(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.
Vigor
Definition:
(n.) Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
(n.) Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action; as, a plant grows with vigor.
(n.) Strength; efficacy; potency.
(v. t.) To invigorate.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case of dissecting hematoma involving the left main, left anterior descending, and left circumflex coronary arteries is described in a patient who had received vigorous closed-chest cardiac resuscitation.
(2) A history of vigorous sports in the past was not protective.
(3) No cases of rheumatic fever and no acute nephritis appeared in spite of the vigorous immune response to both cellular and extracellular antigens of group A streptococci documented in 50% to 80% of patients, suggesting that strain variation may be a feature of rheumatogenicity as well as nephritogenicity of group A streptococcal pharyngitis.
(4) In support of this contention, 5R-4F3 grew very poorly under conditions that supported the vigorous growth of E beta bE alpha k-restricted T-cell clones from the same mouse.
(5) The low incidence of pneumonia regardless of the type of therapy may be attributable to vigorous, vigilant respiratory care in a population at high risk for developing pneumonia.
(6) The apparent Km for K+-ATP was 2.1 mM when the incubation mixture was vigorously stirred, and the effect of stirring indicated that the kinetics of K+-ATP hydrolysis are limited by external diffusion.
(7) They had mounted a vigorous lobbying campaign, both in public and behind the scenes, since the legislation first came to light this month .
(8) Abe Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, a vigorous defender of Israel, called the speech “ill-advised”.
(9) A vigorous progressive physical and occupational therapy program producing tangible results does more for the patient's morale than any verbal encouragement could possibly do.
(10) In anesthetized cats, direct neural recording of vagal activity to the heart confirmed that vigorous reflex vagal activation during acute myocardial ischemia is associated with protection from ventricular fibrillation.
(11) The control, uninfected rats make vigorous primary and secondary antibody responses when challenged with keyhole limpet haemocyanin (KLH), human immunoglobulin (HuIg) or sheep red blood cells (SRBC).
(12) Policies recommending quarantine, isolation, mandatory testing of certain populations, and vigorous public education are explored.
(13) Preliminary clinical studies demonstrate that the progression of diabetic renal disease can be slowed by vigorous antihypertensive therapy.
(14) Parasite antigen responses appeared 2 weeks after challenge of C3H mice and remained vigorous for periods up to 6 months.
(15) However, Bryo induced only a marginal proliferative response as compared with the vigorous response induced by PMA.
(16) SF T cells were able to mount vigorous proliferative responses to recall antigen presented by autologous antigen-presenting cells.
(17) Results show that schistosome eggs are autonomous inducers of vigorous Th2-like effector responses.
(18) ANG II given as early as 10 days after surgery, and they drank reliably and vigorously but less in total volume to 100 ng i.c.v.
(19) However, because the potential exists for recurrence of the cardiac tumor, for enlargement of the cerebral lesions, or for late development of cerebral lesions, long term follow-up is mandatory and a vigorous work-up must be pursued if the patient again becomes symptomatic or develops central nervous system manifestations for the first time.
(20) Platelet concentrates collected by continuous flow automated apheresis (Fenwal CS-3000) were compared with those collected by manual apheresis to determine whether the prolonged centrifugation and vigorous resuspension affected platelet viability and in vitro function.