The hand movements were a result of nervous system feedback, the tongue of the creature was some how triggering involuntary muscle spasms. |
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True mnemonists, or memorists have the ability to remember lists of words, number or pictures as an involuntary act. |
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But she watched her mother blink in surprise and take an involuntary step back away from her. |
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The main symptoms are muscle stiffness, slowness of movement, and involuntary tremor. |
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Her involuntary reflexes kicked in, and she threw out her arms, managing to break his fall. |
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The airways are surrounded by a type of involuntary muscle known as smooth muscle. |
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Muscle cramping is a painful, involuntary muscle spasm that regularly frustrates athletes. |
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Hiccups are the spasmodic, involuntary contraction of the diaphragm that is caused by irritation of the nerves that supply these muscles. |
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This smooth muscle is the involuntary sphincter of the posterior urethra in the male. |
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A whole folklore exists about the humiliations, petty vindictiveness, fights and resentments associated with involuntary communal living. |
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The condition, which affects 29,000 people in Britain, is a neurological disorder that causes involuntary twitches and vocal noises. |
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The risk is that what starts as voluntary euthanasia becomes extended to involuntary euthanasia. |
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She could see some one writhing amongst the dusky fabric and she felt herself retreat involuntary to the safety of her bed hangings. |
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In her case it has caused involuntary muscle spasms affecting her whole body. |
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Will just gave me a look of such utter wrath and betrayal that I took an involuntary step backwards as he strode towards me. |
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Signs of the illness include involuntary movements called chorea, as well as motor and cognitive difficulties. |
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The three of us have formed an involuntary and immobile conga-line, like a trio of backpackers on a rush-hour commuter train. |
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Drugs called anti-convulsants, such as phenytoin and valproic acid, are used to stop the involuntary action of the diaphragm. |
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Prostitutes should sue pimps under the 13th Amendment, which prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude, MacKinnon suggests. |
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Students pinioned his leg to prevent any involuntary movement when the surgeon cut into his flesh. |
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Such instruments add precision to a procedure, because they're designed to compensate for involuntary movements in a surgeon's hands. |
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Laughing is a more involuntary reaction than people are willing to admit sometimes, and to chuckle is a sign of recognition, not congratulation. |
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The fact that compassion is both voluntary and learned differentiates it from other kinds of suffering, which are involuntary and connate. |
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Smooth muscles are involuntary and located inside internal organs such as the stomach and intestines. |
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His words echoed in the emptiness of his mind as his frail, emaciated body began to convulse and was racked by involuntary spasms. |
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An involuntary shudder racked her body, but she stood rigid, trying to appear as if she lacked the fear that she felt in her heart. |
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Most seizures are accompanied by an altered state of consciousness and sometimes by involuntary movements. |
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Thus I utter an involuntary shudder at every routinely odd noise that the computer makes. |
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She felt herself give an involuntary shudder and scolded her girlish urges. |
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An involuntary shudder coursed through the frightened cheetah as he drew himself into a tight ball. |
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Last season's cup final experience with Dunfermline still prompts an involuntary smile. |
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I went off into a day punctuated by involuntary shudders of revulsion as the sensations were recalled. |
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I must admit to an involuntary shudder of pride tingling down my spine when I heard her say those words. |
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Huge sobs shuddered throughout her body, causing involuntary convulsions to tremble in her heart. |
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And we must end the stop-loss and involuntary recall of troops that amounts to nothing more than a back-door draft. |
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I felt an involuntary shudder shake my body at the feel of his hot breath against the sensitive hollow of my neck. |
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Air Traffic Control can get very shirty about some of my involuntary aerial antics I can tell you. |
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The involuntary muscles are controlled by structures deep within the brain and the upper part of the spinal cord called the brain stem. |
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The contractile activity of involuntary muscle is normally regulated by the autonomic nervous system. |
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Overexposure can lead to symptoms of dizziness, respiratory problems, involuntary muscle twitching and even paralysis. |
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Birds that contract avian botulism lose involuntary muscle control, including eyelid function, have clenched feet, and can't hold up their heads. |
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The muscles of the heart and some other involuntary muscles are also affected in some forms of MD, and a few forms involve other organs, as well. |
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As the disorder progresses, a person with Huntington's develops involuntary jerky movements, muscle weakness and clumsiness. |
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Instead the acetylcholine accumulates and affects both voluntary an involuntary muscles. |
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He cried out with the next spasm as the now unbearable pain in his right leg grew worse with the involuntary muscle clenching. |
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Though they are called involuntary muscles, they are great devices that control the urine from coming out any time. |
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Its imperialistic court was armed with the power of roping in all sorts of unwilling or involuntary litigants all over Australia. |
