(a.) Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating; as, a bracing north wind.
(n.) The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced.
(n.) Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the bracing of a truss.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gains in gait pattern, ease of bracing, and reduced pelvic obliquity were noted.
(2) We assessed the relative restraints that are provided by fourteen currently available functional knee-braces, using six limbs in cadavera.
(3) During the last 21 months, 12 additional children have been managed with a more stringent protocol combining neck immobilization in a rigid cervical brace for 3 months and restriction of both contact and noncontact sports, together with a major emphasis on patient compliance.
(4) The classic scoliosis was resistant to brace treatment; bracing failed in 70% of patients, necessitating spinal fusion.
(5) Cotrel-Dubousset instrumentation (CDI) has been gaining popularity in scoliosis surgery because of their improved rigidity which can obviate the need for a brace in most cases.
(6) The brace extended from the proximal radius and ulna to the level of the radial styloid and allowed a full range of movement at the radiocarpal joint.
(7) The purpose of this project was to determine if commercially available braces could be shown to produce objective evidence of medial stabilization of the knee.
(8) The schemes will be scrutinised for evidence that the government has accepted criticism that it is not acting fast or hard enough to reverse the continuing slump in the economy, with ministers braced for further bad news on jobs and investment over the summer.
(9) Effective bracing of the severely spastic wrist and hand may not be possible.
(10) All patients were placed in Minerva braces postoperatively.
(11) Contact between the owner of the Times and the Sun and Ofcom in the run-up to Christmas left insiders at News Corp's Wapping headquarters braced for a referral.
(12) It is concluded that treatment with a patellar brace with a lateral pad is not likely to succeed in the majority of patients with retropatellar pain syndrome.
(13) Costa got his second while David Silva and substitute Álvaro Morata also got braces and Vitolo opened his international account as the former world champions ran riot.
(14) Rattled investors brace for big week as Federal Reserve considers rate increase Read more The Dow Jones industrial average fell 114 points, or 0.7%, to 16,528.
(15) Anti-globalisation activists and international bankers are bracing themselves for a week of street action and possible confrontation planned to coincide with the annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Prague.
(16) Then, in English, a simple statement that has come to define a Japanese summer of public discontent, the likes of which it has not seen in a generation: “This is what democracy looks like!” Amid the trade union and civic group banners were colourful, bilingual placards held aloft by a new generation of activists who have assumed the mantle of mass protest as Japan braces for the biggest shift in its defence posture for 70 years.
(17) This retrospective study of lateral electrical surface stimulation (LESS) treatment for patients with progressive idiopathic scoliosis was performed to document patient compliance in the standard electrical stimulation program and to gain objective data to perform a relative comparison of electrical stimulation and bracing compliance.
(18) The brace has been used for 22 years and found practical and reliable.
(19) Shortening in severe comminution was the main complication and was not controlled by supplementary cast-bracing.
(20) Defensive players who wore prophylactic knee braces had statistically fewer knee injuries than players who served as controls.
Brisk
Definition:
(a.) Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.
(a.) Full of spirit of life; effervesc/ng, as liquors; sparkling; as, brick cider.
(v. t. & i.) To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate; to take, or cause to take, an erect or bold attitude; -- usually with up.
Example Sentences:
(1) Usually the focus driving the cell most briskly was located in one of the contralateral limbs and corresponded to the limb where muscle contraction was elicited by microstimulation with the same electrode.
(2) An increased mortality is recorded after its brisk rise (in particular after potent proton phenomena) and paradoxically also in case of very low density value.
(3) Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis are diseases which are characterized by a brisk acute phase response.
(4) For LH, basal levels were not different among each group, nor was there any difference in response to GnRH at any point in time after injection; however, there was a trend for the azoospermic group to respond more briskly.
(5) There was an improvement in body temperature within six hours of the first dose; this was accompanied by a brisk fall in serum CPK and cholesterol with a rapid rise of plasma T3 into the euthyroid range.
(6) The briskness of the response during tachycardia may also be a marker for underlying carotid sinus hypersensitivity.
(7) The identification of multiple receptor subtypes for 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) made by using radioligand binding techniques proliferated at a brisk rate in the 1980s.
(8) Add the broth to the pot and briskly simmer the mixture over medium to medium-low heat for about 2 hours for all the flavours to come together and mellow.
(9) Water immersion to the neck for 2 h caused a brisk diuresis, natriuresis and raised plasma ANP in 8 healthy subjects, suggesting that ANP is a mediator of diuresis and natriuresis during immersion.
(10) In adult humans the ventilatory response to sustained hypoxia (VRSH) is biphasic, characterized by an initial brisk increase, due to peripheral chemoreceptor (PC) stimulation, followed by a decline attributed to central depressant action of hypoxia.
(11) A brisk increase in plasma prolactin levels occurred in normal subjects during the administration of chlorpromazine and thyroid stimulating hormone releasing factor (TRH).
(12) These data indicate that an exercise intensity achievable by brisk walking (7.4 kph) is sufficient to evoke significant but short-term changes in serum HDL3-C concentrations in women.
(13) A brisk intraocular and systemic IgE antibody response followed the secondary intravitreal injection of either live or heat-killed larvae into animals systemically infected with A. suum.
(14) The effect of eyeball pressure on the heart rate was measured in 65 babies and was found to cause a brisk drop in heart rate in 32 babies.
(15) In the ferret, as in other species, two types of lateral geniculate neurone could be distinguished, and we have termed these X-cells and Y-cells; both groups responded briskly to visual stimulation but X-cells gave sustained and linear responses whereas Y-cells responded transiently and non-linearly.
(16) Of three methods studied, brisk shaking of samples in dilution blanks by hand and homogenization by a stomacher were compared relative to their capacity to recover the endotoxins and viable bacteria; blending with a Waring blender was compared with these two methods only on the recovery of viable cells.
(17) They discharged most briskly before visually guided eye movements, but also discharged before purposive eye movements made in darkness and responded to visual stimuli in the absence of saccades.
(18) But it is all merely worthless and meaningless froth while the city council permits a gateway to hell to do brisk business just a few streets away.
(19) Because it was 95 degrees and sunny, and because we were standing in a shadeless parking lot in the height of the afternoon, vendors selling bottled water were doing a brisk business.
(20) In the case presented, healing was brisk and complete, allowing early elbow mobilization.