(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.
Foxhound
Definition:
(n.) One of a special breed of hounds used for chasing foxes.
Example Sentences:
(1) An outbreak of acute paralysis in a pack of foxhounds, which followed the ingestion of raw and partially cooked meat, was almost certainly due to botulism.
(2) Twenty-nine foxhounds received a deep-frozen bone-ACL-bone allograft and a ligament augmentation device (LAD).
(3) A circumflex coronary-pulmonary artery fistula was constructed with a vein graft in 11 adult foxhounds.
(4) The purpose of this study was to determine whether 8-12 wk of endurance training produces biochemical and histochemical adaptations in skeletal muscle in foxhounds.
(5) A copolymer (polylactic acid: polyglycolic acid) was combined with a proteolipid (PL) and the resulting implant complex was rigidly fixed into discontinuities in the mandibles of 25 adult, foxhound dogs.
(6) Photodynamic therapy (PDT) was performed utilizing a cylindrical optical fiber to determine feasibility of distal ureteral treatment on 10 study and two control NIH foxhounds.
(7) To evaluate Flucrylate (TM) using out standard heparinized ulcer model, a randomized study was performed in six heparinized foxhounds at laparotomy.
(8) In three foxhounds after left pneumonectomy, the relationships of ventilatory work and respiratory muscle (RM) blood flow to ventilation (VE) during steady-state exercise were examined.
(9) Studies of a foxhound pack and gundog kennel in Clwyd, Wales showed 47 of 162 foxhounds (29%) and six of 25 gundogs (24%) to be infested with cestodes.
(10) Of the 25 Campylobacter-infected English Foxhounds in the study, 9 were assigned to erythromycin treatment, 9 to chloramphenicol treatment, and 7 to no treatment.
(11) Analyses were performed on samples removed from gastrocnemius, triceps, and semitendinosus muscles of foxhounds before and after a treadmill running program.
(12) The effect of atropine on meal-stimulated gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP) and gastrin release was studied in 5 purebred foxhounds and compared with control studies done in the same animals given a meal without atropine, peak incremental serum gastrin occurred between 5 and 15 min after the meal whereas the greatest increment in serum GIP occurred 60 min postcibal.
(13) Renal autoregulation of blood flow (RBF) and glomerular filtration rate (GFR) were examined in 10 conscious foxhounds under a normal sodium diet before and after a continuous intrarenal converting-enzyme inhibition (CEI) or during the application of the angiotensin II antagonist saralasin.
(14) The reproducibility of the transfer function was experimentally investigated in foxhounds.
(15) The isolated and combined influence of cardiopulmonary and arterial baroreceptor denervation on long-term blood pressure (MAP), heart rate (HR), plasma volume (PV) and plasma renin activity (PRA) was studied in 10 conscious, chronically instrumented foxhounds receiving a normal sodium diet.
(16) Foxhounds and other hunting dogs play a particularly important role in the life-cycle of cestodes because their diet frequently includes uncooked carcasses and because they hunt over large areas of countryside, facilitating the widespread dissemination of infective eggs.
(17) Eighteen foxhounds received a deep-frozen bone-ACL-bone allograft and a ligament augmentation device.
(18) This is consistent with the results of the study in which endurance training produced a 27% increase in maximal cardiac output and a 4% increase in maximal arteriovenous O2 extraction in foxhounds.
(19) The effect of volume replacement with crystalloidal and colloidal solutions was analyzed in 40 anesthetized Foxhounds subjected to a standardized traumatic-hemorrhagic shock.
(20) Diffuse lower motor neuron dysfunction developed in a group of American Foxhounds while they were hunting.