Collocations withdistress
These are words often used in combination withdistress.
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acute distress
He felt that acute distress or anxiety in the other patients precluded effective communication.
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considerable distress
This clearly causes considerable distress to the family, who obviously feel a deep sense of pain at her expression of grief.
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cry of distress
Why is it that last winter and last summer the cry of distress was so great that charitable people were asked to help?
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dire distress
Those women were in dire distress and came from four small districts.
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distress beacon
A specification for the distress beacon is being worked out urgently so that manufacture in quantity can begin.
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economic distress
Indeed, it could be argued that in times of economic distress and hardship men compensated by finding other ways of asserting their dominance over women.
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emotional distress
It seems plausible that some youth will continue to function well in school despite feelings of emotional distress.
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extreme distress
In such a period of extreme distress it might be expected that social unrest would have been far more extensive.
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fetal distress
Maternal causes of fetal distress include comorbidities, medications, recreational drugs, infections, metabolic abnormalities, toxins, hypothermia, and seizures.
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financial distress
We can chart the fluctuating political impact of various forces : religious dissent, royal financial distress, parliamentary, and electoral conflict.
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gastrointestinal distress
The mushroom's common names refer to the gastrointestinal distress they cause when consumed raw.
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great distress
The parents of two infants volunteered that their great distress was 'because of the severity of our son's problem, not the way it was explained'.
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level of distress
A key to interpreting these results is the level of distress seen in the family process and child behavior indices.
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marital distress
First, they may engulf and mask a theoretically important causal link between marital distress and antisocial behavior that holds for only a subset of children.
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mental distress
Patterns of mental distress following the violent death of a child and predictors of change over time.
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personal distress
The weak negative association with ' personal distress ' indicates that the two concepts may be inversely related.
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psychological distress
We contend that psychological distress is conceptually distinct from mental illness, yet the two concepts are often used interchangeably.
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respiratory distress
Anatomic factors causing respiratory distress in acyanotic congenital cardiac disease: special reference to bronchial obstruction.
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respiratory distress syndrome
Until now, however, nitric oxide has not been shown in a randomized trial to improve outcome of patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome.
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severe distress
This wave peaks in moderate distress, but tends to decline in severe distress.
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sign of distress
J would be no sign of distress at the joints provided these were well fitted.
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significant distress
Because we obtained such data only when individuals reported clinically significant distress, treatment utilization could not be examined across all respondents.
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source of distress
Similarly, adults who are aware of an infant's frequent negativity or distress might help by distracting the infant from the source of distress.
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