(v. t.) To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties.
Example Sentences:
(1) All subjects showed a period of fetishistic arousal to women's clothes during adolescence.
(2) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
(3) A control experiment demonstrated that changes in general arousal could not account for the effects of task difficulty on neuronal responses.
(4) EEG arousal diminished as a function of distance, while arousal for direct gaze was always higher than for averted gaze, whatever the distance.
(5) He was held there for another eight months in conditions that aroused widespread condemnation , including being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and being made to strip naked at night.
(6) The average vlaues of the correlation coefficients were found to increase from arousal through slow synchronized sleep (S sleep), reaching the highest value in REM sleep.
(7) To produce intramodal arousal, normal subjects also had EEG recordings made during the random sounding of a loud bell.
(8) Noxious conditioning stimulation of a tooth led to a temporary decrease of the threshold for the jaw-opening reflex elicited from a contralateral or adjacent tooth; only conditioning stimulation at an intensity producing a marked arousal reaction was effective in this respect.
(9) The auditory threshold for arousal (1,500-Hz tone beginning at 30 dB) was also tested before and after UA lidocaine.
(10) The lower phasic reactivity in the MBD group and the effects of stimulant drugs on arousal indices confirm earlier reports.
(11) The data support the hypothesis that the learning decrement found among older men is not simply a manifestation of structural change in the central nervous system but is, at least in part, associated with the heightened arousal of the autonomic nervous system that accompanies the learning task.
(12) Distal stimuli emanating from the female or pups induce proximity by provoking orientation, attention and arousal; the meaning of these stimuli is largely learned by conditioned associations during the initial executions of the behavior, although odors may have a prepotent influence for some individuals.
(13) These results support the hypothesis that amphetamine-induced stereotyped behavior functions to reduce stress or arousal and additionally suggest that this effect is largely independent of underlying dopaminergic mechanisms.
(14) Neuroticism was found to correlate with all the premenstrual MDQ scores except the positive aspect of increased arousal, with negative affect at both menstrual and intermenstrual phases, with menstrual pain and with intermenstrual concentration.
(15) All the present evidence suggests that the local vaginal release of VIP induces the vaginal changes of arousal.
(16) Attention to the hazards of asbestos has aroused concern among many healthy persons who have been exposed at some time to one of the world's most versatile materials.
(17) The suspicion of a Zollinger-Ellison-syndrome is aroused by therapy-resistent ulcers, which in every third person are associated with a diarrhoea, by recidivations of ulcer after gastric operations and by a large basal secretion of acid.
(18) We call RSD with these properties arousal-type RSD.
(19) The presence of cardiovascular hyperreactivity together with the absence of noncardiovascular hyperreactivity in HT indicates heightened SNS-activity specific to the cardiovascular system and not part of generalized SNS-arousal.
(20) In this study, therefore, we measured hypercapnic ventilatory responsiveness (HCVR) and spirometry in 13 healthy male subjects (18 to 30 yr of age) after two consecutive nights of severe sleep fragmentation (arousal to an auditory stimulus after each minute of sleep) and compared the results with those obtained in the same subjects after normal sleep.
Inflame
Definition:
(v. t.) To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
(v. t.) Fig.: To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat; as, to inflame desire.
(v. t.) To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
(v. t.) To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of; as, to inflame the eyes by overwork.
(v. t.) To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
(v. i.) To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sepsis resulted from intravenous absorption through inflamed or disrupted urothelium.
(2) The aim of our experiments was to investigate firstly whether during an acute inflammatory process platelets accumulate in the inflamed area and secondly whether the inflammation has an effect on the properties of the platelets.
(3) This system may serve as a model to explain the mechanisms by which cells accumulate in inflamed joints.
(4) Instead of healing the nation after a fractious referendum he inflamed the situation.
(5) "On the contrary, they often serve to inflame rather than mollify the feelings of those involved."
(6) More seriously, but no less predictably, the inflaming of sectarianism will have knock-on effects in Syria and Iraq.
(7) At both 24 h and 1 week, the inflamed paw showed pronounced supersensitivity to the antinociceptive action of morphine against noxious pressure.
(8) When given 30 min after acetic acid instillation SC-41930 prevented the rise in myeloperoxidase and dye extravasation observed in the acetic acid inflammed tissue.
(9) This functions is disturbed in inflamed joints by the decrease in the HA concentration and possibly by its depolymerization.
(10) Uptake in inflamed tissue of three cholesterol-rich liposome preparations was always significantly greater than the uptake noted in normal tissue.
(11) The row had been inflamed over the weekend by a series of leaks about the spiralling price of Gove's free schools and high costs of Clegg's free school meals, giving Labour ammunition to attack the government's education policy in Westminster.
(12) Any unilateral action by the president seemed sure to inflame gun advocates, who argue that gun sales are protected under the second amendment and who equate gun control with tyranny.
(13) These findings suggest that H pylori may add to the local production of paf in inflamed gastric mucosa.
(14) Sodium fluorescein and fluorescinated dextrans (FD) of selected molecular weights were combined and perfused into the anterior chamber of normal and inflamed eyes of cynomolgus monkeys.
(15) Overgrowth of cartilage by inflamed synovium was seen within 3-6 days of induction of arthritis and by day 12 the interface between these two tissues was largely indistinguishable.
(16) Whereas NS of allergic and inflamed noses extracted allergens very rapidly, NS of normal noses showed no extraction activity.
(17) Of 22 selected gingival areas, an average of 5.4 was inflamed, and 2.9 were severely inflamed.
(18) Tight junctions only occur in inflamed tissue between the most superficial cells usually as part of a lateral intercellular junctional complex that also contains belt desmosomes.
(19) While arguments will persist over the rights and wrongs of publishing, what seems certain is that the incident will inflame already tense relations between Buckingham Palace and the European media.
(20) The fascia was inflamed and fibrotic, and adjacent skeletal muscle often showed perifascicular inflammation.