(n.) An abnormal sound of several kinds, heard on auscultation.
(v. t.) To report; to noise abroad.
Example Sentences:
(1) The disappearance of the bruit was associated with poor renal function.
(2) Two hundred and forty-one residents were examined for carotid bruits and signs of previous stroke.
(3) Cerebral angiography was performed in 18 of the patients with carotid bruits.
(4) Major intra-abdominal arteriovenous fistulas usually present with a machinery bruit over a pulsatile mass, but may present more subtly with pain and otherwise unexplained hematuria.
(5) An apparently primitive cervical bruit corresponded to a lesion of the carotid bifurcation in 61% of the cases (positive predictive value) whereas a normal bifurcation was detected in 70% of the cases in which the cervical bruit was considered as secondary (negative predictive value); the diagnostic accuracy of the "critical auscultation" has a value therefore of 63%, with a sensitivity of 84% and a specificity of 40%.
(6) In frank strokes it was 3.7%; in transient ischemia, 0.77%; and zero for chronic ischemia and asymptomatic bruits.
(7) Patients with HS bruits had a stroke incidence of 24 per cent and a transient ischemic attack (TIA) incidence of 16 per cent, which were significantly higher (P greater than 0.01) compared to the patients with NHS bruits (4.8% incidence of stroke and 3.2% incidence of TIA).
(8) Vascular disease, epigastric bruit, and impaired renal function were commoner in the renal artery stenosis patients than in the 81 with normal arteriograms, but there were no features pathognomonic of stenosis.
(9) Patients with non-focal neurological symptoms and carotid bruit were more likely to have a significant stenosis than asymptomatic patients with carotid bruit (P = 0.0069 Fisher's Exact Test).
(10) On cardiac examination, a pansystolic bruit and a diastolic rumble were audible at the tricuspid focus.
(11) PAG vascular bruits were characteristic hemodynamic disorders.
(12) The TIAs developed in four patients with HS bruits and in two patients with NHS bruits.
(13) All three patients suffered from pain in the abdomen and back, a palpable pulsatile abdominal mass and an audible continuous harsh bruit.
(14) The prevalence of asymptomatic carotid bruit is 4 per cent in the general population aged over 40 years.
(15) No association was found for diastolic blood pressure, myocardial infarction, angina, diabetes, or carotid bruits.
(16) Phonoangiography, quantitative analysis of arterial bruits, has been shown to provide accurate noninvasive diagnosis of uncomplicated carotid arterial stenosis, but had not been tested where cervical bruits from other sources were present.
(17) A periorbital bruit and venous engorgement of the palpebral and bulbar conjunctivae are pathognomonic features.
(18) Bruits were recorded at the skin surface, analyzed by a minicomputer, and the degree of arterial stenosis estimated using a recently derived theory of sound production by turbulent blood flow.
(19) Phonoangiography, as a noninvasive quantitative analysis of arterial bruits, was conducted just prior to standard invasive radiographic angiography in 135 patients.
(v. t.) To make known by open declaration, as laws, decrees, or tidings; to publish; as, to promulgate the secrets of a council.
Example Sentences:
(1) This review considers the biophysics of penetrating missile wounds, highlights some of the more common misconceptions and seeks to reconcile the conflicting and confusing management doctrines that are promulgated in the literature-differences that arise not only from two scenarios, peace and war, but also from misapprehensions of the wounding process.
(2) Some international, national and state governments and agencies are currently evaluating and promulgating climate-related legislation and regulations that are focused on restricting greenhouse gas emissions,” the section then explains.
(3) Regulations have not yet been promulgated, in part because "the psychological well-being" of primates is extremely difficult to define.
(4) Most cases are treated on an outpatient basis and the Center for Disease Control has promulgated a set of recommendations for the outpatient treatment of acute salpingitis.
(5) Since the import and use of pesticides was in the public sector, the promulgation of the Agricultural Pesticides Ordinance was delayed to 1971 and the Rules to 1973.
(6) Such utopian, urban visions help drive the “smart city” rhetoric that has, for the past decade or so, been promulgated most energetically by big technology, engineering and consulting companies.
(7) As a result, clinicians have begun to promulgate the concept of an integrated, concurrent psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy.
(8) The Act was promulgated as a result of pressure from people who wanted access to their notes and health professionals who recognised the benefits of open relationships with the people for whom they cared.
(9) "Certainly a recognition body will be set up, because the charter will be promulgated.
(10) The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has promulgated a standard, expected to become mandatory in mid 1991, designed to protect employees from all exposure to blood and other potentially infectious materials.
(11) It is argued that failure to do this promulgates an unfortunate tradition of shallow, inaccurate psychological measurement within gerontology.
(12) Later, and independent of our analysis, the Federal German Government promulgated a special regulation governing the setup of personal engaged in psychiatry, on 18 December 1990.
(13) More than 20 years ago the U.S. Department of Labor promulgated regulations designed to protect the hearing of employees who work in noisy environments.
(14) The promulgation of the Medicines Control Act (1964), the Pharmacy Act (1974) and the Medical, Dental and Supplementary Health Professions Act (1974) brought new dimensions to the strained relationship.
(15) Ethical considerations concerning research on a healthy population must go beyond the law recently promulgated in France.
(16) The solution to the occupational medical communication problem will be materially aided by the recent promulgation of a set of ethical principles for occupational physicians, and would be further advanced by the development of a review process for complaints and by the initiation of a public censure procedure for corporations which do not permit their physicians the opportunity to practice ethically.
(17) The results suggest the importance of female family members in the acceptance and promulgation of health promotion efforts for both essential and isolated systolic hypertension at the population level.
(18) He concludes that the role of mental disorder in the witch hunts has been overinflated by authors with an interest in promulgating the medical model of abnormal behavior.
(19) This article challenges the authority of state administrators to promulgate these rules, and argues that state constitutions, little mentioned in the Baby Doe debate thus far, may prohibit many states from adopting the federal standard.
(20) The Bloodborne Pathogens Standard is the first standard promulgated by OSHA that addresses a biological hazard in the workplace.