(n.) A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation.
(n.) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.
(n.) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
(n.) A bomb or shell.
(n.) A game played with a large inflated ball.
(n.) The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
(v. t.) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
(v. i.) To go up or voyage in a balloon.
(v. i.) To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(2) A new balloon catheter has been developed for angioplasty.
(3) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
(4) In the case presented, overdistension of a jejunostomy catheter balloon led to intestinal obstruction and pressure necrosis (of the small bowel), with subsequent abscess formation leading to death from septicemia.
(5) Combined SEM and TEM examination of the endothelium of compressed segments revealed "craters" and "balloons", blebs and vacuoles, swollen mitochondria, dilated granular endoplasmic reticulum, and subendothelial edema.
(6) The complex problems have been successfully managed with novel guiding catheter shapes and ultralow profile balloons.
(7) This study compares the effects of 60 minutes of ischemic arrest with profound topical hypothermia (10 dogs) on myocardial (1) blood flow and distribution (microspheres), (2) metabolism (oxygen and lactate), (3) water content (wet to dry weights), (4) compliance (intraventricular balloon), and (5) performance (isovolumetric function curves) with 180 minutes of cardiopulmonary bypass with the heart in the beating empty state (seven dogs).
(8) The hemodynamic measurements and mitral valve area calculations were performed with and without balloon occlusion of the atrial septal puncture site.
(9) The balloon was then deflated, permitting blood reperfusion.
(10) In order to delineate the critical blood flow pattern during the Cushing response in intracranial hypertension, regional cerebral blood flow was measured with radioactive microspheres in 12 anesthetized dogs at respiratory arrest caused either by expansion of an epidural supratentorial balloon or by cisternal infusion.
(11) Segmentally enclosed thrombolysis (SET) was undertaken immediately after PTA, when a double balloon catheter was positioned with a balloon at each end of dilated segments.
(12) 2B7 mRNA levels in both carotid and aortic artery increase with age, and are elevated approximately 5-fold in the carotid artery 48 h after balloon angioplasty.
(13) 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.
(14) Intracoronary imaging after balloon angioplasty reveals that a significant amount of atheroma is still present, which may partly explain why the incidence of restenosis is high after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.
(15) Understanding of the physiologic parameters governing blood flow to the lower extremity is clearly useful in this day of interventional balloon angioplasty.
(16) Smooth muscle cells (SMCs) in balloon-injured rat carotid artery express tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) at a time when they are migrating from the media to the intima.
(17) The orientation of the dilating balloon in the inlet and outlet portions of the left ventricle, change of the catheter-dilator is controlled due to a loop of the conductor connecting the right and left parts of the heart.
(18) We describe a premature infant with progressive worsening of unilateral PIE, which was successfully treated by selective bronchial balloon catheterization after failure of conservative management.
(19) Analysed were the results of surgical treatment, causes of the failure and early recurrence in 108 patients with retinal detachment in whom was performed an indentation of the sclera by means of a balloon (1st group--50) or by an episcleral implant (2d group--58).
(20) Modified liposomes and erythrocytes were perfused in situ through segments of bovine, rabbit, or human arteries partially denuded with a balloon catheter prior to perfusion.
Sated
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Sate
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, in experiment 1 there were no differences between the groups when sated or during extinction and in experiment 2 the increased responding was restricted to the lever providing CR.
(2) Khao Soi Khun Yai, Sri Poom Road, next to Wat Kuan Kama, Old City, North Moat; meal for two £1.60-£3 Warorot evening market Facebook Twitter Pinterest You could pick other food markets (Sompet, Thanin, Chiang Mai Gate, Chang Phuak Gate) and be as deliriously sated, but the night-time street food at Warorot remains special to me.
(3) Mouse killing induced by septal lesions, olfactory bulb lesions, or parachlorophenylalanine (PCPA) injections was compared with that of sated or food-deprived spontaneous mouse-killing rats in order to evaluate whether the experimentally induced killing corresponds to killing that occurs spontaneously, which tends to be viewed as predatory.
(4) One interpretation of these results is that naloxone attenuated the reward experienced by castrated and sexually sated males in the presence of an estrous female, thereby disrupting males' coital performance.
(5) Furthermore, neuroleptic-induced blockade of food-related motivational effects in food-deprived, but not in food-sated (non-food-deprived), animals suggests that the neural substrates of motivational events do not dissociate along the line between different rewarding stimuli but along the line between deprivation and nondeprivation.
(6) But, in truth, this was a victory fashioned outside the system, rather than because of it, and born of the grit, determination and talent of one man with a restless appetite for winning that is unlikely to be sated by his historic New York title.
(7) A burgeoning “No Palm Oil” movement is seeing some brands ditch palm oil altogether and state that on their packets, to sate the public mood.
(8) Our investigation seeks to establish a means to return sated leeches to their previous unfed, hungry state for reuse.
(9) Conversely, at sites of perfusion in the LH, insulin evoked the release of [3H]-NE when the rat was fasted, whereas 2-DG tended to induce mixed effects on the release of [3H]-NE under both sated and fasted conditions.
(10) They provide a solution to the age-old dilemma of what to buy your grandad once his need for socks and whisky is truly sated and provide an easy gift fix for long-distance friends and family.
(11) Their transfer lust will be sated by the £23m Dynamo Kyiv winger Andriy Yarmolenko , though that move won’t happen until the summer, by which time it’ll be far too late.
(12) The neuronal pattern of activity was studied during sated and fasted conditions as well as during a local glucoprivic challenge to the LH.
(13) Seven anatomically-defineD SFO subregions were discerned having metabolic activities that differed from one another by as much as 29% in water-sated Brattleboro rats.
(14) Yellow titles How visually sated are you right now?
(15) Measurements of glucose metabolism in individual components of the DVC, compared with those in Long-Evans rats, revealed that the area postrema was activated selectively both in water-sated and water-deprived Brattleboro rats, which have high circulating levels of angiotensin II.
(16) Here we report that the main compound in the SATES solution is a monosuccinyl ester of TES (MST).
(17) Sated by three years of Special One pyrotechnics, the British press might be ready to be charmed by Ramos' brand of quietly pithy humour.
(18) In contrast, binding in neural lobe sections of water-deprived, saline-treated, and water-sated homozygous Brattleboro rats was lower by 50%, 35% and 37%, respectively.
(19) Food-deprived decerebrate rats, like intact ones, ingested a taste substance they had rejected when sated.
(20) Also, it is suggested that our operations for eliciting stimulus-induced eating in sated subjects may be useful for future examinations of the psychological properties of craving.