(n.) A session, as of some public body; especially, a meeting of spiritualists to receive spirit communication, so called.
Example Sentences:
(1) We thought when we read the original accounts of how seances were carried out that they wouldn't fool anyone.
(2) Long-term influence was studied of the acute hypoxic hypoxia seance on rats behaviour in situation of elaboration of the conditioned reaction of active avoidance of electric shocks in shuttle chamber.
(3) That is the "Nominal Standard Dose" (NSD) measured by rets and taking into account the number of seances (N) and the duration of irradiation (T) which would be to take the place of "the total dose" (D) (rads).
(4) It was all about experimentation and doing something different - the Story Beast hosted a seance, Spencer Jones used the mannequins for a set piece, another comedian re-enacted the lives of the Brontë sisters using the old wedding dresses hanging from the ceiling.
(5) With single-seance-method, where for the indirect pulp capping the base consisted of calcium hydroxide (Dycal, Reolit) and where the teeth were filled during the same seance, the success was achieved in 82.2% of cases; the complications appeared in 17.8% of cases.
(6) It was not a seance,” said Mary Catherine Bateson, a writer and cultural anthropologist, recalling the imaginary conversation.
(7) During the period 1951 to 1987, ileorectal anastomosis in one or two seances, depending upon the activity of the disease, was carried out in 63 patients with ulcerative pancolitis.
(8) Assumptions behind Siberian, particularly Khanty, shamanism are examined through analysis of training, seances and cosmology.
(9) By means of arterio-venous fistulas over 700 seances of hemodialysis were performed.
(10) During the seance, Nyman, taking the role of the medium, announced that the spirit would raise the table.
(11) It was found that in 2.5-3 months after the hypoxia seance, the experimental animals significantly differed from the intact controls by dynamics of CR elaboration (rats which had hypoxia were ahead of the control ones) and by distribution of the conditioned reactions latencies (for experimental animals this distribution was shifted to minor values).
(12) The use of a nomogram (in numerical and graphic versions) to dose resistance at expiration in patients with concomitant morbid obesity contributed to significant improvement of the indices of pulmonary ventilation and gas exchange without disorders in hemodynamics after seances of SR with PPEE.
(13) Anthropologists, on the other hand, have demonstrated the logic behind the shaman's seance, and its uses as a projective system which locates the patient's problems in external entities rather than within his own psyche.
(14) But to a small group of psychologists, the rituals of the seance and the medium are opening up insights into the mind, shedding light on the power of suggestion and even questioning the nature of free will.
(15) The lights go down, the curtains part and then, just as the seance is about to begin, someone shouts: "Raoul!"
(16) BBB permeability to blood globulins was found to be significantly increased after the exposure to hypoxia, reaching its maximum by the 7th day and returning to normal only by the 30th day after the hypoxia seance.
(17) Chronic administration of cycloheximide to young rats from 15-th to 30-th postnatal day before daily 3-hour seances of their contacts, disturbed the formation of animals intraspecies aggressivity.
(18) It’s hard to imagine some shaven-headed neo-Nazi … sitting in front of his computer ... reading the juiciest bits to a blush of boys armed with belt buckles,” Willi Winkler of the Süddeutsche Zeitung has written, “but every ideological fanatic has access to it and from January, it will be possible to hold such nostalgic seances once again over the printed book …” As to Hitler, it is well-documented that Mein Kampf made him a fortune – more than 12m reichsmark – not least, Kellerhoff has discovered, because he avoided paying much of the tax due on it.
(19) One to three courses were conducted, each consisting of 10-15 seances.
(20) With colleague Andy Nyman, co-creator of Derren Brown's television illusions, Wiseman used contemporary descriptions of Victorian seances to recreate an encounter with spirits in a disused prison .
Session
Definition:
(n.) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
(n.) The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of such a body, for the transaction of business.
(n.) Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(2) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
(3) Twenty volunteers were used for the measurement of pedal pressures for 15 trials during three separate sessions.
(4) In common with other studies, we found that the injury occurred in competitive runners, especially females, and was likely to develop during competitive races or intensive training sessions.
(5) With feedback, the rate of decrease in error over sessions was similiar for both levels of IQ.
(6) lengths with the subjects equally divided into these four groups: distributed trials, distributed sessions; distributed trials, massed sessions; massed trials, distributed sessions; and massed trials, massed sessions.
(7) In a second set of test sessions, volunteers chewed sugarless gum for 10 minutes, starting 15 minutes after they ate the snack food.
(8) Successful extraction occurred during a single session in 125 of 219 patients (57%); 60 of 219 patients required two extraction sessions.
(9) This paper describes a teaching process in which two 4th year medical students learn a family approach to problem solving during a short clerkship of twelve hours spread over four weekly sessions.
(10) Superior memory for the word list was found when the odor present during the relearning session was the same one that had been present at the time of initial learning, thereby demonstrating context-dependent memory.
(11) On the reaction time task no main effects were found but the time X drinker category interaction was significant; in session 1 LSD's RT were shorter than those of HSD.
(12) Therefore, a study using 2-dimensional and M-mode backscatter imaging was performed in 20 normal male subjects by 2 observers at an initial session and by 1 of the observers after 1 week.
(13) The effects of learning history were evident on sessions 4 and 5 when the same consequence was contingent upon the performance of all groups.
(14) Chapter three Administration of the camps The preparatory camp is the first home and school of the mujahid in which his military and jihadi training sessions take place and he undergoes sufficient education in matters of his religion, life and jihad.
(15) Twenty-four hours later, a stimulus generalization test was conducted in the absence of drug; during this session, tones that varied in frequency around 4.5 KHz were presented while the animals were responding under the VI schedule.
(16) When S+ followed cocaine, stereotyped bar-pressing developed with markedly increased responding during the remainder of the session.
(17) In the other component, the discriminative stimuli were the same each session (performance).
(18) Efferent units with spontaneous activity were uncommon at the start of the recording sessions but were more frequently encountered later in the experiments.
(19) Seventy male subjects participated in a six session study of feedback-mediated heart rate modification.
(20) In 92 percent of the patients the thoraco-abdominal aorta and its branches were well documented on 2 orthogonal projections performed in one single session.