(a.) Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong.
Example Sentences:
(1) The case of an 8.5-year-old girl is reported, in which an oral infection and a clinically observed motility resulted in a communication with the submandibular space; a significant hard, brawny edema of her right submandibular area resulted.
(2) A preserved normal choroidal vascular pattern over an elevated subretinal mass may be indicative of posterior brawny scleritis.
(3) In contrast to what happens after DEC, it was not accompanied by any marked wave of microfilaraemia or microfilaruria, nor by the appearance of a papular rash, although brawny oedema of the skin sometimes developed.
(4) We therefore emphasized clinical symptoms and signs of brawny scleritis: inflammation, tenderness or pain of the globe, history of collagen vascular disease, proptosis, bilaterality, and retinal and choroidal detachment.
(5) Those clever flicks that manage to look brawny and balletic all at once.
(6) Five cases are presented of hard, brawny, edema of the dorsum of the hand.
(7) Once brawny edema and hyperpigmentation occur, ulceration develops without additional deterioration of venous hemodynamics.
(8) A chronic brawny edema developed in the shoulder and arm ipsilateral to the site of a previous mastectomy in a 68-year-old woman.
(9) Television host and opposition activist Ksenia Sobchak compared him to Batman for his reputation of fighting evildoers and called him a "strong Russian guy" in reference to his brawny physique and homespun charm.
(10) He could drift effortlessly between Mad Man and Brawny Man; he lived his entire life on the same Central Valley farm our family has owned since the Gold Rush of 1848.
(11) The physical examination is often nondiagnostic, but may include brawny edema of the neck and chest.
(12) This experience and other previous reports indicate the high incidence of diagnostic confusion regarding brawny scleritis.
(13) A 1-year-old immunodeficient boy developed brawny edema of the left foot.
(14) Characteristic symptoms are a brawny swelling of the lids, marked chemosis, coffee-coloured discharge, hypopyon, ring abscess of the cornea, formation of gas bubbles in the anterior chamber, rise of intraocular tension and early amaurosis.
(15) However, once extremities develop brawny edema or hyperpigmentation, further deterioration of limb hemodynamics does not occur.
(16) We studied four patients with posterior brawny scleritis.
(17) Brawny oedema of the right upper quadrant of the body developed rapidly after the duct ligation and right pleurectomy.
(18) The word he eventually settles on is "moody", but I'd offer "melancholy", not an emotion that the Black Keys' rootsy, brawny grooves previously gave much credence to.
(19) Life-long episodic brawny and non-itchy swelling of the extremities, face and trunk, with episodic abdominal pain and familial occurrence are the typical features.
(20) However, cutaneous reactions were relatively less frequent while brawny oedema of the limbs and inguinal gland pain were important.
Strong
Definition:
(superl.) Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.
(superl.) Having passive physical power; having ability to bear or endure; firm; hale; sound; robust; as, a strong constitution; strong health.
(superl.) Solid; tough; not easily broken or injured; able to withstand violence; able to sustain attacks; not easily subdued or taken; as, a strong beam; a strong rock; a strong fortress or town.
(superl.) Having great military or naval force; powerful; as, a strong army or fleet; a nation strong at sea.
(superl.) Having great wealth, means, or resources; as, a strong house, or company of merchants.
(superl.) Reaching a certain degree or limit in respect to strength or numbers; as, an army ten thousand strong.
(superl.) Moving with rapidity or force; violent; forcible; impetuous; as, a strong current of water or wind; the wind was strong from the northeast; a strong tide.
(superl.) Adapted to make a deep or effectual impression on the mind or imagination; striking or superior of the kind; powerful; forcible; cogent; as, a strong argument; strong reasons; strong evidence; a strong example; strong language.
(superl.) Ardent; eager; zealous; earnestly engaged; as, a strong partisan; a strong Whig or Tory.
(superl.) Having virtues of great efficacy; or, having a particular quality in a great degree; as, a strong powder or tincture; a strong decoction; strong tea or coffee.
(superl.) Full of spirit; containing a large proportion of alcohol; intoxicating; as, strong liquors.
(superl.) Affecting any sense powerfully; as, strong light, colors, etc.; a strong flavor of onions; a strong scent.
(superl.) Solid; nourishing; as, strong meat.
(superl.) Well established; firm; not easily overthrown or altered; as, a strong custom; a strong belief.
(superl.) Violent; vehement; earnest; ardent.
(superl.) Having great force, vigor, power, or the like, as the mind, intellect, or any faculty; as, a man of a strong mind, memory, judgment, or imagination.
(superl.) Tending to higher prices; rising; as, a strong market.
(superl.) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) by a variation in the root vowel, and the past participle (usually) by the addition of -en (with or without a change of the root vowel); as in the verbs strive, strove, striven; break, broke, broken; drink, drank, drunk. Opposed to weak, or regular. See Weak.
(superl.) Applied to forms in Anglo-Saxon, etc., which retain the old declensional endings. In the Teutonic languages the vowel stems have held the original endings most firmly, and are called strong; the stems in -n are called weak other constant stems conform, or are irregular.
Example Sentences:
(1) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(2) Perinatal mortality is strongly associated with obstetrical factors, respiratory distress syndrome, and prematurity.
(3) We conclude that the SHBG concentration strongly affects this estimation.
(4) When the data correlating DHT with protein synthesis using both labelling techniques were combined, the curves were parallel and a strong correlation was noted between DHT and protein synthesis over a wide range of values (P less than 0.001).
(5) A strong block to the elongation of nascent RNA transcripts by RNA polymerase II occurs in the 5' part of the mammalian c-fos proto-oncogene.
(6) Importantly, these characteristics were strong predictors of subsequent mortality.
(7) These clones, designated as TcHMC-2, showed strong cytotoxicity against both HMC-2 and K562 cells.
(8) Results demonstrate that the development of biliary strictures is strongly associated with the duration of cold ischemic storage of allografts in both Euro-Collins solution and University of Wisconsin solution.
(9) "There is … a risk that the political, trade, and gas frictions with Russia could lead to strong deterioration in economic relations between the two countries, with a significant drop in Ukraine's exports to and imports from Russia.
(10) Univariate and multivariate analyses indicated previous LBP or back pain in another location of the spine were strongly associated with LBP during the study year.
(11) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
(12) Although the productions of deoxycortisol and androstenedione from 17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone were strongly inhibited by progesterone, androstenedione formation from progesterone was not inhibited by a high concentration of progesterone.
(13) Simple cells that are nearly equally dominated by each eye always exhibit strong phase-specific interaction.
(14) The activity is strongly inhibited by SH-blocking reagents (e.g.
(15) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
(16) In 0.17 M Na+(aq), tRNA(Phe) exists in its native conformation and the number of strong binding sites (Ka greater than or equal to 10(4)) was estimated to be 3-4 by titration experiments, in agreement with X-ray structural data for crystalline tRNA(Phe) (Jack et al., 1977).
(17) The remaining 33 sera (13.3 per cent) were classified as low, moderate or strong positives.
(18) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
(19) The accumulated evidence would strongly favor an affirmative answer.
(20) Incubation of membrane with DL-Hcys alone (5 X 10(-5) M), the combination of both Ad (5 X 10(-5)) and DL-Hcys (5 X 10(-5)), or S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine (SAH) (1 X 10(-6)) strongly decreased the methyl ester formation.