What's the difference between arduous and fatiguing?
Arduous
Definition:
(a.) Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb.
(a.) Attended with great labor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shaping and fine working of restorations necessitated by cervical lesions, abrasions at the necks of teeth, or root surface caries can often be arduous to complete.
(2) Greece standoff over €86bn bailout eases after Brussels deal Read more But while the bailout chiefs are poised to agree on a route map, the journey for the Greek people seems no less long and arduous.
(3) Such sentiments are not uncommon in job agencies, particularly those that specialise in factory and food work, where labour demand is variable and geographically shifting, and conditions often arduous.
(4) Although the technique is costly and arduous, grafting patients who are severely burned with cultured epidermal autografts has proved to be a life-saving measure where few alternatives exist.
(5) Kim Jong-un has little to offer in the way of policy except more of the same "Arduous march” North Koreans have had to endure since 1993.
(6) The confidence vote was but one step in a long and arduous journey to putting near-bankrupt Greece back on its feet – financially, politically and increasingly socially – barely a year after it secured €110bn (£97bn) in emergency aid, the biggest bailout in western history.
(7) After all, it was the state system that allowed an estimated one million people to starve during the ‘arduous march’ famine of the late 1990s .
(8) The etiopathogenesis is still controversial and differential diagnosis, especially from giant cell tumors of bone, is arduous.
(9) But financial constraints were arduous and interminable, and he declined the invitation to renew his contract.
(10) Legislative change is arduous and can be slow to come.
(11) John Terry insists players support José Mourinho to turn around Chelsea slump Read more Most obviously there is the fact that Mourinho is again finding being Chelsea manager for a third successive season an arduous undertaking.
(12) Click here to view video Dean Cundey, director of photography Romancing the Stone had been a very muddy, arduous shoot, so Back to the Future was simple by comparison – most of it was shot on the lot at Universal, or in neighbourhoods in Pasadena.
(13) Deficit reduction is a difficult and arduous task, which will put pressures on both business and consumers over the coming years.
(14) We are greatly heartened there will not be a long, arduous wait for the next milestone to arrive,” he said.
(15) Using Khi-2 tests and logistic models, the negative health effects of arduous shift work appear to be less than expected.
(16) | Anne Perkins Read more The failure of different providers of services to join up and share information has been highlighted repeatedly over the years; some efforts have been made, such as the integration of health and social care, but it’s often an arduous and unenviable task .
(17) This prevents unnecessary delay in treatment and makes contact tracing less arduous.
(18) Automated DNA sequencing methods using robotic workstations have been previously reported, however it is often an arduous task to import these technologies into a laboratory.
(19) The reconstruction of nasal deformities after trauma or surgical procedures presents an arduous task for the reconstructive surgeon.
(20) Freud considered the third phase to be an arduous task for the patient, and a trial of patience for the analyst, probably because of two additional determinants: (1) the patient's 'will' to change, and (2) his re-adaptation to his environment.
Fatiguing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fatigue
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) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
(3) Results were inconsistent with both the feature detector fatigue and response bias hypothesis.
(4) A positive association was observed between the prevalence of fatigue, mild abdominal pain, and arthralgia and the blood lead (PbB), urinary lead (PbU), and zinc protoporphyrin (ZPP) levels.
(5) Hyperprolactinemia, hypogonadotropinism, and subnormal plasma testosterone were found in a 65-year-old patient who had an enlarged sella turcica, complained of fatigue, and addmitted to decreased sexual interest and potency.
(6) The average IEMG of the muscles in the relaxation phase of contraction remained unaltered by fatigue, while a marked deleterious change in the relaxation-time variables (p less than 0.001) occurred concomitantly.
(7) A 1-min test of repeated maximal contractions was administered to examine muscular fatiguability before and after training.
(8) In addition to the fatigue tester and the pulse duplicator, a signal conditioner, a DC amplifier, an analog-to-digital converter, and a digital microcomputer comprised the essential hardware.
(9) Fatigue developed significantly faster with contractions of short duration, and the energy cost was higher.
(10) For cancer patients, fatigue is a disturbing symptom caused by many factors.
(11) Study of the clinical characteristics of depressive state by hemisphere stroke with the use of symptom items of Zung scale and Hamilton scale showed that patients in depressive state with right hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items considered close to the essence of endogenous depression such as depressed mood, suicide, diurnal variation, loss of weight, and paranoid symptoms, while patients in depressive state with left hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items having a nuance of so-called neurotic depression such as psychic anxiety, hypochondriasis, and fatigue.
(12) Disturbances in muscle electrolytes play an important role in the development of muscular fatigue.
(13) The ratio of appearance on the fatigue by mastication was as follows: Type I (0%), Type II (50.0%), Type III (40.0-100%) and Type IV (75.0%).
(14) A 43-year-old lady was hospitalized due to easy fatiguability in the legs during exercise, and for evaluation of an abnormal shadow in the chest X-ray, and hypertension.
(15) Sleep disturbance among women and fatigue among males were also significantly associated with experiencing an onset of major depression.
(16) The action of sodium oxybutyrate, phenamine transamine and L-DOPA on the processes of re-establishing the mental and physical performance capacity after fatigue was studied in experiments with rats.
(17) The task used in the study was a stabilometer balance task, and fatigue was induced by walking on a treadmill.
(18) Repeated flashes above a few per second do not so much cause fatigue of the VEPs as reduce or prevent them by a sustained inhibition; large late waves are released as a rebound excitation any time the train of flashes stops or is delayed or sufficiently weakened.
(19) There is much conflicting immunological and viral data about the causes of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS); some findings support the notion that CFS may be due to one or more immune disorders that have resulted from exposure to an infectious agent.
(20) Increases from baseline rest for both exercise rates were observed in: oxygen uptake, carbon dioxide production, inspiratory flow, minute ventilation, respiratory rate, dyspnea, respiratory effort, and arm fatigue.