(a.) Eagerly pressing or urgent; zealous; ardent; earnest; bold; valiant; intrepid; as, a strenuous advocate for national rights; a strenuous reformer; a strenuous defender of his country.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results indicate that prolonged strenuous physical exercise can induce acute modifications of plasma lipoproteins, which may in part be related to enhanced lipolysis.
(2) We conclude that this low protein diet is compatible with non-strenuous work.
(3) Screening tests of any kind are currently the centre of controversy as measures are being strenuously taken to contain health costs.
(4) Respiratory frequencies recorded during the most strenuous exercise were approximately 50% below the value observed when dik-diks are exposed to an ambient temperature (Ta) of 42 degrees C. 4.
(5) To determine the etiologic role of strenuous manual tasks in relation to epicondylitis, three clinical cross-sectional examinations were performed on meatcutters (N = 102), sausage makers (N = 125), packers (N = 150), and workers in nonstrenuous tasks (N = 332).
(6) However, the strenuous working conditions, which concern about 20% of pregnant women at work, lead to a higher prematurity rate.
(7) On Thursday he told the Guardian: “There is no more strenuous denial than the one I am giving.
(8) We have opposed this every step of the way and will continue to strenuously oppose this," Bailey said.
(9) Do one-day or shorter sections of the route between Les Houches and Argentière, or tackle the Tour du Mont Blanc, a strenuous 250km trail that takes in the most naturally dramatic slices of Switzerland, France and Italy.
(10) It is concluded that the inotropic effect of ouabain is negligible during strenuous physical activity because of the presence of high levels of sympathetic stimulation.
(11) Resting muscle is generally perceived as a glucose-utilizing organ; however, we show that resting well-oxygenated frog muscle recovering from strenuous exercise can release significant amounts of glucose.
(12) But all those involved strenuously denied they had deliberately, or even consciously, interfered or tampered with their tags.
(13) It has been shown that the increased activity of human and murine macrophages brought about by extreme strenuous physical exercising, insofar as one is able to order them into a progressive scheme of stress happenings, fit very well into the concepts of the 'alarm reaction' phase.
(14) The ability of diabetic rats to perform prolonged, moderately strenuous exercise of an intensity that could be maintained for more than 60 min was not affected by methylpalmoxirate treatment.
(15) Clinical and radiographic OA of fingers and knees did not correlate with previous strenuous occupations.
(16) Strenuous exercise may cause menstrual abnormalities, including amenorrhea.
(17) The backroom staff are aware of the strenuous work the 22-man party – Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain remains in rehabilitation from a medial knee ligament injury – have undertaken in the heat and humidity of Miami and now their base in Urca, Rio de Janeiro, and decided on Tuesday night that their first session in the north would be light despite an outdoor training pitch having been made available by Fifa.
(18) Cardiac glycogen during and following a single bout of moderate running was compared to a bout of strenuous running in fed male Long-Evans rats.
(19) Previous sedentary workers were more disabled in activities of daily living than those whose work had previously been physically strenuous.
(20) As these are likely to include the older athletes who are also more likely to suffer acute myocardial injury during strenuous exercise, our findings assume special import in the interpretation of increased CK and CK-MB serum activities of older athletes.
Toilsome
Definition:
(a.) Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious; wearisome; as, toilsome work.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among these procedures, especially the so-called multimethods using high-performance liquid chromatography--though sometimes including toilsome clean-up steps--can be mentioned.