What's the difference between onanism and oneirism?

Onanism


Definition:

  • (n.) Self-pollution; masturbation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All that Charley-on-Charley action took onanism and narcissism to a new level.
  • (2) In the 18th century, semen conservation theory reentered Western medicine through Tissot's Treatise on the Diseases Produced by Onanism.
  • (3) These conceptions and their cultural influences incidentally inform us about one of the origins of the reprobation of onanism, as well as one possible way, among many others, for traditional thinking to explain the clinical enigma of depressive syndrome.
  • (4) This painting acknowledges its creator’s seamy mind, sleazy fantasies and onanism.
  • (5) Some of these gaps can be filled by consumer onanism and by psychic palliatives such as Facebook and Twitter .
  • (6) Luckily, Louie is fuh-ny, mixing truly filthy humour – the highest onanism-gag-per-second ratio since The Contest episode of Seinfeld – with almost family-friendly fare.
  • (7) The conformation described here is very similar to that found for the related drug carminomycin I (Wani, M.C., Taylor, H.L., Wall, M.E., McPhaill, A.T. and Onan, K.D.
  • (8) A model for myoblast fusion is presented that is based onan interpretation of these observations.
  • (9) The enlightened William Charles Hood in 1862 listed among the causes of insanity Fright, Jealousy, Sudden Prosperity, Coup de Soleil and Onanism.

Oneirism


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In one patient, the auditory hallucinosis was followed by a period of visual hallucinations and oneiric delusions.
  • (2) The clinical picture of a tumour involving the amygdaloid nucleus was characterized over a period of 6 years by generalised epileptic fits, then a state of agitated delirium with oneirism evolving during 2 months and leading finally to pulmonary embolism.
  • (3) It has been found that the main direction of the therapeutic pathomorphosis in the studied group is the appearance in the structure of attacks of the alternately changing main forms of alcoholic psychoses-delirium, verbal hallucinosis, and paranoid, as well as an increase in the number of patients with consciousness disturbances of delirious or delirious-oneiric type by the end of the attack.
  • (4) The relation between oneiric behavior and rapid eye movements (REMs) in paradoxical sleep (PS) without muscle atonia was analyzed in cats.
  • (5) The constituents of the syndrome distinguished (orientation disturbances, theatrical effectiveness of hallucinations with fantastic plot, participation of the patient in the capacity of an active character in the play, episodes of relatively short duration, their relation to the sleep-consciousness cycle, and so forth) permit one to specify it as oneiric.
  • (6) Over the period of follow-up (4-8 years) the author analyzed 23 affective-oneiric and 50 affective-delirious attacks of schizophrenia and traced the history of patients at the age of 18-23 years.
  • (7) Nocturnal fears with a psychomotor excitement, illusions, hallucinations, and figurative delirium in the structure of dream (oneiric) derangement of consciousness were dominant in the disease picture.
  • (8) In 8 of the 12 patients, delirious or oneiric behavior appeared during, or soon after, the episodes of stage 1-REM.
  • (9) Muscle atonia disappeared during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, permitting movements and expression of feelings probably associated with REM sleep-related oneiric activity.
  • (10) These events are commonly regarded as physiological correlates of oneiric behavior.
  • (11) The latter finding is tentatively interpreted as due to a more direct access to aspects of oneiric material structured in the left hemisphere by right-handers, whose language centers are located in the same hemisphere.
  • (12) Their experience of intensive care and their psychosensorial problems were as follows: temperospatial disorientation, perturbation of the sense of posture, hallucinations which could go as far as oneiric delirium, anguish and symptoms of depression.
  • (13) We dream workers of the late twentieth century should therefore fortify ourselves with knowledge of the oneiric past as one important way to enhance our dream work in the twenty-first century.

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