(n.) A series of arches with the columns or piers which support them, the spandrels above, and other necessary appurtenances; sometimes open, serving as an entrance or to give light; sometimes closed at the back (as in the cut) and forming a decorative feature.
(n.) A long, arched building or gallery.
(n.) An arched or covered passageway or avenue.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was accomplished by use of a new coaxial infusion catheter-steerable guidewire system passed through the superior mesenteric artery and posterior pancreatic arcade.
(2) "I almost feel sorry for them," said Pauline Corton, who was checking out Radley bags in the County Arcade with 20%, 30% and 50% off.
(3) In the investigation, the arcade-shaped prisms typical of recent mammals were first seen in material from the Cretaceous period.
(4) Direct observations of adolescent proxemics and sex differences, and of various parameters of video games in 18 video arcades were made.
(5) Love and Peace, a game for mobile phones designed by the Hong Kong-based games company nxTomo , is like a complex, three-dimensional reinterpretation of the classic arcade game Snake – but with strong political overtones.
(6) Due to the possibility to trace clearly the perivascular plexuses of these vascular arcades by use of immunohistochemical techniques with antibodies to NSE and S-100 protein, the two submucosal nerve plexuses can be demonstrated with exceptional clarity.
(7) Top floor: a roomful of sombre youths vying for individual supremacy using some form of networked arcade strategy game that uses collectible cards.
(8) The southern stretch of London Road, a down-at-heel strip containing pound shops and amusement arcades, became the gang’s turf.
(9) They went for a walk in Hamburg’s amusement arcade.
(10) New vessels were most commonly found on the temporal arcades (48%) of the eyes and nasal to the optic disc (42%) but were significantly rare beyond the posterior pole (13%) (P less than 0.001).
(11) From the upmarket shops in the arcaded Victoria Quarter to the bargain-price stalls of Kirkgate market, every lure was set out in an effort to save one of the worst Decembers retailers can remember.
(12) Deliberate no more: Arcade Fire have actually made their fancy dress theme easy for you.
(13) Striking fundus features included typical maculopathy with a radiating stellate pattern surrounded by tiny vacuole-like pockets of retinoschisis throughout the posterior pole within the temporal vascular arcades.
(14) As result it was found that the vascular arcades along the greater curvature alone are insufficient for the blood supply of the gastric fundus.
(15) "Now we're producing this new game Ms. Pac-Man as our way of thanking all those lady arcaders who have played and enjoyed Pac-Man."
(16) With special consideration to the axon morphology we could describe the following neuronal types: large spinefree cells with probably myelinated axons (basket cells), small and medium sized spinefree cells with axons inside the dendritic fields (small basket cells), spinefree cells with axonal arcades, cells with axonal grape like terminal knobs, cells with columnar axons (double bouquet cells), sparsely spined cells with ascending axons (Martinotti cells), bipolar cells, neuroglioform cells and chandelier cells.
(17) Arcade arterioles show a significant reduction of the adrenergic innervation compared to that of the thoracodorsal supply artery.
(18) This contrasted with the perfused isolated rat mesenteric artery arcade in which serotonin stimulated oxygen uptake by up to 130% in association with vasoconstriction in a dose dependent manner similar to the previously described norepinephrine induced vascular thermogenesis in this arterial preparation.
(19) The major differences in the microvasculatures of the two muscles are in the numbers of vessels in the arcade meshworks and the dimensions of these vessels.
(20) Frequency of contractions (per minute) tended to decrease during stress periods, but achieved significance only with the video arcade game in the control group (2.0 (0.6) v 1.2 (0.4); p less than 0.01).
Atrium
Definition:
(n.) A square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.
(n.) An open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides; especially at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery.
(n.) The main part of either auricle of the heart as distinct from the auricular appendix. Also, the whole articular portion of the heart.
(n.) A cavity in ascidians into which the intestine and generative ducts open, and which also receives the water from the gills. See Ascidioidea.
Example Sentences:
(1) Injection of carbachol into the AV3V produced the expected natriuresis, which was accompanied within 20 min by a dramatic rise in the plasma ANP concentration and a rise in ANP content in the medial basal hypothalamus, the neurohypophysis, and particularly the anterior hypophysis but without alterations in the content of ANP in the lungs or the right or left atrium.
(2) Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is a semi-invasive examination that provides better images of the atrium than classical transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) due to the anatomical positioning of the captor and the high frequency Doppler apparatus used.
(3) We report a case of tamponade due to an effusion of blood which had occurred two weeks after an aorto-coronary bypass and was unusually located behind the left atrium.
(4) The radio-activity of 99mTc of the entire cardiac blood pool including the large vessels (T), the right ventricle including the right atrium (RV) and the left ventricle (LV) was calculated from the 30 degrees anterior oblique cardiac pool scintigram.
(5) Each study consisted of a 2-h control period followed by 4 h of increased lung microvascular pressure produced by inflation of a balloon in the left atrium.
(6) Ultrastructurally, the atrial myocardial cells in all three patients were hypertrophied, and two patients had evidence of focal cell degeneration; the atrium was markedly dilated, but atrial arrhythmias were not noted.
(7) Multiple determination of size, shape, and diameter of the left atrium were made during the control state and under conditions of varied ventricular outflow resistance in intact anesthetized dogs with markers chronically attached to the mitral annulus and the valve cusps.
(8) The right atrium thrombosis in the region of Chiari network resulted in the thromboembolism of the left pulmonary artery this being an immediate cause of death.
(9) Just prior to the end of the infusion period, 51Cr-labeled microspheres were injected into the left atrium to measure regional myocardial blood flow.
(10) Two-dimensional echocardiography revealed enlargement of the left ventricle, left atrium, and aortic root as well as dilatation of the left main coronary artery.
(11) The fistula was ligated by an access through the right atrium with good nearest and long-term results.
(12) M-mode and two dimensional echocardiography demonstrated abnormal echoes in the left atrium, the density being 22.7 Hounsfield Unit.
(13) His bundle recordings and premature atrial stimulation from coronary sinus, mid-right atrium and high-right atrium were performed in a patient with repetitive supraventricular tachycardias.
(14) Earlier surgical correction of this disorder was associated with the problem of stenosis at the anastomotic site with the left atrium.
(15) Although the histologic changes in the right atrium and contralateral lung are worrisome, no cardiac nor pulmonary problems arose over the 1 year follow-up.
(16) The visualized turbulent flow was consistent with a ventriculoseptal defect but also appeared to extend posteriorly into the left atrium in a direct line with the septal communication.
(17) After control conditions were established, PDG was injected into the right atrium.
(18) Echocardiograms showed good left ventricular function and a large coil of apparent thrombus in the right atrium prolapsing into the right ventricle.
(19) An unusual appearance of echoes behind the aorta bulging into the left atrium in diastole on both the M-mode and cross-sectional echo suggested this diagnosis prior to cardiac catheterization.
(20) Inotropic and chronotropic effects were determined in vitro in cat papillary muscle and right atrium, respectively.