(n.) The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative pole; -- opposed to anode.
Example Sentences:
(1) If this is what 70s stoners were laughing at, it feels like they’ve already become acquiescent, passive parts of media-relayed consumer society; precursors of the cathode-ray-frazzled pop-culture exegetists of Tarantino and Kevin Smith in the 90s.
(2) In a starch block, migration was toward the cathode at pH 8.0.
(3) A significant improvement in the precision of the hollow cathode as an emission source is reported.
(4) The parotid saliva of the caries-rampant group showed a significantly higher level of anodemigrating proteins, predominantly isoamylases, and a significantly lower level of cathode-migrating proteins than that of the caries-resistant group in both paraffin-stimulated and sour lemon-stimulated salivary flows.
(5) The variability in response is attributed to interaction between nearby, on-going synaptic bombardment and the stimulus, implying that surface cathodal stimuli directly activate corticospinal neurons at the spike trigger zone (presumably the initial segment).
(6) A pure Domal magnesium anode was utilized with this cathode, which seemed to be a good compromise between to battery's voltage, its lifetime, and its lack of toxicity to body tissues.
(7) When the new bone formation in the medullary canal surrounding an inactive cathode disappeared, it was replaced by a network of polymorphic cells.
(8) L-Glu induced F increase also in the receptors fully suppressed either by cathodal pulses or by high Mg (15 mM), which indicated the postsynaptic action.
(9) One fraction migrates towards the cathode: lysosyme (25 to 35%).
(10) By isoelectrofocusing in agarose, the properdin factor allotype BfF could be split into two subtypes: BfFa with one major cathodic band and BfFb with the same cathodic band but in addition a major anodic band.
(11) To determine if anodal excitation during bipolar stimulation facilitates the initiation of sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia, nonsustained polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, or repetitive ventricular responses, both bipolar and cathodal unipolar programmed ventricular stimulation with one to three extrastimuli delivered during ventricular pacing at two rates from the right ventricular apex were performed in 28 patients evaluated for spontaneous sustained ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation (11 patients), nonsustained tachycardia (eight patients), or syncope (nine patients).
(12) Four electrode configurations were tested: 1) distal electrode (cathode) to proximal electrode and chest wall patch (common anodes), 2) distal electrode (cathode) to chest wall patch (anode), 3) distal electrode (cathode) to proximal electrode (anode), and 4) chest wall patch (cathode) to proximal electrode (anode).
(13) Although all five proteins specifically bind to porcine thyroglobulin, the cathodal migrating proteins bind more strongly than the anodal migrating proteins.
(14) Two antigens migrated towards the anode, and the third migrated towards the cathode.
(15) In electrophoresis on cellulose acetate, TEB buffer, pH 8.5, mobilities are calculated as ratios of the mobility of simultaneously analyzed Hb C. In electrophoresis on citrate agar, pH 6.0, anodic mobilities are also related to Hb C, cathodic ones to Hb F. In globin electrophoresis in urea 2-mercaptoethanol buffers, pH 6.0 and 8.9, mobilities of the mutant globin chains are calculated in relation to the mobilities of normal alpha and beta chains.
(16) The protein S-100 was increased 3.4% and the neuronal protein 14-3-2 was increased 12.2% for the cathodal component whereas the anodal component was not increased.
(17) The continuous and direct registration of the vectorcardiogram was realized by cathode-ray oscillographic methods by F. Schellong in 1937 and hence introduced into clinical diagnostics.
(18) The content of the number of antigens (especially of cathode fractions) in trisomic cells was significantly low as compared with those in control diploid cells, whereas in triploid ones it differed slightly.
(19) The stimulus consisted of 2.5- to 4.0-mA cathodal pulses, each of 1-ms duration, beginning at a frequency of 10 Hz and increasing by 10-Hz increments to 100 Hz.
(20) RTG-2 and CHSE-214 cells with BSS and fish serum were attracted from the central chamber (to which each cell sample was added) to the cathode chambers, but no attraction was detected when these cells were used with phosphate-buffered saline.
Electrode
Definition:
(n.) The path by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current.
Example Sentences:
(1) After 1 year, anesthesia was induced with chloralose and an electrode catheter placed at the right ventricular apex.
(2) It is suitable either for brief sampling of AP durations when recording with microelectrodes, which may impale cells intermittently, or for continuous monitoring, as with suction electrodes on intact beating hearts in situ.
(3) Stimulation with these electrodes were effective for inducing voiding with little residual volume after the recovery of bladder reflexes, 3 weeks after experimental spinal cord injury in the dog.
(4) A second group was chronically implanted without electrical stimulation in one leg and implanted with cyclical electrical stimulation applied through the electrode in the other leg.
(5) Products formed during electrooxidation were monitored as the electrode potential was varied.
(6) Airway closure (CV), functional residual capacity (FRC) and the distribution of inspired gas (nitrogen washout delay percentage, NWOD %) and arterial oxygen tension (PaO2) was measured by standard electrodes in eight extremely obese patients before and after weight loss (mean weights 142 and 94 kg, respectively) following intestinal shunt operation.
(7) Three cases with intermittent left bundle branch block were studied by means of an intracavitary electrode, which allowed the potential of the bundle of His to be measured, and was also used for the extrastimulus method of study.
(8) Among the epileptic patients investigated by the stereotactic E. E. G. (Talairach) whose electrodes were introduced at or around the auditory cortex (Area 41, 42), the topography of the auditory responses by the electrical bipolar stimulation and that of the auditory evoked potential by the bilateral click sound stimulation were studied in relation to the ac--pc line (Talairach).
(9) Extrapolating animal data to the neonates, we found the thoracic segment length recommended (the average of 29% of body length and electrode distance) to be accurate.
(10) Eight electrodes of different size and tip characteristics were evaluated at different temperatures and time settings, both in vitro and in vivo.
(11) The threshold of epileptic spiking varied inversely with the area of cortical damage inflicted by the electrode.
(12) Using four 4 cm electrodes at intervals of 1.5 cm in VX-2 carcinoma in the rabbit, ideal heating was obtained: 42 degrees C at the periphery of the tumor and 43 degrees C at the center.
(13) Animals were chronically implanted with epidural or deep recording electrodes and a cannula in one lateral ventricle, and tested whilst seated in a primate chair.
(14) CNV1 was recorded at the vertex while CNV3 was recorded at multiple electrode sites to assess topographical differences.
(15) The responses were compared when two electrode pairs were stimulated simultaneously with current pulses in phase and when the same electrodes were stimulated with current pulses inverted relative to each other.
(16) The dependence of neuronal reactions on the location of the stimulating electrode, and the intensity, frequency, and duration of stimulation was investigated in experiments on surviving sections of the neocortex of the guinea pig.
(17) Implanted electrodes received electrical potentials from selected muscles on the normal side.
(18) The next implanted device will have: a. constant current; b. programming of a particular current value for each electrode; and c. stimulation of the cochlear nerve through an extra cochlear electrode bearer, allowing deep implantation without deafness.
(19) When used in snail neurones such electrodes gave very similar pHi values to those recorded simultaneously by recessed-tip glass micro-electrodes.
(20) The possible use of impedance measurement with scalp electrodes to detect intracranial events non-invasively was investigated by measuring the localised impedance changes during cortical spreading depression (CSD) in anaesthetised rats.