(a.) Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
(a.) Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
(a.) Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed; as, the wind is silent.
(a.) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in "fable."
(a.) Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.
(n.) That which is silent; a time of silence.
Example Sentences:
(1) First results let us assume that clinically silent TIAs also (in analogy to clinically silent brain infarctions) could be detected and located.
(2) The prevalence of greater than or equal to 1 mm ST-segment depression was 22% (symptomatic in 25%, and silent in 75%) and did not differ between groups with and without cardiac events.
(3) The EMG silent periods (SP) produced in the open-close-clench cycle and jaw-jerk reflex were compared for duration before and after treatment with an occlusal bite splint.
(4) Some features suggest an important reduction in myocardial oxygen supply, in addition to an increase in demand, as a mechanism for silent ischemic episodes occurring during daily life.
(5) Major alleviation of the rigidity and bradykinesia with chronic oral l-dopa therapy was not accompanied by any change in the silent period.
(6) Previous studies in Ghana had shown that primary infections with Epstein-Barr virus in infants under the age of two years remain silent and evoke antibody responses different from those seen in infectious mononucleosis.
(7) A light rain pattered the rooftops of Los Mochis in Friday’s pre-dawn darkness, the town silent and still as the Sea of Cortez lapped its shore.
(8) Silent myocardial ischemia is increasingly recognized as a common phenomenon in a variety of people with coronary artery disease.
(9) In addition, comparison of the rates of evolution among the eight viral genes, excluding the P2 gene, revealed a rapid and roughly equal rate of silent substitution for different genes.
(10) Recurrent stones are usually "silent," and we do not usually treat asymptomatic stones.
(11) He stayed silent when the teacher asked him a question and afterwards I found him standing in the middle of the classroom looking totally lost as everyone ran around.
(12) A total of 188 ischemic episodes was observed; 163 (87%) were silent and accounted for a total ischemic duration of 5,771 minutes.
(13) Thirty-two nursing students were shown silent films in which 10 normal and 10 schizophrenic women described a happy, sad, and an angry personal experience.
(14) Repair within the gene was shown to be much more efficient than that in silent downstream sequences or in the genome overall.
(15) The non-neurosecretory interneuron L10 synthesizes a 12,000 dalton protein, whereas the silent neurosecretory cell L5 synthesizes a lower molecular weight peptide.
(16) To date, no systematic study on silent ischaemia in patients with demand-induced right ventricular dysfunction has been reported.
(17) Patients with all forms of angina, stable effort and unstable rest angina, and those with coronary artery spasm have very frequent episodes of silent myocardial ischemia during ordinary activity.
(18) Hypertensive subjects with other cardiovascular risk factors such as hypercholesterolemia or smoking and with ventricular extrasystoles, reflecting the presence of silent ischemia, can be considered to be at high risk of cardiac death.
(19) However, Teryn Norris and Jesse Jenkins, of the Breakthrough Institute , argue that as the recession has deepened, Obama has been relatively silent on cap and trade emissions schemes similar to the one operating in Europe in which companies can trade permits to emit carbon dioxide.
(20) These calcifications are often clinically silent, but they sometimes accompany a recurrence of the initial painful symptomatology.
Speechless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech.
(a.) Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Oh my goodness I am truly speechless,” Aduba told Good Morning America .
(2) Axel Schäfer, European affairs spokesman for the Social Democratic party (SPD), said: “Like many other politicians in Germany I am speechless at what stupidity nationalism can trigger in seemingly intelligent people.
(3) During three month periods, the patient progressively became somnolent, speechless and immobile.
(4) Stewart Regan, SFA chief executive "I am speechless at the news of Gary Speed's death.
(5) To provide a luxurious pension was never the aim of the state pension.” When I relay his comments to Dr Ros Altmann, who worked on pensions policy with the No 10 policy unit, is the UK government’s former older workers champion and a governor of the Pensions Policy Institute, she is left briefly speechless.
(6) The cutting of mobile libraries leaves me speechless.
(7) The x-rays, scans, medication, food, cleaning staff, porters that have been given to me because I’m British leave me speechless.
(8) Of course I agreed, but I frequently find myself left speechless when observing countries with the fewest resources revealing some of the best social work practices.
(9) The actress was rendered speechless by the second win – one of the more unexpected of the night.
(10) Five months after head injury, when he was first admitted to us, he was stable with signs of oligokinesia, katatonic posture, speechlessness, rigid muscle tones and positive cog-wheel phenomenon.
(11) Mick Fett, who helped organise the event, said the film had left him speechless.
(12) The patient was observed immediately upon admission to the hospital, and he was noted from the outset to have wakeful speechlessness.
(13) As I look back at all the developments to date, I’m simply speechless,” he said.
(14) BBC host Graham Norton was left speechless by a particularly risque display from Poland's entry Donatan and Cleo.
(15) The speechless patient presents a unique challenge to the clinician working with neurologically impaired adults.
(16) For this laryngectomee, the VoiceBak is truly speech for the speechless.
(17) Tottenham Hotspur’s Dele Alli says he was left “speechless” by his maiden England call-up , just five months after playing in League One.
(18) When it was revealed that she had made it to next week’s final, Birtwhistle said: “I am speechless.
(19) Patients may be rendered speechless because of many conditions, including cancer surgery, stroke, cerebral palsy, cervical cord and head trauma, neuromuscular paralysis, and intubation for respiratory failure.
(20) American Indian sign, used as a gestural communication system for the speechless, served the daily life needs of patients with a variety of deficits, many with unfavorable prognosis for oral speech rehabilitation.