(v. t.) Any mark of infamy or disgrace; sign of moral blemish; stain or reproach caused by dishonorable conduct; reproachful characterization.
(v. t.) That part of a pistil which has no epidermis, and is fitted to receive the pollen. It is usually the terminal portion, and is commonly somewhat glutinous or viscid. See Illust. of Stamen and of Flower.
(v. t.) A small spot, mark, scar, or a minute hole; -- applied especially to a spot on the outer surface of a Graafian follicle, and to spots of intercellular substance in scaly epithelium, or to minute holes in such spots.
(v. t.) A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards.
(v. t.) One of the external openings of the tracheae of insects, myriapods, and other arthropods; a spiracle.
(v. t.) One of the apertures of the pulmonary sacs of arachnids. See Illust. of Scorpion.
(v. t.) One of the apertures of the gill of an ascidian, and of Amphioxus.
(v. t.) A point so connected by any law whatever with another point, called an index, that as the index moves in any manner in a plane the first point or stigma moves in a determinate way in the same plane.
(v. t.) Marks believed to have been supernaturally impressed upon the bodies of certain persons in imitation of the wounds on the crucified body of Christ. See def. 5, above.
Example Sentences:
(1) Health information dissemination is severely complicated by the widespread stigma associated with digestive topics, manifested in the American public's general discomfort in communicating with others about digestive health.
(2) It is likely that many of the girls end up working in brothels, but due to the stigma of being a sex worker they will usually report they were forced into marriage.
(3) To feel like a useful human being without any stigma attached, without undue fears and pressures but with a sense of being needed and wanted, that is what life is all about.
(4) Prince Harry and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have enlisted a rapper, a Royal Marine and a Labour spin doctor to try to push stigma about discussing mental health beyond what they believe is a “tipping point” and into public acceptability.
(5) This stigma remains to the present and was observed to exist even among service providers: Low knowledge levels of patients on the causes of the disease on the one hand, and service providers on the cure, particularly on the use of Multiple Drug Therapy.
(6) The failure of this effort, along with the stigma against psychiatry has led to poor treatment of disturbed patients by primary care physicians.
(7) The stigma of having no brothers or sisters meant that any acting up was immediately dismissed with a caustic, “Well, he is an only child.” The subtext was that my parents had doted on me excessively, inflating my sense of importance.
(8) Patients react to the physical realities of the disease while experiencing the stigma and fear which society imposes on AIDS.
(9) She also warned over increasing stigma being shown toward Gypsies, Travellers and Roma struggling to find accommodation.
(10) Commonly there is a desire by girl learners to continue their education , especially their formal education, despite their pregnancy even when the barriers to returning to school imposed by their families or schools and social stigmas may not easily permit it.
(11) This article focuses on the management of stigma by methadone maintenance patients.
(12) The patients may find that a psychiatric diagnostic label is a stigma and has bad consequences.
(13) You take one aspect of someone or some group's behaviour and jump to far-reaching conclusions as to their mental state and inflict an unwarranted stigma upon them.
(14) Factor analysis yielded four indices: a) impact of disease (e.g., being a burden, loss of energy, loss of bowel control); b) sexual intimacy; c) complications of disease (e.g., developing cancer, having surgery, dying early); and d) body stigma (e.g., feeling dirty or smelly).
(15) The UCI should also pay more attention to medical issues in cycling and when Therapeutic Use Exemptions should be granted Words of warning Sanctioned riders should be used ‘as an educational tool’ to inform their peers about the dangers of doping through interviews, appearances, lectures and recorded messages pointing out the impact of doping on their lives, ‘the social stigma, financial impact, health effects and self-esteem issues’ Voice of the union The UCI should ‘facilitate the creation of a strong riders’ union … to give riders a collective voice particularly on issues of ownership, revenue sharing, the racing calendar and anti-doping.
(16) In essence, criminalisation leads to stigma, and stigma leads to harassment."
(17) The sequence is reported of a cDNA molecule homologous to an mRNA from stigma tissue of Brassica oleracea plants homozygous for the S5 self-incompatibility allele.
(18) It was really only when William Styron published Darkness Visible in 1990 that depression entered mainstream social discourse and began to lose its stigma (even growing into a badge of honour for a while).
(19) As part of UNAids’ Protect the Goal campaign to raise awareness of HIV and Aids during the World Cup in Rio, we explored whether tweets could be used to measure HIV-related stigma.
(20) Encopresis afflicts one in 100 children causing considerable stigma and parental concern.
Stigmatize
Definition:
(v. t.) To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.
(v. t.) To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of reproach or infamy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Should infected people be sought when there is no treatment and when a positive test result may lead to anxiety, stigmatization, and discrimination?
(2) Feelings of stigmatization and the affection by the disease loose weight as disturbing factors with increasing age and knowledge.
(3) By illuminating both the prejudical content of medical theories as well as the emancipatory actions of lesbian and gay communities to change stigmatizing diagnostic and treatment situations, the authors attempt to demystify ideologies about lesbians that motivate clinicians, administrators, educators, researchers, and theorists in the delivery of health services.
(4) Indication for the radiotherapy were mostly cosmetic reasons in stigmatizing tumors, but also in several cases pain, oedema or functional deficits as a result of the tumor lesions.
(5) With emphasis on individual therapeutic treatment, this paper provides a critical introduction to the concept and discusses the applicability of this therapeutic approach for extremely lower-lower class patients: patients doubly stigmatized by psychological illness and criminality who are treated in a forensic-psychiatric clinic.
(6) As the field of human genetics successfully continues to unravel the secrets of an individual's genetic makeup, the social processes of stigmatization and ostracism of those with "undesirable" traits have the potential to increase.
(7) The phenomenon of stigmatization emerged as experiences of rejection and protection in social interactions.
(8) The description included behavioral traits of mild temperament, absence of heterosexual interests, and concern about social stigmatization.
(9) One important difference is that among the urban unemployed the perceived size of the network is an explanatory factor, but among the rural unemployed perceived stigmatization is more important.
(10) A case showing some features of religious stigmatization is described.
(11) According to this electric theoretical framework, stigmatization, decreased social interaction, and loss of control over the environment are all negatively correlated with self-esteem.
(12) The results indicated that competent and physically nonstigmatized children were rated more favorably than incompetent and physically stigmatized children.
(13) Areas of psychosomatic involvement, and the influence of social support and stigmatization on presentation and response, are also discussed.
(14) It not only stigmatizes the mentally ill – who are much more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators of it – but glosses over the role that misogyny and gun culture play (and just how foreseeable violence like this is) in a sexist society.
(15) The lack of childcare facilities and public stigmatization of women with addiction problems were commonly encountered problems.
(16) Information on demographic and illness variables that might predict feelings of being stigmatized were obtained.
(17) However, previous experience with genetic screening programs, including those for phenylketonuria and sickle cell disease, have revealed complex problems including error, confusion, and stigmatization.
(18) Raised levels of atmospheric water cause a variety of responses in self-pollen, ranging from tube growth through the pistil to the ovary, to tubes inhibited at the stigmatic surface, accompanied by the formation of callose.
(19) These results are not readily explained by stigmatization of frank obesity, and other mechanisms, possibly genetic, may be responsible.
(20) children with cleft lip and palate suffer from social stigmatization and specific disorders of self-evaluation.