mental+suffering

  • 101Declaration of Tokyo — The Declaration of Tokyo was adopted in October 1975 during the 29th General assembly of the World Medical Association, and later editorially updated by the WMA in France, May 2005 and 2006. It declares torture to be contrary to the laws of… …

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  • 102List of law topics (F-M) — NOTOC Law [From Old English lagu something laid down or fixed ; legal comes from Latin legalis , from lex law , statute ( [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=law searchmode=none Law] , Online Etymology Dictionary; [http://www.m… …

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  • 103f — n. Compensable results, whether physical or mental, from a wrong either suffered or committed. The loss of the ability to work due to emotional suffering, mental suffering, or physical pain are all appropriate elements of damage. Webster s New… …

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  • 104wound — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. injury, hurt; painfulness. v. t. injure, hurt, lame, cripple; pain; shoot, stab, cut, lacerate, tear, wing; insult, offend, gall, mortify. See deterioration, resentment. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn.… …

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  • 105Evil — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Evil >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 evil evil ill harm hurt GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 mischief mischief nuisance Sgm: N 2 machinations of the devil machinations of the devil Pandora s box ills that …

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  • 106agony — (n.) late 14c., mental suffering (especially that of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane), from O.Fr. agonie, agoine anguish, terror, death agony (14c.), and directly from L.L. agonia, from Gk. agonia a (mental) struggle for victory, originally a… …

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  • 107pain — 1 /peIn/ noun 1 PHYSICAL (C, U) the feeling you have when part of your body hurts: be in pain (=having a pain in part of your body): Take these tablets if you re in pain. | feel pain: We ve given him an anaesthetic so he shouldn t feel any pain.… …

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  • 108sor´row|er — sor|row «SOR oh, SR », noun, verb. –n. 1. grief, sadness, or regret: »She felt sorrow at the loss of her kitten. Sorrow comes with years (Elizabeth Barrett Browning). 2. a cause of grief, sadness, or regret; trouble; suffering; misfortune: »Her… …

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  • 109sor|row — «SOR oh, SR », noun, verb. –n. 1. grief, sadness, or regret: »She felt sorrow at the loss of her kitten. Sorrow comes with years (Elizabeth Barrett Browning). 2. a cause of grief, sadness, or regret; trouble; suffering; misfortune: »Her sorrows,… …

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  • 110NAZI MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS — During the Nazi regime a series of medical experiments were carried out, some even before the war, to advance German medicine without the consent of the patients upon whom the experiments were conducted and with total disregard for their… …

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