(a.) Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The highest incidence lies among school-age children and might indicate a nonsexual route of chlamydial infection.
(2) Anti-HIV-1-positive hemophiliacs had not transmitted to their nonsexual household contacts before study entry and did not do so subsequently, indicating that the risk from even close nonsexual contact is extremely low.
(3) Relationships between sexual attitudes and the drawing of nonsexual body parts were generally not significant.
(4) He was a vegan, sober, nonsexual God-botherer partying in the blood-soaked Meatpacking District with the sex-and-druggers.
(5) According to the model, hostile childhood experiences affect involvement in delinquency, leading to aggression through two paths: (a) hostile attitudes and personality, which result in coerciveness both in sexual and nonsexual interactions, and (b) sexual promiscuity, which, especially in interaction with hostility, produces sexual aggression.
(6) Case studies suggest that nonsexually abused children can manifest an increase in erotic behavior on the basis of unusually intense but nonabusive sexual experiences or as part of a compulsion.
(7) We conclude that the provision of FPC to nonsexually active and sexually active teens does not appear to promote the onset of sexual activity significantly among the non-sexually active group, although it significantly increases contraceptive use among the sexually active group.
(8) Ten nonsexual measures were significantly correlated with sexual activity.
(9) We also found differences in acceptance of nonsexual aggression and in subjects' beliefs that they might actually use force against women.
(10) However, the high prevalence of the infection among the virginal women indicated that transmission of HPV by nonsexual modes was common.
(11) No evidence exists for direct contact spread through shaking hands and nonsexual touching.
(12) The results showed that in none of the countries did rape increase more than nonsexual violent crimes.
(13) The presence or absence of various sexual and nonsexual anatomical features, as well as length and width measurements, were assessed in the drawing of nudes by 17 male and 23 female undergraduates.
(14) The disease may be caused by sexually or nonsexually transmitted organisms.
(15) This discussion of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) covers the incidence of AIDS in Europe and the US, the means of spread, the pattern of incidence of aids within the population, prevalence of specific antibodies, heterosexual transmission, AIDS and HTLV-III infection in Central Africa, control of spread of the infection (public education, counseling, treating for antibodies to HTLV-III, control of nonsexual transmismission, and surveillanc); and confidentiality and other social issues.
(16) This study confirms that sexual activity is an important determinant of CMV infection in both white and black women; however, the relative contributions of sexual and nonsexual transmission of CMV apparently vary and require further investigation.
(17) Similar fate maps are obtained using data from gynandromorphs and from marked Y chromosome (nonsexually dimorphic) mosaics.
(18) Transmission to nonsexual household contacts has appeared to be rare.
(19) Nonsexual transmission, although possible, is far less likely.
(20) The sex steroids exert profound effects on the function of many nonsexual organs; particularly the skin, bone, liver, salivary glands, and oral tissues.
Sexual
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to sex, or the sexes; distinguishing sex; peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female; relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes; proceeding from, or based upon, sex; as, sexual characteristics; sexual intercourse, connection, or commerce; sexual desire; sexual diseases; sexual generation.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) A total of 104 evaluable patients 20-90 years old treated by direct vision internal urethrotomy a.m. Sachse for urethral strictures reported retrospectively via a questionnaire their sexual potency before and after internal urethrotomy.
(3) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
(4) The sexual dimorphism in hepatic drug metabolism found in Crl:CD-1 mice is due to the normally repressive effects of testicular androgens on the activities of hepatic monooxygenases.
(5) Local application of 8-OH-DPAT (0-5 micrograms) into the median raphe nucleus, facilitated male rat sexual behavior, as evidenced by a decrease in number of intromissions preceding ejaculation and in time to ejaculation.
(6) For services to Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence.
(7) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
(8) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(9) [5alpha-(3)H]5alpha-Androst-16-en-3-one (5alpha-androstenone) was infused at a constant rate for 180min into the spermatic artery of a sexually mature boar.
(10) Subjects who reported incidents of childhood sexual exploitation had lower levels of self-esteem and higher levels of depression than the comparison group.
(11) Conclusions on phylogenetic trends of sexual dimorphism of skeletal robusticity and the effect of culture on it seem to be premature.
(12) The sexual attitudes and beliefs of 20 children who have been present at the labor and delivery of sibs and have observed the birth process are compared with 20 children who have not been present at delivery.
(13) Most survivors reported a range of problems that they attributed to having had cancer: 35%, proven or perceived infertility; 24%, sexual problems; 31%, health and life insurance problems; 26%, a negative socioeconomic effect; and 51%, conditioned nausea, associated with visual or olfactory reminders of chemotherapy.
(14) This suggests that isolation increases sexual proclivity.
(15) Most of our adults with myelomeningocele had satisfactory sexual function.
(16) This preliminary study compared the level of ego development, as measured by Loevinger's Washington University Sentence Completion Test (SCT), of 30 women with histories of childhood sexual victimization, and 30 women with no history of abuse.
(17) There is evidence that some of these problems are being addressed as new research initiatives are being undertaken both nationally and internationally that are relevant to both AIDS and sexuality.
(18) Second, the nurse must be aware of the wide range of feeling and attitudes on specific sexual issues that have proved troublesome to our society.
(19) She has been accused of being responsible for rape, sexual slavery, and prostitution itself.
(20) In males, the percentage of animals having mucous cells increased with sexual maturation and attained 100 per cent at age six months.