(a.) Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory.
(n.) A medicine or agent to assist hearing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The obtained results are used to study the relation between the acoustic characteristics of these vowels and the corresponding articulatory dimensions.
(2) "Acoustic" craters were produced by two laser pulses delivered into a saline-filled metal fiber cap, which was placed in a mechanically drilled crater.
(3) These later results suggest that dopamine agonists increase sensorimotor reactivity measured with acoustic startle by acting on sensory rather than motor parts of the reflex arc.
(4) We present numerical methods for studying the relationship between the shape of the vocal tract and its acoustic output.
(5) Our experience shows that the most accurate indications are provided by acoustic stapedius reflex, brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEPs) and vestibular investigation.
(6) The hypothesis that the standard acoustic startle habituation paradigm contains the elements of Pavlovian fear conditioning was tested.
(7) The angular distribution of the scattered acoustic field from an inosonifying source will directly relate to the distribution of surface fibrillatory changes.
(8) These echoes, however, are not associated with acoustic shadowing.
(9) The range of acoustic scatterer sizes, however, corresponds quite well to the dimension of observed and quantified histologic structures.
(10) In the series of 50 acoustic neurinomas (AN) the internal auditory canal (IAC) diameter and the diameter difference between the tumor and non-tumor side are compared with the sizes of the AN.
(11) More importantly, motor and cardiovascular responses to startle may be separated through discrimination of afferent stimuli suggesting either differences in neural pathways for acoustic and tactile stimuli or a differential dependency of the various responses on stimulus characteristics.
(12) The startle-elicited increase in blood pressure was significantly elevated in SHRs and at the same time the acoustic startle response was depressed as compared to WKY rats.
(13) During the period of the study, 163 patients with primary intracranial neoplasms were seen and thus acoustic schwannomas accounted for 3.7%.
(14) Length of testing time was significantly decreased with the use of acoustic stimulation.
(15) Glutamate-immunoreactive neurons were present throughout the acoustic thalamus, including the regions containing the retrogradely labeled neurons.
(16) Acoustic probe-based assays can enhance assay and laboratory efficiency through testing for multiple analytes in a single sample or increasing available binding surface area (by using probe and well surfaces simultaneously), and by eliminating quenching.
(17) A Rhesus monkey was trained to discriminate between 2 acoustic signals, preceded by visual cues, that instructed which of 2 movements to make.
(18) Observations were recorded by three distinctly different methods of measurement: the surgeon, the MD-2 Impedance Analyzer, and the Acoustic Otoscope immediately before and after induction of anesthesia.
(19) Although unilateral acoustic neuromas in children are rare, they do occur.
(20) The relationship between incident sound level and acoustic attenuation for four types of earplug and four types of earmuff have been investigated using freshly prepared and instrumented cadaver ears.
Otic
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the ear; auricular; auditory.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previously-reported post antibiotic effect of OFLX was thought to be another property of OFLX otic solution.
(2) In osteogenesis imperfecta, the poor formation of collagen leads to abnormally thin bony trabeculae with a poorly formed otic capsule.
(3) Three days later selected areas of the brain, the trigeminal, superior cervical and otic ganglia were examined for retrogradely labelled fluorescent cells.
(4) The parietal, squamosal, and exoccipital bones, and the quadrate cartilage were displaced when otic capsule material was absent or oversized.
(5) The presence of otic fibers in the inferior alveolar, mylohyoid, buccal and motor branches of the trigeminal nerve has not hitherto been reported.
(6) If the anemia is severe, palpitations, otic pulsations, and cardiac decompensation are common.
(7) The fibers from the internal carotid and otic ganglia probably bridge to the internal carotid artery in the carotid canal, those from the otic ganglion after an initial course in the lesser superficial petrosal nerve.
(8) Primordia of the inner ear, the otic vesicle (OV) and cochleovestibular ganglion (CVG), were isolated from 72-hr (stage 19-20) quail embryos and examined for the presence of NGF receptors.
(9) The electrophysiological properties of the epithelium of the otic vesicle were studied in the chick embryo using conventional microelectrode techniques.
(10) With glutaraldehyde-tannic acid fixation, the basal lamina of the otic pit cells shows differences from that of the normal otic pit.
(11) Low concentrations of RA (1-50 nM) inhibited vesicular growth in stage 18 otic vesicles that were made quiescent and then reactivated by either serum or bombesin.
(12) Although the effects of propylene glycol in the human middle ear are yet to be investigated, we recommend the avoidance of otic preparations containing high concentrations of propylene glycol in patients with tympanic membrane perforations.
(13) Invagination of the otic placode was apparent as early as stage 12.
(14) POS, like insulin, potentiated the mitogenic effect of bombesin on the otic vesicle epithelium.
(15) The otic vesicle consists of a pseudostratified epithelium with some features of transporting epithelia.
(16) When the otic bulla was closed, the pressure was transmitted not only via the ossicular chain but also via the round window (RW) through the middle ear cavity.
(17) Cells which project to the middle cerebral artery and were also pBNPir were found in the trigeminal, pterygopalatine and superior cervical ganglia bilaterally but not in the geniculate or otic ganglia.
(18) In the seven contralateral ears treated with the otic suspension, middle ear adhesions were found in six, cholesteatoma was present in four, serous effusions were found in three, and one had a large tympanic membrane perforation.
(19) Preliminary results from a heterochronic series of SAG implants to common age otocysts suggest that these SAG neurones are capable of responding to the attractant fields which are produced by presumptive labyrinthine sensory epithelium over an extended period of otic development.
(20) The expression of the nuclear proto-oncogene c-fos in the developing otic vesicle was transient and stage-dependent.