(n.) That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.
(n.) A part performed by instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying the voice or a principal instrument; also, the harmony of a figured bass.
Example Sentences:
(1) The assembly reaction is accompanied by characteristic changes in fluorescence emission and dichroic absorption.
(2) In conclusion, in S-rats a glucose-stimulated insulin release is accompanied by an increase in IBF, but this is not observed in P-rats.
(3) Bilateral symmetric soft-tissue masses posterior to the glandular tissue with accompanying calcifications should suggest the diagnosis.
(4) Even with hepatic lipase, phospholipid hydrolysis could not deplete VLDL and IDL of sufficient phospholipid molecules to account for the loss of surface phospholipid that accompanies triacylglycerol hydrolysis and decreasing core volume as LDL is formed (or for conversion of HDL2 to HDL3).
(5) Bradykinin also stimulated arachidonic acid release in decidual fibroblasts, an effect which was potentiated in the presence of epidermal growth factor (EGF), but which was not accompanied by an increase in PGF2 alpha production.
(6) Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are frequently accompanied by deteriorated renal functions and by pathological lesions in the glomeruli.
(7) The 40 degrees C heating induced an increase in systolic, diastolic, average and pulse pressure at rectal temperature raised to 40 degrees C. Further growth of the body temperature was accompanied by a decrease in the above parameters.
(8) She had three attacks of severe migrainous headache accompanied with nausea and vomiting within three weeks.
(9) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
(10) Prolonged immobilization was accompanied by a decrease in Ca-concentration dependence of Ca2+ uptake.
(11) These changes were not accompanied by changes in blood levels of endogenous sex steroids.
(12) This transient paresis was accompanied by a dramatic fall in the MFCV concomitant with a shift of the power spectrum to the lower frequencies.
(13) Extensive proliferation has been shown to accompany the de novo generation of LAK cytotoxicity.
(14) In hypertensive patients, intravenous nicardipine in doses of 1 to 2 micrograms.kg-1.min-1 produced normotensive state during surgery accompanied by significant diuresis.
(15) Cellular aging is accompanied by increased cellular permeability to zinc(II).
(16) Upon depletion of ATP in contraction, the P2 intensity reverted to the original rigor level, accompanied by development of rigor tension.
(17) This was accompanied by a greater decrease in hematocrit in the continuous group, a finding that suggests that plasma volume expansion occurred during continuous GTN therapy.
(18) A return of high-frequency sensitivity accompanied the recurrence of pain in some patients who had been injected up to 13 years prior to testing.
(19) Inner Ear Decompression Sickness (IEDCS)--manifested by tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and hearing loss--is usually associated with deep air or mixed gas dives, and accompanied by other CNS symptoms of decompression sickness (DCS).
(20) Gonadectomy of females was accompanied by changes in the activity of individual HAS links in different direction--some reduction of ACTH in the hypophysis, a sharp and significant fall of the peripheral blood glucocorticoid level and a marked significant elevation of hydrococortisone production in the adrenal cortex in vitro.
Chordal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a chord.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the PTFE suture did exhibit some viscoelastic characteristics (hysteresis and creep) that begin to approach the chordal behavior.
(2) Serial studies demonstrated eventual disruption of the chordal attachments of the anterior tricuspid leaflet resulting in frank leaflet flail.
(3) In two patients with a clinical picture of acute mitral insufficiency, the presence of chordal rupture secondary to myxomatous degeneration of the mitral valve was disclosed during surgery.
(4) In the valves with subvalvar involvement splitting started at the apex of spaces between the fused chordal columns and proceeded upward.
(5) Complications are disturbances of rhythm, bacterial endocarditis and in case of a chordal rupture a mitral regurgitation.
(6) In two cases, if appeared to arise in the region between the aortic and mitral rings; in one instance, it was located in the mid left ventricle, in the mitral chordal region.
(7) The native valve was completely excised and all chordal attachments were severed at the head of each papillary muscle.
(8) We examined ventricular contractile function and ejection performance and isolated myocyte function after correction of experimental mitral regurgitation (chordal rupture) with mitral valve replacement that involved chordal preservation.
(9) Comparing these patients with those with ruptured mitral chordae in association with rheumatic heart disease and patients with spontaneous chordal rupture, differences were evident.
(10) During MVR with complete chordal preservation, snares were placed around the anterior and posterior papillary muscles.
(11) The authors provide the results of the use of two-dimensional echocardiography for diagnosing chordal ruptures of the mitral valve depending on the etiological factor of chordal pathology (mesenchymal abnormalities, rheumatic fever, infective endocarditis, coronary heart disease).
(12) Fluttering chorda (FC) of the mitral valve (MV) manifesting by hyperkinesia of usually fixed MV chorda, its early systolic dislocation into the left ventricular outflow tract was registered in 34.5% of ICM patients, 11.2% of them had echocardiographic evidence of the chordal shift in the systole into the above tract.
(13) It appears that Carpentier's sliding commissuroplasty is a superior new reconstructive technique for mitral regurgitation due to commissural chordal rupture.
(14) Retrospective examination of the cineangiogram revealed the presence of balloon indentation at the chordal level during inflation, which disappeared at full inflation.
(15) The chordal rupture was due to idiopathic degenerative disease in 14 patients, infective endocarditis in three and trauma in one.
(16) The technique used was a combination of posterior semicircular annuloplasty, mitral commissurotomy and chordal shortening.
(17) Mitral chordal rupture was nearly as frequent in the 64 patients with clearly dilated anular circumferences as in the 19 patients with normal or insignificantly dilated anular circumferences (less than or equal to 11 cm).
(18) The valve was repaired by pericardial chordal replacements and ring annuloplasty.
(19) In particular, anterior and inward displacement of the papillary muscles can be predicted to alter the effectiveness of chordal support so that the central leaflet portions become relatively slack and are more readily displaced anteriorly.
(20) Valve abnormalities, consisting of chordal attachments to the infundibular septum or ventricular septal crest, straddling, overriding or some combination of these, were identified in 25 of 39 patients (64%) in group I, no patients in groups II or IV and 6 of 30 patients (20%) in group III.