(a.) Having little or no tendency to take a fixed or definite position or direction: thus, a suspended magnetic needle, when rendered astatic, loses its polarity, or tendency to point in a given direction.
Example Sentences:
(1) The similarity of infantile spasms and myoclonic astatic epilepsy is discussed, as are the so-called 'Lennox' and 'Lennox-Gastaut' syndromes.
(2) Confirmation was found for the generally accepted rule that exogenic injuries are most often demonstrable in children with salaam or myoclonic-astatic convulsions and least often in those with absences.
(3) Korean cattle (Hamhung, Pyongyang, Chinju Suwon, and Kwangju), Mongolian cattle, Hainan Tao cattle, northeastern Chinese cattle (Shuangliao, Shenyang, Tongliao, Lüta, and Chilin), Astatic Water Buffalo, Yak, Bos Banteng, American Bison, and Holstein-Friesian.
(4) These patients, aged between 16 months and 13 years old, showed the following epileptic syndromes: Lennox-Gastaut syndrome's (5 cases); epilepsy with myoclonic absences (1 case); "intermediary petit mal" (1 case); benign atypical partial epilepsy in infancy (1 case), and epilepsy with myoclonic-astatic seizures.
(5) A high rate of hereditary afflictions was found even in those types of seizure which are considered predominantly symptomatic (salaam [West] or myoclonic-astatic convulsions: 13.5%, focal attacks: 11.2%).
(6) As an element of verbalized group sentiment, it is a positive assertion of Samoan values, astatement of social solidarity.
(7) The rate, character and the site of the pathomorphologic alterations slightly varied with different ICP patterns while the gravest alterations were seen on the computerized tomograms during double hemiplegia, in the hemiparesis and atonically astatic patterns of ICP.
(8) In the patients' childhood astatic seizures had not been observed.
(9) In the sixth case, the appropriate anticonvulsant was used, but it induced multiple astatic-myoclonic seizures.
(10) In 17 patients with a long course of epilepsy astatic seizures became apparent after the age of 14 years.
(11) The types of myoclonic epilepsy are infantile spasms, myoclonic astatic epilepsy, myoclonic absence, myoclonic epilepsy of childhood, myoclonic epilepsy of adolescence and photomyoclonic epilepsy, the last being subdivided into myoclonic jerks and eyelid myoclonia.
(12) Absence seizures include classic absence, impulsive petit mal, juvenile absence seizures with myoclonic phenomena, and atonic-astatic seizures.
(13) In contrast, in the low met- astatic cells, SEM adhesion and lung-colony formation were not affected by anti-alpha IIb beta 3 antibody treatment.
(14) The evolution of psychomotor development and behaviour was studied in 15 children with primary generalized myoclonic-astatic epilepsy and with developmental status adequate for age at final examination at school age following a mean follow-up period of 8.5 years.
(15) He has also suffered from astatic seizures since age 8.
(16) We studied 36 drop seizures in 5 patients with myoclonic astatic epilepsy of early childhood (MAEE) with simultaneous split-screen video recording and polygraph.
(17) This paper presents case reports of patients suffering from myoclonic-astatic and stimulus-sensitive myoclonic seizures, respectively.
(18) A survey of mosquitoes was carried out in 7 weeded astatic ponds in and around Madurai from October 1990 to January 1991 to qualitatively determine the macrophyte-mosquito larvae association.
(19) A double-blind crossover study with imipramine was conducted in 10 patients with absence and myoclonic-astatic seizures who had not responded to conventional medications.
(20) 3) The initial success was 57%: 46% in infantile myoclonic seizures, 56% in Lennox syndrome, 70% in myoclonic-astatic petit-mal.
Stable
Definition:
(v. i.) Firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government.
(v. i.) Steady in purpose; constant; firm in resolution; not easily diverted from a purpose; not fickle or wavering; as, a man of stable character.
(v. i.) Durable; not subject to overthrow or change; firm; as, a stable foundation; a stable position.
(v. t.) To fix; to establish.
(v. i.) A house, shed, or building, for beasts to lodge and feed in; esp., a building or apartment with stalls, for horses; as, a horse stable; a cow stable.
(v. t.) To put or keep in a stable.
(v. i.) To dwell or lodge in a stable; to dwell in an inclosed place; to kennel.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
(2) F(420) is photolabile aerobically in neutral and basic solutions, whereas the acid-stable chromophore is not photolabile under these conditions.
(3) These organic compounds were found to be stable on the sorbent tubes for at least seven days.
(4) A new and simple method of serotyping campylobacters has been developed which utilises co-agglutination to detect the presence of heat-stable antigens.
(5) We similarly evaluated the ability of other phospholipids to form stable foam at various concentrations and ethanol volume fractions and found: bovine brain sphingomyelin greater than dipalmitoyl 3-sn-phosphatidylcholine greater than egg sphingomyelin greater than egg lecithin greater than phosphatidylglycerol.
(6) The constitution of chromosomes in the two plasmacytomas remained remarkably stable in their homogeneous modal population.
(7) This would disrupt and prevent Isis from maintaining stable and reliable sources of income.
(8) Reiteration VII (within protein coding regions of genes US10 and US11) and reiteration IV (within introns of genes US1 and US12) were stable between the isolates (group 1).
(9) This Mr 20,000 inhibitory activity was acid and heat stable and sensitive to dithiothreitol and trypsin.
(10) Under these conditions, arterial pressure and sodium balance remained stable.
(11) Stable factor-dependent B-cell hybridomas were used to monitor the purification of the growth factor from the supernatant of a clonotypically stimulated mouse helper T-cell clone.
(12) This study describes the consequences of acute prostaglandin synthesis inhibition on the hemodynamic effects of nitroglycerin in patients with stable angina pectoris.
(13) Eighty-eight patients (97%) had a stable fixation and 77 (85%) had resumed preoperative activity or were working but with a residual deficit.
(14) In the dark the 6-azidoflavoproteins are quite stable, except for L-lactate oxidase, where spontaneous conversion to the 6-amino-FMN enzyme occurs slowly at pH 7.
(15) When antibodies were bound to cell-surface DPP IV at 4 degrees C, the immune complex remained stable for more than 1 h after rewarming to 37 degrees C, despite ongoing metabolic and membrane transport processes.
(16) Chemical modification of aldolase leads to formation of stable N epsilon (4-carboxybenzenesulfonyl-lysine (Cbs-Lys) and O-(4-carboxybenzenesulfonyl-tyrosine (Cbs-Tyr) derivatives.
(17) The administration of stable analogue of the leu-enkephalin did not alter the concentration of cortisole and aldosterone in the blood of white male rats whereas this concentration increased after administration of the parathormone.
(18) Both stable and labeled T3 were likewise found in these sera.
(19) Sec-alpha-halo-nitro compounds are active antibacterial and antifungal agents, and the sec-bromo derivatives are the most active and stable.
(20) These results indicate that the Mn-DTPASA complex is not stable.