What's the difference between strenuous and vigorous?

Strenuous


Definition:

  • (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.

Vigorous


Definition:

  • (a.) Possessing vigor; full of physical or mental strength or active force; strong; lusty; robust; as, a vigorous youth; a vigorous plant.
  • (a.) Exhibiting strength, either of body or mind; powerful; strong; forcible; energetic; as, vigorous exertions; a vigorous prosecution of a war.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A case of dissecting hematoma involving the left main, left anterior descending, and left circumflex coronary arteries is described in a patient who had received vigorous closed-chest cardiac resuscitation.
  • (2) A history of vigorous sports in the past was not protective.
  • (3) No cases of rheumatic fever and no acute nephritis appeared in spite of the vigorous immune response to both cellular and extracellular antigens of group A streptococci documented in 50% to 80% of patients, suggesting that strain variation may be a feature of rheumatogenicity as well as nephritogenicity of group A streptococcal pharyngitis.
  • (4) In support of this contention, 5R-4F3 grew very poorly under conditions that supported the vigorous growth of E beta bE alpha k-restricted T-cell clones from the same mouse.
  • (5) The low incidence of pneumonia regardless of the type of therapy may be attributable to vigorous, vigilant respiratory care in a population at high risk for developing pneumonia.
  • (6) The apparent Km for K+-ATP was 2.1 mM when the incubation mixture was vigorously stirred, and the effect of stirring indicated that the kinetics of K+-ATP hydrolysis are limited by external diffusion.
  • (7) They had mounted a vigorous lobbying campaign, both in public and behind the scenes, since the legislation first came to light this month .
  • (8) Abe Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, a vigorous defender of Israel, called the speech “ill-advised”.
  • (9) A vigorous progressive physical and occupational therapy program producing tangible results does more for the patient's morale than any verbal encouragement could possibly do.
  • (10) In anesthetized cats, direct neural recording of vagal activity to the heart confirmed that vigorous reflex vagal activation during acute myocardial ischemia is associated with protection from ventricular fibrillation.
  • (11) The control, uninfected rats make vigorous primary and secondary antibody responses when challenged with keyhole limpet haemocyanin (KLH), human immunoglobulin (HuIg) or sheep red blood cells (SRBC).
  • (12) Policies recommending quarantine, isolation, mandatory testing of certain populations, and vigorous public education are explored.
  • (13) Preliminary clinical studies demonstrate that the progression of diabetic renal disease can be slowed by vigorous antihypertensive therapy.
  • (14) Parasite antigen responses appeared 2 weeks after challenge of C3H mice and remained vigorous for periods up to 6 months.
  • (15) However, Bryo induced only a marginal proliferative response as compared with the vigorous response induced by PMA.
  • (16) SF T cells were able to mount vigorous proliferative responses to recall antigen presented by autologous antigen-presenting cells.
  • (17) Results show that schistosome eggs are autonomous inducers of vigorous Th2-like effector responses.
  • (18) ANG II given as early as 10 days after surgery, and they drank reliably and vigorously but less in total volume to 100 ng i.c.v.
  • (19) However, because the potential exists for recurrence of the cardiac tumor, for enlargement of the cerebral lesions, or for late development of cerebral lesions, long term follow-up is mandatory and a vigorous work-up must be pursued if the patient again becomes symptomatic or develops central nervous system manifestations for the first time.
  • (20) Platelet concentrates collected by continuous flow automated apheresis (Fenwal CS-3000) were compared with those collected by manual apheresis to determine whether the prolonged centrifugation and vigorous resuspension affected platelet viability and in vitro function.