(n.) An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.
Example Sentences:
(1) Barbitone and NIB raised the concentration of noradrenaline in two of the regions examined whereas the O2-substituted derivative had a smaller effect; the dopamine concentration was slightly raised by NIB and O2IB.
(2) The effects of the chronic administration of barbitone and its O2-substituted isopropyl derivative (O2IB) was studied on the hypomotility induced in rats by the acute administration of a low dose of apomorphine.
(3) After chronic administration of sodium barbitone to rats, a marked increase incorporation of [14C]-Leucine into isolated nerve endings was observed.
(4) The inhibition of the major form of ox kidney aldehyde reductase (AR 1) by sodium barbitone revealed linear mixed kinetics.
(5) Inhibition experiments revealed that cross-reactivity occurs between the drug-reactive IgE antibodies and four barbiturate analogues pentobarbitone, phenobarbitone, barbitone and methohexital.
(6) Both thiopental sodium and barbitone sodium increased the total ACh content in the brain tissue of Arvicanthis niloticus.
(7) Barbitone and O2IB slightly increased the noradrenaline content of the brain stem while only O2IB decreased the dopamine content.
(8) Previous studies have shown that slight modification of the barbitone molecule can lead to enhanced sedative activity, convulsant activity or putative antidepressant activity according to the position of the isopropyl substituent on the N- or O-moiety.
(9) It was concluded that the hypersensitivity to pentobarbitone, but not to barbitone, which develops after withdrawal of barbitone sodium is due to a decreased drug-metabolizing capacity.
(10) The H. pylori Km was 0.6 mM at pH 4.6 and 1.0 mM at pH 8.2 in barbitone buffer, greater than 10.0 mM, and 1.1 mM respectively in phosphate buffer and also greater than 10.0 mM in Tris.HCl at pH 8.2.
(11) Substantial binding of DNA by normal serum takes place in barbitone, borate or Tris-HCl buffers at concentrations of 30 mM or higher, even at a pH higher than 7.2.
(12) The increase in the whole brain contents of DA, NE and 5-HT after the administration of barbitone sodium and thiopental sodium may be due either to inhibition of transmitter release by an action at the monoamine nerve terminal or to effects causing a decrease in nerve impulse flow.
(13) Long-term oral administration to the rat of barbitone, alone or together with the analeptics bemegride or pentylenetetrazol, has shown that the intensity of the withdrawal syndrome generally parallels the degree of associated CNS depression.
(14) Various crystal forms of sulphathiazole, barbitone and aspirin were compressed in a single-punch tablet machine instrumented to monitor axially applied and radially transmitted forces, and upper punch movement.
(15) Reserpine pretreated animals anaesthetized with barbitone were selected for further experiments.
(16) Jack bean urease has a single pH optimum at 7.4, whereas H. pylori urease has two pH optima of 4.6 and 8.2 in barbitone and phosphate buffers that were capable of spanning the pH range 3 to 10.
(17) The change in sensitivity of the brain which occurred during the period of barbitone administration was not demonstrable from the measurement of sleeping time following intraperitoneal injection of barbitone or pentobarbitone.5.
(18) prolonged the duration of loss of righting reflex following chloral hydrate, pentobarbitone, barbitone, temazepam and halothane, but not diethyl ether.
(19) barely affected the cardiovascular changes produced by GABA in barbitone-anaesthetized animals.
(20) The child, who was normal at birth, developed a transient hypotonus which seemed attributable more to the treatment of the mother with Diazepam and pheno-barbitone than to her having taken bismuth during the pregnancy.
Lyre
Definition:
(n.) A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.
(n.) One of the constellations; Lyra. See Lyra.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Aswan, the lyre is represented by the Sudanese masenkop, Ugandan adungu, and Egyptian simsimiya and tamboura, while the spike fiddle manifests as the Ethiopian masenko and Ugandan endingidi.
(2) Orpheus, the great musician of myth, sits at its centre strumming a lyre, while a fox leaps at his feet.
(3) Similarly, for the isthmus, an anterior lyre, a pallial crest, a pallial peduncle, and a posterior lyre are described.
(4) The plucked harp (lyre) and spike fiddle have been at the heart of the Nile's musical identity since ancient times.
(5) The impulse seemed archaic, quaint, but as the weeks of these Olympics have progressed, you could argue that Hannah Cockcroft and Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis and Ellie Simmonds, Bradley Wiggins and David Weir have not been done justice even by the vivid enthusiasm of Clare Balding and Michael Johnson – they require lyres and heroic couplets.
(6) The article shows the results of study of the causes of these complications, which formed the basis for improving the methods and techniques of the operation the principal differences of which consisted in: (1) colostomy, except for the final formation of the opening at the level of the skin, was conducted before mobilization of the rectum; (2) retroperitoneal passing of the intestine was accomplished through the upper angle of a lyre-shaped incision of the pelvic peritoneum to the left of the sigmoid colon; (3) the use of a "closed" method of flat stoma formation by cutting the intestinal wall at the level of the skin down to the mucosa and attaching it to the skin by the musculoserous coat with interrupted catgut sutures, and only after that is the excessive mucosa cut off and the intestinal lumen opened.