(n.) The murder of a mother by her son or daughter.
(n.) One who murders one's own mother.
Example Sentences:
(1) The matricidal group differed from the control group in the way they viewed the difference between mother and father on various scales, like over-involved, tolerant, affectionate and performance-orientated.
(2) In the days before the murder he sought out information about the Ku Klux Klan, the Waffen SS, Israel, serial killers and matricide.
(3) Thirteen out of sixteen cases described their mothers as quite domineering and demanding but the EMBU inventory revealed that the Matricidal group differed from the Control group in how tolerant they saw their parents.
(4) It is suggested that these features are of greater significance in matricide than the specific form of psychiatric disorder.
(5) The matricidal groups' mothers were found to be more over-involved, tolerant, affectionate, and fathers more abusive.
(6) The authors studied 15 men who committed matricide.
(7) Compared with filicides, matricides were significantly older, were single, and more often suffered from mental illness and substance abuse.
(8) Seventeen female parricides (14 matricides, 3 patricides) were identified: in a remand prison (11), a Special Hospital (5), and a Regional Secure Unit (1).
(9) Abdulrahman said he thought he had heard of an Isis fighter who had killed his father, but this was the first matricide he was aware of.
(10) Regardless of psychiatric diagnosis, matricides were mostly single, socially isolated women in mid-life, living alone with a domineering mother in a mutually dependent but hostile relationship.
(11) Similar characteristics are found in male matricides, who are predominantly schizophrenic.
(12) The authors studied sixteen men who committed matricide.
(13) The authors conclude that the matricidal impulse evolves through successive stages of psychological development; therefore, the motives for matricide are varied and correlate with the level of psychological development or regression.
(14) During one year's stay in the child psychiatric department after the homicide the boy was psychotic, probably suffering from a schizophrenic disorder which is presumed to have developed in the years preceding the matricide.
(15) The authors studied 10 men charged with patricide, including 2 men charged with both patricide and matricide and compared them with 10 schizophrenic patients who did not commit any crime.
Suicide
Definition:
(adv.) The act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically (Law), the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind.
(adv.) One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.
(adv.) Ruin of one's own interests.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(2) Male sex, age under 19 or over 45, few social supports, and a history of previous suicide attempts are all factors associated with increased suicide rates.
(3) But becoming that person in a traditional society can be nothing short of social suicide.
(4) In addition, pathological dexamethasone-tests may indicate an increased suicide-risk in these patients.
(5) The inhibition was irreversible, as well as time and concentration dependent, which indicates a suicide-inhibition type of metabolism.
(6) Murder-suicide occurs with an annual incidence of 0.2 to 0.3 per 100,000 person-years and accounts for approximately 1000 to 1500 deaths yearly in the United States.
(7) Depressive features in patients with CFS were similar to those of control subjects, but a trend toward suicidal behavior was noted.
(8) Although it appears to come within the confines of privacy, assisted suicide constitutes a more radical change in the law than its proponents suggest.
(9) There is general agreement that suicides are likely to be undercounted, both for structural reasons (the burden-of-proof issue, the requirement that the coroner or medical examiner suspect the possibility of suicide) and for sociocultural reasons.
(10) The Bible treats suicide in a factual way and not as wrong or shameful.
(11) Irrespective of method, the suicide attempt was predominantly a psychotic act of young single people with chronic, severe disorders and considerable past parasuicide, in a setting of escalating self-harm.
(12) The toxicological findings of this case are compared to the results of two chloroquine suicide cases and discussed in the context of the referring literature.
(13) Two cases of suicide by related kidney donors following graft rejection and the death of the recipients are reported.
(14) Study of the clinical characteristics of depressive state by hemisphere stroke with the use of symptom items of Zung scale and Hamilton scale showed that patients in depressive state with right hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items considered close to the essence of endogenous depression such as depressed mood, suicide, diurnal variation, loss of weight, and paranoid symptoms, while patients in depressive state with left hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items having a nuance of so-called neurotic depression such as psychic anxiety, hypochondriasis, and fatigue.
(15) Answer, citing Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” This is a very British suicide.
(16) Nevertheless, it is the black male group between the ages of 25 and 34 years that bears the brunt of both suicide and homicide.
(17) With a patient who in suicidal intention had orally taken a larger quantity of Bi 58 EC (dimethoate) especially the behaviour of the serum cholinesterase activity and the whole blood acetylcholinesterase activity was observed over a period of 38 days and it was compared with the clinical appearance.
(18) A new suicide vector (pKNG101) that facilitates the positive selection of double recombination events in Gram-bacteria has been developed.
(19) The findings suggest that learning disabilities may be an unrecognized factor which increases the risk of suicide attempts by adolescents.
(20) Awareness of problems that may arise in the physician-patient relationship may prevent such outcomes as suicide, anxiety, hypochondriasis, invalidism and psychotic symptoms.