Involuntary definition biography
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involuntary in Biology topic
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishinvoluntaryin‧vol‧un‧ta‧ry /ɪnˈvɒləntəri $ ɪnˈvɑːlənteri/ adjective1HBDELIBERATELYan involuntary movement, sound, reaction etc is one that you make suddenly and without intending to because you cannot control yourselfWhen Willie tapped on the window, Miguel gave an involuntary jump.2happening to you although you do not want it toinvoluntary part-time workers —involuntarily adverbExamples from the Corpusinvoluntary• It would seem that involuntary affirmation could be commanded only on even more immediate and urgent grounds than silence.• I let out an involuntarygasp.• Overall, the patients who underwent the pallidotomy had fewer involuntary movements than those who received medicinealone.• an involuntarymusclecontraction• Even in healthy subjects the eyeballexhibitsrapid, involuntary, oscillatory movements, a phenomenon called nystagmus.• Though mirages are natural phenomena, the illusion of my standing in a dish was an involuntary product of the imagination.• Her teeth were chattering and she gave an enormousinvoluntaryshudder.• It is not surprising that involuntaryunemployment may be long term.• With an involuntaryyell of alarm, she tumbledforward.
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Involuntary commitment
Compulsory hospitalization
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This article is about involuntary hospitalization for those with severe mental disorder. For voluntary treatment, see voluntary commitment.
Involuntary commitment, civil commitment, or involuntary hospitalization/hospitalisation[a] is a legal process through which an individual who is deemed by a qualified person to have symptoms of severe mental disorder is detained in a psychiatric hospital (inpatient) where he can be treated involuntarily. This treatment may involve the administration of psychoactive drugs, including involuntary administration. In many jurisdictions, people diagnosed with mental health disorders can also be forced to undergo treatment while in the community; this is sometimes referred to as outpatient commitment and shares legal processes with commitment.
Criteria for civil commitment are established by laws which vary between nations. Commitment proceedings often follow a period of emergency hospitalization, during which an individual with acute psychiatric symptoms is confined for a relatively short duration (e.g. 72 hours) in a treatment facility for evaluation and stabilization by mental health professional
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