(n.) The act of introverting, or the state of being introverted; the act of turning the mind inward.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most striking differences were observed on the factors: Psychopathic deviation, Mania, Schizophrenia greater than controls and social introversion lower than controls.
(2) The personality profiles of all three groups emerged as significantly different from each other on all scales with the exception of social introversion and psychopathic deviance.
(3) From the statistical analysis of the results one could deduce that there are significant specific relationships from the computerised EEG, with those secondary polar values of 16 PF: high and low anxiety, extroversion-introversion.
(4) Two groups of 10 subjects selected to represent extremes on the extraversion-introversion scale participated in the experiment.
(5) The whole proves his introversion, ambivalence, hypersensitivity, obstinancy, anxieties, behavioral anomalies, a life rich in fantasies and his underestimation of his own literary work.
(6) Personality traits among both sub-groups of parents were similar, showing slight introversion and neuroticism, and these traits remained stable over time.
(7) The hypothesized identity of the dimensions of extraversion-introversion and strength of the nervous system was tested on four groups of nine subjects (neurotic extraverts, stable extraverts, neurotic introverts, stable introverts).
(8) The six personality dimensions isolated were interpreted as Social Introversion-Extraversion, Dependency on Others, Verbal Hostility, Need to Please Others, Self-Dramatization, and Orderliness.
(9) It celebrates smoking's conviviality and the splendid isolation of the smoker, the smoker's exhibitionism and her pensive introversion.
(10) Particular patterns of personality (e.g., introversion, neuroticism, obsessionality) have been found to be associated with unipolar depression by a large number of investigators; recent prospective studies have stressed neuroticism as a premorbid risk factor for depression.
(11) Examination of a number of major studies of personality questionnaires reveals the existence of a shyness factor which is related to but separable from both introversion and neuroticism, and which loads on items referring to feeling uncomfortable and self-conscious, and keeping in the background in certain kinds of social situations.
(12) Six factors were identified-a "schizophrenic" factor; general well-being; a mental outlook factor; a neurotic factor; a bipolar extroversion-introversion factor; a bipolar excitation versus euphoria-depression factor.
(13) Following this, due to the patients' awareness of their own chronic state, the level of neuroticism decreases, their high level of introversion and the absence of lie as a possible defense mechanism of denial facing their hard reality being more significant.
(14) Higher order personality dimensions of extraversion-introversion and neuroticism were studied as functions of birth order in two-sib families, using 141 female subjects, with control over sex of sibling and sib age separation.
(15) Components of Eysenck's Extraversion scale were examined to account for previous findings indicating that field independence, as measured by individual and group forms of the embedded-figures test, is associated with Introversion.
(16) 1) The introversion type of persons showed higher susceptibility to mental stress, less regularity in meal time, lower intake frequency of animal protein foods (meat, fish and eggs), green & yellow vegetables, fruits, and cruciferous vegetables with statistical significance of p less than 0.05, as compared to the extraversion type.
(17) Examined the relationship between certain handwriting characteristics and Eysenck's Extraversion-Introversion and Kagan's Impulsivity-Reflectivity personality dimensions.
(18) However, the patients with psychiatric disorders tended to have a longer duration of illness, to exhibit more salient features of introversion and neuroticism in their personalities, to show poorer family function and to experience more stressful life events.
(19) Three distinct sets of results may be enumerated, namely: (1) a negative correlation between sensation-seeking and TSH; (2) a positive correlation between the most indicative scales predisposing to depression-anxiety (hypochondriasis, depression, social introversion, susceptibility to punishment) and T4, and (3) the Hypomania Scale (Ma) showed a significant negative correlation with T4 in the patient group and a positive but nonsignificant relationship in the healthy group.
(20) In alcoholics, the self-reinforcement scores were significantly correlated with the majority of the MMPI clinical scales: the highest coefficients were with the Social Introversion, Depression, Psychasthenia, and Schizophrenia--lower self-reinforcement level was associated with more psychopathology.
Intussusception
Definition:
(n.) The reception of one part within another.
(n.) The abnormal reception or slipping of a part of a tube, by inversion and descent, within a contiguous part of it; specifically, the reception or slipping of the upper part of the small intestine into the lower; introsusception; invagination.
(n.) The interposition of new particles of formative material among those already existing, as in a cell wall, or in a starch grain.
(n.) The act of taking foreign matter, as food, into a living body; the process of nutrition, by which dead matter is absorbed by the living organism, and ultimately converted into the organized substance of its various tissues and organs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ultrasonography of 4 cases of intussusception in children with proven lead points were reviewed retrospectively.
(2) Two normal variants that could be confused with abnormalities were noted: (a) the featureless appearance of the duodenal bulb may be mistaken for extravasation, and (b) contrastmaterial filling of the proximal jejunal loop at an end-to-end anastomosis with retained invaginated pancreas may be mistaken for intussusception.
(3) In those with poor results, four had complete emptying and three had rectoanal intussusception.
(4) Twenty adults were treated for intussusception in two large hospitals from 1969 to 1988.
(5) An intussusception type antireflux valve in the Roux-en-Y loop was effective for preventing cholangitis; cholangitis developed in none of 8 patients with an anti-reflux valve, whereas cholangitis developed in 25(48%) of recent 52 patients without a valve.
(6) A case of double intussusception through a patent vitello-intestinal duct is reported.
(7) Chronic intussusception is a rare but completely correctable cause of failure to thrive in infants and children.
(8) We report a case of ureteral intussusception owing to well differentiated transitional cell carcinoma.
(9) The case records of 26 horses with ileocecal intussusception over a 7-year period were reviewed to determine clinical features of the disease and response to treatment.
(10) This contrasts with previous reports from Nigeria where intussusception has been presented as being commoner in older children.
(11) Urinary leakage in 3 patients with a right colonic reservoir (2 with an intussuscepted ileal nipple valve and 1 with a plicated ileal segment as a continence mechanism) was managed with tapered narrowing of the nipple valve and the ileocecal valve, respectively, using stapling techniques.
(12) A case of choriocarcinoma presenting as an ileo-ileal intussusception in a sixteen year old girl is presented.
(13) Intussusception may occur as the first indication of tumour recurrence or metastasis, but is more commonly a manifestation of widespread disease.
(14) These marker clips are of great value in the diagnosis of intussusception occurring in the bypassed loop.
(15) The major symptoms of intussusception were bloody diarrhoea (87.17%), vomiting.
(16) Provided that the intussuscepted segment appears viable it seems justified to aim initially to reduce jejuno-gastric intussusception with the aid of the gastroscope.
(17) It was concluded that the intussusception was consequent to hyperperistalsis induced by the coccidial infection of the intestines.
(18) In jejunojejunal and ileoileal intussusceptions, an attempt at primary reduction followed by resection or enterotomy is justified.
(19) We describe a patient with acute retrograde intussusception of the efferent loop into the jejunojejunostomy occurring 14 months after partial gastrectomy with Billroth II anastomosis.