(a.) Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal.
(a.) Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places.
(a.) Pertaining to a walk.
(a.) Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.
(n.) A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.
Example Sentences:
(1) The difference in BP between a hospital casual reading and the mean 24 hour ambulatory reading was reduced only by atenolol.
(2) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
(3) Seven patients had been receiving hemodialysis for a median of 3.3 years; the other two were receiving continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.
(4) In nondiabetic patients, glycosylated hemoglobin levels were within the normal range (4.0% to 6.8% of total blood hemoglobin levels) for both continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis.
(5) To investigate this hypothesis, 74 patients with frequent attacks of migraine were studied using 24-h continuous ambulatory electrocardiography to identify the presence of coronary vasospasm.
(6) Adult ambulatory patients routinely self-administering potassium chloride solution rate the palatability and acceptance of each preparation.
(7) This article compares patterns of health care utilization for hospitalizations and ambulatory care in a sample of 1855 urban, elderly, community residents who report obtaining their health care from one of four types of arrangements: a fee-for-service (FFS) physician, a hospital-based health maintenance organization, a network model HMO, or a preferred provider organization (PPO).
(8) Other risk factors that have been identified in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy include nonsustained ventricular tachycardia on ambulatory electrocardiogram, a strong family history of sudden death, and prior occurrence of syncope (or cardiac arrest).
(9) Females significantly predominated in the second and the third week in ambulatory activity, in entering central fields and in the frequency of grooming periods and in the third and fourth week also in grooming duration.
(10) A cross sectional survey was performed on ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) in a rural community in northern Japan.
(11) A method is presented for analyzing ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) time series data obtained from well-controlled clinical trials.
(12) Following washout of previous antiarrhythmic treatment, a 48-h ambulatory electrocardiographic (ECG) recording was obtained.
(13) Long-term ambulatory treatment with verapamil (80 or 160 mg three times a day for 2 to 4 months) or nifedipine (10 mg three times a day for 2 months) produced changes in all variables that were similar to those observed in the hospital (controlled) study.
(14) Twenty-one peritonitis in patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis were treated by pefloxacin and intraperitoneal fosfomycin.
(15) Further studies of large, well defined populations with standardized components of ambulatory blood pressure and well validated measures of hypertensive target organ damage are needed.
(16) In addition, we developed a methodology for lead placement when using two bipolar leads, as is typical for ambulatory electrocardiography.
(17) The long-term effects of neutralized dialysate used in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) were evaluated in 8 well-controlled patients.
(18) Among the improved patients, eight became ambulatory and independent in activities of daily living (ADL), eight became independent from a wheel-chair level, and eight returned home or to the community.
(19) If the patient is either not ambulatory or severely impaired, his or her condition will not be exacerbated by a dislocated hip.
(20) Immunological parameters including serum IgG, IgA and IgM, lymphocyte phenotypes (CD3, CD4, CD8, HLA-DR+CD3-), natural killer cell activity and lymphocyte proliferation with phytohaemagglutinin were assessed in 10 children on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) and 10 control subjects.
Somnambulism
Definition:
(n.) A condition of the nervous system in which an individual during sleep performs actions approppriate to the waking state; a state of sleep in which some of the senses and voluntary powers are partially awake; noctambulism.
Example Sentences:
(1) (5) The part played by these modifications during the first hours of sleep in the occurrence of night terrors and somnambulism is discussed.
(2) We compared the sleep characteristics of seven healthy elderly people complaining of nocturnal somnambulism-like behaviors with those of 14 age-matched healthy elderly people who had never shown such behavior.
(3) MacMillan was nevertheless a precocious dance-maker, and even his earliest experiments – Somnambulism (1953), Laiderette (1954) – showed his distinctive choreographic flair.
(4) Disturbances linked with sleep are snoring, somnambulism, speaking and grinding of the teeth during sleep and nocturnal enuresis.
(5) Using these methods we were able to differentiate a sleep disorder (somnambulism) from his grandmal epilepsy.
(6) Ever since the arrival of "our" pandas, a stampede of visitors has seen the once somnambulant finances of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland firmly perk up.
(7) Among the disorders of sleep, insomnia is a far more common problem of medical management than are enuresis, narcolepsy, somnambulism or nightmares.
(8) Psychic or organic moments may trigger somnambulance if there exists a readiness for this form of reaction.
(9) Night terrors and other sleep disturbances, such as somnambulism, are disorders of arousal (Broughton, 1968; Fisher, Kahn, Edwards, & Davis, 1973; Guilleminault, 1987).
(10) Much to the dismay of its creators, Blue Lines is also viewed in pop historical terms as the prototype of trip-hop, a downbeat genre that merged elements of American hiphop, funk and Jamaican dub reggae into a somnambulant, skunk-fuelled soundtrack to British inner-city life.
(11) The possibility that migraine and somnambulism appearing in the same patient at different ages might be the expression of a same neurochemical disorder is discussed.
(12) (1) The sleep pattern of 23 children, aged 5-12 years, with episodic nocturnal phenomena (night-terrors, somnambulism, rhythmic movements) was recorded during two successive nights.
(13) Night terrors and somnambulism (NTS) are defined as disorders of arousal occurring in children during Stage 3 to 4 of NREM (non-rapid eye movement) sleep.
(14) Somnambulism and migraine appear at different ages, the former in the late infancy, the latter in childhood and both could be due to a disorder of serotonin metabolism.
(15) Looking for frequency of somnambulism in 3 homogeneous groups of children, a first group of migrainous children, a second group of epileptic children and a third group of normal children, the authors have observed that an antecedent of somnambulism existed in 28% of migrainous children, when it was found in only 6% of epileptic children, and in 5% of normal children.
(16) A 39-year-old man with schizoaffective disorder experienced somnambulism only when taking a combination of lithium carbonate, chlorpromazine, triazolam, and benztropine.
(17) The problem of somnambulism is discussed in this paper by reference to the present state of research in this field.
(18) The practical interest to know this association is that somnambulism may be a real clinical marker of migrainous background that should be searched for in every patient presenting with chronic cephalalgia.
(19) There were no relations between epilepsy and somnambulism.
(20) This kind of psychotherapy is applied for the first time as a therapy for somnambulism.