(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.
Pervious
Definition:
(a.) Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil.
(a.) Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.
(a.) Capable of penetrating or pervading.
(a.) Open; -- used synonymously with perforate, as applied to the nostrils or birds.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this latter group two of 29 (7%) had ECG evidence of infarction while four of 28 (14%) had positive scintigrams, compared to the pervious incidence of 31%.
(2) Three antigens designated B1, B2, and B3 (perviously B, C, and D) were detected in our outbred colony and also found to be present in a wide variety of guinea pig strains.
(3) Isopycnic sucrose density (discontinuous) gradient centrifugation of vesicles from adrenal glands of control cats, and of cats given reserpine 1 or 2 days perviously, indicated that new vesicles or vesicles depleted of CA by reserpine had a lower equilibrium density than the original population of vesicles.
(4) Considering the type, localization and perviousness of the lesion, similar conclusions were drawn, and did not affect the results, except that there were more false-negatives in both exams when the lesions were impervious.
(5) The purpose was to quantitate and characterize uterine activity in a group of multiparous patients with normal labor using our present on-line method and to evaluate our method against pervious work done on uterine activity.
(6) The contractility indices (VCF: mean speed, and VCF max: maximum shortening speed of the equatorial diameter of the left ventricle (% delta theta) were unmodified in the group (I) of fourteen patients with at least one pervious by-pass.
(7) Conditioning under a steam-proof and gas pervious (O2-CO2) film.
(8) A case of pheochromocytoma of the urinary bladder is reported, and 35 perviously reported cases are analyzed.
(9) Using epithelial monolayers of HCA-7 cells, derived from a primary human colonic adenocarcinoma and grown on pervious supports, it is shown that responses to lysylbradykinin can be elicited from either side.
(10) Oral apparatuses also purified by a modification of a pervious method.
(11) The sudden withdrawal of LSD produced a fall in avoidance rate, which was dependent on the pervious training dosage; as with delta 9-THC state-dependent learning can also be assumed for LSD.
(12) Comparison of the serum time-concentration curves to pervious analgesic and toxicity trials was made, and minimum serum levels for induction of analgesia and production of side effects are discussed.
(13) The percent yield of purified hyaluronidase calculated on the basis of total activity was ten times higher than by any pervious method [Yang, C.H.
(14) Clinical manifestations, including recurrent urinary tract infection and cuff abscess, followed vaginal hysterectomy performed three years perviously.
(15) The new policy amounts to an effective U-turn on pervious, ground-breaking legislation passed by Gerhard Schröder's Social Democrat and Green government, which would have seen nuclear power phased out in just over a decade's time.
(16) Spontaneously occurring surface wrinkling retinopathy occurreed in 17 eyes of 16 patients and was not related to pervious surgery, retinal vascular disease, or obvious ocular inflammation.
(17) Previously it has been thought that such a perviousness of the mucosal barrier would be bidirectional in nature.
(18) We consider this clinical entity to be much more common than perviously reported.
(19) However, although the specificity and intracellular localization of these enzymes in different tissues have been described perviously, there are only a few reports about their localization in the salivary gland, and the functional role of arylsulphatases in the physiological function of the salivary glands.
(20) When compared with pervious data (1) it is suggested that alcohol is differentiated from pentobarbital and diazepam on the basis of their interactional effects with bemegride.