(1) Various misconceptions about dietary carcinogens, pesticide residues, and cancer causation are discussed.
(2) Emphasizing this trend, we present our current approaches to managing retinoblastoma based on our experience with 324 patients, outlining our indications and pointing out a number of misconceptions about the role of enucleation, photocoagulation, cryotherapy, and radiotherapy in treating this condition.
(3) His views also suggest some serious misconceptions about teaching and learning in general.
(4) This conclusion is based on a misconception: that science graduates are limited to a career in science.
(5) We hope that this rejoinder clarifies some of the misconceptions that may arise from the Gross and Schuch article and that physical therapists consider very carefully the rationale for any type of exercise program for post-polio patients.
(6) The present research seems to confirm the fact that misconcepts induced by inadequacity of social status are more frequent and more intensive in patients with coronary troubles.
(7) This review considers the biophysics of penetrating missile wounds, highlights some of the more common misconceptions and seeks to reconcile the conflicting and confusing management doctrines that are promulgated in the literature-differences that arise not only from two scenarios, peace and war, but also from misapprehensions of the wounding process.
(8) His avoidance of the circumlocutions favoured by most politicians led to a popular misconception that he is a straight shooter.
(9) Larson said misconceptions about Tubman had flourished in part because she was a “malleable icon”.
(10) Several myths and misconceptions feature prominently amid the instant reaction and punditry.
(11) There’s a great misconception that coming into care [work] is easy.” When the company advertised job roles as “care assistant” rather than “care worker”, it found that more people were interested, as the misconceptions about care work were left behind.
(12) Although participants had a fairly accurate understanding of the causes of HIV infection, modes of transmission and preventive measures, many myths and misconceptions existed.
(13) It was discovered that an overwhelming majority of parents had gross misconceptions about febrile convulsions, and took inappropriate or even harmful actions in an attempt to control the convulsions.
(14) Wide spread fears and misconceptions about condoms existed, e.g., condoms stay in the vagina.
(15) The study demonstrated that many patients with psoriasis have gaps in their knowledge of the disease or misconceptions that could be obstacles to effective treatment and disease prevention.
(16) Despite a common misconception, bronchogenic carcinoma of the left upper lobe frequently metastasizes to lymph nodes not only in the anterior mediastinum (para-aortic and subaortic) but also in the superior mediastinum.
(17) We have attempted to dispel many of the myths and misconceptions surrounding the use of narcotic analgesics in the treatment of childhood pain.
(18) As long as many women still find gyms – and particularly weights areas – unwelcoming, male-dominated spaces, it will prove difficult to tackle such misconceptions.
(19) The results of the study illustrate the misconception of chronic pain as an entity and highlight the importance of recognizing different neurobiological mechanisms and differences in responsiveness to analgesic drugs as well as to non-pharmacological modes of treatment.
(20) Dangerous misconceptions prevailed with regard to respondents' knowledge of areas including anatomy, physiology, and appropriate use of effective contraception.
Misperception
Definition:
(n.) Erroneous perception.
Example Sentences:
(1) Topics include (1) the definition and incidence of acquaintance rape and sexual assault; (2) perpetrator characteristics; (3) situations associated with sexual assault; and (4) men's misperception of women's sexual intent.
(2) This misperception is not based on solid fact and is not shared by radiation protection professionals, who have a broader vision of both past achievements and problems remaining in this area.
(3) 48.5% of respondents share the misperception that transmission from mother to fetus always happens, and 70% think that women who are HIV carriers should renounce pregnancy: willingness to support mandatory screening for pregnant women is significantly higher among individuals who share these two beliefs.
(4) These misperceptions were more common among youngsters who were smokers, who intended to smoke, or who had friends or family members who smoked.
(5) Respondents to the 1988 National Health Interview Survey of AIDS Knowledge and Attitudes, which is based on a nationally representative sample of 29,659 adults, were rated on their knowledge about modes of HIV transmission, general knowledge about AIDS, and misperceptions about HIV transmission through casual contact.
(6) They have an important role in counseling adolescents about effective HIV-prevention methods and dispelling misperceptions which hinder consistent condom use.
(7) Social and cultural values, which attach a deep symbolic meaning to AIDS, combine with misperceptions about transmission to create this stress response.
(8) Arthritis patients are prone to misperceptions, forgetfulness, and the use of unproven remedies.
(9) In patients with sleep-state misperception, the actigram was either quite accurate or it underestimated sleep when compared with the PSG.
(10) Recapping was related to inadequate knowledge, concerns about personal risk, forgetfulness, being "too busy" to follow the Universal Precautions Policy, and the misperception that recapping is a way to avoid needlestick injury.
(11) Type I trauma includes full, detailed memories, "omens," and misperceptions.
(12) In most instances, the naming errors referred to an object visually similar to the target object, suggesting that visual misperception is the major cause of the naming disorder.
(13) Sleep state misperception may be a prodromic or transitional state of sleep dysfunction between normal sleep and the sleep pattern of objective insomnia.
(14) DSM-III uses "primary insomnia" to indicate chronic insomnia not associated with other diagnosable mental or medical disorders, whereas the International Classification of Sleep Disorders (ICSD) recognizes three subtypes: psychophysiological insomnia, idiopathic insomnia, and sleep state misperception.
(15) This behavior exemplifies the misperception of risk.
(16) Finally, the misperception of relative speed appears lessened when the stimuli to be matched are presented sequentially.
(17) Although fear was associated with misperceptions, it was not always dispelled by knowledge.
(18) In such displays there is systematic misperception of both the speeds and directions of motion of visual objects.
(19) Sleep continuity variables were disturbed in the objective insomnia group, but they were similar in the sleep state misperception and normal groups.
(20) By means of a computerized system of spike detection, presentation of visual stimuli, and registration of reaction times (RTs), we have shown previously that focal posterior interictal spikes cause transiently prolonged RT and increased nonperception and misperception of stimuli, especially contralateral to the spike.