(n.) An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint.
Example Sentences:
(1) After 4 to 6 hours of recirculation, accumulation of vasoactive amine, 5-hydroxytryptamine, its major metabolite, 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid, and its precursor amino acid, tryptophan were detected.
(2) Preincubation of human neutrophils with recombinant tumor necrosis factor alpha has previously been shown by us to enhance superoxide production of neutrophils in response to the chemotactic peptide formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine, and the phorbol ester, phorbol myristate acetate.
(3) Only methoxyindole acetic acid was detectable after incubation of unstimulated and alpha-adrenergic-agonist-treated pineal glands.
(4) The 1-0-methylalduronic-acidmethylesters, obtained by the methanolysis of the polysaccharides, are reduced with boronhydrid to the corresponding methyl glycosides; there are split with acid to the aldoses, which are converted in pyridine with hydroxylamine to the aldoximes and than with acetic anhydride to the aldonitrilacetates, which can be separated by gaschromatography without difficulty.
(5) The drug is extracted from serum or urine with ethyl acetate, separated by TLC, and determined by fluorescence quenching densitometry.
(6) Basal plasma levels of oxytocin were found to be low in sodium-deficient adrenalectomized rats and in intact animals treated daily with desoxycorticosterone acetate, both of which groups drank large amounts of NaCl solution, whereas basal plasma levels of arginine vasopressin were neither stimulated nor suppressed.
(7) It was shown that the levels of ATP and ADP in the mycelium depended on the carbon source: the maximum and minimum ATP concentrations were found on the glucose and acetate media respectively, the maximum and minimum ADP concentrations showed inverse dependence.
(8) Unaltered surface enamel of extracted human teeth was subjected to tests of resistance to dissolution in 10 mM acetic acid at pH 4.0 and 10 mM EDTA at pH 7.4 in a miniature continuous flow system.
(9) 2) Neurotropin had no effect on the autolytic degradation of cartilage, but promoted the incorporation of 14C-acetate into the proteoglycan in the articular cartilage of rabbits.
(10) The treatment group received 75 mg of roxatidine acetate hydrochloride at 9 PM and 12 to 13 hours later gastric juice secretion was measured with gastric x-ray films in both groups.
(11) In these animals, propionate was the major VFA taken up by the liver and approximately 50% of absorbed acetate was also removed by the liver.
(12) A putative pineal metabolite, 5-methoxyindole-3-acetic acid, was quantified in human urine by a gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric method.
(13) AIS treatment lowered serum insulin levels, serum triglyceride levels, caloric intake, weight gain, liver weight, acetate 14C incorporation into cholesterol 14C, and the percentage of liver lipid that was cholesterol.
(14) One week after initiation is 1-2 months before the appearance of benign papillomas that harbor activated Ha-ras oncogenes when the initiated mice are promoted with the tumor promoter phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate.
(15) Cellulose acetate electrophoresis of Chironomus utahensis hemolymph demonstrated a six-band pattern for hemoglobins.
(16) Addition of MoAb 60.3 to normal neutrophils produced dose-dependent inhibition of neutrophil aggregation in response to phorbol myristate acetate, zymosan-activated plasma, and N-formyl-methionylleucylphenylalanine.
(17) One middle carpal joint of each horse was injected 3 times with 100 mg of 6-alpha-methylprednisolone acetate, at 14-day intervals.
(18) Imported sweets and liqueurs were homogenized and extracted with ethyl acetate.
(19) The aza analogue (RS)-3-hydroxy-2,5-pyrrolidinedione-3-acetic acid (6) of the five-membered citric anhydride (2) was prepared in the sequence citric acid----2-phenyl-1,3-dioxolan-4-one-5,5-diacetic acid (1)----citric acid beta-amide (3)----6 and used to resolve ambiguities in the mechanism of the citrate synthase reaction.
(20) A group of [4-(2-bromoalkanoyl)phenoxy]acetic acids was studied to determine if there was an association between the alkylating ability and the diuretic activity of its members.
Acetabulum
Definition:
(n.) A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc.
(n.) The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone.
(n.) The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.
(n.) A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.
(n.) The large posterior sucker of the leeches.
(n.) One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) In patients with spastic paraplegia presenting with recurrent dislocation of the hip, operative treatment combining a soft tissue repair and a bone block to augment the acetabulum is recommended.
(2) The purpose of this paper is to know how to correct the maldirection of the acetabulum.
(3) Metastatic involvement of the pelvis, and in particular the acetabulum, is a common finding among patients with metastatic osseous disease.
(4) Forty metal femoral cups were matched with a cemented acetabulum, while with 46 the acetabular implant was cementless.
(5) Because of destructive wear of the acetabulum, this eventually required revision total hip arthroplasty 12 years after the original surgery.
(6) This paper describes a simple linear intertrochanteric osteotomy which aims to centre the femoral head correctly in the acetabulum.
(7) The results are reported of 44 consecutive Chiari innominate osteotomies performed on 39 adult patients aged between 18 and 55 years for symptoms arising from disproportion between the acetabulum and the femoral head.
(8) The acetabulum must be totally reconstructed and relocated as near as possible to its original orientation.
(9) We have used the technique in more than 500 patients with injuries to the skull, spine, acetabulum, sternoclavicular joint, shoulder, knee, and calcaneus and are able to demonstrate the benefit of special investigation protocols.
(10) A radiolucent line was present in the acetabulum in 40.6% of cases; cortical hypertrophy at the tip of the stem was present in 48.8% of cases.
(11) With reference to cartilage, the lesions of Paget's coxopathies presented several specific characteristics compared with those of common arthrosis : (1) the presence of particularly numerous cupshaped defects on the remaining cartilage; (2) a very basophilic, intra- and extra-cytoplasmic substance impregnated the chondroplasts of the bottom layer, nine times out of twenty-six, an anomaly not observed in cases of arthrosis; (3) pseudo-angiomatous vascular outgrowths from the bone, flush with the articular surface of the acetabulum are a source of bleeding during surgery.
(12) The frequency of radiological demarcation of the cement-bone junction in the acetabulum after total hip replacement has been examined in 141 Charnley low-friction arthroplasties followed for an average of 10.1 years.
(13) The bolt penetrated deeply into the pelvis, through the acetabulum, the joint cavity and the head of the femur leading to fixation of the hip.
(14) The uterus is short, convoluted between the anterior testis and the acetabulum, containing 0-6 eggs.
(15) This report deals with findings related to the acetabulum.
(16) In twelve such patients we did an extensive resection of the proximal part of the femur, down to below the lesser trochanter, and constructed a capsular flap across the acetabulum.
(17) The acetabulum fractures more frequently showed difficult forms than otherwise reported.
(18) The post-operative natural change observed by radiography and scintigraphy at the site of the roof of acetabulum was statistically significant (p less than 0.01) by the chi-square test.
(19) Radiographs often show cystic radiolucent defects in the acetabulum and femoral head, but the joint space remains preserved until late.
(20) This bone disease is defined by a rapid chondrolysis with total obliteration of the joint space in the superolateral segment of the joint in an average period of one year, followed by rapid bone destruction of the femoral head and the roof of the acetabulum.