(n.) The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; -- called also bloat herring.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, in 1969-70, dieldrin levels in fish from Lake Huron exceeded the 0.3 ppm tolerance level set by Health and Welfare Canada or the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 5 percent of lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) and 10 percent of bloaters.
(2) "Pink puffers" with breathlessness, hyperinflation, mild hypoxemia, and a low PCO2 are contrasted with "blue bloaters" with hypoxemia, secondary polycythemia, CO2 retention, and pulmonary hypertension and cor pulmonale.
(3) Profound transient nocturnal hypoxemia is common during REM sleep in "blue bloaters" with chronic obstructive lung disease, these patients having hypoxemia and CO2 retention when awake, when breathing air.
(4) Mortality was 2.08% and 12 animals were considered to be chronic bloaters.
(5) As the classic "blue bloater" with attenuated respiratory drive is described as being less dyspneic than his "pink puffer" counterpart, we wondered whether the variability in dyspnea and exercise tolerance in a group of patients with COPD with relatively similar degrees of air-flow obstruction might be partly explained by the variability in resting respiratory drives (unstimulated P0.1 and hypoxic and hypercapnic P0.1 responses).
(6) PCB residues declined in lake trout and lake whitefish caught in Lake Superior between 1971 and 1975, but increased slightly in bloaters and white sucker (Catostomus commersoni).
(7) The extremes of this spectrum, the "pink puffer" (PP) and "blue bloater" (BB) stereotypes differ in their degree of sleep hypoxemia and pulmonary hypertension.
(8) Hypoxemia and sleep quality can probably be improved by oxygen therapy in "blue bloaters," and this treatment can also reverse pulmonary hypertension in REM sleep.
(9) Treatment depends on the cause, and may vary from weight loss and nasal continuous positive airway pressure in obstructive sleep apnoea, to nocturnal oxygen in "blue bloaters", a combination of these two in the overlap syndrome, and long acting bronchodilators such as slow release theophyllines in nocturnal asthma.
(10) Mean PCB residues in bloaters caught in Lake Huron in 1969-71 and 1975-76, and splake (Salvelinus fontinalis and S. namaycush) and cisco (Coregonus artedii) caught in 1975 exceeded the 2 ppm tolerance level.
(11) Blue bloaters have severe nocturnal hypoxemia in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep that is corrected by oxygen or the investigational drug almitrine.
(12) The effect of incentive breathing exercise was evaluated on patients of blue-bloater variety of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in a controlled study.
(13) Clinical diagnosis is imprecise with no relationship between the extent of emphysema and either the "pink puffer" or the "blue bloater" types.
(14) Nitrite treatment enhances the direct-acting mutagenicity of various foodstuffs (e.g., chicken, bloater, the soybean flour 'kinako', and Ban-Ban-Chi sauce) on Salmonella typhimurium TA100.
(15) Patients with marked respiratory failure and with the clinical features of the "blue bloater" type of chronic bronchitis responded better to the home oxygen therapy than a group of "advanced pink puffers" with hypercapnia and high pulmonary arterial pressure.
(16) Long-term oxygen therapy is the only treatment known to prolong life in blue bloaters, and oxygen concentrators and transtracheal oxygen delivery are discussed.
(17) "Blue bloater" and "pink puffer" clinical types of chronic airway obstruction continued to reveal differences in airway pathologic features, but no longer revealed a major difference in the severity of emphysema at the time of death.
(18) By 1975, the mean level of sigma DDT had decreased in lake trout and was highest in bloaters (Coregonus hoi) from both lakes: 1.06 ppm and 1.87 ppm, respectively.
(19) By 1975, 50 percent of bloaters caught in Georgian Bay and North Channel had dieldrin levels above 0.3 ppm.
(20) Domiciliary oxygen therapy, given for at least 12 and preferably 16 hours a day, will prolong survival in patients with Type II respiratory failure ('blue bloaters').
Floater
Definition:
(n.) One who floats or swims.
(n.) A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus while the majority of patients with flashes and floaters do merit an urgent ophthalmological opinion, those who complain of a single, isolated floater can safely be reviewed as routine outpatients.
(2) Although there were no specific symptoms which could be correlated to an increased incidence of retinal breaks, those patients who complained of isolated uniocular floaters had an insignificant incidence of breakage, when compared to asymptomatic fellow eyes.
(3) A substantial proportion of the mycobacterial population on an inert surface floated off during its exposure to the glutaraldehyde solution but the 'floaters' were killed at an equivalent rate to the attached bacilli.
(4) Forty-nine patients with bilateral pigmentary dispersion syndrome (abnormal accumulation of pigment in the anterior chamber, principally from the posterior layers of the iris), including 31 patients with pigmentary glaucoma, underwent 10% phenylephrine testing in one eye for evaluation of liberation of pigment floaters into the anterior chamber and the influence of phenylephrine on the intraocular pressure.
(5) Prior to drug application, aqueous cells were observed in none of the cases, while after mydriasis, apparent aqueous floaters appeared in 9.2% of the cases, all of whom were over 40 years of age.
(6) This is underscored by our current inability to explain satisfactorily several patterns including the relative significance of floating, geographic biases in the incidence of cooperative breeding, sexual asymmetries in delayed dispersal, the relationship between delayed dispersal leading to helping behavior and cooperative polygamy, and the rarity of the co-occurrence of helpers and floaters within the same population.
(7) Of 100 patients with a prepapillary annular opacity in age-related posterior vitreous detachment with collapse, 44 had floater symptoms corresponding to their opacity.
(8) 2.02am BST Tigers 1 - Red Sox 0, top of 3rd Don Kelly hits a floater into left field that looks like it will find a piece of turf but Drew tracks it down for the first out.
(9) After Lynch wiggles for three yards, Seattle face a 3rd & 6...in the shotgun, Wilson takes off before sending a floater downfield that barley escapes the fingers of Eric Reid - instead, it falls safely into the hands of Doug Baldwin for 22 yards.
(10) Parker makes a floater that ends the scoring for a crazy last minute.
(11) Yet, much like floaters in your eye, try to focus on these toxins and they scamper from view.
(12) The patients studied comprised four cases with rhegmatogenous retinal detachments and one case with the sudden onset of vitreous floaters with posterior vitreous detachment (PVD).
(13) All patients had either a vitreous hemorrhage, or photopsia and floaters.
(14) Vitreous flare was present in 44% and increase of floaters in 55% of the eyes.
(15) The extreme sensitivity of the instruments enables real-time detection of refractive effects from tear films on the cornea and real-time tracking of floaters.
(16) In 7 eyes a special form of rosettes was found: a rosette scattered in the vitreous body like a floater.
(17) However, equal numbers of whole and PP floaters were deficient in their capacity to present antigen compared with similar populations from spleen.
(18) The project has three phases: a one-day environmental photojournalism workshop; a photography exhibition in schools, malls and government offices and education about how to recycle plastic bottles, such as using them for seaweed floaters.
(19) 1.46am BST Indiana Pacers 14-10 Miami Heat - 5:50 remaining, 1st Quarter The Pacers commit yet another turnover as the officials say the ball has gone off of Lance Stephenson, and Mario Chalmers converts a floater on the other end.
(20) A proportion of the cells remain in the medium as floaters.