(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.
Invagination
Definition:
(n.) The condition of an invaginated organ or part.
(n.) One of the methods by which the various germinal layers of the ovum are differentiated.
Example Sentences:
(1) The invaginations were classified into four easily recognized types: regular, chunky, filigree, and ridge (present only in axon hillock regions).
(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) A general hypothesis is presented for the positive regulation of the initiation of cell wall and cell membrane invagination in this organism.
(4) These cells show many pinocytic invaginations and subsarcolemmic vesicles.
(5) Electron microscopically, the tumor cell nuclei were oval or polygonal and sometimes slightly invaginated, with a few prominent nucleoli.
(6) Morphology of the mature spermatozoon is modified from that of the classic primitive or ect-aquasperm type by having 1) the acrosome embedded in the nucleus (the only known example within the Mollusca), 2) a deep basal invagination in the nucleus containing proximal and distal centrioles and an enveloping matrix (derived from the rootlet), 3) laterally displaced periaxonemal mitochondria, and 4) a tail extending from the basal invagination of the nucleus.
(7) By 7 days, vascular buds were present at the edge of the graft and invaginating into the islet tissue.
(8) Invaginating mesodermal cells of the lateral and ventral parts also form pseudopodia, and are in contact with the blastocoelic wall.
(9) The changes observed were alterations of the nucleus (fingerlike or fingerformed nuclei, nuclear invaginations, and intranuclear vesicular membrane bodies), changes of the mitochondries (number, polymorphy, and osmiophil bodies), as well as changes of lysosomes (myelin-shaped residual bodies).
(10) Thus intracellular free calcium may be regulated by a combination of energy-requiring extrusion and passive influx through receptor-operated calcium channels located in the invaginated vesicular membranes, with short diffusion distances to the actin-myosin filaments in the cytoplasm.
(11) In this investigation we present results suggesting that the phage nucleocapsid penetrates the host cytoplasmic membrane via a membrane invagination and an intracellular vesicle.
(12) In this active area which invaginates the neuronal cytoplasm, osmiophilic granules but smaller can be seen, similar to those in the neighbouring neuron.
(13) In order to determine the frequency and specificity of intranuclear cytoplasmic inclusions (invaginations), described by some as an important criterion for the cytologic diagnosis of thyroid carcinoma, 258 consecutive thyroid aspirates were reviewed.
(14) At the stage when each placode first becomes visible conspicuous differences have been seen in the surface morphology between those cells which will invaginate and form the placode and those which will remain on the surface of the head, forming the epidermis.
(15) The most common group of neurons within the gustatory zone contains both large (X1) and small (X3) members that possess deeply invaginated nuclear profiles.
(16) The majority of the choline acetyltransferase-immunoreactive neurons had fusiform, oval, or polygonal somata with somatic diameters greater than 20 microns and contained deeply invaginated nuclei surrounded by copious cytoplasm.
(17) In the last 8 years 15 cases of Meckel's diverticulum were observed, 6 of them with complications: three times inflammation (with two perforations), each once invagination, incarceration and occult bleeding from carcinoids.
(18) The development of invaginations and microvesicles in P. malariae-infected erythrocytes corresponded to the morphological alterations induced by P. vivax.
(19) The follicle-associated epithelium had invaginations and small vacuoles in the apical cytoplasm, whereas the interfollicular surface epithelium had numerous microvilli on its apical surface and large mucin granules in the apical cytoplasm.
(20) The normal red cells were biconcave disks in which chlorpromazine induced inward (negative) curvature: deep cupping (stomatocytosis) and multiple invaginations.