(n.) The name of various instruments for passing along mucous canals, esp. applied to a tubular instrument to be introduced into the bladder through the urethra to draw off the urine.
Example Sentences:
(1) The catheter must be meticulously fixed to the skin to avoid its movement.
(2) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(3) A new balloon catheter has been developed for angioplasty.
(4) Using mini-pigs with an indwelling vascular catheter, the pharmacokinetics of chloramphenicol were investigated in healthy and liver-damaged animals.
(5) Then the esophagogastric variceal network was thrombosed by means of a catheter introduced during laparotomy, which created a portoazygos disconnection.
(6) A quadripolar catheter was positioned either at the site of earliest ventricular activation during induced monomorphic ventricular tachycardia or at circumscribed areas of the left ventricle.
(7) External phonocardiography performed at the time of cardiac catheterization revealed that this loud midsystolic click disappeared whenever a catheter was positioned across the mitral valve.
(8) In the case presented, overdistension of a jejunostomy catheter balloon led to intestinal obstruction and pressure necrosis (of the small bowel), with subsequent abscess formation leading to death from septicemia.
(9) After 1 year, anesthesia was induced with chloralose and an electrode catheter placed at the right ventricular apex.
(10) Catheters containing 0% and 10% heparin were compared in each individual using ultrasound microflow velocimetry, permeability test, sequential determinations of activated partial thromboplastin time, heparin levels and generation of Fibrinopeptide A, beta thromboglobulin and Platelet factor 4.
(11) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
(12) In one case an infection of the axillary region developed, which disappeared after removal of the catheter without any consequences.
(13) The complication might have been prevented by measurements of U and I, reflecting changes in impedance or by measurements of catheter tip temperature (T).
(14) In all patients a Tenckoff's catheter for peritoneal dialysis was introduced and peritoneal effusion extracted and measured.
(15) A fiberoptic flow-directed catheter inserted into the hepatic vein continuously measures hepatic venous oxygen hemoglobin saturation (ShvO2).
(16) The complex problems have been successfully managed with novel guiding catheter shapes and ultralow profile balloons.
(17) We present the results of giving continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) via a single nasal catheter to 20 preterm infants.
(18) An intravenous catheter system for long-term (at least 6-8 weeks) parenteral nutrition of unrestrained rats is described.
(19) By using these larger catheters, the surgeon will not lose the option of using isosmotic preparations.
(20) Indirect methods to evaluate left ventricular function included the use of the Swan-Ganz catheter for pulmonary capillary wedge pressure measurement, systolic time intervals, and cardiac output.
Passageway
Definition:
(n.) A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sequentially, beginning with hepatocytes, biliary passageways included canaliculi, preductules, ductules, and ducts.
(2) Besides obesity and maleness, other risk factors for OSA are diseases that have an impact on the configuration or effective compliance of the pharyngeal passageway.
(3) External nares and nasal passageways, albeit blind-ended, were prominent in the proboscis.
(4) Following ATPase localization, four sizes of biliary passageways (canaliculi, bile preductules, ductules, and ducts) were visualized.
(5) These epithelial features, different from those of other mammals, including humans, suggest that the greater part of the rabbit vagina accomplishes functions other than serving for copulation and as a fetal passageway.
(6) The majority of liquid flux (68%) would occur through passageways smaller than the smallest tracer we used (1.3 nm radius).
(7) Iran’s Revolutionary Guards patrol Iranian waters in the Gulf, especially near the strait of Hormuz, a vital passageway where a fifth of the world’s oil passes in tankers.
(8) Prisoners are forced to "stay in the lokalka [a fenced-off passageway between two areas in the camp] until lights out" (the prisoner is forbidden to go into the barracks — whether it be autumnl or winter.
(9) (2) A consistent and appropriate classification of nasal passageways, epithelia, and other structures is needed to avoid further confusion.
(10) Electron micrographs showed tubules of five to nine pyramidally shaped hepatocytes with their apices directed toward a central biliary passageway and their bases directed toward sinusoids.
(11) Its concentric passageway symbolises the guided, ritualised walk of the common man towards the sacred inner sanctum of the democratic parliament hall.
(12) Internationally, Iran is locked in a stalemate with the west over its nuclear programme and it has recently responded to attempts at banning its oil imports by sabre-rattling and raising the stakes by threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz, a vital passageway in the Gulf where one-fifth of the world's oil passes in tankers.
(13) The optimal dimensions of races and passageways to prevent crowding and turning around should be assessed at the design stage.
(14) Qeshm is close to the Strait of Hormuz, a vital passageway in the Gulf where one-fifth of the world’s oil passes in tankers.
(15) Physiographic features may serve as barriers or as passageways for epidemic spread of rabies.
(16) Ceilings are higher, for better air; passageways are wider, for more loafing room and socialising.
(17) By the time the firing stopped, the gunmen had slipped away into the maze of corridors and passageways in the old building.
(18) Ken inclines his head in the direction of the passageway.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The passageway’s long corridor acts like a telescope without a lens, says Dr Fabio Silva.
(20) With 20 minutes left Iniesta played an impeccable pass with the outside of a foot through a passageway of defenders, Neymar opened up his body and side-footed into the corner.