What's the difference between volition and vomition?

Volition


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of willing or choosing; the act of forming a purpose; the exercise of the will.
  • (n.) The result of an act or exercise of choosing or willing; a state of choice.
  • (n.) The power of willing or determining; will.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In more than 80% of the cases it was possible to register volitional activity by EMG as well as to elicit an electroneurographic response.
  • (2) The preceding paper, by Louis Tinnin, challenges us to consider that there is a brain agency responsible for mental unity, volition and consciousness, which the author labels a "governing mental system" (GMS), or "ego," and that the neural substrate for this GMS is Wernicke's Area.
  • (3) Four forensic psychiatrists were asked to indicate whether they thought 164 defendants met any or all of four insanity tests: 1) the American Law Institute (ALI) cognitive criterion, 2) the ALI volitional criterion, 3) the APA test, and 4) the M'Naghten rule.
  • (4) Ninety-nine college undergraduates responded to a questionnaire consisting of subscales from the Singer-Antrobus Imaginal Processes Inventory and scales measuring extent of sleep disturbance; measures of response bias and samples of volitional waking fantasy were also obtained.
  • (5) Test 3 was identical to test 2 but was preceded by 10 min of volitional, isocapnic hyperpnea (85% of peak exercise V.E) at a controlled frequency and tidal volume.
  • (6) Long-latency stretch reflex and volitional EMG amplitude modulations were assessed as functions of the tracking phase.
  • (7) Although it indicates that there is no disturbance in the vividness of volitional mental imagery in schizophrenia, the presence of abnormal spontaneous imagery cannot be commented upon.
  • (8) The authors suggested that the sexual problems of chronic schizophrenics were related to their conditions in the body, rapport with their wives or husbands and the severity of affect, thought and volition disturbances.
  • (9) Impairment of previous motor deficit has been observed in 3% of cases; volitional and postural dyskinesia seems to be the most curable symptomatology.
  • (10) The MAX test consisted of incremental treadmill running to volitional exhaustion.
  • (11) Few defendants met cognitive tests without also meeting the ALI volitional test.
  • (12) There is a curious behavior observed in the human split-brain experiments in which the subject demonstrates a reflexive and obligatory ownership of the actions initiated by the silent right brain even though the speaking self is ignorant of that volition.
  • (13) Training consisted of a single set of variable resistance bilateral knee extensions performed to volitional fatigue with a weight load that allowed seven to ten repetitions.
  • (14) These data suggest that a component of bradykinesia results from a defective coordination of supraspinal reflex and volitional control systems.
  • (15) The imbalance between mesocortical and nigrostriatal dopaminergic systems might explain the fact that sultopride in our experiment modified spontaneous behavior but not volitional behavior.
  • (16) The four work loads were set a 25, 50, 60 and 70% of maximal volitional isometric strength (IS).
  • (17) The eight patients were all aged and showed cerebral infarction, reduced volition, etc.
  • (18) Only a slight difference was observed between the cardio-ventilatory responses to volitional and passive exercises.
  • (19) It is "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the deity, or the interposition of some invisible agent."
  • (20) Early neurosyphilis was characterized by affective volitional, asthenic, and hypochondriac disorders, whereas late neurosyphilis was manifested in neurosis-like disturbances, partial and total dementia and hallucinational paranoid syndrome.

Vomition


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or power of vomiting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
  • (2) She had three attacks of severe migrainous headache accompanied with nausea and vomiting within three weeks.
  • (3) Occasional vomits occur postoperatively in over half of patients but we are sceptical of the value of graded postoperative feeding regimens.
  • (4) The triad of epigastric pain unrelieved by antacids, bilious vomiting, and weight loss, particularly after a gastric operation should make one suspect this syndrome.
  • (5) A case is presented of a 35-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency service by ambulance complaining of vomiting for 7 days and that she could not hear well because she was 'worn out'.
  • (6) Among the major symptoms were gastrointestinal disorders such as subjective and objective anorexia, nausea and vomiting.
  • (7) Inner Ear Decompression Sickness (IEDCS)--manifested by tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and hearing loss--is usually associated with deep air or mixed gas dives, and accompanied by other CNS symptoms of decompression sickness (DCS).
  • (8) Other toxicity was mild and included nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, mucositis, hepatic dysfunction, and cardiac arrhythmias.
  • (9) She said that in February 2013 she was asked to assist Pistorius in his first court appearance when applying for bail and sat with him in the cells, where he vomited twice.
  • (10) Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and prostration.
  • (11) Significantly more slow acetylators stopped treatment because of nausea or vomiting, or both, but serious toxicity was not confined to either group.
  • (12) Postoperative nausea and vomiting have been associated with the use of intravenous narcotics, and nitrous oxide may worsen the emetic effects of narcotics.
  • (13) The observed complications were post-labor hemorrhage (3.1%), polysystolia (4.1%) and vomiting (5.2%), without significant difference with the witness group.
  • (14) The paper is concerned with analysis of correlation of the time of appearance of vomit in a person and a mean dose rate of prolonged gamma-radiation in the persons affected at the Chernobyl accident.
  • (15) Side-effects (pruritus, nausea, vomiting, drowsiness) were also noted.
  • (16) The winter vomiting bug norovirus, which also puts strain on the NHS every winter because it leads to wards having to close, has not yet become a major problem, the latest evidence indicates.
  • (17) He had no family history of myopathy, and no diarrhea and vomiting.
  • (18) Fourteen of 15 patients had a reduction in nausea and vomiting on THC as compared to placebo.
  • (19) Twelve patients have been treated in this manner, nine of them living long enough to exhibit the capacity to eat and drink without repetitive vomiting.
  • (20) Her daughter had had a similar fit of vomiting blood at birth, back in their native Honduras.

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