(1) All subjects showed a period of fetishistic arousal to women's clothes during adolescence.
(2) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
(3) A control experiment demonstrated that changes in general arousal could not account for the effects of task difficulty on neuronal responses.
(4) EEG arousal diminished as a function of distance, while arousal for direct gaze was always higher than for averted gaze, whatever the distance.
(5) He was held there for another eight months in conditions that aroused widespread condemnation , including being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and being made to strip naked at night.
(6) The average vlaues of the correlation coefficients were found to increase from arousal through slow synchronized sleep (S sleep), reaching the highest value in REM sleep.
(7) To produce intramodal arousal, normal subjects also had EEG recordings made during the random sounding of a loud bell.
(8) Noxious conditioning stimulation of a tooth led to a temporary decrease of the threshold for the jaw-opening reflex elicited from a contralateral or adjacent tooth; only conditioning stimulation at an intensity producing a marked arousal reaction was effective in this respect.
(9) The auditory threshold for arousal (1,500-Hz tone beginning at 30 dB) was also tested before and after UA lidocaine.
(10) The lower phasic reactivity in the MBD group and the effects of stimulant drugs on arousal indices confirm earlier reports.
(11) The data support the hypothesis that the learning decrement found among older men is not simply a manifestation of structural change in the central nervous system but is, at least in part, associated with the heightened arousal of the autonomic nervous system that accompanies the learning task.
(12) Distal stimuli emanating from the female or pups induce proximity by provoking orientation, attention and arousal; the meaning of these stimuli is largely learned by conditioned associations during the initial executions of the behavior, although odors may have a prepotent influence for some individuals.
(13) These results support the hypothesis that amphetamine-induced stereotyped behavior functions to reduce stress or arousal and additionally suggest that this effect is largely independent of underlying dopaminergic mechanisms.
(14) Neuroticism was found to correlate with all the premenstrual MDQ scores except the positive aspect of increased arousal, with negative affect at both menstrual and intermenstrual phases, with menstrual pain and with intermenstrual concentration.
(15) All the present evidence suggests that the local vaginal release of VIP induces the vaginal changes of arousal.
(16) Attention to the hazards of asbestos has aroused concern among many healthy persons who have been exposed at some time to one of the world's most versatile materials.
(17) The suspicion of a Zollinger-Ellison-syndrome is aroused by therapy-resistent ulcers, which in every third person are associated with a diarrhoea, by recidivations of ulcer after gastric operations and by a large basal secretion of acid.
(18) We call RSD with these properties arousal-type RSD.
(19) The presence of cardiovascular hyperreactivity together with the absence of noncardiovascular hyperreactivity in HT indicates heightened SNS-activity specific to the cardiovascular system and not part of generalized SNS-arousal.
(20) In this study, therefore, we measured hypercapnic ventilatory responsiveness (HCVR) and spirometry in 13 healthy male subjects (18 to 30 yr of age) after two consecutive nights of severe sleep fragmentation (arousal to an auditory stimulus after each minute of sleep) and compared the results with those obtained in the same subjects after normal sleep.
Humorous
Definition:
(a.) Moist; humid; watery.
(a.) Subject to be governed by humor or caprice; irregular; capricious; whimsical.
(a.) Full of humor; jocular; exciting laughter; playful; as, a humorous story or author; a humorous aspect.
Example Sentences:
(1) Work on humoral responses has focused on lysozyme, the hemagglutinins (especially in the oyster), and the clearance of certain antigens.
(2) Reactive metabolites which suppress splenic humoral immune responses are thought to be generated within the spleen rather than in distant tissues.
(3) Our results on humoral and cellular components of immunity in dependence of age, according to SENIEUR protocol admission criteria are presented.
(4) Snakes did not only exhibit the major cell- and humoral-mediated immune functions, but these functions appeared to be linked with the degree of MLR disparity.
(5) These findings show that humoral factors that can inhibit natural killer cell activity in vitro are present in the peripheral blood of patients who have endometriosis; moreover, they suggest that the suppressed natural killer cell activity may allow the development of endometrial cells at ectopic sites.
(6) CGRP at a dose of 3 micrograms caused a small rise in aqueous humor protein concentration.
(7) While mindful of the potential difficulties which attend its introduction into the treatment situation there is an attempt to balance this position through a consideration of the appropriate conditions and modes of operation under which a humor-enriched approach may be efficacious.
(8) The changes in the bone and in calcium metabolism during cisplatin or bisphosphonate administration is reported in a 50-year-old patient with esophageal carcinoma who had humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy (HHM).
(9) In this respect, its effects are very similar to those of pooled rhesus monkey aqueous humor during perfusion of rhesus monkey eyes.
(10) Patients with primary hypogammaglobulinaemia have previously been thought not to be more susceptible to Salmonella infection but a combination of low gastric acidity and impaired humoral immunity may predispose them to such infection.
(11) The appearance in aqueous humor of selected metabolites of arachidonic acid metabolism at various times was correlated with the influx of protein and myeloperoxidase activity in the iris-ciliary body.
(12) The development of this arthritis was accompanied by the expression of cell-mediated and humoral immunity to the immunizing antigen.
(13) The steps in the model are the drug elimination rate in the precornea and anterior chamber, the rate of drug dissolution, the rate of drug penetration into the cornea, and the rate of drug transport into the aqueous humor.
(14) (4) The data support other evidence for declining cellular and humoral immunity in aging man.
(15) The pharmacokinetic parameters, apparent absorption, and elimination rate constants, of phenylephrine and the prodrug were determined from aqueous humor concentration-time and mydriasis-time profiles.
(16) Much has been learned about the complexity of the local, humoral and nervous factors regulating the normal behavior of the skin blood vessels, and many studies have addressed how this knowledge might relate to the causation of primary Raynaud's disease.
(17) Modern analytical techniques allow their detailed analysis in terms of the humoral antibody responses and afford the possibility of the future development of control and disease management procedures tailored to each individual host-parasite system.
(18) Intensive humoral immunity was observed to develop in 86% of vaccines, this genic.
(19) Chemotactic activity in the aqueous humor is found in both CVF-treated and control rabbits 20 hours after intravitreous LPS.
(20) If beta-blockage does not cause lowering of aqueous humor secretion, in itself responsible for the maintenance of intraocular pressure, what is the mechanism of action?