(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.
Vivacious
Definition:
(a.) Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life; long-lived.
(a.) Sprightly in temper or conduct; lively; merry; as, a vivacious poet.
(a.) Living through the winter, or from year to year; perennial.
Example Sentences:
(1) In court on Wednesday, Masipa described Steenkamp as “young, vivacious, full of life and hopes for the future”.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jo Cox: ‘We’ve lost a great star’ – video obituary “Jo Cox was the most vivacious, personable, dynamic and committed friend you could ever have,” he said.
(3) In the 2nd week, however, a vivacious bone remodelling with wide Haversian canals and vessels starts from the medial cortex as could be seen identically in every series of our experiments.
(4) Reviewing, the Guardian’s Andrew Clements admired the work’s vivid and vivacious writing.
(5) Most foreigners were struck by the affluence, vivacious commerce and great manufacturing capacity of the Georgians.
(6) Judy was under five feet tall, a sprightly figure, vivacious and pretty rather than beautiful, her pale skin accentuated by the bright red of her lips in the old three-strip Technicolor.
(7) Fibroblasts which vivaciously produced collagenous material invaded the xenografts and built up solid strands of connective tissue which tightly contacted surviving tumor cells.
(8) Her mother, Sally, described the four-week trial as an "awful experience" in which her "happy vivacious, fun-loving girl" had been defamed.
(9) The second group of dogs never became normoglycemic but remained vivacious; insulin level in their splenic vein increased moderately only after glucose injection.
(10) "When you hit it right on guitars in pop, it can be vivacious and exuberant and shiny.
(11) Produced by Sikandar Khan, Anjunaa Beach, which portrays Keeling as a vivacious teenager who rode elephants, hung out at beach shacks and occasionally took drugs, is already the subject of controversy.
(12) She described Steenkamp as “young, vivacious, full of life and hopes for the future”.
(13) The EMG findings were characterized by vivacious spontaneous activity and the high rate of different EMG pattern in one patient.
(14) "Her books are very popular and she's so vivacious," Donaldson said.
(15) Priya was the vivacious one, a bright five- year-old who loved music and wanted to be a teacher.
(16) Be playful and vivacious, but lose the teenage fantasy that you don't depend on anyone and they don't depend on you."
(17) Friends described her as vivacious, upbeat and larger than life.
(18) The bunny "has a sexual meaning", he said, "because it's a fresh animal, shy, vivacious, jumping – sexy.
(19) Gone are the dark days when Catwoman and the Shadow prowled the murky recesses of the Blockbuster Video bargain bucket: instead, comic book fans have been treated to a series of vivacious and well-planned Marvel Studios films culminating in last year's $1.5bn The Avengers .
(20) They waited nine years for justice for their "happy and vivacious" daughter Milly.