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In order to cure an epidemic there must be involuntary, mandatory and humane treatment of people who are engaged in abuse. |
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It imposes an involuntary moratorium on a third superdistrict for two seasons. |
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It appears that they exerted undue coercion on his command to extract involuntary waivers from soldiers who did not want to redeploy overseas. |
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The Iranian government, until now, has refused to accept their return as part of a general policy of resisting involuntary repatriations. |
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The judge reviewed the major constitutional cases dealing with the state's power to impose involuntary treatment. |
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Neither coercion nor involuntary suffering can be attributed to Christ's atoning death on the cross. |
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It is an important matter if more people are requiring involuntary admission. |
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The commission will introduce tribunals to review automatically the detention of involuntary patients in November. |
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It mandates a form of involuntary servitude expressly prohibited by the 13th amendment to the US Constitution. |
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In the unlikely event of this argument being accepted, Betty would still be guilty of involuntary manslaughter on the constructive basis. |
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The involuntary extraction of data from humans across borders requires a review of standards of privacy and data protection laws. |
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He agreed to plead no contest to involuntary manslaughter as the jury selection process was underway. |
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Should she be found guilty of murder or involuntary manslaughter, she would be repatriated after serving her prison term. |
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The investigation cites possible offenses, including involuntary manslaughter, assault, battery, dereliction of duty and conspiracy. |
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Her conviction was later reduced to involuntary manslaughter on appeal and she was allowed to return home to Cheshire. |
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The Law Commission has recognised the urgent need to reform the law on involuntary manslaughter. |
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Now the club's owner, his partner and two others are facing involuntary manslaughter charges. |
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He is charged with second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and owning a mischievous dog that killed a person. |
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There is typically some memory loss and flashbacks may occur where the victim remembers engaging in involuntary behaviour. |
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His fingers tightened on her arm painfully, and gentled at her involuntary hiss. |
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Both deportation and forcible transfer relate to involuntary and unlawful evacuation of individuals from the territory in which they reside. |
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However, they do argue that to be acceptable, such non-provision must fulfil two conditions that rule out involuntary euthanasia in practice. |
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This almost involuntary practice relieves the symptom but it also produces gas and bloating. |
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When a Gen-Xer faces involuntary job loss, as with any other age group, it's never easy. |
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History has shown that such groups will have voluntary, or involuntary, leaks proportional to the size of the group. |
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In one sense, metaphor and symbol are literary devices while in another they represent actual involuntary psychic processes. |
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Hiccups are a sudden, involuntary squeezing of the diaphragm, the main breathing muscle under the lungs. |
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In the bigger picture, I do not ever want to be the involuntary dispenser of any consumer advertisement hidden inside a product sample box. |
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Bedwetting, called enuresis, is the involuntary discharge of urine during sleep. |
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It would be involuntary, active euthanasia if the patient were not consulted and her wishes were not known. |
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Becoming aware of itself, the self also discovers that it is not really its own, but is rather the involuntary executor of cosmic designs. |
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These are not cases where the accused has caused death while in an involuntary state. |
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Opiate drugs can help relieve pain, and the drugs clonazepam and sodium valproate may help relieve involuntary muscle jerks. |
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He grinned and picked me up, sending a jolt of surprise through me and making me let out an involuntary shriek of laughter. |
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This story notably does not mention any advocacy of involuntary organ donation. |
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It covers your repayments against accident, sickness, involuntary unemployment. |
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He gave out an involuntary sigh as the wind rushed from his lungs and he dropped to his knees. |
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Due to weakness of bladder and stomach I experience involuntary discharge of urine and wind. |
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Instead I recoiled in horror, letting out a loud, involuntary gasp of disgust, and dropped them back where I'd found them. |
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Families frequently misdiagnose their loved ones' involuntary muscle reflexes as consciousness. |
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The medulla controls this involuntary swallowing reflex, although voluntary swallowing may be initiated by the cerebral cortex. |
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The tongue directs the bolus of chewed food to the pharynx as an initial step in the involuntary reflex swallowing mechanism. |
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I jumped at least two feet in the air in a completely involuntary, reflexive response. |
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Young people are especially vulnerable to psychiatric abuse and involuntary incarceration because as minors their legal rights are limited. |
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Bloom's theory, by contrast, turns on the notion of involuntary imitation, and resistance to it. |
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The synaesthetic experience is an automatic and involuntary response to certain stimuli. |
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The olfactory system is attached to the limbic system, which links the left and right brain and the voluntary and involuntary nervous centres. |
