(n.) Any inflammatory affection of the throat or faces, as the quinsy, malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study, the role of psychological make-up was assessed as a risk factor in the etiology of vasospasm in variant angina (VA) using the Cornell Medical Index (CMI).
(2) The diagnosis of variant- or Prizmetal-angina is difficult because if insufficient specificity of the tests.
(3) This study describes the consequences of acute prostaglandin synthesis inhibition on the hemodynamic effects of nitroglycerin in patients with stable angina pectoris.
(4) It is concluded that 5 mg bisoprolol was effective in once-a-day treatment of angina pectoris due to coronary heart disease, and a further improvement can be expected on increasing the dose to 10 mg.
(5) Five thousand patients of atheromatous heart disease, presented as angina pectoris, were studied over a period of five years.
(6) Four hundred patients who were admitted over the last three years with myocardial infarction were questioned about the presence and pattern of angina before its onset.
(7) After the initial event 33 patients were asymptomatic and 62 with mild angina.
(8) Although operative mortality was significantly greater for women during most of this review period, mortality was similar during 1983 (2.6% for men versus 2.4% for women), in spite of a significantly higher incidence of unstable angina in the female group (54% for women versus 35% for men).
(9) The ratio of forced expiratory volume in the first second to forced vital capacity was not significantly different between individuals with or without a past history of heart attack, angina pectoris or ECG evidence of coronary heart disease.
(10) Similar, but less marked changes were seen in the patients unstable angina.
(11) Only heart rate correlated closely with the precipitation of angina.
(12) A new long-acting nitrate, Isomak R (forte), has been shown to be an effective antianginal drug; it increases physical stress tolerance, prevents attacks of angina of effort or angina at rest, significantly decreases pulmonary arterial occlusion pressure, peripheral arterial pressure and total peripheral resistance.
(13) One or more of the followin factors were present in the "high-risk" group: ventricular dysfunction--ejection fraction less than 0.4, preinfarction angina, evolving infarction, recent infarction (less than 2 weeks), and refractory ventricular tachyarrhythmia.
(14) In 42% of angina patients, the ratio is below 0.03.
(15) Within 4 months of Holter monitoring, the advised coronary angiography was performed in 77% of the patients with variable threshold angina and in 89% of the patients with fixed threshold angina (p less than 0.05).
(16) Thus one may speculate that endothelin plays a role in the coronary spasm which has been shown in patients with angina pectoris.
(17) The lack of free interval between the LBBsB and the angina-like chest pain (neurosensorial reflex) stands against an ischaemic mechanism.
(18) In this study, we report a one-year experience of the treatment and outcome of patients presenting early post-myocardial infarction angina.
(19) Thus, patients are likely to live longer after CABG if they have left main disease; three-vessel disease with left ventricular dysfunction (ejection fraction less than 50%), class III or IV angina, provocable ischemia, or disease in the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery; two-vessel disease with proximal left anterior descending artery involvement; and two-vessel disease with class III or IV angina as well as either severe left ventricular dysfunction alone or moderate left ventricular dysfunction together with at least one proximal lesion.
(20) These drugs are beneficial also in prevention of recurrent myocardial infarction, especially among patients with unstable angina.
Throat
Definition:
(n.) The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column.
(n.) Hence, the passage through it to the stomach and lungs; the pharynx; -- sometimes restricted to the fauces.
(n.) A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase.
(n.) The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
(n.) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
(n.) That end of a gaff which is next the mast.
(n.) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
(n.) The inside of a timber knee.
(n.) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
(v. t.) To utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats.
(v. t.) To mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending.
Example Sentences:
(1) A throat swab from one patient grew group A, beta haemolytic streptococci, and in each case unequivocal evidence of seroreaction to streptococcal antigens was present.
(2) During the couple's 30-year marriage she had twice reported him to the police for grabbing her by the throat, before they divorced in 2005.
(3) Epstein-Barr Virus was found in throat, lungs and blood, whereas the specific antibodies production was delayed.
(4) A 27-year-old lady presented with history of discomfort in the throat and difficulty in swallowing for two weeks.
(5) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
(6) S. epidermidis was isolated from the throat in a very small percentage of all the people examined.
(7) Most infections have flu-like symptoms including fever, coughing, sore throat, runny nose, and aches and pains.
(8) The results of numerous microbiological investigations of sputa, nose and throat swabs before and during the long-term study are interpreted under certain aspects and questioning.
(9) A 50-year-old woman with a 27-year history of ankylosing spondylitis developed cricoarytenoid joint arthritis that was indicated by hoarseness, sore throat, and vocal cord fixation.
(10) Fifty-nine infants (45%) had at least one culture site positive for U. urealyticum (eye, 4%; nasopharynx 24%; throat, 16%; vagina, 53%; and rectum, 9%).
(11) Our semiquantitative methods for the culture of H. influenzae type b, consisting of inoculation of 0.001 ml of throat swab fluid on antiserum agar plates and division of the results into three grades of intensity, showed agreement as to intensity of colonization in over 80% of repeat throat cultures.
(12) It may be feasible to use the direct fluorometric test in a diagnostic laboratory as described or possibly to adapt it for automatic processing of throat swab cultures.
(13) Since 8 of 18 patients with streptococcal throat infection had normal NBT test results, the NBT test apparently is of limited value in the early recognition of these infections.
(14) Two middle-aged subjects, a male and female, with spastic dysphonia (hoarseness, stammering) were treated with both frontalis and throat muscle electromyographic (EMG) biofeedback.
(15) It’s good to hear a full-throated defence of social security as a basic principle of civilisation, and a reiteration of the madness of renewing Trident; pleasing too to behold how much Burnham and Cooper have had to belatedly frame their arguments in terms of fundamental principle.
(16) For routine grouping, extracts were prepared from the first one-half-plate subculture of the initial throat culture.
(17) A lot, without it being thrust down their throats.” The app will add more stories over time, with Moore saying American narrators will be included, and ultimately translations into other languages too.
(18) One day, a man she had interviewed held a knife to her throat, holding her captive for 10 days and only releasing her when the French embassy came looking for her.
(19) The proportion of culture sore-throat patients returned to the original 55% level after an initial period of enthusiasm.
(20) These symptoms include eye, nose, and throat irritation; headache; mental fatigue; and respiratory distress.