(n.) The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
(n.) Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.
(n.) A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
(v. i.) To die; to expire.
(v. t.) To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.
Example Sentences:
(1) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
(2) Both eosin derivatives, however, inactivate acetylcholinesterase upon illumination of air-equilibrated samples of hemoglobin-free labeled ghosts.
(3) Haemoglobin-free human erythrocyte ghosts that were prepared in the presence of EDTA and were then exposed to Ca2+ showed a substantial loss of phosphatidylinositol phosphate and phosphatidylinositol diphosphate, measured either chemically or by loss of 32P from the lipids of prelabelled membranes.
(4) Erythrocyte ghost membrane fluidity and phospholipid linoleate were significantly increased when higher levels of polyunsaturated fats were fed to healthy, free living, premenopausal women.
(5) The Triton ghosts contracted immediately upon addition of ATP.
(6) Resealed erythrocyte ghosts (carrier erythrocytes) are potential in vivo carriers for exogenous enzymes or drugs, but data on carrier erythrocyte survival and clearance rate in humans are not available.
(7) Electron microscopy showed the presence of bacterial ghosts and protein threads.
(8) The reaction sequence leading from EAC1-9 to ghosts can be summarized as follows: formula: (see text).
(9) To gain some understanding of the mechanism of cell fusion, cell ghosts prepared by freeze-thawing intact cells were incubated with intact cells.
(10) Nevertheless, the band 3 population solubilized by Triton X-100 from prelabeled ghosts was as well phosphorylated as the population of band 3 retained by the skeletons.
(11) In addition to these effects, ghosts exposed to MC540 and light underwent lipid peroxidation.
(12) These findings provide ultrastructural correlates of the electrophysiological changes produced by glycerol treatment of the closer muscle of the ghost crab (Papir, 1973), namely, interference with excitation-contraction (e-c) coupling.
(13) This ambiguity was resolved by using resealed ghosts, which are unable to incorporate oleic acid into phospholipids.
(14) The pulse microwave radiation has been shown to increase the fluorescence intensity of 2-toluidinonaphthanene-6-sulfonate (2,6-TNS) and 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulfonate (1,8-ANS) built-in membranes of erythrocyte ghosts.
(15) Although China has so far refused to enable dialogue between our leaders, I sincerely hope that it will come forward, rather than keep invoking the ghost of militarism of seven decades ago, which no longer exists."
(16) The ghosts of Barbara Castle and Peter Shore , never mind Hugh Gaitskell (and, for much of his life, Harold Wilson), were never quite exorcised by the New Labour Europhiles.
(17) The FBI has just released a trove of documents , videos and pictures relating to its so-called Ghost Stories investigation into the activities of 10 Russian spies who the agency monitored for more than a decade.
(18) "A lot of the patients had moved and were genuine ghosts, and of course the practice shouldn't be paid for patients who don't exist, but a lot of the patients do exist and the patients who don't use the service subsidise those who do."
(19) The chemical asymmetry of the transporter was investigated by studying the effects of p-chloromercuriphenyl sulphonate (PCMBS) on uridine transport and high-affinity NBMPR binding in inside-out and right-side-out membrane vesicles, unsealed erythrocyte ghosts and intact cells.
(20) It was shown that when the ;ghosts' of the microsomal vesicles were used as a specific template extra cytochrome b(5) and NADH-specific flavoprotein were incorporated into them, but cytochrome P-450 and NADPH-specific flavoprotein were not incorporated into the membrane.
Hallucination
Definition:
(n.) The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder.
(n.) The perception of objects which have no reality, or of sensations which have no corresponding external cause, arising from disorder or the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; delusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The clinical picture was characterized by hallucinations and delirium.
(2) Adverse effects included nausea, light-headedness, dyskinesias, and hallucinations, all of which abated after the Sinemet dose was reduced.
(3) Cocaine produces simple hallucinations, PCP can produce complex hallucinations analogous to a paranoid psychosis, while LSD produces a combination of hallucinations, pseudohallucinations and illusions.
(4) In traditional Western psychiatric theory, seeing or hearing things that other people do not think are there could be termed a hallucination which is often considered indicative of underlying psychopathology.
(5) The observed psychiatric symptoms were classified into two categories: simple, including incidents of confusion alone or hallucinations with preserved insight, and complex, including delusions or chronic confusion without preserved insight.
(6) The probability of hallucinations was associated with the severity of cognitive dysfunction, the degree of other behavioral disturbances, and the presence of extrapyramidal signs.
(7) This was generally mild and always fully reversible and consisted mainly of forgetfulness, occasionally hallucinations, nightmares and somnolence.
(8) Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder characterized by onset in young adulthood, the occurrence of hallucinations and delusions, and the development of enduring psychosocial disability.
(9) Improved assessments of hallucinating patients are recommended, with exploration of subtleties in the hallucinatory experience; and factors needing assessment are identified.
(10) Within the primitive maternal transference, borborygmi are often accompaniments to the fantasy or the hallucination of being fed by the analyst.
(11) These data indicate that hallucinations (i.e., believed-in imaginings) can be elicited from a minority of "norman" subjects with brief instructions.
(12) Intravenous injection of naloxone (in most cases 4.0 mg) induced a reduction of psychotic symptomatology (especially hallucinations) in the majority of patients.
(13) Is voice search really going to catch on, or is it some sort of consensual hallucination by the tech industry?
(14) Hallucinations of ocular origin, however, are easily diagnosed by a thorough eye examination.
(15) The clinical picture is near-monthly recurrence of episodes of stupor or excitement lasting about 1 or 2 weeks, which are accompanied by delusion and in some cases also by hallucinations or confusion.
(16) A case study is presented of the effects of wearing an ear-plug in a single patient with persistent auditory hallucinations.
(17) Following the presentation of this underdiagnosed clinical phenomenon we propose that musical hallucinations should be addressed as a final outcome of several factors including both mental and physical components.
(18) Social isolation did not affect the incidence of hallucination, nor was it related to the incidence of known depressive illness.
(19) The results indicate fair concordance between the two clinical approaches and the DIS with regard to the presence of any delusional or hallucination symptoms.
(20) Moreau de Tours's classical studies about haschisch had pointed out to a rich symptomatology: visual and auditive hallucinations preceded by the "primordial effect": "the dissociation of ideas".