What's the difference between ministration and succor?

Ministration


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of ministering; service; ministry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In our modern age of computerization and laboratory-based medical care, cavernous sinus thrombosis demands the diagnostic skill of the clinician, whose prompt ministrations should usually yield a favourable result.
  • (2) After almost 24 hours of being told I stank and generally being treated like a contagious freak, I was so grateful for these ministrations that I went to hug them.
  • (3) There are also groups that have spiritual health care modalities and ministrations.
  • (4) Photograph: Tristram Kenton I have soon to surrender him again beach-side to the camera’s ministrations – he does hate being forced into unease and lack of naturalism, whether mental or physical, and asks just half-jokily of our photographer, “Why do you hate me, Alex?
  • (5) Leonard once used the law of trespass to prevent 100 men and women accepting the ministration of a female priest ordained abroad.
  • (6) A false accusation can be made when an adult has persuaded a child that the sexual events actually occurred, when a child in the oedipal stage has misinterpreted caregiving ministrations, when a child's thought processes are confused by primary process material, or when a child is secondarily involved in the projective identifications of a dominant caregiver.
  • (7) Much of what you’re paying for at this level isn’t just what you’re putting down your neck, but service and ambience – the perfection of glittering glassware, exquisite presentation, the ministrations of the senior sommelier.
  • (8) It should also be realized that urticaria all too frequently "settles down" due as much to the natural course as to the careful ministrations of the physician.
  • (9) The attractiveness of oral rehydration therapy (ORT), a new and simple ministration that averts many child deaths from diarrhea among children, is diverting attention among donor agencies from the importance of water supply and sanitation (WS&S) in developing nations.
  • (10) The essential element of the comparison is to separate (partition) the effects of the prehospital ministrations from those of subsequent hospital care.
  • (11) What it would have done, though, is spared us the ministrations of the most dangerous political type, of which Duncan Smith is unquestionably one.
  • (12) According to the health ministr, 77 people were killed in 48 hours and nearly 600 wounded.
  • (13) A vast monolith whose gothic arches resemble a house of both worship and horror, the building seems tailor-made to combine the fortressed needs of a prison with the spiritual ministrations of a church - a unique blend of punishment and salvation.
  • (14) We note nevertheless a nursing style that includes physical proximity, touch, ministrations, and accompaniment over time through the experiences that threaten clients' assurance and challenge their resources.
  • (15) Cycloleucinead ministration (a synthetic amino acid) to rats produces a selective hyperaminoaciduria bearing on dibasic amino acids (lysine, arginine, ornithine) and cystine.
  • (16) In consultation psychiatry, students are also taught that the object of their ministrations is not the patient, but all members of the ward milieu, a focus which is not characteristic of the biomedical tradition.
  • (17) Team building is based on the satisfaction of three areas of individual need: (a) ministration, which leads to mutual respect; (b) mastery or effective performance; and (c) maturation or personal growth and professional socialization.
  • (18) The resurgence of interest in the plight of the menopausal woman has stimulated an increasing number of competent investigators to attempt to solve the mysteries that until recently have been evaluated and treated by anecdote and homeopathic ministrations.
  • (19) Atos assessment doctors may be polite, but the basic ground for complaint is most likely to have to undergo their tender ministrations in the first place.
  • (20) A higher excretion of bile acids was found in the 8 overweight subjects (P less than 0.01) before ministration of fenfluramine.

