fatigue Definition
fa·tigue (fə tēg′)
noun
- physical or mental exhaustion; weariness
- the cause of this; hard work; toil
- any manual labor or menial duty, other than drill or instruction, assigned to soldiers
- sturdy work clothing worn by soldiers doing fatigue duty
- the tendency of a metal or other material to crack and fail under repeated applications of stress
- Physiol. the decreased ability to function or inability to respond of an organism or one of its parts due to prolonged exertion or repeated stimulation
Etymology: Fr < fatiguer < L fatigare, to weary < *fatis, exhaustion < base of fames, hunger (see famine) + agere, to drive, make (see act)
transitive verb, intransitive verb -·tigued′, -·tigu′·ing
- to make or become tired or exhausted; weary
- to subject to or undergo fatigue
fatigue Synonyms
fatigue
n.
fatigue Usage Examples
Converse of object
- generalize: Generalized systemic fatigue is reported by most patients with PPS ( Halstead et al.
- fret: If the contact involves vibrational or impact motions then there will be a risk of fretting, fretting corrosion or even fretting fatigue.
- induce: The interior noise level is another major factor toward inducing fatigue.
Preposition: in
sclerosis: Efficacy and safety of modafinil ( Provigil ) for the treatment of fatigue in multiple sclerosis: a two center phase 2 study.
Adjective modifier
- chronic: The Wellcome Trust has recently funded a new phase III trial for patients with chronic fatigue.
- muscular: We believe that transient weakness is actually muscular fatigue.
- debilitating: Severe and debilitating fatigue, painful muscles and joints, disordered sleep, gastric disturbances, poor memory and concentration are commonplace.
- cancer-related: The home-based exercise group reduced levels of cancer-related fatigue and improved aerobic capacity compared with patients in standard care.
- exercise-induced: Goals in aerobic exercise are: Educate the patient to avoid potentially harmful exercise-induced fatigue.
- post-viral: Stress and post-viral fatigue was diagnosed and I was unable to work for five months.
Modifies a noun
- syndrome: He faked the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome to evade active service.
- crack: An experimental study investigated the fatigue crack path on the free surface.
- initiation: The use of the technique in the study of fatigue crack initiation and growth in ductile cast irons will also be given.
- propagation: The effects of both the layered structure and service environment on fatigue crack propagation behavior are assessed.
- severity: Are age, illness duration, fatigue severity or psychiatric disorder predictive of long term outcome?
- loading: This geometry is also suitable for compression fatigue loading, providing hysteretic heating is avoided.
Noun used with modifier
- post-polio: Several other agents have been studied in an attempt to treat post-polio fatigue.
- corrosion: Corrosion fatigue is the development and propagation of cracks in a material that is subjected to alternating or fluctuating cycles of load.
- compassion: In Britain today there is no compassion fatigue: in Britain today there is a goodwill mountain waiting to be tapped.
- muscle: Repeat to muscle fatigue ( in the range of 12 to 20 reps ).
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