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Anurous


Definition:

  • (a.) Destitute of a tail, as the frogs and toads.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 4 anuric patients in intermittent haemodialysis the dosage of vancomycin necessary to treat infection with penicillin-resistantstrains of Staphylococcus aureus was determined.
  • (2) Urinary Hg excretion was variable during the first 24 h after HgCl2 injection and tended to be higher with higher dosage unless the animals became anuric early on.
  • (3) The termination of muscle relaxation in anuric patients is considered merely to be due to redistribution of the drug from the motor end plates to non specific structures.
  • (4) A newborn girl with respiratory distress due to bilateral pneumothorax was found to be anuric, and died at 18 hours of age.
  • (5) We report on 2 anuric patients on maintenance hemodialysis who presented with a prostatic abscess.
  • (6) All plasma digoxin values from the anuric patients and the normal subjects were far below the lower limit of the therapeutic range of plasma digoxin.
  • (7) Renal blood flow at this time was normal but the rats were anuric.
  • (8) In anuric patients angiodynography was superior to the Tc bolus examination: In three cases angiodynography was able to provide important additional information such as absence of blood flow in peripheral intrarenal vessels or missing blood supply of a transplant pole.
  • (9) Therefore, the drug has become a preferred neuromuscular blocking agent in anuric patients.
  • (10) Eight patients were dialysis dependent or anuric at the time of operation.
  • (11) Tumor lysis syndrome in patients with chronic myelocytic leukemia is rare, and acute renal failure with tumor lysis syndrome is oliguric or anuric in most patients.
  • (12) Thus methicillin may occasionally cause severe and prolonged anuric renal failure, but maximal supportive measures, including dialysis when necessary, should nonetheless be used, since the renal failure is reversible once the antibiotic is discontinued.
  • (13) In both anuric groups renal GGT was reduced, probably as a result of inhibited enzyme synthesis secondary to the altered conditions for adequate renal function.
  • (14) A new syndrome of oligohydramnios, Potter's syndrome, and anuric renal failure leading to stillbirth or neonatal death from respiratory failure has recently been described.
  • (15) This study examines the number of AChE-positive cells that develop in the anural ascidian Molgula occulta relative to that in the closely related urodele (tailed) species, Molgula oculata.
  • (16) Hemoglobinuria and anuric acute renal failure (ARF) ensued.
  • (17) All 25 patients were oliguric or anuric before beginning therapy; adequate urine flow was quickly restored by expanding blood volume alone, with the fusion of a large volume of salt and water unnecessary.
  • (18) After aortic aneurysmectomy, early postoperative anuric renal failure developed when a retrograde aortic dissection occluded both renal arteries in a 71-year-old woman.
  • (19) Anural development in the ascidian Molgula occulta was examined using tissue-specific markers and interspecific hybridization.
  • (20) In four patients, all anuric at presentation, antibody to G.B.M.

Tail


Definition:

  • (n.) Limitation; abridgment.
  • (a.) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.
  • (n.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.
  • (n.) Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
  • (n.) Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.
  • (n.) A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
  • (n.) The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression "heads or tails," employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall.
  • (n.) The distal tendon of a muscle.
  • (n.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
  • (n.) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; -- called also tailing.
  • (n.) One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
  • (n.) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
  • (n.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
  • (n.) Same as Tailing, 4.
  • (n.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.
  • (n.) See Tailing, n., 5.
  • (v. t.) To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
  • (v. t.) To pull or draw by the tail.
  • (v. i.) To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.
  • (v. i.) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The anatomic and functional development of the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) was studied in the gray short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica.
  • (2) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
  • (3) This behavior consists of a very rapid bend of the body and tail that is thought to arise from the monosynaptic excitation of large primary motoneurons by the Mauthner cell.
  • (4) Platinum deer mice are conspicuously pale, with light ears and tail stripe.
  • (5) After isolation of the complex IV only gpFII and tails are required for mature phage formation in vitro.
  • (6) Earlier recognition of foul-smelling mucoid discharge on the IUD tail, or abnormal bleeding, or both, as a sign of early pelvic infection, followed by removal of the IUD and institution of appropriate antibiotic therapy, might prevent the more serious sequelae of pelvic inflammation.
  • (7) produced a strong analgesic effect in the formalin test and in the tail pinch test.
  • (8) Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy, have discovered that the way a dog's tail moves is linked to its mood, and by observing each other's tails, dogs can adjust their behaviour accordingly .
  • (9) Body weight (BW) and nose-tail length were less in the hypoxic exposed (H) rats than in control (C) animals growing in air.
  • (10) Nitrous oxide produced a dose-related analgesic response in rats (ED50, 67%) as measured by the tail-flick method.
  • (11) A total of 23 phage specific proteins (including four head and six tail proteins) could be identified after SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of extracts from phage SPP1 infected Bacillus subtilis cells.
  • (12) g (SD 0.15, N = 21), which was similar to tail skin.
  • (13) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
  • (14) The patients' preoperative clinical status affected the results of surgery (Breslow p less than 0.03, Mantel p less than 0.02; one-tailed tests).
  • (15) These apparent conflicting results between IK and the tail current could not be explained by extracellular K+ fluctuation, because 20 mM Cs+ alone depressed both factors, but an additional application of Ba2+ caused an increase in both components compared with those in the former condition.
  • (16) Some of them situated in a particular environment fused with the tail sequence to produce monomeric ubiquitin genes that were maintained across species.
  • (17) Deletion of a carboxyl-terminal sequence, comprising the transmembrane domain and short cytoplasmic tail of the alpha chain of the T cell antigen receptor (TCR-alpha), prevented the rapid degradation of this polypeptide.
  • (18) We have investigated enhancement of pigmentation in inbred C3H- mice using tail skin as a model for testing the effects of phosphorylated DOPA (DP) and ultraviolet radiation.
  • (19) Diltiazem also produced a slight decrease of both the steady-state current during depolarization and the tail current after repolarization in these concentration ranges, while the hyperpolarization activated current (Ih) was not affected significantly.
  • (20) A fluorescent fucose-specific lectin-stained bodies and not tails of the organism.

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