(n.) A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or form the median line of the body; as, the abductor oculi, which draws the eye outward.
Example Sentences:
(1) Transcranial magnetic brain stimuli were applied to 9 normal subjects and compound muscle action potentials were recorded from the right abductor digiti minimi with surface electrodes.
(2) Both the extensor indicis and the abductor pollicis longus are functional synergists and are under voluntary control of the brain.
(3) This group includes patients with adductor involvement (phonatory dystonia, recurrent laryngeal nerve section failure, respiratory dystonia) and those with abductor involvement (whispering dystonia).
(4) Modifications of the Wilson bunionectomy and osteotomy procedure enable the surgeon to address multiple, individual abnormalities associated with the hallux abductor valgus deformity.
(5) The combination of triradiate epiphyseal closure and abductor muscle weakness secondary to superior gluteal nerve damage contributed to subsequent femoral head subluxation.
(6) In the hips with acetabular protrusion, preoperative values of the force were less than in that the trochanter united and postoperative increase in the abductor force was noted.
(7) Recordings were bilateral from the abductor pollicis brevis, tibialis anterior, and risorius.
(8) The abductor digiti minimi, elbow flexors and tibialis anterior were studied in five subjects.
(9) An analysis of the incidence and significance of leg shortening, limping, and abductor lurch is presented and some observations made on trochanteric overgrowth and the effect of surgery on the rate of femoral head reconstitution.
(10) Although the abducting parents tended to be male (55 percent, n = 205), the proportion of female abductors was higher than in previous research.
(11) In 3 ponies there was no return of abductor function and failure of graft survival.
(12) However, a case did present itself at Saint Michael's Medical Center involving a congenitally hypertrophic abductor digiti minimi muscle of the right foot.
(13) Multiple tendons for the abductor pollicis longus and a separate, severely narrowed sheath for the extensor pollicis brevis make nonsurgical treatment difficult at times.
(14) The compound muscle action potentials (CMAPs) from the abductor digiti minimi (ADM) and the biceps muscles (BICEPS) could be evoked with either stimulating technique in all 52 subjects tested.
(15) Twenty patients functioned at T12 levels or above, 30 patients had preservation of anterior thigh musculature, and 25 patients had posterior leg or hip abductor power.
(16) The optimal placement sites for eliciting motor evoked potentials from the abductor digiti minimi and abductor hallucis muscles by means of transcranial magnetic stimulation were determined using a commercially available circular coli.
(17) We used transcranial magnetic stimulation to map the cortical representations of 4 upper extremity muscles (abductor pollicis brevis, flexor carpi radialis, biceps, and deltoid) of 10 normal subjects.
(18) To simulate the "single leg support" phase of gait, fixtures were developed to load the femora under three different configuration: the VS (vertical shaft) configuration, with a vertically orientated femur having rotational freedom proximally and distally; the ITB (iliotibial band) configuration of a femur with rotational freedom positioned 11 degrees from the vertical, with a strain-gauge adjustable metallic simulation of the lateral muscles of the thigh; and the ABD (abductor) configuration of a femur with rotational freedom positioned 11 degrees from the vertical, with a strain-gauge adjustable metallic simulation of the abductor muscles.
(19) Early-burst cells were correlated most frequently with inspiratory muscles of the respiratory system and laryngeal abductor muscles.
(20) A statistical analysis of the error yields the following classes of correspondences: (a) Excellent: 1st Dorsal Interosseus (hand) = LI-4; Abductor Pollicis Brevis = Lu-10; Abductor Minimi Digiti = SI-4; 1st Dorsal Interosseus (foot) = LI-3; Tibialis Anterior = Curious Locus; Orbicularis Oculi = GB-1; Frontalis = GB-14; Splenius Capitis = GB-20; Sternocleidomastoid = LI-18; Semi Spinalis Capitis = BI-10.
Median
Definition:
(a.) Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.
(a.) Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves; -- said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts.
(n.) A median line or point.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mean and median values in the nondiabetic group are higher than in previously published reports.
(2) However, time in greater than 21% oxygen was significantly longer in infants less than 1000 g (median 30 days, 8.5 days in patients greater than 1000 g, p less than 0.01).
(3) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
(4) Only candidacidal activity was enhanced in FCA-elicited peritoneal macrophages (median C. albicans killed 28% versus 16% for resident peritoneal macrophages, p less than 0.01).
(5) Local application of 8-OH-DPAT (0-5 micrograms) into the median raphe nucleus, facilitated male rat sexual behavior, as evidenced by a decrease in number of intromissions preceding ejaculation and in time to ejaculation.
(6) Median effect analysis was applied for the evaluation of in vitro effect by the growth inhibition, and the in vivo effect by comparison of the increase of life span (ILS) in a combined group with the sum of ILS's in 2 single agent groups.
(7) Median time for ventilatory support was 90 minutes after transfer to the area.
(8) As of November, 1988 after a median observation period of 34 months, 174 of the 256 patients (68%) were alive, 11 (4%) dead and 71 (28%) lost to follow-up.
(9) Unilateral VNAB lesions induced similar alterations but these were restricted to the ipsilateral PVN and median eminence.
(10) SPRs were elicited either by stimulating the reticular formation or the distal end of the median nerve.
(11) The criteria for sero-positivity was determined from the median antibody concentration in a group of 368 non-endoscoped control patients.
(12) With a median follow-up of 6 years, 32 (20%) of 156 patients who achieved complete remission have relapsed.
(13) The median survival after radiotherapy is 17.4 months.
(14) But the median survival time was 30.7 months in Arm A and 24.5 months in Arm B, and significantly longer in Arm A until 10 months.
(15) The median functional protein S of these patients was 71% (40-101%).
(16) Using the MTT assay and analyzing the data using the median-effect principle, we showed that synergistic cytotoxic interactions exist between CDDP and VM in their liposomal form.
(17) At concentrations below the respective median for each variable, odds ratios of between 1.42 and 1.67 were calculated whereas at concentrations above the respective medians the odds ratios ranged from 4.50 to 6.33 (P less than 0.001).
(18) The median blood levels were lower in hyperacidic subjects and higher in hypoacidic patients; the urinary excretion of the digitalis compound showed no essential differences.
(19) Irradiation of the skin overlying the median nerve at the wrist in humans with a low power (1 mW; 632.5 nm) helium-neon laser produced a somatosensory evoked potential obtained at Erb's point.
(20) Most of the bilateral lung lesions were removed through a median sternotomy so as to avoid staged bilateral thoracotomy.