(adv.) Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts.
(adv.) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight; as, to neglect strangers.
(v.) Omission of proper attention; avoidance or disregard of duty, from heedlessness, indifference, or willfulness; failure to do, use, or heed anything; culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy.
(v.) Omission if attention or civilities; slight; as, neglect of strangers.
(v.) Habitual carelessness; negligence.
(v.) The state of being disregarded, slighted, or neglected.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
(2) 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.
(3) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
(4) After these two experimental years, a governmental institute for prevention of child abuse and neglect was organized.
(5) The Guardian neglects to mention 150,000 privately owned guns or that Palestinians are banned from bearing arms.
(6) Glutathion and ascorbic acid interfere with the test strip method but this error is neglectable because of physiological low concentrations of these substances.
(7) Chikavu Nyirenda, a leading political analyst, said: "She neglected to look at the local scene but spent a lot of time to please the west and promote herself."
(8) More than half of carers said they were neglecting their own diet as a result of their caring responsibilities, while some said they were eating the wrong things because of the stress they are under and more than half said they had experienced problems with diet and hydration.
(9) During interview and chart audit, the physicians were found to have consistently underestimated, misinterpreted, or neglected psychiatric aspects of care among a majority of patients in the study.
(10) Content-related development issues have been given little attention in the literature, yet their neglect typically results in important limitations on the usefulness of a database.
(11) However, the assessment of acceptance, of existing skills and of the ability of people to learn and absorb computer technology is still a neglected aspect in the implementation of computer systems.
(12) The discrepancy between left versus right latencies increased significantly in the secondary task condition for two patients in the neglect group but not for the other two.
(13) It was shown that neglect of this factor caused regular underestimation of the assessment of medullary doses, patients were exposed to, during x-ray procedures.
(14) But should a traffic officer go to jail for neglecting a dangerous road, or a doctor who misses a critical symptom, or a judge who lets a murderer go free?
(15) A 22 year old female-to-male half-Aboriginal transsexual had been exposed to gross neglect and violence, separation and inconsistent cultural supports during childhood.
(16) Injection of a low dose of haloperidol, that has no obvious behavioral effects in normal mice, produces akinesia, catalepsy, and somatosensory neglect in MPTP-treated mice.
(17) Comparative virology has proved quite productive in a relatively short period, and is unlikely to be neglected in the future.
(18) Patients with unilateral neglect may exhibit slowness in the initiation of contralesionally directed movements in peripersonal space (directional hypokinesia).
(19) One component of the test battery was a simple test described by Albert in which patients cross out lines ruled in a standard fashion on a sheet of paper; this was easy to administer and related closely to neglect diagnosed by the test battery as a whole.
(20) Cut-off points are provided to distinguish between such age-related impairment and visuospatial neglect.
Nonacceptance
Definition:
(n.) A neglect or refusal to accept.
Example Sentences:
(1) Persistent disease after radiotherapy was a serious problem in advanced stages, especially in view of nonacceptance of salvage surgery by a significant proportion of patients.
(2) Th nonacceptability was of greater significance, therefore, than the metabolic effects in these trials.
(3) During clinicalontgenetic analysis concerning particular studied cases, 3 models of nonfunctional adaptation were distinguished: maladjustment of aggressive type prevailing among the children with permanent physical handicap coming of families characteristic for socially nonaccepted standard of behaviour; maladjustment of neurotic type prevailing among the children coming of compliant families whose adult members manifest neurotic vegetative reactions in difficult situations.
(4) The instrument contained two identical sets of 45 items, each one describing a socially nonacceptable behavior.
(5) They did not undertake any statistical analysis, but their reanalysis resulted in a widespread nonacceptance of the association reported by the DEU.
(6) Study I examined the relationships between the child's percent syllables stuttered and the parents' speech rates and percentages of nonaccepting statements, interruptions, questions, nonaccepting questions, and talk time.
(7) The survey instrument was designed to measure responses to the following attitudinal variables: acceptance and nonacceptance of a CML program; importance to patient care, education, and research; influence on information-seeking patterns of health care professionals; ethical issues; CML extension services; and costs.
(8) In the formycin-carrying tRNA, the amino acid bound to the nonaccepting OH seems to be inaccessible to the enzymatic groups responsible for hydrolysis.
(9) Results indicate that acceptance or nonacceptance into the clinic system were unrelated to social class or diagnosis, although these factors did influence referrals to specific clinic resources.
(10) The data can be rationalized assuming that hydrolysis takes place only if the amino acid is bound to the nonaccepting OH and hence is not positioned at the amino acid binding site upon formation of the complex between aminoacyl-tRNA and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase.
(11) AA (alcohol accepting) and ANA (alcohol nonaccepting) rats, animals bred selectively for differential ethanol preference, showed large differences in operant responding for ethanol.
(12) Sometimes the patient can adapt to a new role but the family cannot; denial or nonacceptance on the part of a spouse or family can constitute a tremendous adaptational complication.
(13) Unless nursing service provides the structure for enhancing role development, frustration, nonacceptance, and even early termination of a qualified clinical nurse specialist may result.
(14) The accepted group had 70 per cent skeletal malrelationships (Class II and Class III), while the nonaccepted group presented with 32 per cent skeletal discrepancies.
(15) We thus assessed the extent to which procedure nonacceptance or noncompletion limited accomplishment of detection procedures offered as components of routine health care.
(16) Nonacceptance of prescribed oral medications among young children hinders medical treatment.
(17) A comparative study of the acceptance and nonacceptance for the selected sociodemographic and family planning variables is analysed.
(18) We attempted to clarify the questions as to which variables were important for the acceptance or nonacceptance of a psychotherapy offer to the patients of our department.
(19) Nonacceptance by the elderly was not a significant factor.
(20) Barriers to successful implementation are discussed, including liability concerns or lack of confidence among team members, nonacceptance of expanded roles by other professionals, and difficulties with scheduling, equipment maintenance, and risk assignment.