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She induced an involuntary gasp from the branch as she pouted and flicked her ash-blonde tresses over a lovely shoulder. |
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The hallmark of the disorder is involuntary choreiform and athetotic movements, hence it is also known as Huntington's chorea. |
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Formally, palilalia is a compulsive involuntary repetition of a semantically acceptable phrase or word. |
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Cliona seemed to treat my recent resignation as an involuntary termination or lay off. |
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It is important not to confuse nonvoluntary mercy killing with involuntary mercy killing. |
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He was separated from society not by choice and intellect, but by some involuntary spasm of fate that had left him bitter and reduced to beggary. |
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There is an increased rate of OCD in people with Tourette's syndrome, an illness characterized by involuntary movements and vocalizations. |
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The main symptoms are muscle stiffness, slowness of movement and involuntary tremor. |
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Any imbalance in these neuro-modulators causes involuntary movements like chorea and tremors. |
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Heart muscles and some other involuntary muscles are also affected in some forms of muscular dystrophy, and a few forms involve other organs as well. |
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An era of involuntary isolationism would be the lot of the United States. |
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So maybe it is an entire concept album about involuntary muscle twitches. |
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A jury later convicted the bounty hunter of involuntary manslaughter. |
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A knock on the door startled Namura and she gave an involuntary jump. |
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There was something desperate about it, watching them wander away and out of sight and for ages I just stood where they had left me and let out small involuntary whimpers. |
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If the jury decided that James lacked malice aforethought, he could still be found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, i.e., unlawful killing without malice aforethought. |
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Given their defense of involuntary treatment as not only justified but morally mandatory, psychiatrists seem weirdly reluctant to acknowledge their role in it. |
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Situations involving involuntary movements of the head where vestibulo-ocular reflexes are important to control eye position are given in section 5 above. |
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He was sentenced to 14 years in July 1998 for involuntary manslaughter. |
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The disorder is thus characterised by involuntary, persistent remembering or reliving the traumatic event in flashbacks, vivid memories, and recurrent dreams. |
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Apart from involuntary knee-jerks, it's the mind that rules. |
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I gave an involuntary shudder at the thought of what had happened last night, and I felt Adam's steadying hand on my back as we walked out into the hallway. |
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Similarly, a parallel slope envisaging a slide from physicians performing voluntary euthanasia to engaging in involuntary euthanasia requires empirical support. |
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From the hospital correspondence, you gather the psychiatrist detected dysarthria and abnormal involuntary movements and asked for a neurologist's opinion. |
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You may find him strident, irritating or humourless, but fact of the matter is the involuntary shudder running up your back after that line is real enough. |
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The taxation service allows the proceeds of the sale of the lot to be considered part of the involuntary conversion and deferrable if they met certain conditions. |
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World War Two caused a significant interruption in Orlova's work by imposing an involuntary career-break at a time when she was at her most active. |
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These involuntary contractions can be either dull or sharp and intense. |
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Tardive dyskinesia is an involuntary movement disorder usually consisting of athetoid or choreic movements in the oro-facial region, but may affect any part of the body. |
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Because of increased physical activity through involuntary movements, non-ambulatory children with athetosis are hyperactive and may have increased energy expenditure. |
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In the account of the Mughal Emperor Akbar, there is no mention of his liberal social policies, his prohibition of the slave trade and of involuntary sati. |
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It might be allowed that involuntary tests, including race, may be used to identify perpetrators of known acts, but not merely potential malefactors. |
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Imprinting is introduced in Eclipse as an involuntary, lifelong attachment to a soul mate. |
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His indifference to the gossip has always struck me not as a decision so much as an involuntary and organic reaction. |
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It was a cheapjack company that paid writers and artists at rates ranging from poor to involuntary servitude, then printed their wares on presses that were outmoded. |
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Slavery signified, of course, involuntary migration and coerced labor. |
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Thus there is a suggestion that clairvoyant imagery tends to be unrelated to ongoing thought processes and is particularly involuntary and spontaneous. |
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It is also required that involuntary voiding occur at least twice a week for at least three consecutive months and that it be a source of considerable distress for the child. |
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An example of involuntary, passive euthanasia would be withholding renal dialysis from an irreversibly comatose patient whose kidneys have failed. |
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However, this is true any time a suspect confesses after being confronted with inadmissible evidence, and it does not necessarily render the confession involuntary. |
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Variations of this position are found in monetarism, public choice theory, and the belief of some new classical economists that involuntary unemployment does not exist. |
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He said the commission would be endeavouring to reduce the number of committals before five tribunals began overseeing involuntary admissions in the middle of next year. |
