(a.) Of or pertaining to the chin; genian; as, the mental nerve; the mental region.
(n.) A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the mind; intellectual; as, mental faculties; mental operations, conditions, or exercise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
(2) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
(3) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
(4) Instead of later renal failure and, of course, mental retardation, it was the histological features of the fetus eyes which permit to diagnose and exhibit both congenital cataract and irido-corneal angle dysgenesis.
(5) What constitutes a "mental disorder" for purposes of the insanity defense?
(6) The physicians did diagnose and treat a number of patients with mental symptoms who were not identified by the DIS.
(7) This paper describes the demographic, clinical, and psychosocial characteristics of a sample of chronically mentally ill clients at a large comprehensive community mental health center.
(8) Existing mental health and criminal justice systems provide social control for some of these dangerous individuals, but may be inadequate to deal with those mentally disordered offenders who were not found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI).
(9) This new way of thinking is reflected in the 1992 AAMR definition of what mental retardation is (Luckasson et al., 1992).
(10) Changing conditions call for each Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) to develop a survival strategy based on its own standards and values.
(11) Greater knowledge about these disorders and closer working relationships with mental health specialists should lead to decreased morbidity and mortality.
(12) A 4-year prospective study was carried out on 53 chronically mentally ill patients living in a differentiated complementary residential complex.
(13) Governmental officials as well as medical scientists in Taiwan have worked hard in recent years to develop and to implement various measures, such as prenatal diagnosis and neonatal screening, to lower the incidence of hereditary diseases and mental retardation in the population.
(14) The author describes the utilization review process, utilization patterns, and service cost of the Mental Health Service of the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York (HIP).
(15) The Global Assessment Scale was used by multiple clinicians to rate 108 chronically mentally ill outpatients for 18 months.
(16) In order to map the mental state in the early puerperium the authors gave to a group of 100 women for five days after delivery Lüscher's colour test.
(17) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
(18) The attitude towards drug trials was negative in 79% of the personnel, in contrast to 71% positive in three Swedish mental hospitals.
(19) Care for black and minority ethnic communities is seen as a "major faultline in mental health".
(20) What we see from those opposite and we see in this chamber every day is the 'born to rule mentality' of those opposite.
Omental
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to an omentum or the omenta.
Example Sentences:
(1) Boey and Wong suggested that omental patch closure is indicated for "acute ulcers associated with drug ingestion or acute stress" in addition to those that occur in patients who are considered to be poor risk, while proximal gastric vagotomy should be added in the remaining patients with perforations of acute ulcers.
(2) As reported previously, the omental milk spots in the mouse are morphologically classified into two types; type I and II.
(3) The omental fat, which was previously shown to cause neovascularization in the assay in vivo, did not promote the growth of endothelial cells in vitro.
(4) Abdominal findings are also similar for the two diseases, with the most common lesions appearing as low attenuation, hypoechoic masses in the solid abdominal organs; ulcerating nodular or diffusely infiltrating bowel lesions; and bulky retroperitoneal, mesenteric, or omental adenopathy.
(5) A case is presented in which a large mediastinal mass was shown by CT scan to be periesophageal, composed entirely of fat; surgery demonstrated omental herniation without visceral herniation.
(6) The left internal mammary artery implant combined with epicardiectomy and free omental graft provides three extra-coronary sources of blood.
(7) The side of injection of autologous omental fat was randomized and was not known to the investigator who assessed neovascularization on days 4, 7, 14, and 21 after injection.
(8) Most of the cysts were omental-mesenteric lymphangiomas; the sole exception was a cystic mesothelioma in a newborn.
(9) The authors conclude that minced tissue and omental pouch technique are preferable for autologous splenic implantation.
(10) This study examined the hypothesis that surface abrasion and topical application of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) would enhance omental revascularization of trachea in a rabbit heterotopic autograft model.
(11) Animals with an intact spleen and those with spleen slices implanted into an omental pouch cleared bacteria during the first hour and all bacteria had disappeared at three hours.
(12) Additional CT features included ascites (one case), calcifications in the dominant mass (one case), omental implants (two cases), hydronephrosis (four cases), anterior diaphragmatic lymphadenopathy (two cases), liver metastases (two cases), and retroperitoneal lymphadenopathy (two cases).
(13) This kind of pathology focuses the problem of differential diagnosis (tumours, omental and ovarian cysts, vesical diverticulum or duplication) and may be complicated by a superinfection.
(14) Lipoprotein lipase activity in omental adipose tissue, collected during laparoscopy in one patient was undetectable.
(15) Concentrations of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) were determined in 313 human omental fat samples collected from subjects from all five zones of India during 1977-1980.
(16) In order to prevent infection, the authors evaluated the effect of omental wrapping in guinea pigs.
(17) The flow increase was noted over the infarcted areas of the brain, upon which the omentum had been placed, as well as areas of the ischaemic hemisphere without omental placement and the contralateral hemisphere.
(18) Echogenic masses are more difficult to evaluate: careful study of the acoustical features yielded important information in cases of omental lipoma and rhabdomyosarcoma metastatic to the mesenteries and omentum.
(19) These imaging modalities showed soft-tissue masses or nodules; thickened omentum ("omental cake"), peritoneum, mesentery, and bowel wall; pleural plaques; and usually disproportionally small, if any, ascites.
(20) Omental and mesenteric cysts are rare intra-abdominal lesions which may be congenital, traumatic, neoplastic or infectious in origin.