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• During the first days after the onset of stroke, patients were polymedicated.2016 January 28, “Microparticle Shedding from Neural Progenitor Cells and Vascular Compartment Cells Is Increased in Ischemic Stroke”, in…. From the entry polymedicate
• One patient reported a temporal association between the introduction of pramipexol and the onset of sleep attacks.2015 July 16, “Sleep Disorders in Parkinsonian and Nonparkinsonian LRRK2 Mutation Carriers”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry pramipexol
• The disease has a polysymptomatic onset and is usually first diagnosed between the ages of 20–40 years.2015 July 29, Svetlana F. Khaiboullina et al., “CCL27: Novel Cytokine with Potential Role in Pathogenesis of Multiple Sclerosis”, in…. From the entry polysymptomatic
• The rapid increase in the intrasellar contents and intrasellar pressure usually presents as sudden onset of headache.2015 September 26, “Incidence of Pituitary Apoplexy and Its Risk Factors in Chinese People: A Database Study of Patients with Pituitary…. From the entry intrasellar
• Donovan's observations show that the early onset of acute hunger pain subsides after approximately twenty-four hours.2012, Tim Pat Coogan, The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy. From the entry hunger pain
• The average age for the onset of anorexia used to be 13 to 17.2011 August 8, Margaret Renkl, “The scary trend of tweens with anorexia”, in CNN, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2012. From the entry anorexia
• They also both agree that Edna became crippled by a sudden onset of Omphalophobia.2011, Elura Nanos, Michele Sileo, Legalese to English: Civil Procedure. From the entry omphalophobia
• The ironic twist is that he recently admitted to a possible onset of coulrophobia.2006, Crimson de la Voire, Crimson’s Erotica: Volume One — A Collection of Stories About Submission and Pleasure, page 35. From the entry coulrophobia
• But probably the primary reason for gynecomastia in adult onset is drugs—and these are not illegal drugs.2006, Merle J. Yost, Demystyifying Gynecomastia: Men with Breasts, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry gynecomastia
• The Sanglay come in their batwinged junks with the onset of the northeast monsoon, the amihan.1998, Carlos Cortés, Lassitude and other stories, →ISBN, page 62. From the entry sanglay
• Johnson always announced the onset of catastrophe with the statement: "The ox is in the ditch!"1987 March 6, George Reedy, “Can the President Still Lead?”, in New York Times, retrieved 07 Nov 2008. From the entry ox is in the ditch
• Assessment of prepain functioning often provides insights into behavioral, cognitive, and affective responses subsequent to pain onset.1983, Dennis C. Turk, Donald Meichenbaum, Myles Genest, Pain and Behavioral Medicine: A Cognitive-Behavioral Perspective, page 202. From the entry prepain
• The aircraft configuration was such that there was little or no warning of the stall onset.1979 December 21, National Transportation Safety Board, “Aircraft and Flightcrew Performance”, in Aircraft Accident Report: American…. From the entry buffet
• The age span implicit in these delimitings of the onset and end of adolescence is fairly variable.1977, Guy J. Manaster, Adolescent Development and the Life Tasks, page 9. From the entry delimiting
• In particular, the use of swept-back wings had facilitated high-speed flight by delaying the onset of shock-stalls.1952, Flight International, volumes 61–62, page 655. From the entry shock-stall
• We performed a systematic review of human studies to determine the magnitude and onset time of these CPRs.2020, Marlou P Lasschuijt, Monica Mars, Cees de Graaf, Paul A M Smeets, “Endocrine cephalic phase responses to food cues: a systematic…. From the entry cephalic
• Patients initially may seek medical attention for diabetes mellitus, which becomes clinically manifest a few years after the onset of pancreatalgia.2018, Isidor Segal, Digestive Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: Changes and Challenges, page 98. From the entry diabetes mellitus
• The transition is accompanied by the onset of short-range correlations, suppression of the superfluid response, and rotonization of the excitation spectrum.2016, Alexey Filinov, “Correlation effects and collective excitations in bosonic bilayers: role of quantum statistics, superfluidity and…. From the entry rotonization
• Apparently, some federal employees plan to quit employment due to a sudden onset of Trumphobia, including at least one VA psychologist.2016 November 29, “Sudden Onset Of Trumphobia Causes VA Psychologist To Quit”, in Disabled Veterans. From the entry Trumphobia
