(n.) The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
(n.) The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.
(n.) Currency; circulating coin; notes, bills, etc., current for coin.
(n.) The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measure of diffusion; as, the circulation of a newspaper.
(n.) The movement of the blood in the blood-vascular system, by which it is brought into close relations with almost every living elementary constituent. Also, the movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Oxyhaemoglobin (4 microns at 0.35 ml.min-1) infused into the tracheal circulation almost abolished the responses to bradykinin and methacholine.
(2) Mannose receptor mediated uptake by the reticuloendothelial system has been suggested as an explanation for the rapid removal of ricin A chain antibody conjugates from the circulation after their administration.
(3) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
(4) These data indicate that CSF levels are not inversely related to the blood neutrophil count in chronic idiopathic neutropenia and suggest that CSF is not a hormone regulating the blood neutrophil count in a manner analogous to the erythropoietin regulation of circulating erythrocyte levels.
(5) It is suggested that the rapid phase is due to clearance of peptides in the circulation which results in a fall to lower blood concentrations which are sustained by slow release of peptide from binding sites which act as a depot.
(6) Label was found widely distributed among all the organs except the nervous system and its rate of disappearance from the tissues paralleled its disappearance from the circulation.
(7) Temelastine produces these species-specific changes by enhancing thyroxine clearance from the circulation in the rat, but not in the dog or mouse.
(8) The most frequent source of the pulmonary circulation thromboembolism was the lower limb veins.
(9) In addition, the findings suggest a need for a supply of glucose of fetal origin for cells that are responsible for increased PGFM concentrations in the maternal uteroplacental circulation.
(10) The results support the notion that mediator lymphocytes circulate in tumor immunized rats in a noncytotoxic state, specifically recognize tumor cells at a challenge site, and mediate induction of effector cells locally.
(11) The video, which Kester said was taken by a friend of Savannah’s who came to support her, was circulated online this month and featured in a Mormon LGBTQ podcast.
(12) Circulating acute phase protein concentrations rose in all subjects during a thirty hour period following injury but none of the subjects showed a detectable rise in circulating concentrations of TNF.
(13) Lastly, size analysis of the circulating IgG4 aFABA complexes indicated that these autoantibodies were not complexed with intact IgG, but rather with a molecule of 40-60 kDa, further suggesting the potential for these autoantibodies to react with multiple antigens.
(14) The diagnosis of an arterial injury may be readily apparent, but the excellent upper-extremity collateral circulation may create palpable distal pulses despite a significant proximal arterial injury.
(15) Furthermore, the changes in both interstitial fluid and testicular venous blood levels of testosterone do not always parallel those in peripheral venous blood, suggesting that changes in testicular blood flow and peripheral clearance rates of testosterone may also be important in the control of circulating testosterone concentrations.
(16) Our results also showed a good correlation between the importance of deposits and the presence of denatured DNA-anti-denatured-DNA circulating complexes.
(17) The evaluation of the data of unknown test persons of a pilot study in 96% resulted in a correct classification in patients with heart and circulatory diseases or persons with healthy heart and circulation, the classification in the above mentioned groups of diagnosis was performed on an average to 57%.
(18) The magnitude and pattern of the acute-phase protein response was then compared with the local inflammatory reaction, assessed histologically, and with changes in the circulating concentration of interleukin-6, which is an important mediator of the acute-phase protein response.
(19) This correlated very well with the EPO concentration in the circulation; EPO levels in the circulation were the same as those of controls at 3 h but increased to six- to sevenfold that of controls by 6 h after cobalt injection.
(20) These results suggest that bPAG is probably synthesized by trophoblast binucleate cells and stored in granules prior to delivery into the maternal circulation after cell migration.
Cyanosis
Definition:
(n.) A condition in which, from insufficient a/ration of the blood, the surface of the body becomes blue. See Cyanopathy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Preoperative presenting features were: dyspnoea on exertion, clubbing, cyanosis and polycythaemia.
(2) When he arrived at our hospital, congestive heart failure, cyanosis of his lower extremities and weak femoral pulses were observed.
(3) He was admitted with dyspnea on exertion, syncope, and severe cyanosis.
(4) Serum erythropoietin levels were measured by radioimmunoassay in 146 children and young adults with congenital heart disease to assess the relationship between erythropoietin and clinical factors (heart failure, anemia, cyanosis) and hemodynamic variables affecting oxygen delivery and utilization.
(5) Cyanosis of the hands and feet in Buerger's disease is known as 'Buerger's colour'.
(6) All children were in a severe condition, with deep central cyanosis, congestive heart failure and severe metabolic acidosis.
(7) Five patients had inadequate relief of cyanosis; three of these had venous collaterals and two had severe ventricular dysfunction; the latter two patients subsequently had strokes.
(8) The administration of these drugs was followed within 2-3 minutes by oedema of the eyelids and epiglottis, reduced peripheral circulation and central cyanosis.
(9) Clinical signs were tachycardia, dyspnea, cyanosis, and marked abdominal distention.
(10) The patient had experienced increasing fatigue, chest pain, shortness of breath, and slight cyanosis.
(11) Cyanosis was due to a large, anomalous inferior vena caval valve, the eustachian valve.
(12) The mean birth weight and height were significantly greater in the control group, and no control infant had an episode of cyanosis or pallor or repeated episodes of profuse sweating observed during their sleep.
(13) Our patient with this complication presented sudden onset of severe hypotension and cyanosis after several ventricular premature beats.
(14) Life-threatening asthma may be judged to be present in patients who, in the presence of a low FEV(1) are too dyspneic to speak, have altered consciousness or unequivocal cyanosis.
(15) This rare esophageal rupture should be suspected in any chest injury patients, especially those characterized by extreme cyanosis, dyspnea, shock, and prostration incompatible with thoracic cage injury.
(16) Acute toxicities, taking the form of fever, chills, tachycardia, hypertension, peripheral cyanosis, nausea and vomiting, headache, chest tightness, low back pain, diarrhea and shortness of breath were seen, but were not dose-limiting or dose-related.
(17) To study the effects of chronic cyanosis on left ventricular function, nine dogs underwent inferior vena cava-to-left atrial anastomosis, a model that minimizes abnormal left ventricular hemodynamic loads.
(18) Cyanosis was due to right to left shunt through direct right pulmonary artery--left atrium fistula.
(19) In the second case, an intrapulmonary shunt due to multiple arteriovenous fistulae demonstrated by contrast echocardiography was responsible for persistent mild cyanosis for a few months after surgery.
(20) Multichannel recordings should therefore be considered in all infants with unexplained episodes of apnea, bradycardia or cyanosis, in order to clarify the type of apnea and to rule out underlying conditions such as gastroesophageal reflux or seizures.