(v. t.) To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
(v. t.) To move or actuate.
(v. t.) To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.
(v. t.) To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.
(v. t.) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.
Example Sentences:
(1) A sensitive, specific procedure was developed for detecting Escherichia coli O157:H7 in food in less than 20 h. The procedure involves enrichment of 25 g of food in 225 ml of a selective enrichment medium for 16 to 18 h at 37 degrees C with agitation (150 rpm).
(2) The authors report 6 cases of acute respiratory failure complicating chronic bronchial and lung disease admitted to hospital with the diagnosis of: heart disease, 3 cases, pulmonary oedema, pulmonary embolism, atrial flutter; status asthmaticus : one case; neuro-psychiatric disease : 2 cases (toxic coma and agitation).
(3) But what is happening in the UK now has not been seen for decades and has rarely been seen at all since the Chartist agitations of the 1840s.
(4) The effects of chronic use seem to be twofold: severe depression with suicidal thoughts and numerous violent, agitated behavioral patterns.
(5) From about 1891 to 1905 home rule seemed to go off the boil in Ireland; people agitated instead over land reform and Irish universities.
(6) The effect of tiapride on the various manifestations of agitation was also spectacular and rapid, and the authors confirm the excellent tolerance of the product.
(7) Therefore, the CDS controlling procollagen production and the CDS controlling the inhibition of growth seemed to be linked because the signaling mechanism is disrupted in a parallel manner by agitation.
(8) The echo intensity produced by this agent was compared with that of agitated saline solution, indocyanine green and SHU-454 (another experimental saccharide agent for right-sided contrast) during 136 injections in eight dogs.
(9) The two groups examined comprise 'hyperactive' mentally handicapped children and senile dementia patients, all of whom showed moderate to severe agitation.
(10) But the outspoken journalist and human rights activist has long been a thorn in Ali Abdullah Saleh's side, agitating for press freedoms and staging weekly sit-ins to demand the release of political prisoners from jail – a place she has been several times herself.
(11) I honestly think so many Americans are scrambling so fast just to keep up that: a) they're not aware of what they're missing; b) they don't have time to agitate."
(12) Ultrasonic preparation with 0.25% sodium hypochlorite solution and final agitation with 50% citric acid solution were found to produce a very clean canal wall, free of smear layer in coronal and middle parts.
(13) Photoreceptors were dissociated from retinas by mechanical agitation after mild protease treatment and characterized by light and electron microscopy.
(14) Two of the targets we tested (SV-COL and SV-COL-E8) both highly sensitive to lysis, stimulated macrophage movement, inducing an "agitated" response.
(15) The cells can be defimbriated by sonication, high-speed agitation, or centrifugation through a 40% sucrose solution.
(16) In its infancy, the movement against censorship agitated on behalf of artists, iconoclasts, talented blasphemers; against repressive forces whose unpleasantness only confirmed which side was in the right.
(17) Blot and give 2 fast changes in absolute ethanol with agitation before transferring to xylene.
(18) Distractibility, inappropriate sexual behavior, agitation or seizures were lacking.
(19) The successful use of midazolam to treat psychomotor agitation in this patient is also reported.
(20) The same brush was then agitated in a SBW vial, which was centrifuged, the cell pellet being smeared over a predetermined area of a slide.
Ailment
Definition:
(n.) Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases.
Example Sentences:
(1) Herbalists in Baja California Norte, Mexico, were interviewed to determine the ailments and diseases most frequently treated with 22 commonly used medicinal plants.
(2) Le Dantec Hospital from January 1978 to June 1986 - shows the progression of this ailment, which remains rare (0.85% of admissions - 5 cases per year).
(3) However, after her diagnosis, it became my occupation to know everything about her ailment because I was her caregiver during her excruciating decline.
(4) Based on a quantitative analysis of sputum cultures, pathogenic bacteria in respiratory ailments isolated in our laboratory during 1984 to 1986 were classified and analyzed.
(5) The overriding common features of these ailments are the gender of their sufferers and the behavioral symptoms they exhibit.
(6) Muchhal, a professional singer who has worked on major Bollywood hits, has raised more than 37m rupees (£400,000) to save the lives of more than 550 children with heart ailments.
(7) Consistent with these measures, derived from self-reported data, physician-diagnosed measures also indicate a greater vulnerability of unemployed individuals to serious physical ailments such as heart trouble, pain in heart and chest, high blood pressure, spells of faint-dizziness, bone-joint problems and hypertension.
(8) The hypothesis tested was that cognitive factors in the generation of stress, namely perceived coping incapacity (PCI), relate to the extent of psychosomatic ailments.
(9) The observed group consisted of 20 women of age between 18 and 35 years treated because of acute hepatitis without coexisting diseases including gynecological ailments.
(10) When several diagnostic procedures are performed on a patient, the probability of his having or not having a specific ailment will change as the result of each procedure is known.
(11) Congestive cardiomyopathy accounted for 16 cases (24.3%) and diabetes mellitus unassociated with other ailments for another 6 cases (9.1%).
(12) Cerebral ailments characterized by attacks usually manifest themselves within one year after the accident.
(13) Furthermore, Miller had different ailments during the regular season and the Seahawks passing offense was inclined towards their receivers rather than the tight end position.
(14) But while Britain has left intensive care, we still need to secure the recovery – and make sure we continue to treat the ailments that brought us low in the first place."
(15) Swimmers experienced respiratory ailments most frequently, followed by gastrointestinal, eye, ear, skin, and allergenic symptoms, respectively.
(16) Finally, the case history of a patient with this ailment, treated by Mollin's light arches technique, is displayed.
(17) Accordingly, although the techniques of molecular biology are invaluable in generating new understanding of the mechanisms underlying drug specificity, they may prove disappointing as applied to actually tailoring specific drugs for the treatment of such major human ailments as hypertension or schizophrenia.
(18) Language ailment is then rarely isolated but it belongs to a global disorganizing of cerebral functions.
(19) Sometimes having a diagnosis for an ailment makes the symptoms much more palatable.
(20) In 17 towns in 11 countries across Europe, 10 questions on health were asked as part of a general standardized interview regarding self-perceived global and relative health, quality of life, chronic diseases, use of medicine and specific ailments.