(n.) One pledged to entire abstinence from all intoxicating drinks.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three presenting characteristics--smoking, teetotalling and bleeding episode in the past--were associated with early symptomatic relapse.
(2) Organized teetotalers were examined with regard to gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) in the serum.
(3) The effect of chronic alcohol consumption on Na(+)-K+ ATPase, Na(+)-Li+ countertransport, outward Na(+)-K(+)-Cl- cotransport system and the Na+ leak was investigated in red blood cells from 18 normotensive subjects with a daily alcohol intake of more than 150 g. The study was repeated after 3 months of alcohol withdrawal, and results were compared with a group of 20 healthy normotensive teetotalers.
(4) The levels of both plasma acetaldehyde and hemoglobin-associated acetaldehyde were significantly higher in patients reporting to a center for alcohol treatment than the levels encountered in teetotalers.
(5) Campbell, a teetotaller, also discloses in today's extracts that the pressure of working in Downing Street became so great that he started drinking again around the turn of the millennium.
(6) This study provides no evidence for alcohol-related inhibition of 11 beta-OHSD, despite substantially higher blood pressures in heavy drinkers compared to teetotallers.
(7) Apparently, men who are life-long abstainers (teetotallers) experience fewer life-events and perceive less stress than moderate drinkers, while moderate drinkers experience less stress than heavy drinkers.
(8) Subjects who handled pesticides were non-smokers and teetotalers and the data were compared with the matched control group.
(9) In female students the average CDT of heavy drinkers did not differ significantly from that of social drinkers but in teetotalers CDT was significantly (p less than 0.03) lower than in female alcohol users.
(10) Both teetotallism and alcoholism were more common among relatives of teetotallers than among relatives of social drinkers.
(11) PA returned to within 1 standard deviation of levels found in teetotalers by 5 days, whereas HbAA remained elevated for the 28 days of the study.
(12) Only two of six nonsurvivors (33%) succeeded in abstaining from alcohol, while eight of twelve survivors (67%) became teetotalers (P less than 0.05).
(13) Recent longitudinal data suggest teetotalers, especially those who have never smoked, have the lowest coronary heart disease mortality of all.
(14) To study serum beta-hexosaminidase (beta-HEX) as a marker of heavy drinking, it was compared with GGT, ASAT, and ALAT in three study groups: twenty-five drunken arrestees, 16 social drinkers, and 27 teetotallers.
(15) EEFA were not found in teetotalers, and were found in low concentrations in some of the social drinkers.
(16) Mean serum beta-HEX levels were two times higher among drunken arrestees than among social drinkers or teetotallers.
(17) All had drunk unpasteurized milk as children, were teetotallers, ate a high animal fat diet, and were well educated.
(18) Of 68 patients re-examinated, 12 were now teetotallers and six had markedly reduced there intake.
(19) In order to explore their potential usefulness as markers of alcohol abuse, the EEFA concentration and the activity of EEFA-synthesizing enzyme were therefore determined in adipose tissue from men belonging to the following categories: teetotalers, social drinkers, alcoholics under treatment, or established alcoholics found to have died as a result of alcohol intoxication.
(20) Serum and urinary beta-hexosaminidase (SHEX and UHEX) were determined in 32 alcoholic men admitted to inpatient detoxification treatment for seven days, and in 27 teetotallers.
Teetotally
Definition:
(adv.) Entirely; totally.
Example Sentences:
(1) Famously ascetic, teetotal and vegetarian, he meditates, practises yoga and shuns the trappings of office.
(2) The Liberals had been the party not of teetotalism (no party led by Asquith could have made such a claim) but of temperance.
(3) We're all familiar with the classic noir detective – fresh-faced, clean living and teetotal, with his wholesome family life and penchant for golf and the Sunday roast … oh, wait a minute.
(4) On the poop deck of a party boat puttering slowly out into the Adriatic stands a gently balding and teetotal Canadian in studious specs and sandals.
(5) Apparently, he used to be straight-edge: "hyper-moral", as he puts it, teetotal, vegan.
(6) Goertz has cited Trump’s lifelong teetotalism as securing her vote.
(7) It is difficult to imagine that the team Adams broke into (which contained Charlie Nicholas, Kenny Sansom and several other players who were not, it is probably fair to say, teetotal bibliophiles) would have been terribly sympathetic to the character that has emerged since his treatment for alcohol addiction four years ago.
(8) Flaubert was a disappointed romantic who embraced realism like a drinker embraces teetotalism: his "realism" was less a social exposure than a quasi-scientific exactitude, peeling away everything that was not "true": "Poetry," he claimed, "is as precise as geometry."
(9) Teetotal Trump, according to Bloomberg journalists who by chance found themselves on the next table , celebrated with a virgin Bloody Mary and a $36 (£29) burger and fries.
(10) Not far away Stephen Edau, 19, head boy and teetotal father of two, dreams of becoming a doctor but wishes his mother would give up making the hooch that helps pay for his education.
(11) But once or twice he may have regretted his decision to go teetotal.
(12) Jimmy Carter , the teetotal former president of the United States, has hailed an award of money that helps secure the legacy of one of his heroes – the wildly alcoholic genius Dylan Thomas.
(13) The MPs were given the impression that Cameron was going out of his way to lay on the charm by allowing his children to play among the guests as drinks, including non-alcoholic ones for the teetotal drinkers, were served.
(14) Or it appears,” he corrects himself, “they are a bunch of crooks.” When the pair attended a meeting in February, Dyke had been teetotal since New Year’s Day.
(15) Additionally, 8 male patients with chronic alcoholism (group II) who were normolipemic under alcohol abuse, and 7 male patients (group II) who had also produced type-V HLP under chronic alcohol abuse, but were teetotal since at least 6 months, were investigated.
(16) At a rate that suggests I need to go teetotal for the remainder of my days.
(17) In the French tradition, that's about as much as we know of her private life, apart from the fact that she is teetotal, vegetarian and a fanatical swimmer who will stay only in hotels that have pools.
(18) The pre-prom pre-load Brave parents who can afford it may offer a pre-prom get-together for their son or daughter's friends, as well as their parents, providing lots of photo opportunites (under a tasteful balloon arch, naturally) plus the chance for 16-year-olds to discreetly preload a bit of alcohol before the strictly teetotal prom.
(19) Some months before, a sign that not all was well with the guitarist (who in those days coped with the pressures by drinking heavily, unlike the teetotal, running-and-white-tea regime he adopts now) came when he drove his car into a wall and was lucky to escape alive.
(20) The typical image of a yoga teacher is a vegan, teetotal Buddhist, but I'm partial to a kebab after the pub.