• Engagement in nonaccustomed physical activity results in delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) which is particularly evident after eccentric muscle contractions.2016, Susan Raatz, Douglas Bibus, Fish and Fish Oil in Health and Disease Prevention, page 126. From the entry nonaccustomed
• Twenty-eight thrombolyzed patients underwent DTI at 24 hours post-stroke onset.2015 November 13, “Axial Diffusivity of the Corona Radiata at 24 Hours Post-Stroke: A New Biomarker for Motor and Global Outcome”, in PLOS…. From the entry thrombolyzed
• Also, it should be noted that the vernaculars sometimes underwent horizontal levelling (koineisation) before the onset of standardisation.2005, Peter Auer, “Europe’s sociolinguistic unity, or: A typology of European dialect/standard constellations”, in Nicole Delbecque, Johan…. From the entry koinai
• This explosion is followed by a population extinction when the food supply disappears, usually with the onset of an adverse season.1996, Raoul A. Robinson, “Chapter 4: Infection: Allo-Infection and Auto-Infection”, in Return to Resistance: Breeding Crops to Reduce…. From the entry eggless
• With the onset of the rainy season, swelling closes the cracks, more rapidly in the upper horizons than further down.1980, Hans Jenny, “Swelling, Shrinking, and their Turbations”, in The Soil Resource: Origin and Behavior, page 157. From the entry turbation
• Thus the onset of "autodetection" leads, in the case of sequential resonance, to a negative peak of the current.1972, Radio Engineering and Electronic Physics, volume 17, page 1588. From the entry autodetection
• They noted that the onset of hypotension occasionally preceded the hyperpnœic phase and consequently concluded that they were unrelated.1967, Christopher Langton Hewer, Richard Stuart Atkinson, Recent Advances in Anæsthesia and Analgesia, volume V, page 45. From the entry hyperpnœic
• In making a diagnosis of X-disease, one must consider the insidious onset, slow course, and number of animals affected.1949, United States. Animal Industry Bureau, Report of the Preliminary Survey on "X" Disease, page 10. From the entry X-disease
• Most striking, numerous studies have even shown that bilinguals undergo a later onset of dementia, perhaps of around four years, on average.2025 June 27, “Is being bilingual good for your brain?”, in The Economist, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2025. From the entry bilingual
• A biologic therapy that delays the onset of type 1 diabetes received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday.2022 November 17, Jen Christensen and Brenda Goodman, “FDA approves first treatment to delay onset of type 1 diabetes”, in CNN. From the entry biologic
• Herein, we characterized the infecting microbe, host, micro- and mycobiomes leading up to infection onset in a leukemia patient that developed invasive mucormycosis.2015 November 11, “Implementation of a Pan-Genomic Approach to Investigate Holobiont-Infecting Microbe Interaction: A Case Report of a…. From the entry mucormycosis
• The syndrome of “pre, peri or paramenstrual tension” typically starts about 5–10 days before onset of menses and lasts till the end of menses.2015, Neena Bohra, Shruti Srivastava, M.S. Bhatia, “Depression in women in Indian context”, in Indian Journal of Psychiatry, volume 57, →DOI. From the entry paramenstrual
• The rapid onset of Japanese industrialization in the absence of environmental safeguards led to eutrophication, anoxia and frequent abiosis of urban and peri-urban waters.2012, P.D. Armitage, L.C. Pinder, P.S. Cranston, The Chironomidae: Biology and ecology of non-biting midges, page 8. From the entry abiosis
• Parainfectious optic neuritis typically follows the onset of a viral infection by 1-3 weeks, but it also can occur as a postvaccination phenomenon.2009, Myron Yanoff, Jay S. Duker, James J. Augsburger, Ophthalmology, page 965. From the entry parainfectious
• Paz noted that since the onset of the credit crisis, eBay, like other companies, hasn’t been able to "measure twice and cut once."2008 November 9, Hilary Johnson, “Mergers rattle bank relations”, in Financial Week, retrieved 09 Nov 2008. From the entry measure twice and cut once

Meaning of onset

1. noun The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent.
2. noun The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus.
3. noun The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to an initial peak.

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How do you use onset in a sentence?

Onset is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Assuming it was an onset of psychosis, the scientists paid little attention to the man’s concerns.”

What is a short sentence with onset?

“the onset of puberty”

What does onset mean?

Onset means the initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent.