(1) Hepatic enzyme elevations were more dramatic after blunt trauma, reflecting greater hepatocellular disruption.
(2) The Metoclopramide-induced secretion of prolactin and aldosterone was blunted in 6 patients pretreated with 200 mg ibopamine.
(3) The computer tomographic appearances of lesions of parenchymatous organs following blunt abdominal trauma are described in 13 patients (five liver, four renal, two splenic and two pancreatic injuries).
(4) Last November he bluntly warned EU chiefs he could, if he wished, “flood Europe” with refugees.
(5) Persons with clinical abdominal findings, shock, altered sensorium, and severe chest injuries after blunt trauma should undergo the procedure.
(6) Blunt trauma to the epigastrum may result in a retroperitoneal hematoma involving the head of the pancreas and descending duodenum.
(7) The changes included swelling, blunting, and flattening of epithelial foot processes, were accompanied by decreased stainability of glomerular anionic sites, and were largely reversed by subsequent perfusion with the polyanion heparin.
(8) Addition of Ni2+ prior to TRH blunted the component of the TRH-induced transient increase in [Ca2+]i dependent on influx of Ca2+.
(9) As previously reported, patients with affective disorders show a blunted GH response to clonidine.
(10) Blunt homicide predominated amongst White females, who were substantially older than the Coloured and African subjects.
(11) A comparison of two different restriction enzymes, which cleave the plasmid with blunt or cohesive-ended double-strand breaks, did not reveal differences in repair fidelity.
(12) The prognosis was better following blunt trauma, stretch injuries and after a spontaneous onset.
(13) Seventeen (77%) of the injuries were due to penetrating trauma and five (23%) were due to blunt trauma.
(14) The cortisol response to insulin-induced hypoglycemia and exogenous ACTH appeared to be blunted in these patients.
(15) Vagal blockade reversibly inhibited the rise of plasma PP and significantly blunted the elevation of plasma VIP.
(16) But the drugs chief, Julio Calzada, is blunt: " For 50 years, we have tried to tackle the drug problem with only one tool – penalisation – and that has failed .
(17) Average increases in resting metabolic expenditure for a group of patients following elective operation, skeletal trauma, skeletal trauma with head injury, blunt trauma, sepsis and burns were determined by indirect calorimetry and protein need by urinary nitrogen losses over extended time periods.
(18) The indication for angiography in children accident patients with blunt trauma must be set up carefully.
(19) Arterial occlusion or stenosis due to blunt trauma is rare.
(20) Also, the initial rise in V1 was blunted or blocked in all subjects.
Stub
Definition:
(n.) The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; -- applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub.
(n.) A log; a block; a blockhead.
(n.) The short blunt part of anything after larger part has been broken off or used up; hence, anything short and thick; as, the stub of a pencil, candle, or cigar.
(n.) A part of a leaf in a check book, after a check is torn out, on which the number, amount, and destination of the check are usually recorded.
(n.) A pen with a short, blunt nib.
(n.) A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron.
(v. t.) To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots.
(v. t.) To remove stubs from; as, to stub land.
(v. t.) To strike as the toes, against a stub, stone, or other fixed object.
Example Sentences:
(1) The majority of the mutants were unable to assemble a flagellar filament (Fla-), although eight were able to synthesize a short stub of a flagellum.
(2) Vauxhall Tower Like a cigarette stubbed out by the Thames, the Vauxhall's lonely stump looks cast adrift, a piece of Pudong that's lost its way.
(3) The teeth were air dried, mounted on stubs, sputter-coated with gold-palladium and examined under SEM.
(4) Subsequently, the slides were fractured for attachment to SEM stubs, and the coverslips were demounted.
(5) The task consisted of 36 sentence stubs, 18 of which probed attitudes toward sex.
(6) This digested product reacted with an anti-stub antibody which recognizes 4-sulfated disaccharide.
(7) Platinum-carbon replicas were made of the surfaces of both the sections and the complementary surfaces of the sample stubs from which the sections were cut.
(8) Genetic analysis by phiCr30-mediated transduction revealed 27 linkage groups for the fla and stub-forming mutations, and three linkage groups for the mot mutations.
(9) There were more than 150, some on smart, headed paper, some on notebook pages, written with stubs of pencil.
(10) isoamylase is unable to cleave D-glucosyl stubs from branched saccharides.
(11) It has been determined a bacteriolytic action on the bacterial stub "E. Coli host of bacteriophage T4.
(12) Due to the anatomic relationship of bone and nail, a 'stubbed finger' injury may result in an inapparent compound fracture.
(13) When Jane Grigson did her delightful last series Slow Down, Fast Food, we photographed a gigantic hamburger with an implausible bite taken out of it, our tasteful riposte to the cigarette-stubbed-out-in-the-fried-egg school of lurid food photography.
(14) In 2004, he stubbed a cigar out in the eye of City colleague Jamie Tandy at the club's Christmas party; the following year, he was found guilty of gross misconduct after a disturbance in Bangkok with a teenage Everton fan.
(15) Monoclonal antibodies 9-A-2 and 2-B-6 which recognize stubs of chondroitin 4-sulfate were found to bind specifically to the NC3 domain of type IX collagen, and this binding was dependent on prior digestion of the preparation with chondroitinase ABC.
(16) Simultaneously with the penetration into the snail tissue the "bald" cells (epithelial cells with cilium stubs only) of the four posterior tiers loosen, florm globules and fall off.
(17) He stubbed out cigarette butts on her face and chopped off part of a finger.
(18) During erythroid development and enucleation, the actin filaments may depolymerize up to the membrane, leaving a membrane skeleton with short stubs of actin bundled by band 4.9 and cross-linked by spectrin.
(19) thick) were cut by the method of Tokuyasu (Toluyasu KT: J Cell Biol 57:551, 1973) and their scanning transmission electron microscope images were examined either with a scanning transmission electron microscope detector or with a conversion stub using the secondary electron detector.
(20) Maltose and maltotriose stubs preponderated together with small proportions of D-glucose stubs.