(n.) The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat.
(a.) Of or pertaining to caloric.
Example Sentences:
(1) This series of tests included tests for pathologic nystagmus, saccades, smooth pursuit, and optokinetic nystagmus, as well as bithermal caloric testing and rotational testing.
(2) Changes in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) were measured over 254 cortical regions during caloric vestibular stimulation with warm water (44 degrees C).
(3) 23 years old woman with sudden deafness and ipsilateral lack of rapid phase caloric nystagmus was described.
(4) Duodenal infusions of glucose inhibited FI calorically, and generally inhibited GE calorically; but gastric volume at satiety was always equal to control volume.
(5) AIS treatment lowered serum insulin levels, serum triglyceride levels, caloric intake, weight gain, liver weight, acetate 14C incorporation into cholesterol 14C, and the percentage of liver lipid that was cholesterol.
(6) These results suggest that weight change during smoking reduction and cessation may be primarily due to changes in factors other than caloric intake or activity.
(7) A sustained decrement in RMR accompanied weight loss and persisted for greater than or equal to 8 wk despite increased caloric consumption and body weight stabilization.
(8) Analysis of caloric components (fat, protein and carbohydrates) reveals that carbohydrates are the most important factor driving the total energy effect.
(9) The rationale for the use of exercise as part of the treatment program in type II diabetes is much clearer and regular exercise may be prescribed as an adjunct to caloric restriction for weight reduction and as a means of improving insulin sensitivity in the obese, insulin-resistant individual.
(10) At the end of the 18 day period, body weight, daily caloric intake, basal plasma glucose and insulin levels in the milk-fed rats were similar to those in the control rats.
(11) Patients under caloric restriction showed a reduction in their total triglyceride content, a reduction in their content of unsaturated fatty acyl groups, and a relative increase in phospholipid content.
(12) In the external ear canal, residual water from caloric testing or any other irrigation may act to simulate a conductive hearing loss and interfere with subsequent auditory brainstem response recording leading to increased latencies and reduced amplitudes.
(13) The changes in protein, fat and carbohydrate intermediates, as well as the alteration in hormone concentrations, suggest the following endocrine governance of fuel economy in this setting: a sharp rise in glucagon with maintenance of insulin concentration; rapid gluconeogenesis at the expense of both injected and endogenous amino acids; a progressive ketosis without any associated improvement in protein economy; fat oxidation to meet caloric need.
(14) Corticosteroids have been shown to increase appetite for a brief period of time, but they do not appear to improve caloric intake or nutritional status.
(15) The effect of 30% caloric restriction on azoxymethane (AOM)-induced colon carcinogenesis was investigated in male F344 rats.
(16) To reduce body weight and blood pressure, a reduction of alcohol consumption should be recommended in addition to reduced caloric intake and increased physical activity as means of preventive neurology.
(17) A difference was noted in the caloric intake of the two groups.
(18) Reduced caloric intake, a hallmark of both disorders, is manifested by self-induced starvation in anorexia and by binge eating and gastrointestinal purging in bulimia.
(19) Thirty-one children (82%) had ENG pathology of the central type and 12 (44%) of the 27 successfully studied had pathological caloric reactions.
(20) TPN was prescribed on an individual basis in all study patients to cover 150% of their measured caloric need; nitrogen was given as 0.2 g N kg-1 day.
Chloric
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, chloric acid, HClO3.
Example Sentences:
(1) In many patients the following allergens were detected by patch testing: cosmetics, dental pastes, washing powders, chloric water, mohair, synthetics, and flowers.
(2) Several cases of chloric acne have been observed in children after the accidental Seveso TCDD intoxication.
(3) Precipitation of proteins using chloric acid instead of trichloracetic acid proved to be more convenient for isolation of the middle molecular fraction from blood serum and for the subsequent studies of its composition.
(4) The etiologic, clinical and diagnostic aspects of each case are discussed, along with a broad literature review, emphasizing preventive measures and the substitution of this chloric solvent by other, less toxic solvents, as recommended by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
(5) In chloric cobalt reaction, the R-value shifted to the left in those who survived but to the right in those who died.
(6) A procedure for cancer-embryonal antigen isolation involved extraction of the antigen by chloric acid, affinity chromatography on CNBr-Sepharose 4B containing immobilized antibodies and gel filtration on Sephadex G-200.
(7) Surface--COOH groups created by treatment with chloric or hydrofluoric acids were not effective.
(8) It is suggested that PDR depression with ammonium ions could be the result of the blocking of the chloric pump acting the afferent terminals and creating electromotive power for outward transmembranous chloric current producing depolarization of the afferent fibres.
(9) The technique for alkali melting at 800-850 degrees, traditionally used for sample preparation, was replaced by acid treatment by a mixture of nitric, hydrochloric and chloric acids.
(10) It was shown that there is no correlation between the morphology and the secretion of chloric acid in anatomically intact gastric mucosa after submaximal stimulation.
(11) Relating to the anatomic structure of the gastric mucosa secretion of chloric acid was studied after submaximal and maximal stimulation in 101 cases.
(12) Depression of the culture growth was noted after the general X-irradiation of the animals, as well as following prolonged starvation and chloric cadmium poisoning.