What's the difference between enervous and nervous?

Enervous


Definition:

  • (a.) Lacking nerve or force; enervated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In light of the appearance of cyclic enervative episodes, this study suggests limitations to primate models of panic disorder utilizing oral yohimbine.
  • (2) On the one hand, they are enervated, depleted, losing energy, as shops and restaurants find that their businesses can’t be sustained by the occasional populations of these neighbourhoods.
  • (3) There are signs that we will soon be exhausted by the Anthropocene: glutted by its ubiquity as a cultural shorthand, fatigued by its imprecisions, and enervated by its variant names – the “Anthrobscene”, the “Misanthropocene”, the “Lichenocene” (actually, that last one is mine).
  • (4) In deprivation-reared subjects, low-dose yohimbine produced reductions in tension and enervation, and increases in "normal" behaviors.
  • (5) That it developed later than other Southern medical schools has been attributed to multiple factors, among them rural isolation, restricted communication, limited transportation, sparse population, cultural deprivation, and climatologic enervation.
  • (6) But he missed the chance to be there at the beginning for artist-director Katsuhiro Otomo 's earlier masterpiece – 25 this year – when its enervating hyper-realism left retina burn in the eyes of action fans and film-makers worldwide.
  • (7) Enervation of the vas deferens and epididymis may be blocked and cause a smaller emission.
  • (8) David Cameron – whose natural comfort zone still remains talking breezily about the good times and giveaways around the corner – didn't come into politics to preside over an enervating decade of economic pessimism any more than Ed Miliband did to shrink the state.
  • (9) Conventional approaches using pooled subject data to increase the degree of freedom for statistical inference are enervated by the resultant introduction of intersubject variability.
  • (10) In 15 patients with acquired polyneuropathy (Guillain-Barré syndrome and chronic recurrent polyneuropathy) the conduction velocity was measured in the peripheral nerves of the upper and lower extremities, the latency of the F wave was determined, and the somatosensory evoked potentials were assessed stimulating the median enerve and posterior tibial nerve.
  • (11) Response to oral yohimbine differed in several ways from subcutaneous and intravenous sodium lactate infusions, including prominent enervative symptoms and the appearance of sexual arousal.
  • (12) The majority of patients showed only minor impairment or normal results in the lower segment, which would point to a double or single enervation from the branches of the cervical plexus.
  • (13) Plannui The sheer enervation felt when surveying the rows of series-linked shows on your DVR planner that you will never have time to watch.
  • (14) Somuncu is among those who believe the book itself will not take off in terms of sales, describing it as “enervating and boring”, but he is convinced that the fascination for it would be far more muted now, had German authorities – more specifically the Bavarian government, which has held the rights to it – been more open about it.
  • (15) At university, Obaro was part of a grime collective, but on The Sound of Strangers EP Ghostpoet has come up with a different sort of music with a different kind of enervated energy.
  • (16) In the normal subjects, yohimbine, at both doses, produced increased tension and enervation and decreased species-typical "normal" behaviors.
  • (17) Obama’s victories over the last six years aside, this is a familiar spectacle for left-leaning Americans, enough so that the breast-beating is almost as enervating as all of those defeats.
  • (18) "I can't be held responsible for all that has happened since," she says when I bring this up, her eyes flashing and her enervated east-coast drawl undercut with just a hint of anger.
  • (19) Yohimbine significantly increased episodes of motoric activation and affective response interspersed with intervals of behavioral enervation.
  • (20) In addition, three more delimited forms of distress -- feelings of enervation, dysphoria, and sleep disturbances -- show higher levels among the older cohort.

Nervous


Definition:

  • (a.) possessing nerve; sinewy; strong; vigorous.
  • (a.) Possessing or manifesting vigor of mind; characterized by strength in sentiment or style; forcible; spirited; as, a nervous writer.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; as, nervous excitement; a nervous fever.
  • (a.) Having the nerves weak, diseased, or easily excited; subject to, or suffering from, undue excitement of the nerves; easily agitated or annoyed.
  • (a.) Sensitive; excitable; timid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
  • (2) The telencephalic proliferative response has been studied in adult newts after lesion on the central nervous system.
  • (3) In dogs, cibenzoline given i.v., had no effects on the slow response systems, probably because of sympathetic nervous system intervention since the class 4 effects of cibenzoline appeared after beta-adrenoceptor blockade.
  • (4) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
  • (5) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
  • (6) Postpartum management is directed toward decreasing vasospasm and central nervous system irritability and maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance.
  • (7) An experimental autoimmune model of nerve growth factor (NGF) deprivation has been used to assess the role of NGF in the development of various cell types in the nervous system.
  • (8) The most common reasons cited for relapse included craving, social situations, stress, and nervousness.
  • (9) Neurotensin (NT) is an endogenous brain tridecapeptide for which high affinity binding sites exist in the central nervous system.
  • (10) Substance P, a potent vasodilating peptide, seems to be released from trigeminal nerve endings in response to nervous stimulation and is involved in the transmission of painful stimuli within the periphery.
  • (11) Label was found widely distributed among all the organs except the nervous system and its rate of disappearance from the tissues paralleled its disappearance from the circulation.
  • (12) These results suggest that aluminum is able to gain access to the central nervous system under normal physiological conditions.
  • (13) The effects of five beta blockers on the central nervous system of healthy subjects was studied by computerized EEG analysis.
  • (14) In order to localize probable central nervous system sites for these actions, we have used 125I-labelled 1-d(CH2)5, 7-sarcosine-8-arginine vasopressin, a specific V1-receptor antagonist, and in vitro autoradiography to map brain vasopressin binding sites.
  • (15) The increased sympathetic nervous activity during exercise appears to be a toxic rather than a compensatory effect of alcohol.
  • (16) It is suggested that contractile responses to electrical stimulation in isolated sheep urethral smooth muscle are mediated by the sympathetic nervous system, mainly through release of noradrenaline stimulating postjunctional alpha 1-adrenoceptors.
  • (17) The response to LBNP in the pentobarbitone-anaesthetized rat appeared not to be influenced by the autonomic nervous system.
  • (18) When we trained on it, my heart sunk,” Coleman said after his side began their Euro 2016 campaign with a nervous victory.
  • (19) The poststenotic ischemia induced by sympathoexcitatory reflexes can also be prevented by blocking the sympathoexcitation at the central nervous level by clonidine.
  • (20) These results suggest that, to fully understand how multijoint movement sequences are controlled by the nervous system, sensory mechanisms must be considered in addition to central mechanisms.

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