(a.) Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end.
Example Sentences:
(1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
(2) Hypertrophy is restricted to subdivisions of the inferior olive included in recurrent cerebello-mesencephalic-olivary circuits.
(3) The ability of autoregulate blood flow in the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) circuit is critical to prevent cavitation and air embolism.
(4) To explain some of these results a theoretical model is presented to demonstrate that while short circuiting can block the passive ionic movement, it will cause an increase in the energy consumption of the system and introduce certain important changes in the ionic barriers and e.m.fs.
(5) DNase I microspheres were then introduced into the extracorporeal circuit which resulted in an acceleration of degradation of acid precipitable 125I-nDNA.
(6) A wide range of development possibilities for the printed circuit microelectrode are discussed.
(7) Our results were consistent with the modern anesthesia standard in closed circuit t.i.
(8) One hour after terminating the extacorporeal circuit, the C.O.P.
(9) These effects are not accompanied by significant changes in the transmural electrical potential difference or short-circuit current.
(10) Evidence is reviewed suggesting that this latter system may involve a corticostriatal circuit.
(11) Several attempts at circuit interruption of type 1 atrial flutter by means of surgical or catheter techniques have been published.
(12) To eliminate pacing stimulus afterpotential and detect an evoked response, a hardware feedback circuit and a software template matching algorithm were used to produce a triphasic charge-balanced pacing pulse.
(13) Four blood filters included in the extracorporeal circuit were removed one by one at 30-minute intervals.
(14) In the ECMO patient, cardiac stun syndrome and electromechanical dissociation can be confused with low circuit volume, pneumothorax, or cardiac tamponade.
(15) The transport system was analyzed in terms of an equivalent circuit model comprising a proton motive force (PMF), an active conductance (LH) in series with the pump, and a parallel or passive conductance which may be ignored in this preparation.
(16) The type 3 pattern occurred when the antidromic wavefront of early premature beats captured the original circuit exit.
(17) Polymethacrylate coated charcoal was inserted in the dialysis circuit before the dialyzer.
(18) Since our system is adjusted with square waveforms and composed of a simple analog circuit, it can be compensated easily in real time.
(19) The circuit training exercise program, therefore, appears to be an effective method for improving the fitness level of alcoholic patients.
(20) Thus, neurons of the habenula and interpeduncular nucleus are under the direct and indirect influence of septal neurons within the limbic forebrain circuit.
Sinuous
Definition:
(a.) Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form; winding; crooked.
Example Sentences:
(1) The astrocytes had generally two types of processes: (1) thread-like processes of relatively constant width with few ramifications and few lamellar appendages and (2) the sinuous processes with clusters of lamellar appendages.
(2) In the intercellular space long and smooth septa are clustered in sinuous strands and intramembrane particles appear on the PF.
(3) According to observations carried out in ovo and after fixation, morphological modifications are demonstrated in the developing vasculature of the heparin-treated CAMs which, compared with the control CAMs, show dilated and sinuous arterial and venous branches, denser and irregular capillary networks, and a high number of vascular primordia.
(4) This structure contains cells with single or double nuclei, round or oval in shape, surrounded by a light halo, with scattered chromatin and a well-defined nucleolus, acidophilic cytoplasm containing, in comparison with the common myocardium, few sinuous myofibrils with transverse striations and a larger amount of glycogen.
(5) The sinuous processes rich in lamellae were predominant in protoplasmic astrocytes, and clearly corresponded to the sheet- or veil-like processes of Golgi-impregnated astrocytes.
(6) In the heart of the dog five types of thebesian veins were served: arboriform, sinuous, brush-like, canaliculated and stellate.
(7) Using cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) in glutaraldehyde as fixative, we observed sinuous fiber-like structures 300-500 nm long and 7-14 nm thick in the spaces between the collagen fibers of rat incisor predentin.
(8) Some PtK-2 cells have straight stress fibers which stained with anti-actin, but in confluent cultures all PtK-2 cells have, instead, sinuous phase-dense fibers which stained with antibody.
(9) Finally, three XN-cells were intrageniculate interneurons, which possessed small somata (mean soma size = 174 micron2), fine sinuous dendrites covered with beadlike varicosities on stalked appendages, and no obvious axon.
(10) This layer is characterized by flattened cells with sinuous processes, extracellular spaces containing an amorphous material, and the presence of junctions between its cells.
(11) The Four,” as they came to be called, created in the mid-nineties their own highly individual interpretation of the new art, subsequently dubbed “the Glasgow Style.” They liked sinuous, elongated animal-vegetable forms with a strong vertical emphasis in their overall design; the human figure, too, was stylised almost beyond recognition.
(12) Its cell body is usually found in the inner half of the SG layer and its sinuous dendrites cross the SG layer and enter the marginal layer.
(13) Arterial angiography identifies polyaneurysmal dystrophy; in the context of a twisted and sinuous system of large arteries, multiple spindle-shaped aneurysms can be distinguished which are frequently bilateral and symmetrical.
(14) In the ALD intestinal epithelium, DAB+ material was also seen in long, sinuous, tubular or cisternal elements intermingled and occasionally in continuity with peroxisomes.
(15) The mantle dentin contains sinuous tubules with a type I arrangement of SIAR classification (1986).
(16) The cells of papillary thyroid carcinoma are shown to have the following characteristic morphological features: oval or oval to roundish shape of nuclei, uneven sinuous, folded border of the nuclear membrane, nuclear fissure, intranuclear cytoplasmic inclusions, optically clean nuclei.
(17) In the cervical enlargement of the rat spinal cord, fluoride-resistant acid phosphatase (FRAP) occurs in most of the small dark sinuous primary afferent central terminals (CI-terminals) of type I-synaptic glomeruli of lamina II and is lacking in the large light roundish primary afferent CII-terminals of type II-glomeruli.
(18) Degeneration of the tactile cells in epithelium of the cat sinuous hairs after sectioning the infraorbital nerve manifests itself as cytoplasmic vacuolization and induration with electron opaque bodies in it, changes in nuclear configuration and in chromatin density.
(19) The cytoplasm of macrophages gives only short, somewhat sinuous processes.
(20) Selective arteriography of the coeliac trunk showed extremely sinuous intra-hepatic arteries in 3 of these cases, and obstruction of the portal vein, in one case.