(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak.
(a.) Characterized by the absence of power or force.
Example Sentences:
(1) Treatment with salbutamol inhalation had a beneficial effect on the duration of their adynamic attacks.
(2) The clinical picture was dominated by suprarenal cortical insufficiency, manifested with pains in the abdomen, vomiting, hypotonia and severe asthenic-adynamic syndrome.
(3) The most remarkable changes in mental activity were recorded in children with the ++astheno-adynamic variant of the +cerebro-asthenic syndrome.
(4) The three other cases are members of the second sibship and belong to the type I fiber hypotrophy without central nuclei nor myothony and show the typical phenotypic characters: elongated face and adynamic appearance.
(5) Some characteristics of clinical manifestations and the course of schizophrenia running with adynamic depressive states have been discovered.
(6) Seven days after ingestion of Vacor, the patient presented in diabetic ketoacidosis complicated by postural hypotension and adynamic ileus.
(7) However, the emergence of adynamic bone disease has been recently reported in hemodialyzed patients in the total absence of aluminum overload.
(8) In order to assess and characterize adynamic ileus (AI) complicating acute diarrhoea (AD) in infants, 802 consecutive admissions were studied.
(9) However, the only significant effect on postoperative adynamic ileus was an earlier return to tolerance of solid foods in the patients in Group A.
(10) Regarding the colon, a disturbance in the electromechanical characteristics was found in irritable bowel syndrome, bacterial overgrowth in the small bowel, chronic constipation, and idiopathic intestinal pseudo-obstruction, which is probably identical with the clinical picture of adynamic ileus.
(11) We describe a patient who, during an episode of acute cardiac rejection, developed such severe systolic dysfunction that there was transient near-adynamic function of the right ventricle.
(12) The incidental occurrence of adynamic ileus in six of these rats, 5-16 days after surgery, prompted further investigation.
(13) Effect of intra-abdominal instillation of a local anaesthetic, bupivacaine, on postoperative colonic adynamic ileus was studied in a double blind manner in a randomised series of patients undergoing upper laparotomy.
(14) Considering this, Stark's classification of adynamic and spastic bladders according to amplitude of the contractions of the detrusor muscle is helpful only in combination with the cystometrical and myographical datas of the bladder outlet.
(15) Periods of diffuse or localized muscle weakness, lasting one to four days, were associated with the classic adynamic attacks.
(16) Major clinical types of depressions were: adynamic, anxious, senesto-hypochondric, combined depressive-paranoic, endoreactive.
(17) All patients with predominant low-turnover osteomalacia or adynamic bone disease displayed stainable bone aluminum.
(18) We conclude that the predominant bone lesion in our CAPD patients is low turnover bone disease, predominantly adynamic forms, and aluminum does not seem to play a role on its genesis.
(19) Laryngeal videostroboscopy under eight phonatory conditions showed that the Teflon-injected vocal folds were adynamic.
(20) This study was aimed to assess whether such a histological pattern of adynamic bone disease was already present in uremic patients not yet on dialysis.
Strength
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.
(n.) Power to resist force; solidity or toughness; the quality of bodies by which they endure the application of force without breaking or yielding; -- in this sense opposed to frangibility; as, the strength of a bone, of a beam, of a wall, a rope, and the like.
(n.) Power of resisting attacks; impregnability.
(n.) That quality which tends to secure results; effective power in an institution or enactment; security; validity; legal or moral force; logical conclusiveness; as, the strength of social or legal obligations; the strength of law; the strength of public opinion; strength of evidence; strength of argument.
(n.) One who, or that which, is regarded as embodying or affording force, strength, or firmness; that on which confidence or reliance is based; support; security.
(n.) Force as measured; amount, numbers, or power of any body, as of an army, a navy, and the like; as, what is the strength of the enemy by land, or by sea?
(n.) Vigor or style; force of expression; nervous diction; -- said of literary work.
(n.) Intensity; -- said of light or color.
(n.) Intensity or degree of the distinguishing and essential element; spirit; virtue; excellence; -- said of liquors, solutions, etc.; as, the strength of wine or of acids.
(n.) A strong place; a stronghold.
(v. t.) To strengthen.
Example Sentences:
(1) The femoral component, made of Tivanium with titanium mesh attached to it by a new process called diffusion bonding, retains superalloy fatigue strength characteristics.
(2) The strengths and weaknesses of each technique are described in this article.
(3) It was found that there is a significant difference in bond strengths between enamel and stainless steel with strength to enamel the greater.
(4) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
(5) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(6) The increased muscular strength in due to a rise of calcaemia, improved muscle contraction and probably also due to the mentioned nutritional factors.
(7) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
(8) Disabled men also were more depressed and anxious and had lower ego strength and higher hypochondriasis scores on the MMPI, but were no different in type A behavior.
(9) The RNA solutions showed a dielectric increment proportional to the strength of the applied field and to the RNA concentration.
(10) We show that it does apply under conditions of high ionic strength (0.3 M KCl), and under these conditions time courses may be analyzed to yield unbiased estimates of the initiation (Vi) and chain elongation (Vp) rates.
(11) The single best predictor of EI was BW (r2 = 0.47, p = 0.0001), and further small but significant contributions were made by BMC (r2 = 0.53, p = 0.0001) and grip strength (r2 = 0.55, p = 0.0001).
(12) Strength of the women ranged from 62 to 70 percent of that of the men, depending upon muscle group.
(13) Analysis of bond values of glass ionomer added to glass ionomer indicate bond variability and low cohesive bond strength of the material.
(14) Results on resting blood pressure, serum lipids, vital capacity, flexibility, upper body strength, and vertical jump tests were comparable to values found for the sedentary population.
(15) For the case of the fluctuating pressure, the strength of the artery becomes considerably lower than those under constant amplitude and two-step-multi-duplicated pulsatile pressure.
(16) Furthermore, even the action of Lys-5 on the Pseudomonas OM was abolished when the assays were performed in the presence of 150 mM NaCl instead of the low-ionic strength buffer earlier used by investigators studying the effect of polycations on the Pseudomonas OM.
(17) which suggest that ~60-90% of the cross-bridges attached in rigor are attached in relaxed fibers at an ionic strength of 20 mM and ~2-10% of this number of cross-bridges are attached in a relaxed fiber at an ionic strength of 170 mM.
(18) Classification into hazard categories depends on the overall strength of evidence that an agent may cause mutations in humans.
(19) The influence of the solution ionic strength on the binding process was practically lacking.
(20) We attribute the greater strength of the step-cut repair to the additional number of epitendinous loops, which lie perpendicular to the long axis of the tendon.