(n.) Any subtile, invisible emanation, effluvium, or exhalation from a substance, as the aroma of flowers, the odor of the blood, a supposed fertilizing emanation from the pollen of flowers, etc.
(n.) The peculiar sensation, as of a light vapor, or cold air, rising from the trunk or limbs towards the head, a premonitory symptom of epilepsy or hysterics.
Example Sentences:
(1) The following three corresponding arguments are put forward in support of the upgraded placebo-concept of "aura curae" (Latin: "air of care"; "unspecific healing context").
(2) Due to the supernatural aura surrounding mental disease, the lack of a sufficient biological basis, and the capacity to reduce civil rights of individuals, psychiatry occupies a special position among the medical disciplines.
(3) It’s just everything about him; his aura, as well.
(4) AURA may be an appropriate respiratory transducer in those patients requiring oxygen therapy.
(5) Vertigo and disorders of equilibrium are well known as aurae in epileptic diseases, especially in the psychomotor type of seizures.
(6) Migraine with aura patients had a reduced interhemispheric coherence mostly of 12 Hz and 15 Hz F1 components in frontal and temporo-parietal regions.
(7) Others liked it, but felt it lacked the aura of the original.
(8) The typical "march" of the aura symptoms may reflect differences in the ischemic threshold of various neurones leading to dysfunction of more and more neurones as the blood flow gradually decreases.
(9) The fact that it had been smuggled out of prison gave it an added aura.
(10) My personal favorite part was Beyoncé had her backup singers and dancers in pantsuits.” Each celebrity who joined Clinton for her last push seemed to top the previous night, giving her closing appearances an aura of celebration.
(11) Case reports of five patients are presented, each with a specific aura at the onset of the seizures.
(12) The 24 Hz F1 component was augmented only in migraineurs without aura in the parieto-occipital regions in comparison with migraineurs with aura and controls.
(13) The aura study showed focal hyperperfusion in the left frontal region and decreased perfusion in the adjacent cortex posteriorly, suggesting a zone of suppression.
(14) In both samples symptom combinations corresponding to the syndromes of migraine with aura, migraine without aura and tension headache did indeed occur with significant frequency.
(15) Electrical stimulation without prior natural stimulation produced unpleasant sensations in three patients with a history of temporal lobe seizures and olfactory auras, but not in patients with primary generalized or focal epilepsy.
(16) He, of course, disclaimed his commitment, telling an American admirer that he was "a person who prefers life to art, and who knows it is a far finer thing to be in love…" The record of his creativity suggests the opposite, only adding to the aura of enigma that still surrounds him.
(17) Photograph: Alamy Now, among the juniper trees, you can find strip-malls full of crystal shops, aura-reading stations and psychics.
(18) Physical disease, bereavement, isolation, and dependency in elderly people create the aura of rationality frequently and unrightfully attached to suicide in the elderly.
(19) Auras and subclinical seizures detected by depth electrode recording were often not evident with subdural electrodes.
(20) Between attacks of migraine with aura and at the beginning of attacks of both types of migraine the serum 5-HT and 5-HIAA concentration was significantly increased.
Aurelia
Definition:
(n.) The chrysalis, or pupa of an insect, esp. when reflecting a brilliant golden color, as that of some of the butterflies.
(n.) A genus of jellyfishes. See Discophora.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, it was also shown that the bacteria that infect the macronuclei of P. multimicronucleatum and the P. aurelia species complex always disappear from the nuclei within 5 days and the infected bacteria are maintained stably in the host nuclei in only 13 out of 22 strains of P. caudatum.
(2) Results are presented for intra- and interspecies variation in electrophoretic mobility of the enzyme glucosephosphate isomerase in the Paramecium aurelia species complex.
(3) The intracellular concentration of free Ca2+ in resting P. aurelia was at least ten times less than the extracellular concentration.
(4) These results suggest that a difference in specificity of the immaturity substances exists bewteen paramecia of the 'aurelia' group and those of the 'bursaria' group.
(5) Mutants of Paramecium aurelia that are unable to reverse swimming direction are called pawns.
(6) aurelia syngen 4) cells to pulse treatments with various doses of Actinomycin D (AMD) was estimated by comparing the generation times of treated and untreated sister cells.
(7) They were thought to be limited to the cytoplasm of two species in the Paramecium aurelia species complex.
(8) The tRNA methyltransferases from Paramecium aurelia were investigated.
(9) Paramecium aurelia is chosen as the material for a genetic dissection of the excitable membrane.
(10) Several mutants of Paramecium aurelia have been selected on the basis of their resistance to the paralyzing effect of barium.
(11) The characteristics of Ca2+ transport across the excitable membrane of Paramecium aurelia were studied by measuring 45Ca2+ influx and efflux.
(12) Two heat-sensitive "pawn" mutants of Paramecium aurelia are capable of avoiding reactions when grown at 23 degrees C but not at 35 degrees C. Electrophysiological analyses show that Ca activation is reduces in the mutants even when they are grown at 23 degrees C. The maximal rate of rise and the peak of the evoked action potential (Ca-spike) in the mutants are smaller than those of wild type in a K-solution.
(13) Using these mitochondrial markers, the interactions between nucleus and mitochondria have been studied in two ways: by microinjection of mitochondria from one stock or species into other stocks and species of P. aurelia and by a genetic study of a nuclear mutation affecting mitochondrial multiplication.
(14) The responses of Aurelia medusae to pharmacological agents and ionic variation were classified into four response types: Type I, no response; Type II, inhibition of pacemaker activity; Type III, inhibition of both pacemakers and swimming muscles; and Type IV, increase in pacemaker output.
(15) Sites with high calcium affinity in Paramecium aurelia were identified by high calcium (5 mM) fixation and electron microscope methods.
(16) The reversal response in Paramecium aurelia is mediated by calcium which carries the inward current during excitation.
(17) The "paranoiac" mutants of Paramecium aurelia show prolonged backward swimming in solutions containing Na+, unlike wild-type paramecia, which jerk back and forth in Na+ solutions.
(18) When The Bell Jar was first published in January 1963, it appeared under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, because, according to Sigmund, the author did not want to upset Aurelia or other people who feature in the book.
(19) With the aid of the Aurelia metamorphosis test system, the acute and subtle developmental and behavioral effects of X irradiation in the presence and absence of thyroxine on the Norfolk Aurelia aurita were described.
(20) "Pawns" are mutants of Paramecium aurelia in which the process of calcium activation during membrane excitation is genetically impaired, with a corresponding loss of avoiding reactions.