(n.) The state of rarely occuring; uncommonness; rareness; as, the infrquence of his visits.
(n.) The state of not being frequented; solitude; isolation; retirement; seclusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
(2) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(3) Significant side-effects occurred infrequently and only 2 children lost weight during the period of medication.
(4) At 7 days axonal swellings were infrequently observed and the main structural feature was a reduction in myelin thickness in affected nerve fibers.
(5) In view of its infrequent and vague presentation, care is required to avoid overlooking the diagnosis of abdominal tuberculosis, particularly in the immigrant population.
(6) Allelic complementation was not observed, despite testing of a large number of allele pairs, and alleles suppressible by the ochre suppressor SUP11 were absent from a sample of 48 spontaneous mutants and occurred infrequently (7%) among a sample of ultraviolet-induced mutants.
(7) Social isolation, characterized by extremely infrequent contacts with other people, affects approximately one out of ten elderly people.
(8) This device is a possible improvement in the treatment of infants needing long term venous access, although doctors should be aware of the infrequent complications.
(9) This has been infrequently reported to occur during general anesthesia and to cause respiratory embarrassment, representing a significant hazard.
(10) Although runaway is infrequent with current generation pacemakers, it should be considered in addition to the more common causes of pacemaker malfunction in the patient with appropriate symptoms.
(11) Unequivocal interstitial deposits were infrequent and IgM was present in blood vessels in one patient only.
(12) In contrast, control Y79 cells not exposed to medium conditioned by RPE cells exhibit only infrequent neuronal phenotypes.
(13) In a series of over 200 patients, raised values were found frequently in hepatobiliary disease and infrequently in bone disease.
(14) Further, from the plateau values of the ratios, it follows that the substrates dissociate very infrequently from the ternary complex and that at a low substrate concentration 72% of the reaction follows the pathway in which ATP adds first to the enzyme.
(15) We conclude that this neuropathy, which is quite different from the infrequent peripheral nerve syndromes previously described in this illness, is commonly present in late Lyme disease.
(16) Biopsy of lymph nodes or brain and serologic tests needed for definitive diagnosis were done infrequently.
(17) Hematological side effects of neuroleptic drugs occur infrequently but remain a potential cause of serious toxicity.
(18) Four peaks (I, II, III, V) were present in all recordings, and a fifth (IV) was present infrequently.
(19) The gonadotrophin response to oestrogen levels was temporarily or permanently disordered in all but 3 patients in this series, whereas an ovarian refractoriness to gonadotrophins was only infrequently observed.
(20) Interhemispheric subdural hematoma (ISDH), although not infrequent in children, has been rarely encountered in adults.
Seclusion
Definition:
(n.) The act of secluding, or the state of being secluded; separation from society or connection; a withdrawing; privacy; as, to live in seclusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results showed that the two groups differed greatly in their attitudes over a wide range of topics; many staff members did not realize how much and in what ways seclusion affects patients.
(2) The bi-annual Leonard Cohen Event was initially hosted during Cohen’s silent period when the singer embraced Buddhism and entered the Mount Baldy Zen Centre to live in seclusion as a Rinzai monk.
(3) Patients who required seclusion and restraint had significant latitude to determine the timing of their release from the interventions and met with staff one hour and 24 hours after their release to explore alternatives to aggression.
(4) Marked seclusion tendencies in the previous life history, as well as organic brain diseases, are relevant.
(5) Annually thousands of teenage boys from the Xhosa tribe embark on a secretive rite of passage in Eastern Cape province, spending up to a month in seclusion where they study, undergo circumcision by a traditional surgeon, and apply white clay to their bodies.
(6) Patients who scored high in drug use tended to be younger, had more seclusions while on the ward, and had less of a history of drug or alcohol treatment.
(7) To test this hypothesis, coronary and control subjects were submitted to three types of personality questionnaire, each of them measuring the same four personality traits (seclusion, impulsiveness, dependence and passivity) which, in the adult individual, are considered by Murray's (1938) theory of personality as persisting from infancy.
(8) In the late 1960s he went into voluntary seclusion in New Hampshire and there he stayed, a peculiar man attracted to fringe religious movements, warding off interviewers, film people, fans, trespassers.
(9) The victim of a "dual seclusion", he was not only able to make an exhaustive analysis of the situation, but in a certain sense he also succeeded in predicting the tragic events which were taking shape on the historical-political horizon of the world to which he belonged.
(10) The seclusion lasts from several months to three years, with periods of interruption.
(11) Before seclusion most behaviors were disturbed but nonviolent; during seclusion most behaviors were nondisturbed.
(12) The author speculates that the use of seclusion on the crisis unit is related to the characteristics of the patient population as well as to the short duration of patient stay.
(13) On Sunday Choi returned home from seclusion in Germany.
(14) From 1978 to 1985, 133 boys between the ages of 11 and 20 years were observed in seclusion.
(15) But such ideas need to break out of the seclusion of the seminar room, and be thrashed out on the political stage.
(16) The purpose of this descriptive study was to identify unit environmental factors at the initiation of seclusion, and patient behavior and nursing interventions throughout seclusion.
(17) Seclusion was used in the management of 36.6% of the patients on a general hospital psychiatric unit during a 6 month prospective study.
(18) And so Ségolène Royal, the former presidential candidate – who failed to become leader of the Socialists, was trounced in her attempt to become the party's 2012 presidential candidate and failed to gain a seat in parliament at the last election – emerged last week from almost a year of seclusion to publicise her new book (and let it be known she is looking for a government job).
(19) Debriefing may be one of the most important ways that staff can help the patient in diminishing the emotional impact of seclusion.
(20) Overall, New York City and large-town hospitals had the highest rates of seclusion and restraint, but analysis by age group showed that New York City had the lowest rate for patients under age 35, who constituted the majority of patients who were secluded or restrained, and large towns had the highest rate.