What's the difference between jactitation and restlessness?
Jactitation
Definition:
(n.) Vain boasting or assertions repeated to the prejudice of another's right; false claim.
(n.) A frequent tossing or moving of the body; restlessness, as in delirium.
Example Sentences:
(1) - In the second case of cerebral palsy and combined multiple sclerosis (detected post mortem), the combination of the severe damage of putamen and caudate nucleus by status marmoratus and the extensive nerve cell and fiber damage due to demyelinating foci in the substantia nigra are probably the substrate of the jactitation and intention myoclonus of the left limbs.
Restlessness
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Markram's papers on synaptic plasticity and the microcircuitry of the neural cortex were enough to earn him a full professorship at the age of 40, but his discoveries left him restless and dissatisfied.
(2) Twelve days following discontinuation of the drug, the patient continued to experience diarrhea, restlessness, emotional lability, and anxiety.
(3) The striking weakness of Clegg's thesis was what it left out in its attempt to carve out a position for restless party activists as their poll ratings dip (down to 14% according to ICM) as Miliband tones down his own anti-Lib Dem rhetoric to woo them.
(4) He was admitted to the Hitachi General Hospital because of finger tremor, restlessness and urinary incontinence.
(5) The restless legs syndrome is a sensory and motor disorder of evening, repose, and sleep.
(6) Seven patients suffering from restless legs syndrome (RLS) and periodic movements in sleep (PMS) were investigated before and after treatment with L-Dopa.
(7) There have even been signs that Löw is becoming slightly restless, having started to criticise players in public, something that would have been unthinkable a few years back.
(8) After a restless night I unwound the trade the following morning at a small profit.
(9) The feeling of restlessness and fatigue started to take its toll and I spent more and more time alone.
(10) We conclude that the restless mutation alters a Ca2+-activated potassium conductance other than the one previously described.
(11) However, by 1994 the increasingly restless veteran jock was lured away again to Capital, where he could be heard crashing his way through Pick of the Pops Take Three at weekends, and to Virgin Radio, which took up his rock show.
(12) Ratings on visual analogue scales showed that metoclopramide caused statistically significant (P less than 0.01 difference from placebo) restlessness and slight but significantly less (P less than 0.05 difference from placebo) feeling of happiness.
(13) Variations in MAO activity were not significantly associated with the 65 clinical variables analyzed, although there was a tendency for patients in the low-MAO group to have more severely impaired reality testing, more paranoid and grandiose delusions, better prognostic scores, and less restlessness.
(14) The clinical symptoms of acute toxication are similar for all studied phenols (restlessness, unsteadiness, clonic tremor, paresis and paralysis of extremities, and death).
(15) of exposure, but two of these had been rather restless throughout the session.
(16) Hyperkinesis refers to a combination of traits that typically include: overactivity; restlessness; short attention span; distractability; low frustration tolerance; impulsiveness.
(17) All the groups showed significant pre- to post-treatment reductions in sweating, palpitations, restlessness, dry mouth, muscular tension, nausea, loss of appetite and upset stomach and the extent of these reductions were not different for the different treatments.
(18) The individual number of pathological scores showed a decrease already within the first treatment week and a further decrease by the end of the trial, especially for the items of capriciousness, obstinacy, irritability and restlessness.
(19) Subjective symptoms of venous hypertension were assessed by an analogue scale line considering four symptoms: swelling sensation, restless lower extremity, pain and cramps, and tiredness.
(20) It includes gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea and diarrhea, headache, dizziness, and restlessness.