Most distressing is the complete absence of actual, unique artworks or artifacts.
The following scores on the questionnaire corresponded to the following neurotoxicity grades: 1,2 = grade 1; 3 = grade 2; 4 = grade 3; 5 = grade 4. Dysesthesia, herein defined as painful or distressing sensations experienced in the absence of stimulation, was experienced by 87.2% of patients.
Loneliness is the distressing feeling associated with the perceived absence of satisfying social relationships [ 1].
It's not so much the absence of sex that's so distressing, but the absence of physical intimacy.
Low childhood socio-economic position may encompass economic adversity, such as poor nutrition and lack of access to facilities, as well as emotional adversity, encompassing emotionally distressing childhood or adolescent experiences, such as parental absence, neglect or maltreatment.
The chronic character of the disease, the distressing symptoms, the recurrent polypoid lesions, and the absence of satisfactory treatment methods all make chronic paranasal sinusitis with nasal polyps a serious social, clinical, and economic problem.
The list of events was selected from scientific literature and clinical experience, covering possible life-threatening experiences and distressing family conditions such as neglect, abuse, and absence of a parent.
Understanding psychological factors associated with those individuals who report an absence of memories that flash back may inform preventative treatments against this distressing after effect of trauma.
The Buddhas continue still to communicate presence through absence, their empty niches in Bamiyan's ochre cliffs speaking to mankind's distressing tendency to discard the very qualities Levi cited: justice, law, illumination and mercy.
Even in the absence of war, with its constant threat of insecurity from often very fluid battlefields, disaster response is an exhausting and distressing profession.
