(n.) Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
(n.) Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action; as, a plant grows with vigor.
(n.) Strength; efficacy; potency.
(v. t.) To invigorate.
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.
Visor
Definition:
(n.) A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it.
(n.) A mask used to disfigure or disguise.
(n.) The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes.
Example Sentences:
(1) It follows that he would not allow a biker to give evidence while wearing a crash helmet with the visor down.
(2) Visor osteotomies of various designs, supplemented with illiac bone grafts, were used to augment 63 cases of severely atrophic mandibles.
(3) This is a report on the long term results of Visor-Sandwich Osteotomy.
(4) I'm slightly annoyed that you can't wave at people or flash at them - we ought to be like bikers and raise our visors.
(5) Visor said the shooting victim spent his time collecting cans and kicking a soccer ball.
(6) Stricter enforcement of rules and more widespread use of visors would reduce the number of facial injuries.
(7) Rarely wearing hats, visors, or sunglasses while in the sun was a risk factor for the disease (relative risk, 1.9; 95 per cent confidence interval, 1.6 to 2.2).
(8) "The instruction came to put your visors down, and everyone's shields come up then," said a 35-year-old sergeant.
(9) Three hundred people literally came round the corner into the side street and started attacking us … Because I had my visor down, it was like watching a TV screen."
(10) One wears a flat cap, one wields a sledgehammer, one has a welder's visor.
(11) Outside, the din of ambulances would not be noteworthy until the driver and passenger appear in regulation yellow overalls, mask, goggles, hood and visor.
(12) Both visors and goggles are equally safe but there are slight differences in the types of clothing worn with each, and in the protocols for putting the equipment on and taking it off.” Taking off the protective suits, gloves and visors at the end of a shift inside the high-risk red zone of the centre is the most dangerous time.
(13) The Central Security Forces – suddenly back on the streets as the "Anti-Riots Troops", with brand new visored helmets and longer, more supple sticks – opened barriers and let us pass through their Holy of Holies, the street that runs between the American and the British embassies.
(14) 92 patients, 31 with and 61 without signs of metabolic bone loss, were treated with a combined sandwich-visor osteotomy.
(15) A reduction of minor and moderate injuries should be possible by stricter enforcement of the hockey rules, and more widespread use of visors.
(16) Photograph: Warner Bros “For my first scene where I walk up to Tobey’s character in the party and take off my little visor and say, ‘I thought I’d see you here,’ there really were 400 extras, and seven cameras on cranes,” she remembers of her first day on The Great Gatsby set.
(17) A method is described in which the visor osteotomy and the vestibuloplasty are performed in one stage.
(18) Cafferkey was trained in the UK in the use of personal protective equipment, including a visor.
(19) Youths in hooded track suit tops and scarves over their faces were also shining laser pens into the faces of visored PSNI riot squad officers as well as the police helicopter hovering above, which was used on Saturday to identify a gunman in nearby Newtownards Road.
(20) Visor and Grant, a couple, said that they have been living in one of those tents for about a month, since moving to San Francisco from Colorado about a month ago.