(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.
Thermic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to heat; due to heat; thermal; as, thermic lines.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reduction of such potentials can be explained in terms of collision between the antidromic volleys and those elicited orthodromically by chemical and thermic stimulation.
(2) No perforations, stenoses or thermic lesions after wound healing were observed.
(3) NE synthesis rate, during the thermic effect of a meal, was calculated from the rate of NE accumulation after monoamine oxidase inhibition by pargyline and clorgyline.
(4) An Eastman Kodak cholesteric mixture at 10% solution and with thermic range varying from 35 degrees to 39 degrees was used.
(5) Aimed at the centralized manufacture of physostigmin salicylate injection solutions, the efficacy of different stabilizators has been studied under conditions of the thermic load.
(6) The optical and thermic properties of the catheter prototypes were determined by physical methods.
(7) Membrane preparations were also obtained from a group of cold exposed animals, to determine whether these adrenoceptors could be modified by a thermic stress.
(8) The actual occupational hygienic limit values for heat stress are based only on acute thermic effects.
(9) We describe a new method of studying the thermic response to dietary fuels that involves continuous infusion of a liquid formula diet through a thin nasogastric tube.
(10) Experimental studies of the influence of a new pharmacologic preparation thymogene on the processes of cellular multiplication of the corneal epithelium in physiologic conditions and thermic burn of the eye in 140 rats.
(11) These drugs can also take part in thermic reactions, probably through an addition mechanism to the double bond.
(12) The authors carried out studies on a group of analgetic preparations (morphine, lydol, thylidine, pentazocine and analgine) by the method of D Amour and Smith, using thermic painful stimulation.
(13) Possibly an increased thermic stability can already be achieved by special amino acid exchanges without significant changes in the protein structure.
(14) This cellular immune deficiency induced by the thermic trauma was treated with thymostimulin (TP-1 Serono), an immunomodulating polypeptide preparation, which mainly influences T-lymphocytes.
(15) We used this technique to measure the thermic responses to insulin and glucose infusions in 120 glucose-tolerant Pima Indians, a population with a high prevalence of obesity.
(16) The energy emitted from the excimer laser, in the lower UV range, does not result in thermic damage.
(17) The majority of the thermic effect of high levels of glucose infused with TPN can be explained on the basis of the thermic effect of TPN and glucose storage.
(18) Secondary to the heat generated at the site of conventional, continuous-wave laser radiation, thermic lesions of the vascular wall can be observed as adverse reactions.
(19) Thermic and pH modulation of phosphofructokinase (EC 2.7.1.11) activity with respect to fructose 6-phosphate has been studied comparatively in trout (Salmo gairdneri R.) haemopoietic cells and erythrocytes.
(20) No evidence for increased thermic sensitivity to NE during mixed nutrient overfeeding in humans was found by the authors although in small rodents increased NE sensitivity is an important regulator of adaptive thermogenesis.