What's the difference between nonvocal and silent?
Nonvocal
Definition:
(a.) Not vocal; destitute of tone.
(n.) A nonvocal consonant.
Example Sentences:
(1) We believe that an early use of a nonvocal communication system by autistic children with these features results in more successful outcomes than before.
(2) A procedure was devised in which message content was provided to nonvocal, severely palsied quadriplegic subjects in advance.
(3) A rationale for the use of nonvocal communication systems by anarthric and severe dysarthric patients is presented.
(4) This study investigated the development of nonvocal teaching of reading and writing in severely retarded children.
(5) Interpreting gestures from retarded, nonvocal subjects is scientifically risky.
(6) The success of the visual nonvocal treatment program with the severely retarded is encouraging.
(7) It is doubly important therefore that, in addition to educators and indeed prior to them, all health professionals who work with hearing impairment of any type be proficient in the principles and practice of nonvocal communication.
(8) Arousal reactions were measured in 3 response modalities: verbal report of subjective experience; nonverbal, nonvocal behavior; and physiological reactions.
(9) A training program for teaching communication skills to nonvocal retarded adults was evaluated in three experiments.
(10) Criteria for selecting nonvocal systems are discussed in relationship to: type of motor dysfunction, intellectual and cognitive capabilities, language abilities, emotional-motivational status and system variables.
(11) Vowel quality of target syllables was influenced by this acoustic correlate of vocal-tract scale, implying that the perception of these nonvocal signals includes a process of vocal-tract scale, implying that the perception of these nonvocal signals includes a process of vocal-tract normalization.
(12) The sequence of treatment included the following stages: early establishment of communication, establishment of a flexible nonvocal communication system, development of functional verbal communication, and maximizing intelligibility of speech.
(13) This study investigated the relationship between limb apraxia, as assessed by a formal clinical test, and the production of spontaneous communicative gesture, as measured by a newly designed rating scale--the Nonvocal Communication Scale (NCS).
(14) This paper discusses a case study wherein a 24-year-old male nonvocal cerebral palsy patient was assessed for his ability to operate assistive communication devices.
(15) In both experiments, lactating females attacked the vocalizing males more rapidly and showed a higher incidence of aggressive behaviors toward these males than they did to the nonvocalizing male.
(16) Intact, vocalizing males, surgically devocalized males, and naturally nonvocalizing males were used to assess the effects of high frequency vocalizations on maternal aggression.
(17) It is not found to be associated with the type of occupation (i.e., blue or white collar), the level of reported habitual vocational physical activity, or the calculated total vocational plus nonvocational caloric expenditure in physical activity.
(18) Results essentially replicated studies that found increased vocal potentials in hallucinators, but also showed that these increased potentials were nonsignificant when nonvocal measures are included in the statistical analysis.
(19) We conclude that different MAO substrates mediate different aspects of vocal and nonvocal behavior in adult male squirrel monkeys.
(20) Hepatitis B virus markers in serum were measured and data from questionnaires were used to determine characteristics of anesthetic practice, effectiveness of strategies for hepatitis B virus infection control, and nonvocational hepatitis B risk factors.
Silent
Definition:
(a.) Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
(a.) Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
(a.) Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed; as, the wind is silent.
(a.) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in "fable."
(a.) Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.
(n.) That which is silent; a time of silence.
Example Sentences:
(1) First results let us assume that clinically silent TIAs also (in analogy to clinically silent brain infarctions) could be detected and located.
(2) The prevalence of greater than or equal to 1 mm ST-segment depression was 22% (symptomatic in 25%, and silent in 75%) and did not differ between groups with and without cardiac events.
(3) The EMG silent periods (SP) produced in the open-close-clench cycle and jaw-jerk reflex were compared for duration before and after treatment with an occlusal bite splint.
(4) Some features suggest an important reduction in myocardial oxygen supply, in addition to an increase in demand, as a mechanism for silent ischemic episodes occurring during daily life.
(5) Major alleviation of the rigidity and bradykinesia with chronic oral l-dopa therapy was not accompanied by any change in the silent period.
(6) Previous studies in Ghana had shown that primary infections with Epstein-Barr virus in infants under the age of two years remain silent and evoke antibody responses different from those seen in infectious mononucleosis.
(7) A light rain pattered the rooftops of Los Mochis in Friday’s pre-dawn darkness, the town silent and still as the Sea of Cortez lapped its shore.
(8) Silent myocardial ischemia is increasingly recognized as a common phenomenon in a variety of people with coronary artery disease.
(9) In addition, comparison of the rates of evolution among the eight viral genes, excluding the P2 gene, revealed a rapid and roughly equal rate of silent substitution for different genes.
(10) Recurrent stones are usually "silent," and we do not usually treat asymptomatic stones.
(11) He stayed silent when the teacher asked him a question and afterwards I found him standing in the middle of the classroom looking totally lost as everyone ran around.
(12) A total of 188 ischemic episodes was observed; 163 (87%) were silent and accounted for a total ischemic duration of 5,771 minutes.
(13) Thirty-two nursing students were shown silent films in which 10 normal and 10 schizophrenic women described a happy, sad, and an angry personal experience.
(14) Repair within the gene was shown to be much more efficient than that in silent downstream sequences or in the genome overall.
(15) The non-neurosecretory interneuron L10 synthesizes a 12,000 dalton protein, whereas the silent neurosecretory cell L5 synthesizes a lower molecular weight peptide.
(16) To date, no systematic study on silent ischaemia in patients with demand-induced right ventricular dysfunction has been reported.
(17) Patients with all forms of angina, stable effort and unstable rest angina, and those with coronary artery spasm have very frequent episodes of silent myocardial ischemia during ordinary activity.
(18) Hypertensive subjects with other cardiovascular risk factors such as hypercholesterolemia or smoking and with ventricular extrasystoles, reflecting the presence of silent ischemia, can be considered to be at high risk of cardiac death.
(19) However, Teryn Norris and Jesse Jenkins, of the Breakthrough Institute , argue that as the recession has deepened, Obama has been relatively silent on cap and trade emissions schemes similar to the one operating in Europe in which companies can trade permits to emit carbon dioxide.
(20) These calcifications are often clinically silent, but they sometimes accompany a recurrence of the initial painful symptomatology.