(1) It was earlier suggested that in cataleptic animals, the bandage inhibits vestibular and kinesthetic mechanisms of head support, yielding the backfall sequence [35].
(2) Therefore, in the intact, cataleptic rat the bandage backfall reaction appears to be produced by the combined effects of a passive component (inhibition of kinesthetic support mechanisms), and an active component (elicitation of dorsiflexion of the neck).
(3) However, preliminary experiments showed that labyrinthectomized rats made cataleptic by haloperidol fall backwards when placed in a vertical clinging position, even without a bandage, suggesting that in the rat the bandage-backfall reaction depends only on the vestibular system.
(4) In labyrinthectomized rats made cataleptic by other means (lateral hypothalamic damage, or bulbocapnine), backfall from clinging did not occur unless a bandage was applied.
Wrestling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wrestle
Example Sentences:
(1) This week they are wrestling with the difficult issue of how prisoners can order clothes for themselves now that clothing companies are discontinuing their printed catalogues and moving online.
(2) Perhaps it’s the lot of people like my colleagues here in the centre and me to wrestle with our consciences, shed tears, lose sleep and try to make the best of a very bad, heart-breaking job and leave the rest of the world to party, get pissed and celebrate Christmas.
(3) Can the protests, which tried, ultimately without success, to wrestle genuine universal suffrage from Beijing, be called a failure?
(4) However, the shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander , is adamant Labour could not afford to spend the first two years of government wrestling with a referendum on Europe, pointing to the energy it had expended on the near-disastrous no campaign for the Scotland independence vote.
(5) Anthropometric characteristics, passive hip flexion, and spinal mobility were examined and back pain was registered in 116 top Swedish male athletes representing four different sports (wrestling, gymnastics, soccer, tennis).
(6) But the Lib Dems' conference, which starts on Saturday in Glasgow, may be marked by a series of internal disputes as the leadership and party activists wrestle over strategy, policies and the independence of its manifesto.
(7) Celebrity Wrestling is the biggest failure of the ITV 2005 schedule so far.
(8) Heselden's only reservation about the ceremony, said David Robinson, would have been the time it took 30 or more staff to wrestle with erecting the marquee.
(9) This failure to wrestle with what’s coming goes wider.
(10) Updated at 6.57pm BST 6.49pm BST A congressman, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), once lost an arm-wrestling match against Russian president Vladimir Putin , and now he has told the world about it.
(11) Instead he realised that while his teammates were wrestling him on the ground in celebration, he hadn’t yet shaken hands with his opponent, David Goffin.
(12) – are all questions that many health and care economies around the country are still wrestling with.
(13) But Bony knows he has the trust of me and the team.” A second Ivorian joined him among the goals when Damien Delaney wrestled Eliaquim Mangala to the ground and Touré scored from the resulting penalty.
(14) Hookem said: “It was two people grappling, that had hold of each other, and were basically still stood up but wrestling.
(15) He had wrestled one of the gunmen – there were marks on his arms where he had attempted to fight them off – and been shot in the chest, dying instantly.
(16) A wrestler's weight is often determined by the need to fill a wrestling class and not on a good scientific basis.
(17) It is by no means a total success artistically but it has enough tension, feeling and originality of theme and speech to make the choice understandable, and the evening must have given to anyone who has wrestled with the mechanics of play-making an uneasy and yet not wasted jaunt, just as it must have awoken echoes in anyone one who has not forgotten the frustrations of youth.
(18) There are a number of common problems that affect the whole of our media spectrum, all of which have at some point to be wrestled to the ground if we're to ever move beyond what I see as this potentially self-destructive phase in our historical development.
(19) The room held 52' Carl Hutchinson My childhood hero was World Wrestling Entertainment's Mick Foley .
(20) So it is with Ukip: this party has made no rational sense since it captured the name from its anti-federalist founders and wrestled it into a one-man, anti-everything machine.