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Most of his movements are uncoordinated or involuntary reflexes. |
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He will be arrested for the involuntary manslaughter of Jackson, who died in June. |
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The charges against Rattanavong are involuntary manslaughter and reckless discharge of a firearm, rather than murder or voluntary manslaughter. |
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Some Antipsychiatry proponents apply the term slavery to the involuntary psychiatric patient. |
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Few sources enumerate the entirety of what constitutes voluntary and involuntary conduct. |
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In the actual case, the craving for alcohol did not render the use of alcohol involuntary. |
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The doctor then sectioned her, making her an involuntary patient, and had her moved to a secure ward. |
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Tourette syndrome is a condition characterized by involuntary vocalizations exacerbated by stress. |
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He developed acute respiratory distress, involuntary myoclonic movements, anasarca, marked oliguria, and persistent atrial fibrillation. |
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Bruxism is a form of dystonia characterized by involuntary grinding or clenching of the teeth. |
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He suffers from serious respiratory problems, including apnoeic attacks, an involuntary halt to breathing. |
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A 49-year-old man with rapid, dysrhythmic and uncoordinated involuntary eye movements and ataxia by 4-day was hospitalized. |
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He was held on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter by recklessness and negligence. |
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In fact, the latter had me in stitches to such an extent that I was in danger of involuntary micturition. |
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One such involuntary sacrifice is found in the story of Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon, the famous Greek king and warrior. |
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Tardive dyskinesia is a similar involuntary movement disorder which may occur, usually, after years of neuroleptic treatment. |
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Was it a simple lapsus oculi on the part of the translator, a kind of scribal error that led to an involuntary deletion? |
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Alcohol depresses nerves that control involuntary actions such as breathing and the gag reflex, which prevents choking. |
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Tourette syndrome is a neurologic disorder characterized by repetitive, involuntary sounds and movements called tics. |
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The District Attorney's office later charged the 57-year-old man with involuntary manslaughter. |
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For his crime, Eliaderani was given the maximum prison sentence of five years after he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. |
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Since inflation lowers real wages, Keynesians view inflation as the solution to involuntary unemployment. |
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In recent years, some controversy has surrounded the involuntary or deliberate noise caused by players' grunting. |
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In Brazil, however, slavery itself was not ended until 1888, making it the last country in the Americas to end involuntary servitude. |
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There is no intent to kill, and a resulting death would not be considered murder, but would be considered involuntary manslaughter. |
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In cases of involuntary manslaughter, the actus reus for murder is present but there is insufficient mens rea to establish such a charge. |
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Manslaughter may be either voluntary or involuntary, depending on whether the accused has the required mens rea for murder. |
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Spontaneous erections are also known as involuntary or unwanted erections and are normal. |
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In all, between 60,000 and 90,000 Americans were subjected to involuntary sterilization. |
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Myoclonus had been defined as involuntary, repetitive, instantaneous, irregular and rapid contractions of a group of muscles or occasionally of a single muscle. |
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Nocturnal enuresis, or bedwetting, is involuntary wetting during sleep in a person with no physical disease at an age when they could be expected to be dry. |
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Tourette's syndrome is an inherited neurobehavioural disorder characterised by sudden, involuntary, repetitive muscle movements and vocalisations. |
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Christopher was born with a rare form of epilepsy known as gelastic epilepsy which causes seizures combined with involuntary and fearful uncontrollable bouts of laughing. |
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The primary involuntary movement abnormality, and often the earliest symptom, is chorea or choreoathetosis, continuous and irregular writhing and jerking movements. |
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The enactment of the Thirteenth Amendment simply made slavery and all forms of involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime, unconstitutional. |
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Sydenham's chorea is a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by sudden, involuntary, arrhythmic, choreic, and purposeless movements. |
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More than a dozen members of Jackson's family were expected to attend the hearing for Dr Conrad Murray who has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter. |
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Part I discusses spatial attention, including voluntary and involuntary attention, attentional shifts, source localization, and cross-modal influences on visual perception. |
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The condition was unknown during Johnson's lifetime, but Boswell describes Johnson displaying signs of TS including tics and other involuntary movements. |
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An increase in muscle tone, or spasticity, is a common symptom of the condition, causing involuntary spasms, immobility, disturbed sleep and pain. |
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Fourteen Liverpool fans received convictions for involuntary manslaughter. |
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The Berbers had become involuntary 'hosts' to the settlers from the east, and obliged to accept the Punic dominance of Carthage for many centuries. |
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Sternutation is the medical term for which involuntary action in humans? |
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In general terms, paraphiliacs find unusual or bizarre imagery or acts necessary for sexual excitement, and their behavior tends to be involuntary and repetitive. |
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