Succor


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To run to, or run to support; hence, to help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve; as, to succor a besieged city.
  • (v. t.) Aid; help; assistance; esp., assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress.
  • (v. t.) The person or thing that brings relief.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Three independent dimensions of personality are defined and related to heritable variation in patterns of response to specific types of environmental stimuli: 'novelty seeking' is due to a heritable tendency toward frequent exploratory activity and intense excitement in response to novel stimuli; 'harm avoidance' is due to a heritable tendency to respond intensely to aversive stimuli and to learn to avoid punishment, novelty, and non-reward passively; and 'reward dependence' is due to a heritable tendency to respond intensely to reward and succorance and to learn to maintain rewarded behavior.
  • (2) Requests reflecting needs for intrapsychic therapy, clarification, and control of feelings were considered very important by approximately two thirds of the patients; needs for institutionalized contact, advice, and community triage by one half; and other requests for medication, reality contact, succorance, ventilation, confession, social intervention, administrative requests by a minority (one fourth to one third).
  • (3) An onslaught of biological, social, and psychological stresses force acknowledgement of previously denied needs for succor, plunging them into battle with their wife-surrogate mother.
  • (4) assistance, succorance, nurturance, stress alleviation, and support in a stressful urban environment in which they encounter barriers of language, transportation, eligibility requirements, and self-perceptions of inferior ethnic identify.
  • (5) Addicted criminals had stronger succorance, heterosexuality, and aggression needs and less abasement and endurance needs than nonaddicted offenders.
  • (6) Post boc analyses for treatment x high-low score classification on the Edwards variables indicated that accurately informed subjects high in succorance or exhibition demonstrated significantly greater heart-rate reduction than subjects given other treatment.
  • (7) The RTC has performed very well, giving aid and succor to rape victims.
  • (8) The treatment effect was not significant, but personality variables of exhibition, succorance, deference, and aggression were reliable predictors of success in biofeedback training.
  • (9) Nikki Haley has announced that she wants the legislature to take down this flag, and now it will try to do that, meandering through politicking and procedure, giving the most needful of all Americans – especially those running for president as Republicans, and who once happily took the money of the racists who support flying said flag – the succor of not having to answer the question, “Would you take down the Confederate flag if you were the Governor of South Carolina?” with anything more than, “Well, I’m pleased to say I don’t have to answer that, and that issue is in the hands of the folks from South Carolina.” You could watch the tweets of relief from candidates roll in in real time.
  • (10) The results also suggested that high affinity states of platelet alpha 2-adrenergic receptors (low Kd) correlate with traits suggestive of stability, i.e., Autonomy, Dominance, Nurturance, Order, Succorance, and General Sensation Seeking Scale of Zuckerman, while low affinity states (high Kd) of platelet alpha 2-receptors correlate with psychopathological traits of Dependence, Exhibitionism, and Paranoia.
  • (11) Sylvia Muchinsky, Summer’s New York-based aunt, worried that US citizens who have sought succor in Aden will soon be in the crosshairs as the battle spreads to the port.
  • (12) The birth of a sibling before this age would give rise to affiliation and succorance needs, which we propose to consider together under the name of "symbiotic dependence."
  • (13) Inconsistent with this interpretation was the finding that students were actually lower in dominance and higher in succorance after training.
  • (14) The decrease in dominance may be related to the program's special emphasis on counseling; the high succorance at the end of the program may have resulted from the transitional state associated with leaving the program.
  • (15) Comparisons between the responses to the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule given by 32 pairs of firstborns, 17-19 years old, revealed that firstborns having siblings less than 3 years younger show greater affiliation and succorance needs than firstborns not having close siblings.
  • (16) An association was found between normal status and high self scores on nurturance, affiliation, and endurance, and between pathological status and succorance.
  • (17) This paper reports the results of a field study on five proximal social psychological variables derived from Farber's theory of suicide: Hope in the Future Time Perspective; Demands for Interpersonal Giving; the Availability of Succorance; Demands for the Exercising of Competence; and the degree of Toleration of Suicide.
  • (18) For men, inventory scores were positively associated with the traits of Change and Endurance and negatively correlated with Abasement, Order and Succorance.
  • (19) Instead of receiving understanding, compassion and succor from a signatory to the refugee convention, he was sent to a hell-hole as a deterrent against the trip he had already made.
  • (20) Cluster analyses revealed four distinct groups of subjects (anxious deniers, healthy separators, peaceful detachers, and succorance seekers), each with its own coherent set of scores on the SITA and instruments measuring family relations and positive and negative psychological adjustment.

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