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Example sentences for "virulence"

Lexicographically close words:
virtutes; virtuti; virtutibus; virtutis; virtutum; virulent; virulently; virum; virus; viruses
  1. It is unnecessary to show anew here how Luther’s later defence of the Real Presence in the Eucharist against the Zwinglians contains indubitable evidence in its virulence that Luther felt hurt.

  2. The poison is lifted off the fire as soon as it has got to the consistency of a syrup and is of a dark reddish colour, the darts are dipped into it and its virulence is put to the test without waste of time.

  3. Now the question is this: do the ingredients which the Bretak Sakai believes indispensable in this concoction augment the virulence of the legop?

  4. The symptoms vary in different cases, depending on the organs affected, and the virulence and amount of virus introduced.

  5. The length of this incubation period depends on the susceptibility of the animal, the virulence of the virus and the method of exposure.

  6. The tubercle bacillus is not really destroyed by external influences, and it may retain its virulence for several months in dried sputum if protected from the light.

  7. Thrusting herself forward into the circle of light cast by the lanthorn, she assailed me with a virulence and fierceness which said more for her devotion to her mistress than her respect for me.

  8. And as on this Monday evening the prime virulence of the massacre had begun to abate--though it held after a fashion to the end of the week--Paris without was quiet also.

  9. There is more than a suspicion that this disease may be transmitted for several generations, perhaps remaining latent during the life-time of one, and appearing in all its virulence in the next.

  10. Their constant tendency is to increase in virulence and inveteracy.

  11. To an impolitic act of the Dauphine herself may be in part ascribed the unwonted virulence of the jealousy and resentment of Du Barry.

  12. Scarcely was Marie Antoinette seated in her new country before the virulence of Court intrigue against her became active.

  13. Footnote 38: Statius depicts the frenzied virulence of the Fury, by saying that she lashed the air with the serpent.

  14. With whatever virulence he may have been attacked by the partisans of the poet, he was invulnerable from his want of character as well as from his want of shame, and he had the gratification of inflicting wounds he could not receive.

  15. Occasionally there is an outbreak of exceptional virulence in some particular locality; but nothing has hitherto been elicited as to the special conditions tending to produce or to aggravate the disease.

  16. He made an attempt to set forth on the journey, but the severity of the winter and the virulence of his malady obliged him to relinquish it in despair.

  17. The hostility thus produced continued with increasing virulence throughout the life of Columbus, and at his death was transferred to his son and successor.

  18. The virus becomes less active with each successive day of exposure to drying (desiccation) and finally the virulence is altogether lost.

  19. He now had obtained a virus of definite strength and the next question was, how could the virulence be gradually and definitely reduced.

  20. Its natural habitat (location) is the nervous system, and it does not retain its virulence when introduced into any other system of organs.

  21. In this way the virus retains its virulence and putrefaction is diminished.

  22. He proved that pieces of the "medulla oblongata" suspended in sterile tubes which contained fragments of caustic potash, steadily and gradually reduced their virulence as they dried, till the fourteenth day, when they were practically inert.

  23. She heard him describe the distracted state of Scotland--the impossibility of ever prevailing on all parties to submit again to her sway--the virulence of her enemies, and the apparent lukewarmness of her friends.

  24. He conceives that in some instances it spends its virulence upon the peritoneum, producing the inflammatory peritoneal form of puerperal fever.

  25. In that year the smallpox broke out with great virulence in Montreal.

  26. For the terrible virulence of the smallpox in New England up to the introduction of the inoculation, see McMaster, History of the People of the United States, first edition, vol.

  27. Press, the, virulence and indecency of, 219 ff.

  28. One of the matters which Washington could not have foreseen was the outrageous abuse of the press, which surpassed in virulence and indecency anything hitherto known in the United States.

  29. There is another interesting feature of its life history which is of practical importance, and that is, like many other bacilli it is increased in virulence and infectiousness by passing through the body of a patient.

  30. Surgeons, ignorant of antisepsis, and careless nurses, spread the infection along, until in some instances it reached a virulence which burst into the dreaded "hospital gangrene.

  31. It is only when a sufficient number of cases occur in succession to raise the virulence of the pneumococcus in this curious manner that an epidemic with high fatality develops.

  32. He is not to be given a yard of leeway, however, for if he can get a sufficient number of dirty wounds to run through, he can work himself up to a high degree of virulence and poisoning power.

  33. On the other hand, other conditions will cause an increase in the virulence of a pathogenic germ.

  34. Various conditions are known to affect thus the virulence of bacteria.

  35. Frederick the Great spoke with contempt of the insolence of Opposition and the virulence of parties; and vowed that, petty German prince as he was, he would not change places with the King of England.

  36. The very names by which each party denominated its antagonist, discover the virulence and rancor which prevailed.

  37. Scurvy develops with special virulence during discouragement; it gets better with the dawn of hope.

  38. It is possible that in a certain number of cases for which as yet we have no name but rheumatism, there is a virulence of the microbic factor that brings about some joint disorganization.

  39. One is the condition of the patient at the time the infection was acquired, the other is the virulence of the infection.

  40. The first four were actuated by all the virulence of faction; the other three were secretly guided by ministerial influence.

  41. He as well as Bishop Burnet and several other prelates, had been treated with great virulence in Sacheverel's sermon, and the-lord treasurer was scurrilously abused under the name of Volpone.

  42. Thus there is seldom such a virulence of political hostility that it may not be dissolved in a glass or two of wine, without making the good liquor any more dry or bitter than accords with English taste.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "virulence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acerbity; acid; acidity; acridity; acrimony; animality; animosity; animus; asperity; astringency; atrocity; authority; barbarity; beef; bile; bite; bitterness; brutality; charge; choler; clout; cogency; compulsion; dint; drive; duress; edge; effect; effectiveness; energy; extremity; fatal; fatality; feud; force; gall; grip; harmfulness; harshness; inclemency; influence; inhumanity; intensity; keenness; malignancy; mana; might; mortality; poignancy; point; poison; potency; potentiality; prepotency; productiveness; productivity; pull; punch; push; rancor; rigor; roughness; sarcasm; savagery; severity; sharpness; sinew; soreness; sourness; spleen; steam; sting; strength; stringency; superiority; superpower; teeth; terrorism; toxicity; validity; vandalism; vehemence; vendetta; venom; vigor; vim; violence; virility; virtue; virulence; vitality; vitriol; weight