(n.) A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; esp. one which explodes.
Example Sentences:
(1) This requires multiple insulin injections, whereby 60 to 70% of the total daily insulin amount are administered as preprandial boli of short or intermediate acting insulin.
(2) Using 900-ml tidal breaths, late inspiration was marked by boli delivered at 600 ml.
(3) You need everything.” – Bordeaux coach Willy Sagnol on the ‘typical African player’ “The intelligence I wanted to talk about was tactical intelligence.” – Sagnol clears things up “I want to buy your monkey with the square feet.” – What former Marseille president Bernard Tapie reportedly told then Auxerre coach Guy Roux before signing Basile Boli in 1990.
(4) Distribution of the helium boli was studied during natural as well as IC and Ab inspirations.
(5) Boli of ingested, masticated hay (MH), collected at the cardia, and serial samples of digesta taken from the ruminal upper strata (RUS) were wet-sieved.
(6) Nausea and emesis during cancer chemotherapy are very common, but can often be controlled with repetitive boli of antiemetic drugs.
(7) (1977) in International Conference on Biological Membranes: Drugs, Hormones and Membranes (Bolis, L., Hoffman, J.F.
(8) Each study evaluated at least two consecutive boli or an 8-h continuous infusion.
(9) No other systematic effects of the changes in either chest wall diameter at the start of inspiration or the type of inspiration were found on distribution of inspired boli.
(10) It would be no surprise to Roux watchers if he 'leaked' the story of Boli's moped himself.
(11) Twenty subjects, subdivided in four groups, received 3 consecutive intravenous GRF boli at two-hour intervals.
(12) bolus dose or two boli of the novel t-PA variant BM 06.022 improved coronary blood flow after reperfusion compared to i.v.
(13) The technique tags multiple boli of magnetization in transit across a thick selection slab using rf inversion pulses.
(14) These boli of microspheres were transported up the trachea and their MTTR's measured using a gamma camera.
(15) To achieve these dose distributions in patients requires use of modern imaging techniques, rigid immobilization systems, confirmation of target position vis a vis the proton beam at each treatment session, treatment planning which feature beam's eye view, displays of uncertainty, dose at each anatomic point, boli based on accurate assessment of density along each pixel, etc.
(16) Number of boli ruminated daily also was related to the RUS mean particle size.
(17) Boli LMPS was affected by feed particle size of alfalfa hay, but there was no effect of feed particle size on masticate particle size in timothy hay.
(18) The extent of particle breakdown during ingestive mastication was a determinant of the number of boli ruminated daily and their associated number of chews.
(19) A three-compartment model predicting the recovery of aerosol boli (i.e., the ratio of the number of particles expired to the number inspired) as a function of breath-holding time and bolus penetration was fitted to experimental data measured in nine isolated dog lungs.
(20) With the monensin treatment, daily numbers of normal boli and total boli were decreased (P less than .05) and mean duration of one rumination bolus cycle was longer (P less than .05).
Bolus
Definition:
(n.) A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.
Example Sentences:
(1) We investigated whether these peptides also affect the sleep EEG in humans when given intravenously by comparing polysomnographically the effects of four boluses of (1) placebo, (2) 50 micrograms GHRH or (3) 50 micrograms SRIF administered at 22.00, 23.00, 24.00 and 1.00 h to 7 male controls.
(2) An intravenous bolus of 300 micrograms.kg-1 of 3-desacetylvecuronium was rapidly injected into the jugular vein.
(3) Dose distributions were evaluated under thin sheet lead used as surface bolus for 4- and 10-MV photons and 6- and 9-MeV electrons using a parallel-plate ion chamber and film.
(4) During anaesthesia with 60-70 per cent N2O in O2 and 0.2 per cent isoflurane, a maintenance dose (MD) of fentanyl was administered using a continuous variable-rate IV fentanyl infusion, supplemented by intermittent 50 micrograms IV boluses.
(5) Our dynamic study indicated that: 1) a bolus injection of contrast medium with our method of CTA (CTA-B) produced an attenuation difference between liver and tumor which was about double that obtained with standard methods for CTA, and 2) marked tumor-liver attenuation differences (above 20 HU) persisted for more than 60 s in CTA-B and for not more than 20 s with conventional methods for CTA.
(6) Studies have also been performed in conscious rats given BP either as an intravenous bolus or by gavage.
(7) Approximately 50% of a bolus injection of 125I-ANP was removed during a single pass through the lungs compared with the intravascular marker 14C-dextran.
(8) Vasoconstriction by 2 leads to significantly (p less than 0.01) lower blood levels of 1 in contrast to bolus injection of 1 without 2 under identical dosage regimens.
(9) In urethane-anesthetized rabbits, IOP and blood pressure were lowered by intravenous administration of delta 9-THC but not by bolus cerebral administration.
(10) bolus injection of 400 microCi MAb E48 IgG (number of mice (n = 6, number of tumours (t) = 9) or 800 microCi MAb E48 IgG (n) = 5,t = 7), whereas control groups received either diluent (n = 3,t = 5), unlabelled MAb E48 IgG (n = 4,t = 5) or 800 microCi 131I-labelled isotype-matched control MAb (n = 6,t = 9).
(11) To evaluate the clearance and circulation of ATP and its metabolites after intravenous injection, 20 rabbits received ATP-MgCl2 as a bolus injection or a continuous intravenous infusion.
(12) The effect of intraduodenal acidification or intravenous bolus injections of secretin on plasma insulin concentrations during infusions of glucose was also examined.
(13) Colitis was induced in the distal colon by rectal infusion of formaldehyde solution, followed by an intravenous bolus of soluble immune complexes.
(14) Nine patients were admitted to the hospital, placed on a diet containing 150 mEq sodium, and studied for periods of 4 hours, on different days, in the following conditions: (1) supine position, (2) upright posture (UP), (3) UP after 10 mg domperidone, intravenously in bolus, and (4) UP after 3 days of domperidone, 30 mg orally.
(15) One is the ureteral peristaltic contraction which plays a principal role in urinary bolus transport at low flows; the other is ureteral wall tonus, which plays an important role in the transport of columns of urine by the ureter, which does not coapt its walls, at the higher flow rates.
(16) Epidurally administered clonidine represents a new approach to postcesarean section pain therapy, yet the appropriate bolus dose and infusion to provide effective pain relief have not been defined.
(17) with half given as an intravenous bolus and the remainder administered subcutaneously.
(18) Pituitary gonadotropin reserve and responsiveness were studied by giving an intravenous bolus of synthetic LH-releasing hormone (LH-RH) and measuring the circulating gonadotropin levels before and after the injection.
(19) It is possible that in a similar future case, discontinuance of dextran infusion and administration of a single bolus of 12 bags of cryoprecipitate may be adequate treatment.
(20) Experimentally induced tongue contact with a variety of solid surfaces during lapping (an activity involving accumulation of a liquid bolus in the valleculae) induced neither increased jaw opening nor the additional EMG pattern.