(adv.) In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance, not by nature.
(adv.) Ingeniously; skillfully.
(adv.) Craftily; artfully.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dialysis of dog plasma against an artificial c.s.f.
(2) Classical treatment combining artificial delivery or uterine manual evacuation-oxytocics led to the arrest of bleeding in 73 cases.
(3) Nasotracheal intubation has been well established as a method for maintaining an artificial airway in children.
(4) Arginine vasopressin further reduced papillary flow in kidneys perfused with high viscosity artificial plasma.
(5) Females were killed at various times after the onset of mating or artificial insemination, oviducts were fixed and sectioned serially, and spermatozoa were counted individually as to their location in the oviduct.
(6) Recently, we have designed a series of simplified artificial signal sequences and have shown that a proline residue in the signal sequence plays an important role in the secretion of human lysozyme in yeast, presumably by altering the conformation of the signal sequence [Yamamoto, Y., Taniyama, Y., & Kikuchi, M. (1989) Biochemistry 28, 2728-2732].
(7) Anaesthesia was maintained with artificial ventilation and alcuronium, or spontaneous ventilation with halothane.
(8) The distribution of conceptions after artificial insemination from a donor was studied in 259 conceptions at an artificial insemination clinic and found to be seasonal.
(9) Ten patients received intercostal nerve blockade on a total of 29 occasions in order to provide analgesia following liver transplantation and to facilitate weaning from artificial ventilation of the lungs.
(10) A new type of artificial blood, pyridoxylated hemoglobin-polyoxyethylene conjugate (PHP) solution, (developed by PHP research group of the department of health and welfare of Japan, and produced by Ajinomoto Co., Inc. Tokyo) as an oxygen-carrying component, has been recently devised using hemoglobin obtained from hemolyzed human erythrocytes.
(11) Artificially produced mineral waters which are identical to natural ones are also applied.
(12) The results of these investigations suggest that there is a biochemically significant decrease in the bioavailability of zinc when these artificial formulas are used.
(13) Neither was the autumn moult, induced early in intact females by the change to a short photoperiod, advanced in ganglionectomized females, showing that the latter were unresponsive to the artificial modification of the photoperiod.
(14) These artificial rheomelanins in vitro and the apparent in vivo rheomelanins present in plasmas moved together during the two chromatographies.
(15) This paper also examines the effect of pH and ionic strength on the activity and specificity of the enzyme with respect to substrates and natural, as well as artificial, electron acceptors.
(16) The latter animals were raised in an automated feeding device (Autosow) with an artificial diet simulating the nutritional composition of sow milk.
(17) Respiratory failure, developing 7-9 days after inoculation, was associated with a decrease in lung-thorax compliance determined during artificial ventilation, and an increase in the amount of protein including the specific antibody in lung lavage fluid.
(18) One may speculate whether clinical conditions exist--apart from hereditary retinal dystrophies--in which the retina becomes more sensitive to light from strong artificial or natural sources, which are otherwise innoxious.
(19) The results of the present experiments show that capillary blood flow in the cerebral cortex fluctuates, whether the cat's head is supplied by the animal's intact circulation or by an artificial circulation system.
(20) Tissue storage of hydroxyethyl starch (HES), a widely used artificial colloid, has been reported.
Autoplasty
Definition:
(n.) The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors have analyzed their observations of 113 patients and concluded that it is necessary to differentially use various kinds of osteosynthesis and bone autoplasty.
(2) Modern methods of surgical treatment were applied: extrafocal distraction-compression osteosynthesis in 45.5% of cases, bone autoplasty in 41.7%, other operations in 2.8% of cases.
(3) Simple resection, resection combined with oral and mucous membrane or conjunctival graft, derivation autoplasty, central or peripheral lamellar keratoplasty.
(4) Operative indications are outlined: simple resection in very wild cases, conjunctival autoplasty in intermediate cases, actually the most frequent, lamellar keratoplasty, in so called "malignant" pterygium or recurrent pterygium.
(5) The work presents results of free bone autoplasty in 312 patients with chronic osteomyelitis of long bones.
(6) The outcomes of ulnar nerve autoplasty are better in restoration of the artery than in application of an epineural suture.
(7) The clinical experience with surgical reconstruction of the abdominal wall in vast defects in 172 cases of big and giant postoperative hernias by means of modified autoplasty methods with the formation of the doubling with a deep superposition of aponeurotic-muscular grafts is presented.
(8) He predicts the autoplasty of the anterior segment and the transplant of the whole eye.
(9) The method of autoplasty gives the best results in substitution of bone defects after removal of the tumor in the children age.
(10) Autoplasty is indicated in cases where putting the epidural suture is impossible or difficult.
(11) 14 women recovered, including 3 who had repeated surgery (2 bladder-derived Martius grafts and one dual autoplasty).
(12) Humoral immunodeficiency marked by suppression of humoral effector functions and activation of cellular effector functions underlies inhibition of reparation processes and autodermograft lysis after autoplasty.
(13) The author has used an improved two-stage method of autoplasty in 27 patients mainly with posttraumatic bone defects of the forearm in the conditions of latent infection.
(14) The developed variants of free and non-free vertebral autoplasty are considered to be optimal in the surgical management of tuberculous spondylitis.
(15) Adequate resection of the sternum followed by autoplasty yielded good results.
(16) The other methods (myocutaneous flap of the rectus abdominis, Kiricuta's epiploic flap, neighboring autoplasties) now persist only in cases of advanced breast tumor in which the greater dorsal flap is contraindicated.
(17) The authors describe their experience in surgical treatment of fresh injuries of the interior lateral ligament in 25 patients, in 15 of whom autoplasty of the injured ligament was performed by making use of the tendon of musculus semitendinosus which was shifted without being cut off into the projection of the ligament location and sewn to the joint capsule by interrupted sutures.
(18) The augmentation labial commissuroplasty technique, as described by Préaux, Texier and Réal, after reduction of the buccal opening by lip-to-lip autoplasty is presented.
(19) Since 1961 till present time 331 plastic reconstructions of the abdominal wall were performed, in 192 of these only proper patients' tissues being employed, in 110--autoplasty with alloplasty, in 29--alloplasty with a capron mesh.
(20) A method of the operative treatment of the II stage of aseptic necrosis of the femur by subchondral autoplasty (with bone chips with crystal chymotrypsin) is described.