(a.) Shaking; shivering; quivering; as, a tremulous limb; a tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of the poplar.
(a.) Affected with fear or timidity; trembling.
Example Sentences:
(1) The increased tremulousness of addicted infants remained through at least the first month of life.
(2) Greater motor unit synchronization with increasing tremor amplitude in EPT may be secondary to a simultaneous increase in muscle spindle afferent activity from the tremulous muscle.
(3) 7. the entity of opsoclonus, body tremulousness, and benign encephalitis has to be differentiated from other syndromes including the sign opsoclonus by recording the EEG and EOG during the course of the disease; this might lead to very useful diagnostic and prognostic information.
(4) Compared to infants of non-ill mothers and infants of ill nonmedicated mothers, infants whose mothers received antipsychotic drugs--particularly those in the phenothiazine family--showed a stable pattern of poor neonatal motor functioning that included tremulousness, hypertonicity, and poor motor maturity.
(5) Patients with cerebellar disease may exhibit tremulous phonation as part of their dysarthria.
(6) Severe withdrawal symptoms such as tremulousness, irritability, increased psychomotor activity, generalized muscle cramps, photophobia, retro-orbital pains and insomnia are described.
(7) Their age at onset ranged from 40 to 74 years and all the five cases had histories of finger injury, including amputation in four cases, followed by insidious onset of tremulous movement at the same site of the trauma during the period between two months and 36 years.
(8) Because of this potential for injury, it is suggested that matings between carriers of tremulous neurological disorders and carriers of mutations that result in lack of down cover be avoided whenever possible.
(9) Additionally, state observations and NBAS-K exams showed significant agreement on individual differences in neurologically based measures, such as startles, tremulousness, and lability of state.
(10) Withdrawal from alcohol (ethanol, ethyl alcohol) or other general sedatives leads to progressive hyperactivity that progresses from tremulousness, sleep disturbance, and hallucinosis, to the more serious rum fits and delirium tremens (DTs).
(11) A nonintoxicating oral dose of 1,3-butanediol at 4 grams per kilogram administered after elimination of ethanol from the blood was effective against the tremulous and conbulsive components of the ethanol withdrawal syndrome in all animals for 1 to 5 hours.
(12) Free, free as the sunshine trickling down the morning into these high windows of mine, free as yonder fresh young voices welling up to me from the caverns of brick and mortar below – swelling with song, instinct with life, tremulous treble and darkening bass.” A signature sentence “If it is true that there are an appreciable number of Negro youth in the land capable by character and talent to receive that higher training, the end of which is culture, and if the two-and-a-half thousand who have had something of this training in the past have in the main proved themselves useful to their race and generation, the question then comes, What place in the future development of the South ought the Negro college and college-bred man to occupy?” Three to compare Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man (1952) James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time (1963) Barack Obama: Dreams from My Father (1995) • The Souls of Black Folk by WEB Du Bois is published by Yale University Press (£7.99).
(13) Infants with IVH demonstrated more abnormalities in mental status and a cluster of abnormal neurologic findings (persistent ankle clonus, tremulousness, and brisk deep tendon reflexes).
(14) Nine of these patients also experienced a tremulous voice associated with evidence of an essential tremor (ET) elsewhere, including head, trunk and limbs.
(15) The tremulous form of Parkinson's disease generally leads to less motor impairment than the rigid-akinetic form.
(16) This was characterized by confusion, tremulousness, clumsiness, myoclonic jerks, and an inability to walk.
(17) Residual tremulous movements after thalamotomy were examined using an accelerometer and EMG.
(18) Various types of tremor-provoking procedures were performed and the tremulous movements were classified according to the pattern of modificiation by these procedures.
(19) The relapsing course, association with myoclonus or tremulousness, and episodes of stroke-like deterioration are characteristic features.
(20) Twenty-four of forty-four (55%) mice neonates inoculated intracranially with NE-MuLV developed symptoms ranging from tremulousness to hindlimb paralysis within 3-9 months.
Trepidation
Definition:
(n.) An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.
(n.) Hence, a state of terror or alarm; fear; confusion; fright; as, the men were in great trepidation.
(n.) A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain small changes in the position of the ecliptic and of the stars.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nevertheless, he admits to a degree of trepidation.
(2) In a 2010 essay, Berman wrote of visiting the Bronx again, with trepidation, fearing that the borough's notorious self-immolation would have left nothing of the world he remembered.
(3) Trepidation gave way to further jubilation when Kightly doubled their lead.
(4) I wouldn’t put David Haye in just yet because he achieved more as a cruiserweight.” That’s a handy shopping list of varying talent and, apart from Wilder, the WBC champion with the imposing knockout record but yet to be truly stretched, it is not a field to invite trepidation.
(5) This feeling of trepidation isn't helped when I spot him, standing out a mile among the post-work drinkers and carefully dressed-down new-media types, not just because of his mane of blond hair but because his face is covered in faded bruising and the remains of a black eye.
(6) Did the pair not have any trepidation about mining the Nazis for jokes?
(7) Democrats running for president have traditionally shown “trepidation” about calling for more gun control, notes Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the American Conservative Union.
(8) They used to approach trips to Merseyside with trepidation, but won at Anfield for the first time in 52 years in August.
(9) "Certainly, latent and overt stereotypes, fear or trepidation about others, and even naked racism may have contributed to static levels of interaction and the slow pace at which social bonds are being forged between South Africans of different race groups," the report notes.
(10) Read more The outspoken Joyce – who to the trepidation of many colleagues has been elected leader of the rural-based Nationals party and therefore also becomes deputy prime minister in Malcolm Turnbull’s Coalition government – just got a little more publicity than he was banking on.
(11) In Brussels, the visit will nevertheless be watched with trepidation, for fear the Russians could make Tsipras an offer he cannot refuse.
(12) It’s so important that all views are heard and understood in order for us to learn to trust and respect each other more.” Many synod members were approaching the closed process with trepidation, Broadbent said.
(13) The annual economic update – which also sets out government's plans for managing economic growth, and provides a rough guide to the following spring's budget – is already causing some trepidation for councils.
(14) But for all the complaints about Obama’s healthcare act, one doesn’t have to go far in Northampton County to find someone who loves the law, and views the current Republican effort with trepidation, or worse.
(15) Among those are several of the constituencies where Lib Dems will be looking at any Green bounce with trepidation, such as St Ives and North Cornwall.
(16) The portion of fate that depends on the unknown is called 'douleur', and this must be considered and explored with trepidation."
(17) When she won her party's leadership contest back in March, you could sense two conflicting reactions rippling through the Welsh nationalists' collective psyche: excitement about such a radical politician taking the top job; and from more conservative quarters, a real trepidation about what she might do with her new role.
(18) While trepidation remains, things have changed rapidly.
(19) The agenda is a full one, with the mood one of caution and some trepidation.
(20) On the approach to the national stadium in Saint-Denis, which was the target for three suicide bombers almost exactly seven months ago amid terrorist attacks on the capital that killed 130 people , home fans draped tricolors around their shoulders and donned novelty chicken hats, but the usual celebratory air was undercut by a mix of defiance and trepidation.