(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.
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(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.
Undulation
Definition:
(n.) The act of undulating; a waving motion or vibration; as, the undulations of a fluid, of water, or of air; the undulations of sound.
(n.) A wavy appearance or outline; waviness.
(n.) The tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string, as of a violin.
(n.) The pulsation caused by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison; -- called also beat.
(n.) A motion to and fro, up and down, or from side to side, in any fluid or elastic medium, propagated continuously among its particles, but with no translation of the particles themselves in the direction of the propagation of the wave; a wave motion; a vibration.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three mechanisms play an important role: true elongation of the length of the nerve in the relaxed state against elastic forces; movement of the nerve trunk in the longitudinal direction; and increase and decrease of the tissue relaxation at the level of the nerve trunk (relaxed course) and the nerve fibers (change in the undulated course).
(2) In irregular undulation 89.1% of the time corresponded to Stage 2.
(3) These two forms could easily be differentiated by examination of the undulating membrane and kinetoplast.
(4) The findings were confirmed by a histopathological analysis showing the development of coagulative necrosis and myocytolysis as well as undulations of heart muscle cells as a sign of cardiogenic shock.
(5) Paroxysmal headache of the migraine type as well as permanent undulating headache (which we call cephalea) can lead to chronification, both often mixes within the chronification.
(6) After treatment with the contraction medium of Hoffmann-Berling, the filaments appear to be undulated.
(7) An undulating lightweight roof is supported by 211 narrow steel columns, sheltering a glass box holding the cafe and shop, and a chestnut timber-covered box holding the displays.
(8) The original concept of the blood pump is represented by an asymmetrical type of pump with an asymmetrical diaphragm and undulating motion of the diaphragm allowing optimal washing of the blood chamber.
(9) When blastomers cease cleaving, their surfaces undulate and form blebs.
(10) Foremost among these is a modification of the cell wall from an undulating structure to one which is smooth and has become enlarged.
(11) The distal fibular physis also begins as a transverse structure that becomes undulated and has extensive peripheral lappet formation.
(12) Undulations in the levels of all responses were noted; the "weaker" the antigen the larger the undulations.
(13) Tendon fibers lose their typical undulating appearance and become quite straight.
(14) On the rehabilitation ward of a tertiary care hospital, the patient developed undulating fever to 39.6C, rapidly worsening peripheral vascular disease, and pulmonary emboli.
(15) All human sera, from patients with tuberculosis as well as from control subjects, gave almost identical undulating patterns of reactivity with the decapeptides.
(16) For instance, platelets probably contract, possess a microfilament network, and behave like undulating membrane organelles.
(17) The incidence of the 60-69 year old males dropped in a range of 10%; that of the females with the same age had an undulating course with rising trend.
(18) The characteristic features of laparoscopic appearance--gentle undulation--were observed in 11 out of 13 (85%) patients with PBC.
(19) Tortuous undulating agranular endoplasmic reticulum (ER) was usually closely associated with microperoxisomes.
(20) Conversely, nerve shortening enhanced the undulation.