(v. t.) To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.
(v. t.) To lighten or lessen (physical or mental troubles); to mitigate, or make easier to be endured; as, to alleviate sorrow, pain, care, etc. ; -- opposed to aggravate.
(v. t.) To extenuate; to palliate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The use of an absorbable material may alleviate potential late complications associated with implantation of nonabsorbable materials.
(2) To alleviate these problems we developed an object-oriented user interface for the pipeline programs.
(3) The drug proved to be of high value in alleviating nocturnal coughing controlling spastic bronchitis in children, as a pretreatment before bronchological examinations and their anaesthesia.
(4) Ketazolam was found to be significantly better than placebo in alleviating anxiety and its concomitant symptomatology as measured by the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale, three Physician's Global Impressions, two Patient's Global Impressions, and three Target Symptoms.
(5) We have studied if 2 Hz electroacupuncture alleviates chronic nociceptive pain and if so whether the alleviation was related to the release of endogenous opioids.
(6) Therapy with prednisone appears to alleviate the hypoglycemia rapidly, usually within 24 hours.
(7) Chemonucleolysis is a procedure in which an enzyme is injected into the intervertebral disc for the purpose of alleviating sciatic pain.
(8) Major alleviation of the rigidity and bradykinesia with chronic oral l-dopa therapy was not accompanied by any change in the silent period.
(9) Michael Brown’s parents, appearing on the Today show on Tuesday, said they believe the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, would be alleviated by the prosecution of the officer who shot and killed their son.
(10) Possible applications of the study in alleviating rural doctor shortages are discussed.
(11) Co-existent superficial femoral disease can be alleviated by appropriate concomitant profundaplasty.
(12) I used it primarily as a social lubricant but also to alleviate boredom, stress and loneliness.
(13) It is necessary to have available a means of alleviating this symptom in a way that will be effective, comfortable, and efficient in terms of time and expense.
(14) The routine use of topical anesthetics to alleviate discomfort associated with in vivo ocular irritancy testing has been advocated.
(15) Rwanda was among 11 signatories to a regional peace agreement signed last month, and has been praised for progress on poverty alleviation.
(16) If more people are helped before their problems become crises, this would alleviate some of the pressures on our social care services.
(17) "We have developed this in conjunction with organisations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as a way of alleviating a real health problem in the developing world," says Dubock.
(18) However, before appropriate management decisions can be made to alleviate the effects of behavioral stress on reproduction, it is necessary to identify the mechanisms by which stress disrupts normal reproduction.
(19) The effectiveness of even a low dose of 4-methylpyrazole suggests its clinical usefulness for alleviation of acute acetaldehyde toxicity in alcohol-hypersensitive Japanese individuals as well as in disulfiram-treated alcoholics.
(20) Devastating neurologic complications can be avoided or alleviated in a great proportion of patients undergoing radiation therapy for cerebral metastases and spinal cord compression.
Strain
Definition:
(n.) Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
(n.) Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
(n.) Rank; a sort.
(a.) To draw with force; to extend with great effort; to stretch; as, to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship; to strain the cords of a musical instrument.
(a.) To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as forces on a beam to bend it.
(a.) To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously.
(a.) To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to convict an accused person.
(a.) To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force; as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship.
(a.) To injure in the muscles or joints by causing to make too strong an effort; to harm by overexertion; to sprain; as, to strain a horse by overloading; to strain the wrist; to strain a muscle.
(a.) To squeeze; to press closely.
(a.) To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
(a.) To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a petition or invitation.
(a.) To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth.
(v. i.) To make violent efforts.
(v. i.) To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil.
(n.) The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
(n.) A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the strain upon a ship's rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury resulting; a sprain.
(n.) A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass, produced by a stress.
(n.) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.
(n.) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style; also, a course of action or conduct; as, he spoke in a noble strain; there was a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his career.
(1) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
(2) None of the strains was found to be positive for cytotoxic enterotoxin in the GM1-ELISA.
(3) They are going to all destinations.” Supplies are running thin and aftershocks have strained nerves in the city.
(4) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
(5) We were able to detect genetic recombination between vaccine strains of PRV following in vitro or in vivo coinoculation of 2 strains of PRV.
(6) All of the strains examined were motile and hemolytic and produced lipase and liquid gelatin.
(7) The taxonomic relationship of strains H4-14 and 25a with previously described Xanthobacter strains was studied by numerical classification.
(8) Whereas strain Ga-1 was practically avirulent for mice, strain KL-1 produced death by 21 days in 50% of the mice inoculated.
(9) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
(10) We also show that the gene of the main capsid protein is expressed from its own promoter in an Escherichia coli strain.
(11) Sequence variation in the gp116 component of cytomegalovirus envelope glycoprotein B was examined in 11 clinical strains and compared with variation in gp55.
(12) By hybridization studies, three plasmids in two forms (open circular and supercoiled) were detected in the strain A24.
(13) In addition, the fact that microheterogeneity may occur without limit in the mannans of the strains suggests that antibodies with unlimited diverse specificities are produced directed against these antigenic varieties as well.
(14) Strains isolated from the environment and staff were not implicated.
(15) 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.
(16) Escherichia enterotoxigenic strains, Yersinia enterocolitica and Salmonella typhimurium virulent strains, Campylobacter jejuni clinical isolates possess more pronounced capacity for adhesion to enteric cells of Peyer's plaques than to other types of epithelial cells, which may be of importance in the pathogenesis of these infections.
(17) These sequences are also conserved in the same arrangement in minor sequence classes of minicircles from this strain.
(18) The isoelectric points (pI) of E1 and E2 for all VEE strains studied were approx.
(19) One rat strain (TAS) is susceptible to the anticoagulant and lethal effects of warfarin and the other two strains are homozygous for warfarin resistance genes from either wild Welsh (HW) or Scottish (HS) rats.
(20) In these bitches, a strain of E coli identical to the strain in the infected uterus was isolated.