(n.) A soft, pulsating, hollow tumor, containing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery.
Example Sentences:
(1) This remarkably reliable examination showed a predominance of anterior and anterolateral aneurisms (87% of cases), and enables definition of the critical cardiac surface area (about 25%) above which the aneurysm is operable.
(2) When embryos with aneural muscles were also subjected to d-TC treatment the type I fibres failed to differentiate.
(3) However, at birth, aneural myotubes appeared to be slightly less mature than innervated myotubes.
(4) Antero-posterior and, above all, lateral abdominal aortography is essential in the angiographic study of aneurisms of the abdominal aorta.
(5) In contrast, neural-crest-derived melanophores were abundant even in aneural larvae.
(6) In contrast to aneurally cultured human muscle fibers, the innervated muscle fibers were smaller in diameter and had myonuclei preferentially located at the periphery of the fiber.
(7) Basing on the experience of treatment of 17 patients with 19 aneurisms which appeared after different operations on the vessels the authors propose a classification of this new kind of aneurisms and a more moderate tactics of surgery in such pathology.
(8) These include sympathetically aneural heart, parasympathetically aneural heart, and heart with cholinergic innervation reconstituted from the nodose placodes.
(9) Since none of the usual causes that have been reported were found to explain the aneurism of the left ventricle; the possibility of the aneurism resulting from residual myocardiac fibrosis produced by the rheumatic myocarditis is suggested.
(10) Negative tissue culture findings could be explained by the fact that the defect cannot be reproduced in aneural cultures, and that there could be a gradual selection of cells containing a preponderance of wild type mitochondria over those that contain mutant mitochondria.
(11) In two cases the angiocardiographic study showed the presence of the aneurism in the membranous portion of the interventricular septum, in one, it was visualized in the posterioanterior projection and in another in the lateral.
(12) The rhythm of the aneural heart progressively increases.
(13) An explant of the sciatic nerve was placed in an aneural region of the muscle at a distance of 1-3 mm from the zone of neuromuscular junctions.
(14) Aneural muscles from 16- and 18-day gestation and newborn mice were analyzed to determine age-related changes in a number of parameters including: muscles' maximal girths, numbers of myotubes, myotube diameter distributions, and cluster frequency.
(15) One case of trigeminal neuralgia and operative giant basilar aneurism is reported.
(16) The pattern of actin expression was found to be abnormal in hearts which were sympathetically aneural and those which had persistent truncus arteriosus combined with parasympathetic denervation.
(17) Embryonic chick hearts were made sympathetically aneural by removal of premigratory neural crest over somites 10-20.
(18) A patient with congestive splenomegaly due to an aneurism of the splenic artery is reported.
(19) Luminescent capabilities of Porichthys photophores arise in two successive phases: (1) an aneural phase during which photophores become fluorescent, photocytes are in process of maturation and respond only to chemical stimulation and (2) a neural phase in which photophores luminesce upon electrical and pharmacological stimulation and are densely innervated with terminals showing relatively narrow neurophotocyte gaps.
(20) Studies of the inner surface of the aneurism wall carried out using raster-electron-microscopy technique made it possible to identify different types of calcinosis in the form of individual and isolated plates of calcium on its inner surface.
Coca
Definition:
(n.) The dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon Coca). In med., called Erythroxylon.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the UK, Coca-Cola owns Innocent smoothies while PepsiCo has Tropicana.
(2) The low pH carbonated drink, coca-cola, and a blackcurrent cordial produced no effects.
(3) Potential, polarization, and pH measurements were performed before and after Coca-Cola and orange juice rinsing and intake of sweets, which were used as test products.
(4) In the nineteenth century, some natives of Peru noticed circumoral numbness, euphoria and analgesia after chewing the leaves of the Erythroxylen coca bush.
(5) The beverages tested were a cola beverage ("Coca-Cola"), a carbonated orange drink ("Jaffa") and single strength orange juice.
(6) Nestlé and the other water giants, Coca-Cola and Pepsi, have often cut deals with relatively isolated, impoverished rural communities whereby they take a percentage of the local water supply, paying enough to keep municipal rates low for local residents.
(7) Cocaine base or white coca paste was smoked heavily by 188 patients who came to four hospitals of Lima, Peru.
(8) Red Bull is now the UK's third bestselling soft drink, after Pepsi and Coca-Cola.
(9) Coca leaf, from which cocaine and extracts for some commercial carbonated soft drinks are obtained, remains relatively unknown by the medical and allied professions elsewhere.
(10) In our study of patients with anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) we found a highly significant association of COCA with ALCAPA (85%), although no patient with ALCAPA in this study had evidence of tracheal stenosis documented in the hospital chart.
(11) Good to see that Coca-Cola are paying homage to the Sheffield derby match with those stripes on the pitch."
(12) Meanwhile, the government has suspended its aerial coca crop spraying program and is setting out its new social investment packages.
(13) Daily chewing of coca leaves was reported by 70 (65%) respondents.
(14) At the very least, it would seem to be tinkering with the formula of the biggest spiritual brand in the world, analogous to Coca-Cola changing its famous recipe in 1985 .
(15) Its partners are the Coca-Cola Foundation and the Beverage Institute.
(16) The fumigations ruined our food crops but the coca would just grow back stronger.” As the herbicide rained down on their farms, NGO’s with Plan Colombia cash offered coca growers were offered incentives to substitute coca for legal crops.
(17) Lord Coe has staunchly defended the sponsorship of the London Olympics by fast food and soft drinks companies, arguing that the investment by brands such as Coca-Cola and McDonald's is essential to making the event a success.
(18) The group Georgia Prospers, of which Moore is a member, includes a range of businesses – from Fortune 500 companies like Delta, Coca-Cola, and Home Depot to smaller ones across the state – in support of “treating all Georgians and visitors fairly”.
(19) He began in the cocaine business smuggling small quantities of coca paste from Peru to Colombia.
(20) Instead, the least attractive aspects of London 2012, the ZiL lanes and the Visa-only policy and McDonald's and Coca-Cola as purveyors of sustenance to a sporting nation, were smothered not only by the competition but by the ocean of good humour fostered by the joviality of the volunteers, the inspirational architecture and the attention given to the natural landscape (with apologies to those who had to move to make room for it all).