(n.) An indefinite feeling of uneasiness, or of being sick or ill at ease.
Example Sentences:
(1) An 18 yr old previously well male Taiwanese was admitted with malaise, anorexia, and jaundice for two weeks.
(2) Malaise, fatigability, low-grade fever, aching chest pain and mild cough lasting a few days to a few weeks are usual.
(3) Like low blood pressure after a heart attack, then, cheap oil should arguably be regarded not as a sign of rude health, but rather as a consequence of malaise.
(4) Symptoms most commonly associated with radiation sickness, such as malaise, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dysphagia, dermatitis, and depleted hemopoietic elements, are usually seen late in the course of radiation therapy or shortly thereafter.
(5) Both presented with abdominal pain and malaise, with hepatomegaly and a variable degree of hepatocellular dysfunction.
(6) A 39-year-old man born in Miyazaki Prefecture was admitted because of jaundice and general malaise of about 10 days' duration.
(7) Other rats tended to avoid the high fat to an extent that was greater than predicted by the theory, suggesting that the fat diet may have caused malaise.
(8) The effect during hypovolemia was evident when subjects had access to adulterated physiological saline, a solution more responsive to the PEG-induced need state, and quinine group behavior was not easily explained in terms of the tastes of quinine and saline combined together nor in terms of a posttreatment malaise effect.
(9) The second case, a 64-year-old man who had used ultrasonic humidifier in his living room, was admitted for 8 weeks with an illness characterized by cough, low fever and general malaise on 22 January 1987.
(10) Faced with such systemic social, economic and environmental malaise we need to build a broad base of campaign leaders from across civil society – people from major non-profits, trade unions and environmental, social justice and faith groups.
(11) Seven of the 12 patients had therapy stopped because of complications; severe malaise and nausea (three cases), decreased renal function (three cases), and blindness (one case).
(12) Toxic reactions included pyrexia, headache, and malaise, which were mild to moderate.
(13) Central to Europe's economic malaise is that its banks are in poor shape.
(14) Two cues, either size or flavor of food pellet, were conditionally paired with either malaise induced by x-ray or pain induced by shock in four groups of rats.
(15) Common clinical symptoms were headache (60%), exertional dyspnea (42%), dizziness (36%), and malaise or weakness (34%).
(16) Interestingly, their report, Tax Evasion Across Industries: Soft Credit Evidence From Greece, which documents the hidden, non-taxed economy, blames the current malaise not on dodgy taxi drivers or moonlighting refuse collectors, but on the professional classes.
(17) The baby was fed breast milk only when the mother became acutely ill with fever, arthralgia and malaise.
(18) The English have escaped from the stifling post-imperial malaise to provide a political and economic system which is both continuous and dynamic, attracting capital and enterprise from all over the world.
(19) It’s not a strange side effect of Brexit malaise – it’s World Yoga Day.
(20) An indication of the general malaise in the regional market is shown by the Evening Post's circulation slip of 10.9% year on year in the six months to last December, to 34,851 .
Malinger
Definition:
(v. i.) To act the part of a malingerer; to feign illness or inability.
Example Sentences:
(1) These charts facilitate the use of nonstandard testing distances which might be used when there is low visual acuity, when examination room layout prevents testing at the standard distance, or when it is necessary to validate visual acuity scores or detect malingering.
(2) and the prime minister limply said that something had to be done to sort out malingering claimants.
(3) A case history is presented of a 12-year-old child with behavioural and reading difficulties who manifested reduced vision most probably attributable to VCR and severe colour deficiency, which was best explained in terms of simulation or malingering.
(4) The usefulness of assays for the rapid identification and determination of quantitative plasma levels of warfarin sodium and dicumarol is documented by the case histories of five patients: a man who accidentally took dicumarol for several weeks and developed an acute condition within the abdomen, a man who ingested 500 mg of warfarin sodium in a suicide attempt, a malingering nurse who surreptitiously took dicumarol, a nurse with warfarin intoxication who did not follow dosage prescription because of fear of developing thrombosis, and a woman with calf vein thrombosis who did not ingest the administered warfin sodium becausing of fear of developing bleeding.
(5) Infection is lifelong for herpes simplex virus (HSV) and HIV and malingering for chronic hepatitis B (HPB).
(6) Recent studies of the M have failed to confirm its effectiveness as a screening measure for malingering.
(7) The use of the DSM-III inclusion and exclusion criteria--physical mechanism explains the symptoms, symptoms are linked to psychological factors, symptom initiation is under voluntary control, and there is an obvious recognizable environmental goal--are discussed in the differential diagnosis of somatoform disorder, factitious disorder, malingering, psychological factors affecting physical condition, and undiagnosed physical illness.
(8) This test is based on the principle that visual input blocks nystagmus induced by vestibular stimulations: the presence of nystagmus suppression will indicate that blindness is either hysterical or malingered.
(9) The vast majority (77 per cent) returned to a rheumatologist for continued treatment, suggesting that patients who meet strict FS criteria are not malingering and are indeed in need of medical help.
(10) Subjects were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: Control (n = 28), Malingering with a financial incentive (n = 30), and Malingering without a financial incentive (n = 28).
(11) The psychodynamics and the clinical symptoms of our cases are described and the differential diagnoses of malingering, conversion disorders, and hypochondriasis are brought to attention.
(12) This ranges across a spectrum from benign use of feigned or alleged symptoms, malingering, conversion reactions and hysterical manifestations to the severe and flamboyant clinical presentation of the Munchausen Syndrome.
(13) Major implications are: (a) abnormal frequencies of determinants should not be attributed to malingering, and (b) Rorschach content measures of depression are affected by impression management strategies.
(14) The comparatively low frequency of incongruence between symptoms and objective clinical findings in this study suggests over emphasis of malingering by other authors.
(15) As in the case of other painful conditions, patients with low back pain may exhibit symptoms of malingering and of decreased function.
(16) The motor phenomena may persist long after the more common signs of withdrawal have resolved and, if unrecognized, can lead to such misdiagnoses as drug seeking, conversion, hysteria, or malingering.
(17) It was concluded that, in its present form, the M Test does not constitute a good screening measure for assessing malingering.
(18) Such tests along with psychiatric evaluation, indicate that NOHL can be subdivided into categories, examples of which are presented and discussed: malingering or conscious simulation of deafness for obvious personal gain, and psychogenic deafness in which an emotional problem (e.g., combat stress, anxiety) is unconsciously converted into a hearing problem in an escape mechanism.
(19) The M Test, a brief test for measuring malingering of schizophrenic illness, contains true-false items describing actual symptoms of schizophrenia, bizarre attitudes and beliefs, and fake symptoms.
(20) Faust, Hart, and Guilmette (1988) recently reported on the inability of neuropsychologists to detect malingering in children who were asked to "fake bad" on a battery of neuropsychological measures.