Word Finder - provocation

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The act of provoking, inciting or annoying someone into doing something

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Something that provokes; a provocative act

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The second step in OPQRST regarding the investigation of what makes the symptoms MOI or NOI improve or deteriorate.

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When it's time to check for provocation ask the patient about what makes their chief complaint better or worse.

Doubtless there was provocation, for the sultan of Achin had not kept to the understanding.

It sometimes charges the hunter without provocation, and is very dangerous when wounded.

Many of his acts, however, gave great offence, particularly the seizure of $800,000 which had been deposited in the office of the Dutch consul, and an order, issued after some provocation, on May 15th, that if any woman should "insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and shall be held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation."

The worst tumults occurred in November 1904, when Italian students and professors were attacked at Innsbruck without provocation; being outnumbered by a hundred to one the Italians were forced to use their revolvers in self-defence, and several persons were wounded on both sides.

She showed great forbearance and generosity towards the duchess of Marlborough in the face of unexampled provocation, and her character was unduly disparaged by the latter, who with her violent and coarse nature could not understand the queen's self-restraint in sorrow, and describes her as "very hard" and as "not apt to cry."

In 1876 this policy revived as a matter of course in the cabinet, and as spontaneously, though not upon a first provocation, became popular almost to fury.

When it appeared that he was recovering from his wounds, Cesare had him murdered, but not apparently without provocation, for, according to the Venetian ambassador Cappello, the duke had tried to murder Cesare first.

Obtaining also a copy of the work as it had been printed before Hobbes had any doubt of the validity of his solutions, Wallis was able to track his whole course front the time of Ward's provocation - his passage from exultation to doubt, from doubt to confessed impotence, yet still without abandoning the old assumption of confident strength; and all his turnings and windings were now laid bare in one of the most trenchant pieces of controversial writing ever penned.

They had recourse to the so-called "unarmed agitation," which was in effect a policy of constant provocation designed to bring on measures of repression to be represented to Europe as examples of Russian brutality.

She had every reason to keep them in the dark, and to convince other courts that she could and would marry if the provocation were sufficient.

Here we see at their sharpest the social prejudices that Disraeli had to fight against, provocation of them carried to its utmost in every way open to him, and complete conquest in a company of young men less likely to admit superiority in a wit of their own years, probably, than any other that could have been brought together at that time.

The deputies of the Extreme Left, instead of using their influence in favor of pacification, could think of nothing better than to demand an immediate convocation of parliament in order that they might present a bill forbidding the troops and police to use their arms in all conflicts between capital and labor, whatever the provocation might be.

But this policy was, in any case, bound to make England peculiarly sensitive to provocation by Germany, - a point which was ignored by the champions of a great German navy.

French patriotic feeling, suspicious, angry and alarmed, needed only a slight provocation to cause it to blaze up into an uncontrollable fever for war.

He had been wayward, unwise and occasionally revengeful; but his provocation had been great, and if few tyrants have used more violent and offensive language, few have committed such a small list of actual crimes.

The provocation was supplied at the right moment by the candidature of the prince of Hohenzollern for the vacant crown of Spain.

Fresh provocation had, moreover, been given to the shahs government by the rash and incapable Kamran.

At first the prior treated the provocation with merited contempt, but his too zealous disciple Fra Domenico accepted the challenge.

Other writings which he had finished, or on which he must have been engaged about this time, were not made public till after his death - the king apparently having made it the price of his protection that no fresh provocation should be offered to the popular sentiment.

Gradually Philip grew more hostile under provocation; slowly he came to the conclusion that he could never subdue the Dutch or check English attacks on the Spanish Main without a conquest of England.

Austria had persistently adopted a policy of pin-pricks and aggravating police provocation towards the Italians of the Adriatic Littoral and of the Trentino, while encouraging the Slavonic element in the former and the Germans in the latter.

Why are teenagers are so likely to slam the door at the least provocation?

But Philips mind moved slowly and only on provocation.

But they kept their distance in an attempt to avoid provocation.

The degree of aggression expressed must be out of proportion to any provocation or other stressor prior to the incidents.

Food allergen provocation tests require abstinence from the suspect allergen for two weeks or more, followed by ingestion of a measured amount of the test substance administered as an opaque capsule along with a placebo control.

Provocation tests are not used if anaphylaxis is a concern given the patient's medical history.

Such trolls are relatively easy to spot because their attack or provocation is fairly blatant, and the persona is fairly two-dimensional.

Can you conceive of a man's getting himself into a sweat over so diminutive a provocation?

It was almost as tho the plan was to stage a provocation, hoping to have one of the gang physically ejected.

And if ever a man had provocation to speak unadvisedly with his lips it was he.

Counsel for the appellant submitted that the Crown had made provocation an issue and that accordingly the judge should have summed up on provocation.

Then hundreds of people begin clapping above their heads without the slightest provocation from the stage.

Yet every day thousands of miles of British bus lanes seem to stand idly by in deliberate provocation of the motoring public.

Thankfully the English have, for the most part, risen above such xenophobia despite the extreme provocation of the Scottish Labor Party.

Kotar did, so a wise man didn't offer him any unnecessary provocation.

The march passed off peacefully, despite usual police provocation, & finished with speeches & delicious vegan food by Veggies!

A major schism had arisen in the law of provocation.

Planted in the farthest Christian outpost in northern Syria, he had to meet many attacks, especially from Mardin and Mosul, in revenge for the provocation offered by his own forays and those of the restless Tancred.

It ought to be remembered that the mob of Brescia had massacred invalid Austrian soldiers in the hospital, a provocation which always leads to reprisals.

Provocation testing involves direct exposure to a likely allergen, either through inhalation or ingestion.

Provocation testing is done in some cases to confirm associations between exposure to certain allergens and the subsequent development of symptoms when skin testing or RAST tests have indicated possible sensitivity.

In provocation challenges, the skin, nasal and oral mucosa, and lining of the lungs and gastrointestinal tract are exposed to suspected allergens.

In bronchial provocation challenges, the individual inhales increasingly concentrated solutions of a particular allergen prepared in a nebulizer.

Provocation tests may provoke an allergic reaction by exposing the individual to reactive allergens.

Children should be observed closely for signs of allergic reactions after allergy testing using skin tests, inhalation tests, or provocation tests.

The hGH stimulation test, also called hGH provocation test, insulin tolerance, or arginine test, is performed to test the body's ability to produce human growth hormone and to confirm suspected hGH deficiency.

A methacholine provocation test, which stimulates a response in asthmatics, but not in persons with VCD, also helps narrow the diagnosis.

For example, bullies attribute hostile intentions to people around them and therefore perceive provocation where it does not exist.

Allergy tests including skin testing and provocation testing can help identify the precise culprit, but may not be done unless a single source is suspected and subsequent avoidance is possible.