaths yearly in the United States.
(7) Depressive features in patients with CFS were similar to those of control subjects, but a trend toward suicidal behavior was noted.
(8) Although it appears to come within the confines of privacy, assisted suicide constitutes a more radical change in the law than its proponents suggest.
(9) There is general agreement that suicides are likely to be undercounted, both for structural reasons (the burden-of-proof issue, the requirement that the coroner or medical examiner suspect the possibility of suicide) and for sociocultural reasons.
(10) The Bible treats suicide in a factual way and not as wrong or shameful.
(11) Irrespective of method, the suicide attempt was predominantly a psychotic act of young single people with chronic, severe disorders and considerable past parasuicide, in a setting of escalating self-harm.
(12) The toxicological findings of this case are compared to the results of two chloroquine suicide cases and discussed in the context of the referring literature.
(13) Two cases of suicide by related kidney donors following graft rejection and the death of the recipients are reported.
(14) Study of the clinical characteristics of depressive state by hemisphere stroke with the use of symptom items of Zung scale and Hamilton scale showed that patients in depressive state with right hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items considered close to the essence of endogenous depression such as depressed mood, suicide, diurnal variation, loss of weight, and paranoid symptoms, while patients in depressive state with left hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items having a nuance of so-called neurotic depression such as psychic anxiety, hypochondriasis, and fatigue.
(15) Answer, citing Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” This is a very British suicide.
(16) Nevertheless, it is the black male group between the ages of 25 and 34 years that bears the brunt of both suicide and homicide.
(17) With a patient who in suicidal intention had orally taken a larger quantity of Bi 58 EC (dimethoate) especially the behaviour of the serum cholinesterase activity and the whole blood acetylcholinesterase activity was observed over a period of 38 days and it was compared with the clinical appearance.
(18) A new suicide vector (pKNG101) that facilitates the positive selection of double recombination events in Gram-bacteria has been developed.
(19) The findings suggest that learning disabilities may be an unrecognized factor which increases the risk of suicide attempts by adolescents.
(20) Awareness of problems that may arise in the physician-patient relationship may prevent such outcomes as suicide, anxiety, hypochondriasis, invalidism and psychotic symptoms.