(a.) Confident; full of assurance; in a bad sense, morally hardened; shameless.
(a.) Strong; firm; compact.
(a.) Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance; as, a hardy veteran; a hardy mariner.
(a.) Able to withstand the cold of winter.
(n.) A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty drug-free patients (12 women and 8 men) meeting DSM-III criteria for major depressive disorder were given the Kobasa Hardiness Questionnaire, which contains subscales measuring feelings of powerlessness, security, and alientation.
(2) Hardy has a 10in tattoo of Lee along his left shin.
(3) It is suggested that this early immune maturity may play a role in the hardiness of WAD goats and in their relative resistance to helminth and protozoan infection as compared with local sheep.
(4) A heat source contained in a modified Hardy-Wolff-Goodell dolorimeter was used as a stimulus to produce pain on the posterolateral aspects of the left forearms of volunteer subjects.
(5) Hardy headlines as an ex-con named Bob Saginowski who is trying to live out a quiet life away from crime as a bartender.
(6) There weren't many people out on their bikes in Harrogate over the weekend: the weather was too poor even for hardy Yorkshire folk.
(7) Most critical are (a) how hardiness is to be measured; (b) whether hardiness should be treated as a unitary phenomenon or as three separate phenomena associated with commitment, control, and challenge; and (c) whether hardiness has direct effects on health or indirect effects by virtue of buffering the impact of stressful life events.
(8) Gene frequencies were compared with previous data and all European populations studied so fare agreed with the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.
(9) The number of people in the group corresponded to the theoretical number of heterozygotes in accordance with the Hardy-Weinberg equation, suggesting that sucrase deficiency is recessively inherited in a simple Mendelian fashion.
(10) The study findings did not support the buffering effects of hardiness in the presence of greater amounts of stress.
(11) Vegetation is low, widely spaced and hardy, most of it armed with spines.
(12) The favorable morphology and hardiness in organ culture of this preparation have permitted a wide range of electrophysiological, cellular, and molecular studies.
(13) Departures from the Hardy-Weinberg expectations, indicating an excess of heterokaryotypes, were noted and critically analysed by comparing samples obtained simultaneously in the same locality from different cow sheds, from different sections of the same cow shed and from night and day catches in the same cow shed.
(14) The distribution of the Blast-1 genotypes in the present study was concordant with Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (p greater than 0.7), which indicates that the frequency of the Blast-1 gene in the population is derived from random mating in preceding generations.
(15) The observed frequency distribution of individuals with homozygous NOR-positive, heterozygous, and homozygous negative acrocentric chromosomes was in accordance with the Hardy-Weinberg law in all five pairs of the acrocentric chromosomes as well as in total.
(16) Over 42% of the variance in family functioning was accounted for by family hardiness, functional support, family stressors, and parental age.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tom Hardy and George Miller at the press conference.
(18) Theoretical estimates were made of the chronological decrease in the incidence using a formula for Hardy-Weinberg expectation in a partially inbred population and applying appropriate consanguinity rates, taken from the literature, during the period from 1942 to 1983.
(19) An experiment is reported which tests Fazey & Hardy's (1988) catastrophe model of anxiety and performance.
(20) Another thing is that scientists like Sarah Hardy have been able to demonstrate a far greater richness of female flexibility in reproductive strategies.
Indurate
Definition:
(a.) Hardened; not soft; indurated.
(a.) Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
(v. t.) To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.
(v. t.) To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.
(v. i.) To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Phaso-contrast and interference microscopy investigations revealed in the damaged cells an induration of the sarcoplasmic matrix due to an increase in the dry matter concentration.
(2) The indurations from immediate and delayed hypersensitivity reactions were readily distinguishable, but the hyperthermic responses appeared to contain elements of both immediate and delayed hypersensitivity.
(3) This feature of ILC may also help explain why tumors may be palpable as areas of vague induration or thickening rather than as discrete masses.
(4) Since therapy performed by means of the moving head technique had beneficial effect on chronic prostatitis, plastic induration of the penis and the accompanying sexual potency disturbance, the method is recommended for use.
(5) Such a treatment augmented erythematous delayed reactions in animals immunized with BGG in CFA, but abolished induration at the reaction sites.
(6) While most of the clinical features--including diffuse mucosal inflammation, indurative edema, rash, and lymphadenopathy--are self-limiting, coronary artery aneurysms and the possibility of thrombotic occlusion occurs in up to 20% of children.
(7) We describe 2 patients who presented with chronic painful indurated swelling of one lower limb, thought at the time of referral to be due to chronic venous insufficiency.
(8) In the early postoperative period within an observation period from 3 to 19 months the characteristic and rather common complications in patients operated for hydrocele did not occur (hematocele, chylomas, which are mostly of ex vacuo type because of impaired blood supply and lymph system of the scrotum, abscesses, indurations of the scrotal and testicular tissues, relapses of the hydrocele, etc).
(9) Distal areas in systemic sclerosis (scleroderma), such as the dorsal skin of the hand are more frequently involved and more indurated than proximal areas.
(10) Clinical signs included lesions, indurations, and enlargement of lymph nodes.
(11) The precise basis of induration has not been established, although activation of the clotting system with consequent fibrin deposition has been clearly implicated.
(12) When IL-1 was injected intradermally into the backs of rabbits, the injection sites became indurated, erythematous, and warm to the touch after 4 hrs and annular lesions much like those of erythema chronicum migrans were seen in some animals after 24 hrs.
(13) In contrast to epicutaneous spongiotic contact dermatitis, HLA-DR was only seen on skin appendages and nearby basal keratinocytes in indurated tissue reactions with the exception of the reactions with focal basal cell layer disruption and an indurated patch test performed one week post angry back syndrome.
(14) A 52-year-old woman who had undergone an intrapleural sponge plombage operation because of tuberculosis, and had since shown an uneventful medical history for 35 years, was referred with a complaint of back skin induration over the previous surgical scar.
(15) The prevalence of tuberculous infection in a population is generally estimated from calculating the proportion of tested individuals who react with at least 10 mm of induration to 5 TU of PPD-S tuberculin.
(16) After 16 months, one of the two infected ewes suffered from indurative lymphocytic mastitis.
(17) In the guinea pigs an intradermal dose of PHA-P produced erythema and induration with a maximal response at 24 hours after the injection.
(18) Anergy, defined as no induration to any of four intradermal antigens, was present in 12%.
(19) Either the palpation method or the ball-point pen technique may be used to measure induration that results from TB skin testing.
(20) Similar, but less severe changes were seen at the site of skin tests on BCG-vaccinated subjects who were 'negative' by conventional criteria of measurement of dermal induration and they became greatly exaggerated after successful re-vaccination.