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A gout attack can be triggered by illness, injury or prolonged stress, by unusual physical exertion, or by too much alcohol or crash dieting.
Heart muscle may cramp when it needs more oxygen because of exertion, emotion, or exposure to cold.
It is the keenest spur to exertion and the surest of all guards against improbity.
She can hear herself panting from exertion, the sound like static in the earpiece.
Are you panting from exertion all the time during a dive in still water, instead of feeling relaxed?
If the condition clears up quickly, ensure that the child avoids strenuous exertion for at least a week afterwards.
In what was in reality a warm-down for her earlier exertion, she won that race by nearly a minute.
It could be that he just instinctively knows what to do, instinctively knows what's right, relying on gut feeling rather than cerebral exertion.
Lactate, your body's buffering agent, neutralizes the acid that builds up in your legs and makes them burn during heavy exertion.
The man's round, chubby face was already flushed from that small amount of exertion.
Once the symptoms begin to abate and you can move around comfortably, mild physical exertion may help sweat out the evil humors.
By the time Mr. Mineo had everything under control, he was huffing and puffing with the exertion.
It wasn't exertion that left him weak-kneed and trembling, but rather the gut-wrenching horror of Joe's scream and his pleas for mercy.
He was wearing his work uniform, his hair flying in his face as he skidded to a stop before them, huffing and puffing from the exertion.
I could actually feel my entire body just sink along with my mattress, from his exertion of force.
In colder temperatures, the heart tolerates less exertion because the body reacts to cold by constricting small arteries.
The inhibitions disappear and the red face is a result of happy exertion rather than excruciating bashfulness.
Finally another man went down to check and found him weak and faint from exertion and lack of air.
Silently they washed and dressed, feeling languid and heavy from physical exertion and lack of sleep.
I rolled my eyes, giving into his exertion of force, and following him down the street back home.
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The exertion made him hot, which may account for the rage he burst into when Mrs. hawkshaw began flutteringly to apologize.
When this was finished he very often played a bout of singlestick, or underwent some other severe muscular exertion.
The respiration is hurried on the slightest exertion, and dyspnoea is produced by any prolonged muscular effort.
Mabel had planted her one houseleek, and it was with faithful exertion she kept it from covering her whole nature.
An inaptitude for exertion, especially for mental labor, forces the boy to give up school and college life.
His fingertips were callused, worked rough with exertion well beyond the normal call of duty.
He urged his horse to greater exertion, and kept stabbing at his pursuer with an assagai.
He turned faint after the least exertion and had to leave off going to Mr. Hichens.
He was dirty and unshaven inside the unit, sick of iron rations pushed through the airlock, stiff and sore with exertion.
The breath is drawn in, the glottis is closed, and the muscles of the chest wall are held rigidly while the exertion lasts.
To vociferate is commonly applied to loud and excited speech where there is little besides the exertion of voice.
You may readily trust, my dear Sir, that any exertion in my power is heartily at your service.
It warn't no more exertion for her than 't would be to you to stick your finger through a cream puff.
He was putting himself into his topcoat, and he reddened a little with the exertion.
Remember how you made me shake off the megrims by exertion in Philadelphia?
Nor does what they utter, so much seem to be singing as the voice and exertion of valour.
On any occasion for it his helpfulness was ungrudging and unstinted, regardless alike of cost or exertion.
We cannot by any effort of thought or exertion of faith be in and out of our own minds at the same instant.
It has been already stated why at the same time the nitrogenous food must be increased during periods of great exertion.
He exerts his physical powers because such exertion is necessary for his subsistence.
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