(n.) A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards.
(n.) A lowbred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.
Example Sentences:
(1) In conclusion, 99Tcm-MIBI SPECT provides a reliable method for detecting CAD.
(2) ST-segment elevation is an uncommon finding in these patients and does not reliably differentiate those with and without fixed CAD.
(3) The nuclear runoff experiments also demonstrated that the CAD gene expression was shut down in less than 4 h after induction, well before morphological changes were observed in these cells.
(4) In a prospective study, the influence of the length of the time interval on spontaneous variability was investigated in 100 patients with CAD or IDC and untreated ventricular arrhythmia of Lown grade IV.
(5) Therefore, we studied 122 consecutive clinically stable patients with angiographically defined CAD (greater than 75 per cent luminal stenosis) and a positive exercise test.
(6) These changes in EF were accompanied by the development of wall motion abnormalities, which occurred in segments of myocardium that were supplied by coronary arteries with angiographic CAD (more than 50% diameter narrowing).
(7) The correlation between elevated cholesterol and coronary artery disease (CAD) has emerged slowly, with the strongest statistical links appearing recently.
(8) Angiograms were evaluated by two angiographers for presence or absence of coronary artery disease (CAD, defined as one or more coronary artery stenoses of 50% or greater in diameter, and no CAD, defined as no stenosis of 25% or greater in diameter, respectively).
(9) When combined with atrial pacing, 2-D echocardiography and thallium 201 perfusion imaging are of similar value for diagnosing the presence of CAD in patients with stable chest pain.
(10) A consecutive series of 198 patients (148 men and 50 women, mean age 51 years, range 18 to 76) with pure, isolated, severe aortic regurgitation was retrospectively studied to determine the prevalence of angiographically significant coronary artery disease (CAD) and its relation to angina pectoris and coronary risk factors.
(11) These study designs will be discussed and compared with other studies, and the expected impact on CAD event rates presented.
(12) The trimers are found to be in slow equilibrium with hexamers and higher oligomers composed of multiples of three copies of the CAD polypeptide chain.
(13) Ninety percent of patients with VA were cigarette smokers and 70% were heavy smokers (more than 20 cigarettes daily), compared with 53% and 33% in patients with CAD (p less than 0.001) and 30% and 15% in those without heart disease (p less than 0.001).
(14) Some clinical results of the application of this method on CAD patients are presented and discussed.
(15) Several large-scale, observational epidemiologic studies in the United States and abroad have shown a strong independent inverse relation between HDL and CAD.
(16) Propranolol therapy did not significantly affect the ST segment of the exercise ECG in the normal subjects or the CAD patients without an ischemic control exercise ECG.
(17) Of the 96 patients, 21 had AP, 10 (48%) with angiographically significant CAD and 11 (52%) without (CAD).
(18) In patients with mild to moderate degree of CAD, PGI2 was found to be well tolerated.
(19) The cad operon encodes lysine decarboxylase and a protein homologous to amino acid antiporters.
(20) The interaction of Type A behavior and social support in relation to the degree of coronary artery disease (CAD) severity was investigated.
Cag
Definition:
(n.) See Keg.
Example Sentences:
(1) After Western blot, 2 of the 5 protein bands of swine-cag (27 and 57 kD) and 3 of the 8 protein bands of human cag (27, 32, and 57 kD) reacted with the anti-Toxoplasma antibody used in the ELISA.
(2) In order to determine an histological high-risk group, we chose cases with preneoplastic conditions (60 CAG, 10 biopsies of gastric remnants, 3 flat adenomas and 55 gastrectomies by cancer or ulcer).
(3) A few cases of GD and CAG showed a cytologic overlap with PC and FN, respectively.
(4) Circulating hydatid antigen (cAg) was detectable in some infected sheep, but not in all of those with low Sab.
(5) These changes are the result of a deletion of nine nucleotides, namely two base pairs (bp) of codon 141, all of codons 142 and 143, and one bp of codon 144; the remaining CAG triplet (C from codon 141 and AG from codon 144) codes for the inserted glutamine.
(6) The correlation between progression of atherosclerotic lesions and the compensatory development of collaterals which prevent ischemic events, particularly myocardial infarction, were examined in patients who underwent repeated coronary angiography (CAG) after medical therapy.
(7) Furthermore, to evaluate the age-related change of the clinical and prognostic significance of EA, exercise tests, angiographic findings and 29 months follow-up data were assessed in 142 patients without prior myocardial infarction who underwent treadmill test and coronary angiography (CAG) for the investigation of coronary artery disease.
(8) In SDS CAG sediments as a 20S species in the absence of mercaptoethanol and as a 5S species in the presence of mercaptoethanol.
(9) After parallel processing factor VIII:C and factor VIII:CAg were measured.
(10) CAG with total atrophy showed significantly higher percentages of cells in S-phase than CAG with mild and moderate atrophy.
(11) Hypergastrinaemia is among causative agents of argyrophil ECL cell hyperplasias and, possibly, of tumours of the oxynticopeptic mucosa, while chronic inflammation and gland atrophy with or without concomitant hypergastrinaemia are important factors in inducing both hyperplastic and tumour argyrophil growths in CAG mucosa.
(12) The severity of stenosis using DSCAG with a 512 x 512 x 8 bit matrix was semiautomatically measured on the cathode ray tube (CRT) based on enlarged images on the screen of a Vanguard cine projector which were of the same size as those of or 10 times larger than images of Cine-CAG.
(13) To better understand the mechanisms by which vaccination prevents S mutans implantation and dental caries, and to prepare antigens whose effectiveness and safety can be tested in animal models of caries, we set out to purify and chemically characterize the CAG of S mutans.
(14) This method could be quite useful to detect not only CAG repeats in SBMA but also other polymorphic dinucleotide and trinucleotide repeats.
(15) For the study of both proliferative and antigenic changes in epithelial cells in a disease predisposing to gastric cancer, endoscopic biopsy specimens were analyzed following removal from individuals with chronic atrophic gastritis (CAG); comparisons were made with specimens from normal gastric mucosa.
(16) Correlationship between CAG score and delta LVEF by handgrip exercise test was y = -1.34 x +3.61 (n = 44, r = -0.400, p less than 0.01).
(17) A single nonsense mutation, CAG (Gln170)----TAG (stop) in mutant B59-1, became a missense mutation, TAG (stop)----TAC (Tyr) in revertant R4-3.
(18) Postoperative CAG a month after showed a patent graft to LAD and improved exercise treadmill test.
(19) The CAG in a chronic stage again revealed intact coronary arteries.
(20) Eighty-nine patients were prospectively studied to determine psychological and psychosocial impairment prior to and after coronary artery graft surgery (CAGS).