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LONG-LASTING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Existing for a long time
Example:
a long-lasting friendship
Synonyms:
durable; lasting; long-lasting; long-lived
Classified under:
Similar:
long (primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified)
Context examples:
Chronic kidney failure may lead to total and long-lasting kidney failure, called end-stage renal disease (ESRD).
(Kidney Failure, NCI Dictionary)
These coconut oil-derived compounds offer longer-lasting protection than any other known natural repellent against insect blood-feeding.
(Coconut Oil Compounds Repel Insects Better than DEET, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Injury to the body, or an event that causes long-lasting mental or emotional damage.
(Injury, NCI Dictionary)
Importantly, the beneficial effects were long-lasting, with many patients reporting pain relief lasting at least six months.
(Scientists identify spasm in women with endometriosis-associated chronic pelvic pain, National Institutes of Health)
Along with rising ocean temperatures, these conditions lead to more prevalent, more toxic, and longer-lasting blooms and domoic acid production.
(Scientists discover genetic basis for how harmful algae blooms become toxic, National Science Foundation)
Patients on a gluten-free diet also had higher levels of reovirus antibodies and IRF1 levels in their small intestines, suggesting reovirus infection may lead to long-lasting gene expression changes.
(Virus linked to food sensitivity, NIH)
Magnetic eruptions on the sun can impact air travel, disrupt satellite communications and bring down power grids, causing long-lasting blackouts and disabling technologies such as GPS.
(Newest solar telescope produces first images, National Science Foundation)
Male birds of species that form long-lasting pair-bonds often continue to make elaborate displays of plumage, color and dance after they mate with a female, encouraging the female to invest more energy into their brood.
(For species that mate for life, bonding behaviors provide advantages, National Science Foundation)
Prolonged excitation of GABAergic neurons in BNST by a chemogenetic method evoked a longer-lasting, sustained wakefulness state, and it was abolished by administering a dual orexin receptor blocker (antagonist) DORA 22 in advance, meaning that orexins are involved in this phenomenon.
(The Secret Connection between Anxiety, Sleep, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
According to a new study, infections can have long-lasting effects on a population of meningeal immune cells, replacing them with cells from outside the meninges that then change and become less likely to recognize and ward off future attacks.
(Meningitis changes immune cell makeup in the mouse brain lining, National Institutes of Health)
