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Bun


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Bunn

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  • (1) 131I-hippuran uptake of the renal cortical slices and histopathological examination as well as serum creatinine and BUN levels were used as parameters for assessing renal damage.
  • (2) On days 70 and 94, both blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and serum creatinine (sCR) values in the vehicle-treated rats were significantly higher than those in normal rats (without treatment with PAN and PS).
  • (3) Patients were monitored postoperatively by determination of BUN, serum creatinine, blood glucose, serum and urinary amylase levels, and Doppler assessment of the graft was carried out at regular intervals.
  • (4) A single high sodium dialysis results in a rise in serum sodium that osmotically parallels the fall in BUN.
  • (5) During CAVH serum creatinine showed an insignificant decline, whereas BUN even increased.
  • (6) Male rats experienced some weight loss (15%) and slight increases of ALT and BUN, but there were no effects of either DCA or TCA on any of these responses.
  • (7) Hot cross buns must be made and eaten on Good Friday before 11 o’clock, otherwise their meaning is lost.
  • (8) With the aim of studying this aspect, 16 patients with glomerulopathy associated with schistosomiasis mansoni were evaluated (proteinuria and levels of BUN and creatinine) before therapy, 1 week, 1 month, 2-3 months and 6 months after therapy of the parasitic infections.
  • (9) The severity of the acidosis in the 24-mo-old rats was related to serum creatinine and BUN.
  • (10) APAP-induced renal damage, as judged by BUN and histopathology, was not altered in young or middle-aged rats following unilateral nephrectomy.
  • (11) Brush the buns with the egg and sprinkle with pearl sugar.
  • (12) Urinalysis and assays for plasma hormone values, including cortisol, beta 2-microglobulin, potassium, and BUN, showed no changes during treatment.
  • (13) Bromocriptine produced no significant change in the BUN or the serum concentrations of creatinine, inorganic phosphate or PTH.
  • (14) Davis, however, said she had issued a new policy, effective immediately, to abide by Bunning’s order.
  • (15) The peritoneal clearance of smaller molecules such as BUN, creatinine, uric acid and phosphate also tended to be higher in diabetics after infusion of 1.5% Dianeal for 4 hours.
  • (16) BUN levels were within the normal range except on day 7.
  • (17) Because extrarenal factors may alter BUN and SC, it is necessary to correlate these values with clinical and other laboratory data to differentiate renal from extra-renal azotemia.
  • (18) Before and after ESWL, Bun, Cr, B2-mG (of blood and urine), activity of blood plasma renin AT-II, -GT, NAG, mucoprotein of plasma, etc were also determined.
  • (19) Blood for BUN, creatinine, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) was obtained prior to ischemia and on days 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, and 10.
  • (20) BUN was significantly elevated, while Scr was significantly depressed, in untreated patients with hyperthyroid Graves' disease.

But


Definition:

  • (adv. & conj.) Except with; unless with; without.
  • (adv. & conj.) Except; besides; save.
  • (adv. & conj.) Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that.
  • (adv. & conj.) Otherwise than that; that not; -- commonly, after a negative, with that.
  • (adv. & conj.) Only; solely; merely.
  • (adv. & conj.) On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet; still; however; nevertheless; more; further; -- as connective of sentences or clauses of a sentence, in a sense more or less exceptive or adversative; as, the House of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind.
  • (prep., adv. & conj.) The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; -- opposed to ben, the inner room.
  • (n.) A limit; a boundary.
  • (n.) The end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end. See 1st Butt.
  • (v. i.) See Butt, v., and Abut, v.
  • (v. t.) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
  • (v. t.) The thicker end of anything. See But.
  • (v. t.) A mark to be shot at; a target.
  • (v. t.) A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company.
  • (v. t.) A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an animal; as, the butt of a ram.
  • (v. t.) A thrust in fencing.
  • (v. t.) A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
  • (v. t.) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering; -- also called butt joint.
  • (v. t.) The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
  • (v. t.) The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
  • (v. t.) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
  • (v. t.) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; -- so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
  • (v. t.) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
  • (v. t.) The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.

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