(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.
Auricula
Definition:
(n.) A species of Primula, or primrose, called also, from the shape of its leaves, bear's-ear.
(n.) A species of Hirneola (H. auricula), a membranaceous fungus, called also auricula Judae, or Jew's-ear.
(n.) A genus of air-breathing mollusks mostly found near the sea, where the water is brackish
(n.) One of the five arched processes of the shell around the jaws of a sea urchin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Morphometric investigations of capillaries in the muscle fibers have been carried out in the atrial walls, in the right and left auriculae.
(2) Most frequently in these patients a prolapse of the mitral valve is found, a foramen ovale patents, an aneurysm of the atrial septum, sometimes thrombi in the left auricula atrialis of an otherwise quite normal heart.
(3) The occipital belly is also active during smiling and yawning, and can be active during the movements of the auricula.
(4) We studied carefully and first of all systematically size, form and condition of the auricula.
(5) Follow-up of 103 patients with squamous cell carcinomas of the auricula showed that 20 of them developed regional lymph node metastases.
(6) Asymptomatic papular lesions had appeared on the dorsum of both of his feet 30 years earlier, then extended gradually and symmetrically to his hands, arms, legs, trunk, and auriculae.
(7) Concave autogenous cartilage from the upper part of the concha auriculae trimmed in three pieces to protect attic, mastoid, and middle ear for graft retraction has been successfully used in 106 surgical procedures.
(8) Rhinoplasty cases require use of a cartilaginous graft from the concha auriculae.
(9) In the rat hearts with healed infarctions the amount of polyploid nuclei was increased both in the myocytes of the auricle and of the auricula atrii.
(10) The magnesium concentration in skeletal muscle was found to correlate with that in right auricula (r = 0.46, p less than 0.01) and right atrium (r = 0.43, p less than 0.01), whereas values in serum and lymphocytes showed no correlation with the heart's magnesium content.
(11) Particular otologic findings were a non-progressive inner ear hearing loss bordering on deafness, a fungus-covered cell detritus in the cartilaginous part of the external ear canal, and hyperkeratosis of the auricula.
(12) For the investigation the skin area 2 X 2 sm large has been chosen on the internal surface of the right concha auriculae 6 sm below the upper edge of the ear.
(13) On the third postoperative day the myocytes of the myocardium of senescent rats weighing 300-430 g proliferated in the left auricular appendage (mitotic index--from 1 to 5.1%) and in the right auricula appendage (in one of 8 cases, mitotic index 4.2%).
(14) Muscle specimens were obtained from right auricula of patients undergoing open-heart surgery.
(15) The pathogenesis of bluetongue infection was studied by the titration of the virus in tissue samples taken from sheep inoculated subcutaneously in the auricula of the ear with 76 TC ID50 of the plaque-purified type 10 bluetongue virus.
(16) In the myocytes of the auricula atril the amount of the labeled nuclei peaked on the 5th day, and that of mitoses--on the 7th day.
(17) The uptake in vitro of 3H-noradrenaline in irides and heart auriculae, as well as the noradrenaline terminal density in the dilator plate and surrounding blood vessels in the iris, were unaffected by repeated capsaicin treatment to developing rats.
(18) By means of the retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase (HP) method sensitive innervation of the rabbit concha auriculae skin has been studied.
(19) These terminals constitute the afferent link of the pathway that accounts for the analgesia obtained after electrical stimulation of the concha auriculae.
(20) The noradrenaline level in the iris was significantly increased (+42%), while no significant changes in noradrenaline level were observed in heart auricula or superior cervical ganglion.