(1) He best be careful out there, because one of these days, POW, RIGHT IN THE KISSER!
(2) Nevertheless, persistent psychiatric sequelae (especially psychoneurosis but also schizophrenia) are the more notable and pervasive for both Pacific World War II POW's and Korean War POW's as seen not only in elevated hospital admission rates but also in VA disability awards and in symptoms reported on the cornell Medical Index Health Questionnaire.
(3) Examined are a variety of clinical issues in the diagnosis and treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) of former prisoners of war (POWs).
(4) Ten drug-free former American prisoners of war (POWs), captured on Bataan and Corregidor by the Japanese in World War II, participated in a study of the relationship between structural brain abnormalities on computerized axial tomographic (CT) scans and sleep electroencephalographic (EEG) findings.
(5) Malarial transmission was, however, intense in both groups, though more so in POW.
(6) All sera were negative for antibodies to POW virus.
(7) The study finds that depressive symptomatology, as measured by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, is elevated in World War II POWs from the Pacific and European theaters and in Korean conflict POWs.
(8) Later that day, my father lost all memory of his time as a PoW.
(9) Satisfactory estimates of pesticides' fish toxicity are obtained from log POW-dependent QSARs derived using chemicals of similar polarity and reactivity.
(10) As assistant bacteriologist and ex-POW he joined the British regimental hospital in Bangkok.
(11) But looking back it was a terrible thing to have happened.” Medical staff preserved the POWs’ corpses in formaldehyde for future use by students, but at the end of the war the remains were quickly cremated, as doctors attempted to hide evidence of their crimes.
(12) Although POW in fallers was significantly lower at the higher velocity in both joints, the decrease was most prominent in the ankles.
(13) However, the subscale fails to distinguish between Pacific and European POW veterans.
(14) There is even a carving on a trunk done by German POWs.
(15) A random sample of 170 surviving members of the captured Eighth Division of the Australian Army residing in Sydney in 1983 (POWs) was compared with a similar sample of 172 veterans who fought in Southeast Asia during the war but were not imprisoned (non-POWs).
(16) To examine the prevalence of long-term physical and emotional consequences of captivity in this population, the authors analyzed medical and psychiatric examination data for 426 former POWs.
(17) POWs had more duodenal ulcers than controls but otherwise their physical health was similar, as was their age-adjusted mortality in the post-war years.
(18) Dorsiflexion POW production in fallers was the most affected of all the motions (7.5 times less than the control value).
(19) On the afternoon of 15 August, hours after the emperor had announced Japan’s surrender, more than a dozen other American POWs held in Fukuoka camps were taken to a mountainside execution site and beheaded.
(20) In addition to problems with cognitive deficits and complaints of bodily discomfort, most common among POW survivors were symptoms of suspiciousness, apprehension, confusion, isolation, detachment, and hostility.
Poy
Definition:
(n.) A support; -- used in composition; as, teapoy.
(n.) A ropedancer's balancing pole.
(n.) A long boat hook by which barges are propelled against the stream.
Example Sentences:
(1) For example, mispronunciations produced by changing the voicing of a word-initial stop (e.g., "boy" to "poy") were detected about 70% of the time, while changes in voicing of a word-initial fricative (e.g., "voice" to "foice") were detected about 38% of the time.
(2) Taken together with DNA sequence information (Y. Sato, F. Poy, G. R. Jacobson, and H. K. Kuramitsu, J. Bacteriol.
(3) We have isolated a number of genes encoding them; 11 POX genes encoded independent PXPs and three POY genes were likely to encode three other PXPs.
(4) Hemolytic anemia was experienced in 8 cases with Starr-Edwards (S-E) 2320 (n = 7) and Omni-Science (n = 1) both in the aortic position and those prostheses were replaced at 1-9.6 (mean 4.5) postoperative years (POY).
(5) Fourteen Hancock (H) and 3 Angell-Shiley (A-S) bioprostheses experienced tissue failure of valves and they were subjected to reoperation at 3.2-10.0 (mean 6.5) POY.