As for myse'f, aside from my vocations of them tripods, pol'tics is inborn in me.
Troy extended from animals to man, and many later epizoötics in all parts of the world.
A want of fulness of description, and the inaccuracy of diagnosis too common in the consideration of the general diseases of the lower animals, leave the precise nature of most of the epizoötics described by the earlier writers doubtful.
The most common tics are snuffing, blinking, shaking of the head, facial contortions of one kind or another.
And so they voyaged to Albion and to several ports in Gaul; and there was no lee-way in their love, but still the tics were getting tauter, evidencing strong probabilities of a life cruise together.
Every night the tics were getting tauter, and when he proposed that she should cross with him to England there was no pitching on her part worth speaking of.
In neither of these epizoötics were the solipeds affected.
S'pose you know I've knocked round in pol'tics some?
Associate in Neurology, Maimonides Hospital, Chicago THE problem of the genesis and meaning of the strange manifestations which we find in that peculiar disorder which goes by the accepted name of tics is indeed difficult of solution.
In the case oftics the regressive or devolutionary aspect comes in for special consideration.
I may merely mention that tics have two aspects--a psychic and a physical.
By granting the phylogenetic, racial significance we also give the basic, psychophysical meaning of tics in all ticquers.
In other words, if all tics have a sexual meaning, then all instincts, which means the vital energy of man, has the same meaning.
Jones and Clark both assert that the tics or habit spasms as probably of the same nature as the obsessions in general.
Other tics involve coarser head movements, nodding, eyelid and facial spasms, bilateral or unilateral, and shoulder movements.
Mutism, deafness and blindness, palsies, contractures, and tics disappear at times as if by magic under various forms of suggestion.
These tics are usually observed in and about the head, involving the sternomastoid, trapezius, and platysma muscles to produce clonic contractions of the neck.
French observers consider that these tics and tremors may even be organic in their nature, basing their ideas upon the non-success of suggestion.
Meige has suggested that some of the tics may also be in some sense organic.
The basis of this belief is that hypnosis cures these phenomena as well as various tics and pertinacious tremors.
Sometimes the tics affect structures that are internal, as various motions of the larynx accompanied by the production of grunting or sighing sounds or sometimes even of particular words.
As a result of the studies of Gilles de la Tourette, we realize that there is an essential distinction between involuntary movements of various kinds, and that spasms and tics must be separated from one another.
It can be done, however, provided the habit is not too inveterate, and this is the best evidence that tics of other kinds can also be eradicated if the patient really takes the matter in hand and is not of a weakened will.
There are many more tics than are ordinarily supposed.
The head may be lifted and lowered, or may be twisted from one side to the other and, indeed, various nodding tics are extremely common.
Sometimes changes of facial expression may be tics and without any reason there may be recurring expressions of emotion, of joy, or grief, or fright, or even pain.
Heredity plays as large a role in tics as it does in stuttering and other functional nervous disturbances.
Tics consist of various movements of the voluntary muscles.
Tics of various kinds are readily picked up by children and special care must be exercised to prevent their spread.
Certain tics of children are by nature ephemeral, and disappear spontaneously, never to return.
We need not do more than remind the reader of the close affinities we have already seen to exist between tics and professional cramps, and of the mental instability which both classes of patient present.
Eyelid tics (says Parinaud[65]) are known to ophthalmologists as clonic blepharospasms.
Defects in the visual apparatus sometimes induce abnormal movements and attitudes which may become tics if careful examination does not elicit their explanation.
No less positive is our refusal to accept as tics spasmodic contractions in association with or subsequent to facial palsy or contracture of peripheral or central origin.
It had been already remarked by Morel that such of the insane as contract tics usually degenerate into dements.
Tics of phonation are often superadded to the gesticulations of variable chorea.
The unconscious or minute ideas, which in noëtics had served to break the force of Locke's objections against the innateness of the principles of reason, are in ethics brought into the field against indeterminism.
Geulincx's services to noëtics have been duly recognized by Ed.
Many TICs produce the same effects on personnel as CW agents.
However, there is quite a difference in their potency; in most TICs the potency is much lower.
As a matter of fact, many TICs are of the same chemical structure as CW agents.
It is these that are so liable to disorder in the many automatisms and choreictics we see in school children, especially if excited or fatigued.
Amongst them are the parasites known as tics which fix themselves with great tenacity by the appendages of their mouths.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
