(a.) Of or pertaining to sound; of the nature of sound; acoustic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ladybird: I’m Ready to Spell has a space theme, and is based on the phonics that kids will be learning in their first years at school.
(2) That suggests a social problem with deeper roots, as revealed by the latest results from the government's phonics check – gauging reading skills among five and six-year-olds at state primary schools – which showed that 180,000 children in England failed to meet the DfE's standard.
(3) In English, the expert group criticises the draft, saying "an over-emphasis on synthetic phonics in the early years excludes other strategies and is likely to lower standards of reading".
(4) 22 female patients with aphonia underwent laryngoscopic and phonic examinations, psychiatric evaluation, psychological testing and biographical history-taking.
(5) Despite the overt nature of most motor and phonic tic phenomena, the development of valid and reliable scales to rate tic severity has been an elusive goal.
(6) Two hyperactive boys who had developed motor and phonic tics during stimulant treatment reacted similarly to low doses of haloperidol and thioridazine.
(7) Tourette Syndrome (TS) is a neuropsychiatric movement disorder characterized by the presence of multiple motor and phonic tics.
(8) None of the patients receiving nifedipine improved, but treatment with flunarizine significantly decreased both motor and phonic tic severity and frequency in all but one patient.
(9) iPad Ladybird: I’m Ready to Spell (£2.99) Released by book publisher Penguin, this is aimed mainly at schoolchildren preparing for their first phonics screening check, with three space-themed mini-games designed to test their spelling skills.
(10) A motion approved by the conference also called for "an alliance of forces" to oppose and boycott the phonics check, a reading and literacy assessment applied to pupils in England at the end of year one.
(11) The YGTSS provides an evaluation of the number, frequency, intensity, complexity, and interference of motor and phonic symptoms.
(12) At the beginning of the school year, 80 first graders, half receiving phonics instruction and half receiving whole word instruction, were asked to spell, read aloud, and recognize 60 regular and exception words.
(13) All aspects of phonics, but especially the sounds of the short vowels, were a problem.
(14) Correct diagnosis of TS is important to appropriate treatment, rather than assuming that motor and phonic tics and other associated TS symptoms are necessarily a function of a more pervasive developmental disorder in a disturbed mentally retarded person.
(15) Tourette's syndrome (TS) is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterised by changing motor and phonic tics, compulsive actions, and other behavioural symptoms.
(16) Tourette's syndrome (TS) is a chronic neuropsychiatric disorder of childhood onset that is characterized by multiple motor and phonic tics that wax and wane in severity and an array of behavioral problems including some forms of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) (1).
(17) During phonic analysis, the teacher directed the child to attend to various phonetic elements of the error word and to "sound out" the word.
(18) Nine hearing aids were evaluated three times in each of the four systems: a standard Bruel and Kjaer apparatus, a Fonix 5000, and both a Phonic Ear HC 1000 and HC 2000.
(19) We do some things very traditionally: children learn to read with synthetic phonics, they learn grammar.
(20) We studied nine patients with motor and phonic tics and other features of Tourette's syndrome, who developed persistent dystonia in addition to their tics.
Photic
Definition:
(a.) Relating to the production of light by the lower animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Non-photic stimuli can be powerful quantitatively: behavioural events can shift rhythms by several hours.
(2) The response patterns of different individual neurons to somatic sensory and photic stimuli were also analyzed.
(3) The photic induction of all three genes examined was found to be gated by the circadian system with maximal induction observed during the mid to late subjective night.
(4) Excitatory (positive) phenomena are subjective photic sensations (phosphenes) which can be elicited by transcranial magnetic stimulation over occipital parts of the skull.
(5) The present study analyzes the participation of pineal stalk and superior cervical ganglia (SCG) in the conduction of photic evoked potentials (PEP) to the pineal body (PB) in unanesthetized freely moving rats implanted with semimicroelectrodes.
(6) Later on there is a generalized depression of amplitudes; photic driving and differences between sleeping and waking diminish from the 3rd year of life on; thereafter, the EEG becomes isoelectric.
(7) Sensory neurons of the photic pathway in the nudibranch mollusc Hermissenda crassicornis are cholinergic and the synaptic interactions between the photic and vestibular systems have been well characterized electrophysiologically.
(8) In the studies of retinal photic injury in the rat model, about 14-47% of the photoreceptor cell loss occurs in the first 24 hours.
(9) Several theoretical criteria have been proposed for protection of RP patients from possible photic retinal damage.
(10) Seven normal adult volunteers underwent intermittent photic stimulation at frequencies of 5-60 Hz while their posterior cerebral arteries were monitored using transcranial Doppler ultrasound.
(11) At univariate analysis, the factors which proved to be significantly correlated to relapses were: age at onset over 4 years, seizure-free time less than 2 years, sudden drug discontinuation, pathological EEG records during seizure-free time and paroxysmal responses to intermittent photic stimulation (IPS).
(12) A pharmacological approach was used to examine the role of acetylcholine in the photic control of circadian rhythms and seasonal reproductive cycles.
(13) It may be concluded that critical frequency of photic driving is conditioned by the cortical projection zones and visual pathways corresponding to the central 15 degrees of the visual field, but with predominant role of foveal projections.
(14) It is assumed that the neurotizing agent was the superfluous situational (photic) stimulation which presented excessive requirements to the mechanisms regulating the general functional state of the brain.
(15) The period of discharge in these cells may be lengthened or the periodicity may be transiently disrupted by photic stimulation.
(16) We studied the influence of indeloxazine hydrochloride (IH) upon photic driving responses (PDRs) elicited by a 5 Hz flickering dot pattern and red flicker stimuli.
(17) It is hypothesized that in some forms of age-related macular degeneration, patients suffer from repeated mild photic insult throughout their lifetime.
(18) In 3-day-old chicks homozygous for the epilepsy gene (epileptics), elevation of body temperature using microwave diathermy evoked an initial febrile seizure resembling the clonic seizures evoked in epileptic chicks by photic stimulation.
(19) Spectral analyses show unilateral photic driving in newborn human infants to bilateral repetitive visual stimulation.
(20) Dogs were unable to learn "same-different" differentiation of pairs of photic stimuli when continuous light (CL) and pulsing light (PL) were presented in four combinations: CL-PL and PL-CL served as S(D) (positive instrumental conditioned stimulus), whereas CL-CL PL-PL were S delta (inhibitory stimulus).