(n.) A box or chest. Specifically: (a) A bronze receptacle, round or oval, frequently decorated with engravings on the sides and cover, and with feet, handles, etc., of decorative castings. (b) A cinerary urn. See Illustration in Appendix.
(n.) See Cyst.
Example Sentences:
(1) The M-CIST was positively correlated with compliance (multiple R = .72, p less than .001) and discriminated compliant from noncompliant patients.
(2) Taking into account the study of 7 patients who presented with a CIST, this article tries to define the response of the authors to these questions.
(3) Although the assessment of coping behaviors also discriminates significantly between the two groups, it provided no additional power when used in common with the M-CIST.
(4) Twenty-nine males with hemophilia completed the Medical Compliance Incomplete Stories Test (M-CIST), and their scores were correlated with health care professionals' ratings of four aspects of medical compliance, along with measures of possible moderating variables.
(5) The Medical Compliance Incomplete Stories Test (M-CIST) was administered to 40 adolescent and young adult inpatients aged 13 to 23.
(6) The findings suggested that the M-CIST continues to demonstrate promise as an instrument to be used in studies of compliance among pediatric chronic illness patients.
(7) The competitive antagonists of NMDA, 2-DL-amino-5-phosphonovalerate and 2-DL-amino-7-phosphonoheptanoate, also decreased the number of coughs after i. cist.
(8) The Medical Compliance Incomplete Stories Test (M-CIST) and an assessment of several coping behaviors identified as assisting chronically ill children in their adaptation were used with 40 adolescent inpatients aged 13-23.
(9) They thought that the removal, through sinuscopy, may be useful in order to break the cist and to draw a sample for pathological purpose.
(10) The total M-CIST score was shown to be positively correlated with compliance and to significantly discriminate between compliant and non-compliant groups.
Hist
Definition:
(interj.) Hush; be silent; -- a signal for silence.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to working with hist colleagues on general review and health-policy matters, he also handled issues related to the special needs of children and helped to get third-party benefit packages altered to better suit the treatment needs of children.
(2) The interaction of histamine (Hist) and acetylcholine (ACh) on human isolated bronchial smooth muscle (HIBSM) contraction, and the influence of the epithelium, was assessed using HIBSM obtained from 15 patients undergoing thoracotomy.
(3) The approach is illustrated by several examples of previously unknown correspondences with important biological implications: Drosophila elongation factor Tu is shown to be encoded by two genes that are differently expressed during development; a cluster of three Drosophila genes likely encode maltases; a flesh-fly fat body protein resembles the hypothesized Drosophila alcohol dehydrogenase ancestral protein; an unknown protein encoded at the multifunctional E. coli hisT locus resembles aspartate beta-semialdehyde dehydrogenase; and the E. coli tyrR protein is related to nitrogen regulatory proteins.
(4) We investigated the effects of epithelium removal and cooling (32 degrees C, 27 degrees C, 22 degrees C) on isolated tracheal smooth muscle contraction induced by bethanechol (BCh), acetylcholine (ACh), histamine (Hist), and KCl in guinea pigs.
(5) A 2.3-kilobase HindIII-ClaI restriction fragment containing the hisT gene was subcloned into plasmid pBR322, and the resulting plasmid (designated psi 300) was mapped with restriction enzymes.
(6) Examination of the regulation of the histidine operon in strains carrying the feedback-resistant mutation in an episome and hisT and hisW mutations in the chromosome showed that the hisG regulatory mutation is epistatic to the hisT and hisW mutations.
(7) The approach is applied to the trp-cysB-pyrF and aroC-hisT-purF-dhuA regions of the Salmonella typhimurium chromosome.
(8) Four phenotypes of strain EB146 (leuK16), leucine excretion, wrinkled colony morphology, and elevated levels of leu and his enzymes, are complemented by a plasmid having a 1.65-kilobase DNA fragment containing the E. coli K-12 hisT locus.
(9) The effects of norepinephrine (NE), histamine (HIST), glutamate, and adenosine, singly and in combinations, on the accumulation of adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP) in slices of rabbit cerebral cortex were examined using tissue from animals 4 days before to 38 days after birth.
(10) The present studies were undertaken to obtain histamine (HIST) dose-response curves for tracheal smooth muscle (TSM) from an actively ragweed-sensitized canine model of asthma and to compare these results with 1) HIST dose-response data from littermate control dogs, 2) initially nonsensitized TSM passively sensitized (in vitro) to ragweed and 3) the dose-response curve to an agonist that opens primarily voltage-sensitive calcium channels, i.e., K+.
(11) The hemodynamic response to maximal exercise was determined in rats with a chronic myocardial infarction (MI) that were subjected to 6-8 wk of high-intensity sprint training (HIST) or limited exercise activity (sedentary control).
(12) The presence of Campylobacter pylori was investigated in duodenal, antral and fundic biopsies of 149 consecutive patients undergoing upper gastrointestinal tract endoscopy by biopsy urease tests (CLOtest; "CLO test") and histologic examination ("HIST") after modified Giemsa staining.
(13) On the other hand, pretreatment of the muscle with 10(-5) M Hist for 10 min did not influence the contraction by either MeCh or Hist.
(14) After pretreatment of the muscle with 10(-5) M MeCh for 10 min, the contractile effect of 10(-5) M Hist was suppressed intensely for a certain time period, but that of 10(-5) M MeCh was not diminished.
(15) Hist and Gast caused an increase of PGE2 contents in gastric mucosa.
(16) Subclones containing restriction fragments from plasmid psi 300 inserted downstream from the lac promoter established that the hisT gene is oriented from the HindIII site toward the ClaI site.
(17) This mutation is linked to purF, suggesting that it is a new allele of hisT.
(18) The hisT gene codes for an enzyme responsible for the conversion of uridine to pseudouridine (Psi) in the anticodon region of many tRNA species in Salmonella typhimurium.
(19) Furthermore, this suppression was not surmounted by the elevation of Hist concentration.
(20) In general, HIST was found as most sensitive and effective.