(a.) Of or pertaining to the ear, or to the sense of hearing; as, auricular nerves.
(a.) Told in the ear, i. e., told privately; as, auricular confession to the priest.
(a.) Recognized by the ear; known by the sense of hearing; as, auricular evidence.
(a.) Received by the ear; known by report.
(a.) Pertaining to the auricles of the heart.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clonidine and methysergide constrict the rabbit auricular artery by activating smooth muscle alpha-adrenoceptors.
(2) In the observation of the serial sections, capillary plexuses were able to be confirmed along the periphery, very close to the auricular cartilage.
(3) One case with embolic cardiac infarction is described, that had developed in a patient with mitral-aortic valvular defect with auricular fibrillation and simultaneous embolic dissemination in the right middle cerebral and superior mesenteric arteries.
(4) The small part of the flap that passed underneath the auricular skin or through the auricular cartilage is deepithelialized.
(5) Seven peripheral vein sites were successfully venipunctured in unanaesthetized chinchillas: the femoral, cephalic, auricular, saphenous, dorsalis penis, lateral abdominal and tail veins.
(6) Histologic study showed that the growth of transplanted auricular cartilage is achieved jointly by two mechanisms, namely interstitial growth and appositional growth.
(7) Viable auricular cartilage was found in all grafted joints.
(8) In the region of sacroiliac articulation are the highest subchondral densities, both at the cranial and caudal edges, whereas the central part of the two auricular surfaces is less heavily mineralized.
(9) The technique consists of wide undermining of supranasal and paranasal skin, use of composite auricular grafts from the ear to lengthen the upper lateral cartilages, use of a chondromucosal septal flap for lengthening the septum, and postoperative downward taping to assure adequate stretching of dorsal skin for the first-stage procedure.
(10) The drop of T3 may play a part also in the antiarrhythmic action of amiodarone in the treatment of auricular fibrillation.
(11) Comparisons are made to intracellular binding in chondrocytes of tracheal, articular, and auricular cartilage.
(12) Application of a sensitizing dose of DNFB to the ear resulted in a significant increase in the number of cells recovered from the draining auricular and cervical lymph nodes, 4 and 6 days post sensitization.
(13) Through electroencephalographic recording of an experimentally induced epileptic seizure, existence of the "auricular reflex epilepsy" described in about 30 reports dating from the past century is now objectively demonstrated.
(14) From the various parts of the sacrum (body, facets, alae and laminae) distinct sets of trabeculae extend towards the auricular surface.
(15) The damaged inferior alveolar nerve of rabbit was repaired with autogenous ipsilateral greater auricular nerve grafting primarily and secondarily, and electrophysiological, ultrastructural, microvascular and histochemical investigations were performed in this study.
(16) The results support earlier morphological findings, indicating that perichondrium from rib cartilage has a better ability to regenerate than auricular perichondrium.
(17) Corporeal acupuncture (CA), intal specific hyposensitization (SH) increased 100 times the resistance to allergens; auricular acupuncture (AA), combination of CA with intal increased it 100-fold; SH and CA 1000-fold.
(18) A superior salivary nucleus, a root, pterygopalatine, submandibular, sublingual and auricular (in man) parasympathetic ganglia of the head, peripheral branches.
(19) According to the results of electrocardiogram patients were subdivided into 4 groups: normal electrocardiogram, isolated left auricular hypertrophy (LAH), isolated left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and major ST-T wave changes.
(20) The presence of the posterior auricular myogenic reflex was infectigated in healthy subjects.
Heart
Definition:
(n.) A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood.
(n.) The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; -- usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart.
(n.) The nearest the middle or center; the part most hidden and within; the inmost or most essential part of any body or system; the source of life and motion in any organization; the chief or vital portion; the center of activity, or of energetic or efficient action; as, the heart of a country, of a tree, etc.
(n.) Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
(n.) Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
(n.) That which resembles a heart in shape; especially, a roundish or oval figure or object having an obtuse point at one end, and at the other a corresponding indentation, -- used as a symbol or representative of the heart.
(n.) One of a series of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps.
(n.) Vital part; secret meaning; real intention.
(n.) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
(v. t.) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to inspirit.
(v. i.) To form a compact center or heart; as, a hearting cabbage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The extents of phospholipid hydrolysis were relatively low in brain homogenates, synaptic plasma membranes and heart ventricular muscle.
(2) A 2.5-month-old child with cyanotic heart disease who required long-term PGE1 infusions; developed widespread periosteal reactions during the course of therapy.
(3) It was found that the skeletal muscle enzyme of the chick embryo is independent of the presence of creatine and consequently is another constitutive enzyme like the creatine kinase of the early embryonic chick heart.
(4) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
(5) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(6) Among the pathological or abnormal ECGs (25.6%) prevailed the vegetative-functional heart diseases with 92%.
(7) Propranolol resulted in a significantly lower mean hourly, mean 24 h and minimum heart rate.
(8) Heart rate (HR), pulmonary ventilation (V), oxygen consumption (VO2), carbon dioxide production (VCO2), and respiratory quotient (RQ) were measured.
(9) Coronary arteritis has to be considered as a possible etiology of ischemic symptoms also in subjects who appear affected by typical atherosclerotic ischemic heart disease.
(10) A full-length cDNA encoding porcine heart aconitase was derived from lambda gt10 recombinant clones and by amplification of the 5' end of the mRNA.
(11) report the complications registered, in particular: lead's displacing 6.2%, run away 0.7%, marked hyperthermya 0.0%, haemorrage 0.4%, wound dehiscence 0.3%, asectic necrosis by decubitus 5%, septic necrosis 0.3%, perforation of the heart 0.2%, pulmonary embolism 0.1%.
(12) Western blot analysis of these mitochondria using an antibody against carnitine palmitoyltransferase II purified from beef heart demonstrates a 68-kDa protein, which under ischemic conditions apparently is decreased by 2 kDa.
(13) The strongest predictor of non-sudden cardiac death was the New York Heart Association functional class.
(14) Road traffic accidents (RTAs) comprised 40% and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) 13% of the total.
(15) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(16) The role of O2 free radicals in the reduction of sarcolemmal Na+-K+-ATPase, which occurs during reperfusion of ischemic heart, was examined in isolated guinea pig heart using exogenous scavengers of O2 radicals and an inhibitor of xanthine oxidase.
(17) Complete heart block was produced in 20 of 20 dogs.
(18) low molecular weight dextran in the course of right heart catheterization.
(19) Myocardial ischaemia was induced in perfused rabbit hearts by ligating the left main coronary artery.
(20) In the stage 24 chick embryo, a paced increase in heart rate reduces stroke volume, presumably by rate-dependent decrease in passive filling.