(n.) Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.
(n.) The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war.
(n.) The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains.
(n.) To weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire.
Example Sentences:
(1) The femoral component, made of Tivanium with titanium mesh attached to it by a new process called diffusion bonding, retains superalloy fatigue strength characteristics.
(2) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
(3) Results were inconsistent with both the feature detector fatigue and response bias hypothesis.
(4) A positive association was observed between the prevalence of fatigue, mild abdominal pain, and arthralgia and the blood lead (PbB), urinary lead (PbU), and zinc protoporphyrin (ZPP) levels.
(5) Hyperprolactinemia, hypogonadotropinism, and subnormal plasma testosterone were found in a 65-year-old patient who had an enlarged sella turcica, complained of fatigue, and addmitted to decreased sexual interest and potency.
(6) The average IEMG of the muscles in the relaxation phase of contraction remained unaltered by fatigue, while a marked deleterious change in the relaxation-time variables (p less than 0.001) occurred concomitantly.
(7) A 1-min test of repeated maximal contractions was administered to examine muscular fatiguability before and after training.
(8) In addition to the fatigue tester and the pulse duplicator, a signal conditioner, a DC amplifier, an analog-to-digital converter, and a digital microcomputer comprised the essential hardware.
(9) Fatigue developed significantly faster with contractions of short duration, and the energy cost was higher.
(10) For cancer patients, fatigue is a disturbing symptom caused by many factors.
(11) Study of the clinical characteristics of depressive state by hemisphere stroke with the use of symptom items of Zung scale and Hamilton scale showed that patients in depressive state with right hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items considered close to the essence of endogenous depression such as depressed mood, suicide, diurnal variation, loss of weight, and paranoid symptoms, while patients in depressive state with left hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items having a nuance of so-called neurotic depression such as psychic anxiety, hypochondriasis, and fatigue.
(12) Disturbances in muscle electrolytes play an important role in the development of muscular fatigue.
(13) The ratio of appearance on the fatigue by mastication was as follows: Type I (0%), Type II (50.0%), Type III (40.0-100%) and Type IV (75.0%).
(14) A 43-year-old lady was hospitalized due to easy fatiguability in the legs during exercise, and for evaluation of an abnormal shadow in the chest X-ray, and hypertension.
(15) Sleep disturbance among women and fatigue among males were also significantly associated with experiencing an onset of major depression.
(16) The action of sodium oxybutyrate, phenamine transamine and L-DOPA on the processes of re-establishing the mental and physical performance capacity after fatigue was studied in experiments with rats.
(17) The task used in the study was a stabilometer balance task, and fatigue was induced by walking on a treadmill.
(18) Repeated flashes above a few per second do not so much cause fatigue of the VEPs as reduce or prevent them by a sustained inhibition; large late waves are released as a rebound excitation any time the train of flashes stops or is delayed or sufficiently weakened.
(19) There is much conflicting immunological and viral data about the causes of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS); some findings support the notion that CFS may be due to one or more immune disorders that have resulted from exposure to an infectious agent.
(20) Increases from baseline rest for both exercise rates were observed in: oxygen uptake, carbon dioxide production, inspiratory flow, minute ventilation, respiratory rate, dyspnea, respiratory effort, and arm fatigue.
Lethargy
Definition:
(n.) Morbid drowsiness; continued or profound sleep, from which a person can scarcely be awaked.
(n.) A state of inaction or indifference.
(v. t.) To lethargize.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lethargy and somnolence were reported on both capsule and tablet by several subjects at a time which corresponded with the maximum concentration of drug in plasma.
(2) Eight infants 6 months of age or younger had a prodromal viral illness followed by the rapid onset of lethargy, seizures, and coma, resulting in the diagnosis of Reye's syndrome.
(3) Fatigue, lethargy, and decline in performance status were marked in four of the patients.
(4) Suberylglycine (HOOC(CH2)6CONHCH2COOH) was found in the urine from a patient with C6-C10-omega-dicarboxylic aciduria and unexplained episodes of lethargy and unconsciousness.
(5) The most common clinical signs of B gibsoni infection were lethargy, anorexia, anemia, and thrombocytopenia.
(6) Mannitol intoxication is ordinarily characterized by confusion, lethargy, stupor, and if severe enough, coma.
(7) Exploratory abdominal surgery in a budgerigar with a history of lethargy, feather fluffing, and melena revealed a neoplastic mass associated with the jejunal muscularis.
(8) In later stages coughing, anorexia and lethargy occurred.
(9) There were also two episodes of lethargy, disorientation, and headache which cleared promptly with Mannitol.
(10) Lethargy, irritability, anorexia, fever, abdominal tenderness, and passage of blood in the stools were common clinical manifestations.
(11) Disseminated aspergillosis attributable to Aspergillus deflectus was diagnosed in a Springer Spaniel with lethargy, lameness, anorexia, weight loss, pyrexia, lymphadenopathy, hematuria, and urinary incontinence.
(12) This reports a case of a 2-year-old girl who ingested 90-92, 0.25 mg tablets of digoxin and within four hours, developed vomiting, lethargy, tachycardia and AV block (Mobitz type I and II).
(13) The results indicate that lethargy is an important symptom in patients with intussusception when occurring in association with vomiting, melena, or a palpable abdominal mass, or all three.
(14) Babies with diarrhea on Formula 3 showed symptoms between the 3rd and 5th days, and in each case lethargy, weight loss, dehydration, and in some, fever, were followed by diarrhea.
(15) Although trazodone therapy has been associated with lethargy, dizziness, drowsiness, and confusion in some patients, symptoms have been mild and can be further minimized by administering the drug either after meals or once daily at bedtime.
(16) The response to challenge with soy protein included diarrhea, vomiting, hypotension, lethargy, and fever.
(17) To simplify the analysis, she focuses only on the region south of the Sahara--excluding South Africa--in her overview of the slow progress and vast education needs of nurses caught in the web of their countries' socioeconomic and political chaos ... and lethargy.
(18) The clinical and physical signs appearing after intoxication include among other lethargy, decreased locomotor activity, piloerection, weight loss and perorbital bleeding.
(19) A 62-year-old woman with adequate renal function who consumed large quantities of magnesium citrate presented with lethargy and hypotension.