What's the difference between nursemaid and woman?

Nursemaid


Definition:

  • (n.) A girl employed to attend children.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Important oedipal role played by a nursemaid in Freud's life made him vulnerable to being left by Dora.
  • (2) Mothers are traditionally supposed to be all kinds of everything to their children: nursemaid, cook, homework coach, laundry manager, personal assistant.
  • (3) In addition, since Dora had left him as he must have felt his childhood nursemaid had, he reacted as if she were that maid.
  • (4) America and its allies were able to destroy the caliphate project [ie the Islamic State of Iraq] to a great extent in Iraq after they established the Sunni Iraqi Sahwa forces [Sunni Awakening tribal forces that fought the Islamic State of Iraq] and struck the Sunni nursemaid [ie basis of Sunni support for the Islamic State of Iraq], by portraying it as a treacherous terrorist state of hypocritical political projects, with great marshalling of the media to accomplish that.
  • (5) "I think they still think Asian women should be their ayahs, their nursemaids, or selling them takeaways.
  • (6) A nursemaid - albeit with a whole retinue of staff to cover for the thrice-weekly lunch dates - to a husband who had long ceased to recognise her, and a campaigner on Alzheimer’s disease.
  • (7) Children were left in the charge of young nursemaids for up to 40% of the day while the mothers tended the crops.
  • (8) Subsequent pain and limitation of motion were typical of nursemaid's elbow.
  • (9) In the "general hygiene room", in the eternal press, women with little tubs attempt to wash their "nursemaids" (as they call them in Mordovia) as fast as they can, heaped onto one another.
  • (10) Six instances of subluxation of the radial head ("nursemaid's elbow, pulled elbow") in babies in the first 6 months of life are presented.
  • (11) This study suggests that even in the absence of the classic history of upper extremity traction, radial head subluxation should be suspected in any pediatric patient with an upper extremity complaint who presents with the affected arm in the nursemaid's position.
  • (12) The complexity and intimacy of relationships of glia with neurons suggest that some glial cells may have roles other than that of nursemaids, possibly in modulation of behavior-determining neural activity, and in learning and other adaptive acts.
  • (13) All patients were in minimal distress, holding their affected arms semiflexed and pronated (the nursemaid's position).

Woman


Definition:

  • (n.) An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.
  • (n.) The female part of the human race; womankind.
  • (n.) A female attendant or servant.
  • (v. t.) To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it.
  • (v. t.) To make effeminate or womanish.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
  • (2) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
  • (3) A 66-year-old woman with acute idiopathic polyneuritis (Landry-Guillain-Barré [LGB] syndrome) had normal extraocular movements, but her pupils did not react to light or accommodation.
  • (4) Abbott also unveiled his new ministry, which confirmed only one woman would serve in the first Abbott cabinet.
  • (5) The so-called literati aren't insular – this from a woman who ran the security service – but we aren't going to apologise for what we believe in either.
  • (6) Sterile, pruritic papules and papulopustules that formed annular rings developed on the back of a 58-year-old woman.
  • (7) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.
  • (8) So too his statement that "in Zulu culture you cannot leave a woman if she is ready.
  • (9) Tactile stimulation of a coin-sized area in a T-2 dermatome consistently triggered a lancinating pain in the ipsilateral C-8 dermatome in a 38-year-old woman.
  • (10) A case is presented of a 35-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency service by ambulance complaining of vomiting for 7 days and that she could not hear well because she was 'worn out'.
  • (11) We present a 40-year-old woman with manifestations of all three disorders.
  • (12) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
  • (13) A case of automobile trauma to a pregnant woman at term is presented, and a plan of management involving fetal monitoring is recommended.
  • (14) Some fundamentals of the causes of diagnostic errors depending upon anatomophysiological and topographo-anatomical peculiarities of woman's organism are given.
  • (15) A 25-year-old woman presented with a giant leiomyoma in the lower third of the esophagus.
  • (16) In a Caucasian woman with a history of ocular and pulmonary sarcoidosis, the occurrence of sclerosing peritonitis with exudative ascites but without any of the well-known causes of this syndrome prompts us to consider that sclerosing peritonitis is a manifestation of sarcoidosis.
  • (17) A 45-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with complaints of fever and lumbago.
  • (18) Eaton-Lambert or myasthenic syndrome was diagnosed in a young woman with recurrent small-cell carcinoma of the cervix.
  • (19) No woman is at greater risk for ovarian carcinoma than one who is a member of a hereditary ovarian carcinoma syndrome kindred and whose mother, sister, or daughter has been affected with this disease and with an integrally related hereditary syndrome cancer.
  • (20) 23 years old woman with sudden deafness and ipsilateral lack of rapid phase caloric nystagmus was described.

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