(n.) The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in general; practice.
(n.) Exertion for the sake of training or improvement whether physical, intellectual, or moral; practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc.
(n.) Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise on horseback.
(n.) The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty.
(n.) That which is done for the sake of exercising, practicing, training, or promoting skill, health, mental, improvement, moral discipline, etc.; that which is assigned or prescribed for such ends; hence, a disquisition; a lesson; a task; as, military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition.
(n.) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
(v. t.) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to; to put in action habitually or constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to busy.
(v. t.) To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop; hence, also, to improve by practice; to discipline, and to use or to for the purpose of training; as, to exercise arms; to exercise one's self in music; to exercise troops.
(v. t.) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious; to affect; to discipline; as, exercised with pain.
(v. t.) To put in practice; to carry out in action; to perform the duties of; to use; to employ; to practice; as, to exercise authority; to exercise an office.
(v. i.) To exercise one's self, as under military training; to drill; to take exercise; to use action or exertion; to practice gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or amusement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
(2) Immediate postexercise two-dimensional echocardiography demonstrated exercise-induced changes in 8 (47%) patients (2 with normal and 6 with abnormal results from rest studies).
(3) Taken together these results are consistent with the view that primary CTL, as well as long term cloned CTL cell lines, exercise their cytolytic activity by means of perforin.
(4) The active agents modestly improved treadmill exercise duration time until 1 mm ST segment depression (3%), and only propranolol and diltiazem had significant effects.
(5) The results suggest that RPE cannot be used reliably as a surrogate for direct pulse measurement in exercise training of persons with acute dysvascular amputations.
(6) Brief treadmill exercise tests showed appropriate rate response to increased walking speed and gradient.
(7) We conclude that increased duration of exercise can lead to reduced PDH complex activity in rat muscles.
(8) Plasma renin activity (PRA) and aldosterone concentration were measured before and during submaximal exercise in 10 male monozygotic twin pairs who were discordant for smoking.
(9) In a comparative study 11 athletes and 11 untrained students were investigated at rest, of these 6 trained and 5 untrained individuals during exercise as well.
(10) The sensitivity of SPECT for detection of overall coronary stenosis was 79%, contrary that of treadmill exercise test was only 33% (p < 0.001).
(11) Before training, SV at VO2max was 9% lower than during exercise at 50% VO2max (P less than 0.05).
(12) These data suggest that submaximal exercise and cold air exposure enhance nonspecific bronchial reactivity in asthmatic but not in normal subjects.
(13) Participants were selected from existing classes forming a weight training, aerobic exercise and activity control group.
(14) This condition may be caused by the prolonged, repetitive elevations of gonadal steroids and other hormones known to suppress gonadotropin-releasing hormone secretion that are elicited by their daily exercise.
(15) There was no significant correlation between mitochondrial volume and number of SO fibers following endurance exercise training.
(16) The sensitivity and specificity of three methods of provocation, ie, histamine, nebulized water, and exercise, were compared in 20 asthmatic and 20 control children between ages 5 and 13 years.
(17) No significant differences were observed in tension characteristics between the exercised and nonexercised muscles on day 11.
(18) An "overshoot" elevation of ejection fraction above resting levels was demonstrated following termination of exercise in most patients.
(19) In a steady-state exercise test this difference developed gradually during the first 10 min of exercise.
(20) Further work is required to determine whether such a risk exists but caution should be exercised by those exposed to aerosols generated during procedures on HIV-1 infected patients.
Ora
Definition:
(n.) A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling.
(pl. ) of Os
Example Sentences:
(1) The necrotic retinal neurons are substituted by mitotic processes in the outer nuclear layer and the marginal growth zone at the ora serrata.
(2) Daily injection of OrA-2, 1 h prior to hMG into 10-day-old female rats for 4 days caused a significant inhibition of hMG-induced estradiol secretion.
(3) This study reports 14 patients who presented proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) at stages III to IV, as well as ora dialysis or large retinal breaks of such extent that it was evident that implanted silicone oil would penetrate behind the retina.
(4) Ora; ciprofloxacin was studied as a prophylactic antimicrobial agent in high- and low-risk patients undergoing endoscopic retrograde cholangiography.
(5) He said Ora last week scrapped a reality series it was working on with Trump’s companies last week.
(6) Such sera positive for Chikungunya HI antibodies were further screened against other circulating alphaviruses of which 17 or 25% were positive to Igbo-Ora virus, 6 or 38.1% to Semliki forest virus and 36 or 52.6% were positive to Sindbis virus.
(7) Only a few nuclei near the ora serrata were labeled in retinas from kittens injected at three weeks after birth, and no labeled neurons were found in kittens injected at four weeks.
(8) A geometrical method of calculating retinal magnification factor at the limits of the retinal field, adjacent to the ora terminalis, is described.
(9) This method also yields good results in determining the total saponins in P. ginseng ora solution.
(10) As the eye grows the mitotic zone occupies a progressively smaller and more distal proportion of the increasing radius; by P5 only the region near the ora serrata is highly active, with some additional mitotic cells trailing into a broad central zone.
(11) Therefore, we concluded that when cryotherapy is used to treat lattice degeneration, an adequate margin of surrounding retina should be treated and the treatment should extend to the ora serrata.
(12) Hyalinoid thickening was found in the ora serrata, which does not reflect the changes of the intracerebral arteries.
(13) This utilitarian feature allows the surgeon to eliminate residual anteroposterior traction following complete membrane peeling by extending relaxing retinotomies and tacking the posterior cut edge of the retina securely between the ora serrata and the equator.
(14) Women are dead (McAdams), betrayed (Laurence) or embittered (Rita Ora, on hand as a “tough junkie with a kid to protect”, according to Harvey Weinstein).
(15) The feasibility of autologous transplantation of retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells from just posterior to the ora serrata to the posterior pole was demonstrated in the rabbit model.
(16) Rita Ora: I Will Never Let You Down Another general-use tune, and one whose reassuring words will haunt any politician just as effectively as they haunt Rita Ora in the wake of her romantic split from the song’s writer, Calvin Harris.
(17) I won’t try to replicate this; I have to write records that I’d play in my sets rather than something that I think will do well.” So he’s not about to start producing for Rita Ora?
(18) Using an anti-human S-100 protein antibody, the Müller cells of the retina of the monkey Macacus irus were immunostained in the neural retina and in the ora serrata.
(19) Few labeled cells were detectable in the INL at day 9; these were found close to the ora serrata.
(20) Study 1: the patients were examined pre and post-treatment (with ora oxamniquine) and the following exams were performed: sputum for eosinophils and chest x-ray.