(n.) Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium.
(n.) Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania.
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 patients had met Research Diagnostic Criteria for major depressive episode and had no evidence of schizophrenia or mania.
(3) There was a fall of mean AVP excretion during mania, the magnitude of the fall being related to the increase of water throughput.
(4) Despite the presence of some side effects, such as easily controlled seizures (9%) and transient mania (6%), the results of this investigation support the use of cingulotomy as a potentially effective treatment for patients with severe and disabling obsessive-compulsive disorder.
(5) The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of lithium, a drug which is now used rather widely in the treatment of acute mania and the prophylaxis of manic-depressive bipolar disorders, on the pituitary-gonadal function in the laboratory rat.
(6) The authors present a case of coexisting obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and bipolar affective disorder in which the obsessive-compulsive symptoms disappeared during episodes of mania and reappeared during periods of depression.
(7) CSF CRH levels in mania, simple dementia, or anxiety or somatization disorder were not significantly different from the controls.
(8) The game was one of many celebrations around the country as Russia was gripped with Putin birthday mania on Wednesday.
(9) We suggest that a fundamental reconceptualization of both mania and depression as overactivated neural systems (either excitatory or inhibitory) could facilitate this conceptualization.
(10) Depression is a result of abnormalities lowering the normal steady-state concentration of methylbarinine, whereas mania results from an abnormal elevation of methylbarinine.
(11) Organic brain performance deficits and disturbances of sexual function are seen with both types of alcoholic jealousy mania.
(12) Mania usually represents one extreme of recurrent affective illness in patients with a genetic predisposition.
(13) Eight of them were schizophrenia, one was paranoid, and one was mania.
(14) Antidepressant drugs are effective in the acute treatment and prevention of depression only, and can even precipitate hypomanic or manic "switches," or "rapid cycling" between mania and depression.
(15) Because of the practical difficulties which arise in studying manic patients, a reproducible model for mania using human subjects would be a valuable adjunct to research in this condition.
(16) (3) 64 of the 908 patients (7.0%) admitted for depression switched to hypomania or mania.
(17) To evaluate the possible abnormality in MAO activity in affective disorders, blood platelet samples were obtained from 80 patients with mania and depression.
(18) Mixed mania (i.e., a manic syndrome accompanied by depressive symptoms) and its response to long-term preventive drug treatment was studied as part of a larger NIMH collaborative study.
(19) It's the kind of TV that makes for a wipe-your-weekend-plans box set: the ending of every crack-fix of an episode had me twitchily reaching for the remote to a muttered internal monologue of: "Next one, next one, now, now…" Danes carries the series as the bipolar CIA agent Carrie Mathison, whose furious vigilance is hard to distinguish from pathological mania as she investigates, and ultimately falls for, Sergeant Brody (Damian Lewis), a Marine who may or may not be a terrorist after eight years held captive by al-Qaida.
(20) The authors present a case of mania associated with the prolonged ingestion of large doses of L-dopa.
Manna
Definition:
(n.) The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food.
(n.) A name given to lichens of the genus Lecanora, sometimes blown into heaps in the deserts of Arabia and Africa, and gathered and used as food.
(n.) A sweetish exudation in the form of pale yellow friable flakes, coming from several trees and shrubs and used in medicine as a gentle laxative, as the secretion of Fraxinus Ornus, and F. rotundifolia, the manna ashes of Southern Europe.
Example Sentences:
(1) The anti-B-512-dextran represents a specific reagent for alpha-1,6-linked polyglucose, as evidenced by complete cross-reactivity with synthetic linear dextran; its specificity is emphasized by non-reactivity with alpha-1,6-linked synthetic manna, the monomeric residues of the two polymers differing only in position of the C-2 hydroxyl groups.
(2) This is manna from heaven for her and he loves it too.
(3) H. valbyensis, H. uvarum, and K. apiculata were a group which formed mannans which had identical H-1 regions in their proton magnetic resonance (PMR) spectra, and H. osmophila, K. africana, and K. magna mannas formed another group based on similar spectra.
(4) This is manna from heaven for Clinton and Trump loves it too Frank Luntz, Republican pollster Indeed, the public disclosure of her emails have, if anything, helped to humanise her: it emerged, for example, that she watches The Good Wife and Parks and Recreation but needed an aide’s help to find Homeland.
(5) It was like manna from heaven for George Osborne when the west's leading economic thinktank instructed its rich members back in May to tackle budget deficits without delay.
(6) Chris Woodhead 1994-2000 A thorn to teachers; manna for journalists.
(7) This does not stop the shameless duo from taking full credit for the manna from heaven, and doing their best to present the resulting boost to the economy as all part of their long-term plan.
(8) 8.58am: Yesterday's joint press conference was manna from heaven for the newspaper front pages.
(9) (2) MC540-mediated photolysis is not cell-cycle dependent (Manna and Sieber, 1985).
(10) Low fuel costs for a modern economy run on oil is manna from heaven.
(11) This was literally manna from heaven and it made them very happy to reach somebody in need.
(12) It has been pointed out that there are more economical ways to play Scrabble – on a Scrabble board, for example – but this hasn't stopped this app being hailed as manna from gadget heaven.
(13) By arguing that growth rates fell sharply when a nation's debt as a proportion of its annual output reached 90%, it was manna from heaven for those policy makers keen to take immediate and tough action to tighten fiscal policy.
(14) Acid treatment of the cell-wall D-mannas of Candida stellatoidea strains ATCC 36232 (Type I, A3 strain) and ATCC 20408 (Type II, A2 strain) gave (1----2)-linked beta-D-manno-oligosaccharides (dp 2-5), whereas treatment with alkali gave the (1----2)-linked alpha-D-mannobiose.
(15) Serologically active D-arabino-D-mannas ([alpha]D, +82 degrees approximately 89 degrees; ratio of D-arabinose to D-mannose, 1-2:1) were isolated from the soluble fraction of disintegrated cells of M. tuberculosis, M. smegmatis, and several other Mycobacterium species.