(a.) Pain of mind on account of something in the past; mental suffering arising from any cause, as misfortune, loss of friends, misconduct of one's self or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
(a.) Cause of sorrow or pain; that which afficts or distresses; trial; grievance.
(a.) Physical pain, or a cause of it; malady.
Example Sentences:
(1) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
(2) Mary's grief, which lasts for about the first half of the two-hour premiere special, is the finest work of the series so far by Michelle Dockery.
(3) Harry was 12 years old when Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash but said it was not until his late 20s, after two years of “total chaos”, that he processed the grief.
(4) Does he need the grief if the support is not there?
(5) Earlier descriptions of pathological grief are reviewed.
(6) As night fell in Paris, despite the bitter cold, more than 5,000 people gathered under the imposing statue of Marianne, the symbol of the republic, to show their anger, grief and solidarity.
(7) This supports conclusions by other grief counsellors (e.g.
(8) On Friday, friends and relatives spoke of their grief.
(9) The impact of early childhood loss, identification with the deceased, chronic grief, delayed grief, exaggerated or masked grief, and the death of a dream are discussed, and clinical examples are used to illustrate concepts of intervention.
(10) The early stages of grief can make a person brazen; for awhile, you have nothing left to lose.
(11) This article reviews recent literature on bereavement concerning the typical features of both normal and pathological grief.
(12) Data are presented tentatively supporting the conclusion that the SIDS grief intervention program had a beneficial impact on the participants.
(13) This paper provides guidelines for health professionals in dealing with the particular grief reactions experienced by families of babies who die of the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
(14) When I think back to that time, I recall an almost constant sense of grief.
(15) We should grieve and we should be angry, but we must not let grief or anger cloud our judgment,” he said.
(16) 'This is not the justice we seek': sorrow in Baltimore as grief turns into riots Read more The city has improved significantly in recent years – crime dropped, the economy improved, the population stopped declining for the first time in 60 years – but you couldn’t see Baltimore’s newfound prosperity in Freddie Gray’s backyard, or in the gardens nearby.
(17) Of course, her grief and the work she is doing now are intimately connected.
(18) All participants completed a sibling bereavement inventory consisting of 109 scaled items that measured self-concept perceptions and grief reactions.
(19) Futile cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may prevent humane care of the dying child and deprive parents of the opportunity to express their love, grief, and dedication at a critical moment, while appropriate and successful CPR may restore intact their child.
(20) The grief work involved in coping with a loved one's death does not end when the loved one dies.
Trial
Definition:
(n.) The act of trying or testing in any manner.
(n.) Any effort or exertion of strength for the purpose of ascertaining what can be done or effected.
(n.) The act of testing by experience; proof; test.
(n.) Examination by a test; experiment, as in chemistry, metallurgy, etc.
(n.) The state of being tried or tempted; exposure to suffering that tests strength, patience, faith, or the like; affliction or temptation that exercises and proves the graces or virtues of men.
(n.) That which tries or afflicts; that which harasses; that which tries the character or principles; that which tempts to evil; as, his child's conduct was a sore trial.
(n.) The formal examination of the matter in issue in a cause before a competent tribunal; the mode of determining a question of fact in a court of law; the examination, in legal form, of the facts in issue in a cause pending before a competent tribunal, for the purpose of determining such issue.
Example Sentences:
(1) A former Berlusconi aide, Valter Lavitola, is also on trial for being the alleged intermediary in the bribe.
(2) We have addressed the effect of late intensification with autologous bone marrow transplantation on SCLC through a randomized clinical trial.
(3) Clonazepam was added to the treatment of patients with poorly controlled epilepsy in a double-blind trial and an open trial.
(4) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
(5) In the clinical trials in which there was complete substitution of fat-modified ruminant foods for conventional ruminant products the fall in serum cholesterol was approximately 10%.
(6) We report the results of a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of acitretin (Soriatane) in 15 patients with moderate to severe psoriasis.
(7) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
(8) Statistically significant differences were found mainly in the randomized trial, where during the first and second years, respectively, adenoidectomy subjects had 47% and 37% less time with otitis media than control subjects and 28% and 35% fewer suppurative (acute) episodes than control subjects.
(9) Twenty volunteers were used for the measurement of pedal pressures for 15 trials during three separate sessions.
(10) A previous trial into the safety and feasibility of using bone marrow stem cells to treat MS, led by Neil Scolding, a clinical neuroscientist at Bristol University, was deemed a success last year.
(11) We are currently conducting a trial to compare the ability of DHPG administered plus an anti-CMV immune globulin preparation with acyclovir to prevent posttransplant TI-CMV disease.
(12) At the trial Arena admitted involvement in criminal activity, but insisted he was innocent of the murders.
(13) Recently reported unfavorable clinical results (i.e., a high incidence of pain) have led to the discontinuation of one trial of porous polyethylene.
(14) According to the experience of clinical trials the recommended ciprofloxacin dose varies between 100 and 500 mg b.i.d.
(15) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.
(16) A bouncy function has now been incorporated into a knee of the semi-automatic knee lock design in a pilot laboratory trial involving six patients.
(17) lengths with the subjects equally divided into these four groups: distributed trials, distributed sessions; distributed trials, massed sessions; massed trials, distributed sessions; and massed trials, massed sessions.
(18) A prospective randomized trial was conducted at Srinagarind and Khon Kaen hospitals.
(19) Of these, 41 were given a trial of sulfapyridine or dapsone, and six showed a significant response.
(20) The initiation of clinical trials should be a primary goal of gene therapy research programs.